One popular project under the so-called Clean Development Mechanism program is the destruction of hydrofluorocarbon gases.
Its crisis management has been beset by indecision, by barely disguised splits between north and south and a lack of popular enthusiasm for the project beyond its economic justification.
The project became so popular that Sacks spun it out as a separate company, and Zachary, who was also an early investor in Twitter, became the first investor in Yammer.
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It has shown what can be done when people from divergent cultures come together to pursue a common goal, and along the way it has captured the popular imagination like no science project since the moon shots of the 1960s.
Project Titan has proved popular with volunteers with more than 2, 100 signing up to provide support and guidance to vulnerable young Londoners.
But this week, when Reddit led me to a popular imgur gallery titled Hot Tub Project, I found myself completely re-inspired by the possibilities of home improvement.
The bare-bones computer project has proved hugely popular and the websites of two of the firms contracted to build the machines crashed when the Pi went on general sale.
Pathfinder Online is a Kickstarter project aimed at translating the popular tabletop game into an MMORPG.
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It is popular to outsource the aspects of a project that lie beyond our core competency.
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The founder of 4Chan, the popular social submission site, has a new project: Canv.as.
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He said the local authority had no intention of dropping the project and believed it could still prove popular.
It took a last-minute intervention by the culture minister of the day, Jack Lang, to save Mr. Buren's project, which has since proved immensely popular and was given a much-needed makeover in 2010.
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Sponsored exclusively by element14, each episode spotlights Ben's mods of popular electronic devices while educating viewers on the underlying technology powering each project.
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But whether Palmer has the equivalent of an over-subscribed Kickstarter on his hands or not, his project, mad as it seems, has captured the popular imagination.
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Lea Goldman, a coeditor of our celebrities project, says "there's no comparing" even a popular author of this sort, say, Malcolm Gladwell, with a novelist whose work can get taken to the big screen.
Kevin Fox, a former Google employee who worked for several years on the Google Reader project before leaving the company, has offered to help Google fix its popular once-social RSS service.
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Another pet project of the author's is making excursions across the border between popular and classical genres, trying to lure the denizens of one side to the territory of the other.
About one-third to one-half of adolescents who begin smoking may do so because they see smoking in the movies, some research suggests, and the tobacco industry has spent big bucks in the past to make sure cigarettes appeared in popular movies, according to Smoke Free Movies, a University of California San Francisco project.
National polling by Scott Rasmussen and regional polling undertaken by the American Principles Project (with which this columnist professionally is engaged) showed gold standard advocacy extraordinarily popular.
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Yet Stoudemire remains very popular with fans, who remember that he was the big star willing to take on the rebuilding project in the summer of 2010 and has been willing to come off the bench now.
Especially popular in academia and in political circles and among senior executives, the idea is to grab the glory for a project that you merely supervised or got started rather than spent hours executing.
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