It's the first implementation of the Facebook client built on the
NewsCloud Social Media Toolkit architecture.

Hot Dish allows Facebook users to read, discuss, post and share news
about climate change, the most serious issue facing our planet.
Editorial content is provided through our partnership with online
environmental magazine, Grist.org!

If you are a 16- to 25-year old U.S. resident, you can participate in
the Hot Dish Action Team, earn points through online and offline
actions and compete for rewards. Top eligible participants can win a
grand prize trip for two to the Arctic from Quark Expeditions, an
Amazon Kindle 2, a "green" Apple MacBook and much more. Prizes will be
awarded each week through May 3, 2009. Please read the official rules
for full eligibility details.

The Hot Dish application is part of a study being conducted by
University of Minnesota researchers to find new ways of engaging young
people in current events inside social networks such as Facebook. The
research is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation. The research results will be published later this year.
The software behind Hot Dish will be released to the open source
community at the end of the project.