In the latest entry in the Network for Business Sustainability blog, Climate Interactive Member and MIT Professor John Sterman outlines how we can use systems thinking – the analytical approach that underlies Climate Interactive’s models — to solve some of the world’s most complex problems. Although his suggestions focus on businesses, these strategies can be used by […]
Climate Interactive Simulation Opens Minds of 200 International Fellows
A group of 185 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows from across the world got a crash course in climate change policy from Climate Interactive Co-Director Drew Jones at this year’s Global Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. The World Energy and World Climate simulations helped these leaders, who represented 93 countries, gain insights into the complexity of […]
Beth Sawin at UMass Lowell: Climate Change Solutions for the Future We Need
Creating workable solutions to climate change isn’t easy, but human beings have a history of overcoming obstacles in difficult times (as we’ve said before, ending the slave trade was once similarly thought of as impossible). In her speech at a teach-in at UMass Lowell, Climate Interactive Co-Director Beth Sawin reminded us that enormous progress on […]
John Sterman and the Dalai Lama: Investigating Growth with a Piece of Paper
Here’s a fun game you can play to get acquainted with systems thinking: Take a sheet of paper and fold it in half. Now fold it in half again. Keep going until you’ve folded it six times. At this point, you’ve already managed one more fold than the Dalai Lama when Climate Interactive team member […]
Innovate Podcast Features Climate Interactive, Impact of Systems Thinking
“Not only are problems interconnected, but often solutions are interconnected as well.” -Beth Sawin In the latest edition of the bi-monthly Innovate Podcast, which features interviews with influential social entrepreneurs and transformative thinkers, host David Castro sat down with Climate Interactive co-director Beth Sawin to talk climate change and sustainability. Tackling climate change can be intimidating. […]