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Multisolving practices & tools for Collaboration

Multisolving sounds great, but how does it actually happen?

By studying multisolving successes, we document how people work together to multisolve and how they overcome barriers to policy implementation.

We also practice multisolving by collaborating with communities in projects at the intersection of climate, justice, health, and well-being. We document what works and share what we are learning.

From our research and our practice, here are resources that can help your community or organization capture the co-benefits of mitigating climate change as well as distribute those benefits in equitable ways.

Research

The Power of Multisolving for People and Climate, TEDxSun Valley- Beth Sawin shows the audience that multisolving can limit global temperature increase to 2.0°C in the year 2100. But how does one multisolve, exactly? She gives examples of people multisolving around the world and explains how each of us can do the same.

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Green Equitable Transformation

Examples of Covid-19 recovery plans that also include measures that could improve racial, gender, and economic equity, as well as help combat climate change.

Green Equitable Stimulus Plans

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Climate Paralysis? Try Multisolving.

There’s an approach called “multisolving” that can move us from paralysis to action.

Climate Paralysis? Try Multisolving.

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Multisolving for climate resilience

A series of four case studies from the United States exploring projects that take a multisolving approach to both combating climate change while also building resilience.

Multisolving for climate resilience

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Multisolving at the Intersection of Health and Climate

Global case studies looking at solutions that both limit climate change and improve public health.

Multisolving at the Intersection of Health and Climate 

Win Win

Multisolving for win-win solutions

Multisolving happens all around the world and looks different in different places. Beth Sawin’s article in Apolitical explores questions and answers that are key being a multisolver.

Multisolving for win-win solutions

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Lessons from the Just Growth Circle

Details the Circle’s novel approach to collaboration as well as what the group has learned thus far, both in terms of what works and what doesn’t, in the hope that the lessons uncovered can be useful elsewhere.

Equity, Health, resilience, and Jobs: Lessons from the Just Growth Circle

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Magic of Multisolving

In this article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Beth Sawin offers three principles and three practices to help leaders unlock the magic of multisolving.

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The Hill: Op-ed

Nations must plan now to make sure their stimulus efforts support a green, and more equitable, future.

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Multisolving + En-ROADS: Climate Justice Workshops

This blog answers the question, “What if we begin an En-ROADS workshop not on climate change, but with multisolving questions?

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Applied Examples

Articles

Multisolving at the community level

Sustainable, human-centered infrastructure can deliver health, equity, economic benefits, and climate protection. But in communities with a history of fractured and inequitable decision-making, it can be hard to achieve this potential.

ATLANTA

In Atlanta, GA, we are working with Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) to co-design approaches to infrastructure decision-making that benefit everyone in the long term.

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CONNECTICUT

We worked with the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University and the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities to help Connecticut integrate multisolving principles and develop a community sustainability rating system.

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MILWAUKEE

In partnership with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, 16th Street Community Health Centers, and 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, we created a system dynamics simulation of green infrastructure co-benefits in one of the most densely populated watersheds of the city.

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FLOWER TOOLKIT

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Four Reasons to Multisolve

From financial prudence to a thirst for justice, multisolving makes sense for many reasons.

Six Characteristics of Multisolvers

Infographic explaining who multisolvers are and what they do

Multisolving Checklist 

Keep these five elements in mind when designing multisolving policies and projects.

Ten Strategies for Capturing Multiple Benefits in Climate Action Plans

Advice for cities, states, and businesses to ensure co-benefits come with climate change mitigation

Webinars on Best Practices

A recorded webinar from the Health-Climate Intersections series, featuring experts from Australia and the UK, July 2018

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Una grabación del webinar Acción Multi-Solución: Intersecciones entre Salud y Clima en Latinoamérica, Abril 2018

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A recording of the first webinar in the Multisolving at the Intersection of Health and Climate series, Feb 2018

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A recorded webinar of the Exploring Climate Solutions Webinar Series: Multisolving, Jan 2016

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A recorded webinar introducing the Green Infrastructure Scenarios Tool, presented by the National Association of Development Organizations

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Multisolving Videos

Multisolving encourages the practice of sharing ongoing learning. Contact us if your project might benefit from what we are learning or if we might learn from your project.

If you are interested in receiving training in multisolving or partnering on a project, please email multisolving(at)climateinteractive.org.

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