Energy from the sun, distributed via micro-grids, saves money and improves health and education while reducing fossil fuel reliance and greenhouse gas emissions. An innovative project is providing ...
Fight Climate Change, Ill-Health and Inequity with the Same Dollar
There’s a big systems win to be found at the intersection of public health and urban design. There’s an even bigger win to be had by adding climate change and social justice to the picture. Doctors ...
It’s All Connected – Systems Thinking, Climate, Mike Brown and Ferguson
The struggle to protect a livable climate is a struggle to see, understand and act on our fundamental interconnections. This is familiar to the climate activist who knows her trips by car connect to ...
How to Solve More Problems Than Climate and Include More People Than Environmentalists
The core drivers of climate change cause other problems too. The good news is, for every problem there's a group of people who would benefit from solving it. From the first exploratory survey for ...
Building on the People’s Climate March – Four Suggestions From Systems Thinking
Systems thinking points to ways to build on the momentum created by last Sunday’s People’s Climate March. For the global climate movement as a whole and certainly for the five Climate Interactive ...
Four Reasons We Build Simulations of Infrastructure Investment
As a panelist for a recent EPA-sponsored webcast on green infrastructure and resilience (click here for the slides from that presentation) I was prompted to explain why system dynamics computer ...
Rewards and Lessons From A Day of Systems Thinking with the Dalai Lama Fellows
“That’s another way we can ensure that traditional skills are passed on!” “If we modify the program we can include that whole group of kids we were forgetting!" “Should I invite the funders to ...
Adapting to Climate Change While Reducing Emissions: Seven Stories of Synergy
With creativity and determination, communities can act and invest in ways that help adapt to climate change while also reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that would otherwise cause future climate ...
Senators Connect the Dots on Climate
Calls from US political leaders to address the root causes of climate change are rare enough to be worth noting and celebrating when they happen, so I was pleased to read about a letter to President ...
We Should Connect Adaptation and Mitigation in New York City and Around the World
When addressing climate change, we should look for every opportunity to implement solutions that help communities adapt to unavoidable climate change while simultaneously building their capacity to ...
Moving Into Action With Climate Change
Make it fun! Make it interactive! Leave people inspired! And gracefully interconnect the need to adapt to unavoidable climate change with the imperative to prevent any climate change we can. These are ...
4 Steps to New Project Insights at the Ashoka Future Forum
What do women's health screenings; increasing the number of science, technology and math teachers; building the infrastructure of African countries; building the client base for projects with a social ...