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 …
Launch of The Climate Leader—Online Systems Thinking Training
Climate Interactive is launching The Climate Leader, a free five-week online training series in systems thinking. The course will share some time-tested insights into navigating the complex world of …
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 …
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 …
Drew Jones to Simulate Climate Success at the Smithsonian
You're Invited! On October 9th, 2014, Drew Jones will be joining the Smithsonian Institute for a plenary session a day-long symposium, Living in the Anthropocene: Prospects for Climate, Economics, …
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 …
John Sterman on Climate Change: Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize
In a recent climate change panel, Prof. John Sterman of MIT and Climate Interactive called for activists, media and scientists to charge down the path to climate resilience. Dealing with climate …
Climate Interactive in the UK: Building grounded hope on climate solutions
“The workshop enabled participants to visualize how the various approaches and solutions interact and impact climate outcomes. Some of the conclusions challenged received wisdom and intuition.” - …
Systems Thinking and Business Solutions in a Complex World
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 …
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 …
Climate Interactive Showcases Drought and Displacement Simulation before UN
As global warming advances, much of the planet’s most vulnerable population is already seeing its livelihood affected. In some cases, the effect is so strong that people must uproot their lives …