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 …
John Sterman on the Power of Simulations
At a recent MIT conference, Climate Interactive member Prof. John Sterman provided an inspiring analysis of the relationship between big data, climate models and climate change action. As we see …
Using Simulations to Transform Climate Education
With funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative and Climate Interactive are partnering to bring transformative climate change education tools to …
Counterintuitive Climate Strategy: See The Solution In Order to Even See the Problem
By Drew Jones, Climate Interactive Co-Director How can we build political will to take responsibility for climate? It is time to invest in grounded hope. We should inoculate the world with an …
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 …
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 …
Two Interactive Graphics to Illuminate the UN Climate Report’s Latest Findings
After much anticipation, the U.N. recently released its Fifth Assessment Report on climate change, leaving us with more certainty than ever that we need to do more to address the effects of climate …
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 …
Honoring James Hansen: Supplying the Spine
“To save the spineless world from itself, supplying the truth isn't enough. You need to supply the spine, too.” – Joe Romm When NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified before the Senate …
World Climate Leaves MIT Students with Important Insights
For years, Climate Interactive’s World Climate exercise has been used in classrooms and conferences around the world to help students and professionals better understand the challenges facing …
What is an Elephant? 5 Ways Systems Thinking Helps Action on Climate
Cross-posted from Climate Access. Where do you spend your time working on climate change amid the many stakeholders, complex biogeochemical processes, and thousands of laws, rules, and incentives? …
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 …