Join us on October 1st at 11 AM EDT for a free webinar introducing tools for finding and implementing solutions to climate change that also produce gains in health, equity, jobs, security and well-being. Addressing climate change could be, and we believe it SHOULD be, about more than tons of greenhouse gases. It should be […]
Whole-Systems Thinking on Climate – Signs of an Emerging Trend
What do the US EPA, a leading medical journal, and the Pope have in common? They all are calling for action on climate change to help address other problems, such as inequality, poor health, and environmental degradation. Within one week in June, we saw the release of three influential documents on the co-benefits of climate […]
The Clean Power Plan from the Obama Administration Is Rich in Multiple Benefits Thinking
Yesterday, when President Obama and EPA administrator Gina McCarthy explained the importance of newly released rules on carbon pollution, they showed evidence of a growing trend we are monitoring at Climate Interactive: adopting a multiple benefits framework to address climate change. (We call it multisolving.) In addition to reductions in carbon pollution, they articulated the […]
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 clean electricity to households and small factories in remote communities in Tanzania that lack access to the traditional electricity grid. Solar panels feed batteries that deliver clean […]
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 and public health officials are beginning to talk about urban design as determinant of health, and this way of […]
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 fossil fuels until the end of the century when today’s greenhouse gas emissions will still be influencing our planet, the fossil-fuel […]