For years, we’ve had a hunch that the World Climate Exercise delivers deep learning about climate change and often motivates participants to action. Now, thanks to support from the US National Science …
More Homework, Less Coughing (and Less Climate Change): The Power of Solar Energy in Remote Villages
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 …
Breaking Analysis: US-China Climate Deal to Avoid 640 Billion Tons of Carbon Pollution
New commitments from China and the US could keep a significant 640 gigatons of CO2 out of the atmosphere Today the world’s attention is turning to the announcement of new climate commitments by the …
Why the Latest Energy Breakthrough Won’t Help the Climate Much
Cross-posted from Grist.org We all just love a story where the suspense builds and builds, the whole tale teeters on the brink of disaster — but then, just in time, the hero or heroine saves …
Dymphna van der Lans: How Systems Thinking Can Impact Climate Change
"Climate change may well be the most complex systems problem that we have ever faced." Our colleague and CEO of the Clinton Climate Initiative, Dymphna van der Lans, wrote a meaningful piece on what …
Gaps in Thinking About CO2 Removals
Today's guest post by Tom Fiddaman of our Climate Interactive team was prompted by the Virgin Earth Challenge for greenhouse gas removal. Along with commentary from MIT's Dr. John Sterman, he …
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 …
Better Public Policy Through Systems Thinking: Visionary Leadership from Mayor Curtatone
The following essay was written by the Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts, Joseph Curtatone. Although Curtatone ties systems thinking to I-93 and childhood obesity in Somerville, the same long-term …
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 …