Climate Interactive is embarking on an exciting new project to understand and improve the long-term resilience of pastoralist communities in northeast Kenya. The Internal Displacement Monitoring …
Seeing a Bigger Picture in the Great Lakes: Systems Mapping for Powerful Insights
By Beth Sawin A team from Climate Interactive recently used systems thinking tools to steer a group of Great Lakes leaders through these powerful questions on the health of the lakes: How do the …
Climate Pathways App: A Climate Model for your Pocket
In taking our tools to new platforms to help people better understand the complexities of climate change, we have released the Climate Pathways app for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod. This free …
Our Three Big Impacts
By Drew Jones, Beth Sawin, and Stephanie McCauley What has our impact been? Eight people, dozens of partners, five years, and two simulation models -- what does it add up to? Here’s our informal …
World Climate Now in 4 Languages
Our World Climate Exercise, a role-playing game that simulates the UN climate change negotiations, has been played around the world from classes of school children in Austria to a visiting group …
Eileen Claussen on En-ROADS: We Have Our Work Cut Out For Us
Recently Drew Jones was down in Washington DC working with the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and their Business Environmental Leadership Council to explore future energy and climate …
Visualize Scenarios to 2 degrees: IEA Releases New Tool
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just put up a great interactive tool which enables people to explore the different elements of three energy scenarios, which lead to 2ºC, 4ºC, and 6ºC …
Lessons from Rio+20 and some words from Buckminster Fuller
I covered a bit about what Climate Interactive was up to and what we were seeing while in Rio a couple weeks ago. Below are my personal reflections coming out of Rio, which went up earlier this week …
World Climate with Chinese Officials
Guest post from Professor John Sterman: I recently ran the World Climate role play negotiation with a group of about 30 officials from China, as part of the IDEAS/China program run here at MIT Sloan …
The Power of Games: Changing our Mental Models
Guest post by Cecelia Hunt: Simulation games, like Climate Interactive's World Climate Exercise, have the capacity to shift mental models. Mental models are frameworks that we construct …
Rio: More than Beaches and Diplomats
While the negotiations for Rio+20 progressed, Drew and Travis of Climate Interactive were sharing analysis and facilitating a group that is exploring pathways to break through the climate impasse at …
Climate Scoreboard Helping the Leaders at UN Rio+20 Summit
Happy to see evidence of our tools getting around in places we never knew... Elevator of Drew Jones's hotel. Rio. Drew: "Hi, how are you doing?" Other guy: "Fine, heading to the Summit.... What …