On April 22, 2020, Bloomberg News published an interactive exploring the impact of different climate solutions using Climate Interactive’s En-ROADS simulator. Below you will find detailed explanations …
En-ROADS for Business: Inspiration and Conversation on Climate in the Age of Social Distancing
Engaging the business sector to think about and act on climate change has never been easy. Now, more than ever, we need tools that help sustainability practitioners to engage company employees and …
New Op-Ed: How can a coronavirus response reduce inequity and protect the climate?
Reposted from Thomson Reuters Foundation Amid a triple crisis, a 'multisolving' response can mitigate the effects of the pandemic, inequity and climate change all at once Everywhere you look, …
Why We Can’t Ignore the Link Between COVID-19, Climate Change and Inequity
Written by Dr.Elizabeth Sawin, originally published by US News and World Report on April 1, 2020 Today we face three massive threats, and the only way to neutralize any one of them is to succeed …
6 Methods to Unlock the Magic of Multisolving
The complex and interconnected challenges facing us today require solutions that pool people's expertise, funding, and political will to create solutions that multisolve, or solve multiple problems at …
US News Op-Ed: Can 2019 Be the Year of the Climate Pivot?
READ OUR US NEWS & WORLD REPORT OP ED 2018 brought record-breaking extreme weather events: drought, floods, hurricanes, and the deadliest wildfire in California history, all exacerbated by …
An Unlikely Story of Equitable Solutions in an Unequal City
Cities are making a comeback in the United States. After half a century of disinvestment and suburban white flight, city-center living is “in” again. Across the country urban revitalization follows a …
Steps to re-invigorate the economy must free us from polluting fossil fuels
Clean air and water don't only result from loss and upheaval, they can be planned for. You've seen the headlines: Air pollution is down in places where efforts to limit coronavirus spread have …
Coherence: A Plenary Reflection about Systems Thinking
Originally published on the Confluence Philanthropy website on March 17, 2020 by Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, re-posted with permission. Slides from the presentation can be found here. Coherence is …
Covid-19 Sucks. But It Could Teach Us How to Avoid the Worst Consequences of Climate Change.
Cross posted on Resilience.org with permission. A devastating problem crops up. Not any old problem, but one that grows exponentially. We can cope with this problem, to some extent, …
Want to tackle climate change but don’t know where to start? There’s a game for that
Originally posted on the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative website on January 21, 2020 by Dr. Juliette N. Rooney-Varga, re-posted with permission. A new study published in Simulation and …
Negotiating for the Future at SimPlanet
On the last day of MIT Orientation Week, I found myself in a room with about 50 other new MIT students participating in an interactive climate policy game called “SimPlanet.” Over the course of four …