A little reflection on a big question that I've been wrestling with for a while + how it ties into building inClimate 2.0 and writing these newsletters.
I have no idea how your newsletter slid into my inbox (sounds kind of racy:) but what a wonderful post holiday/New Year’s gift, thank you!
I’ve only had time just now to read the last 2 newsletters (its midnight here in California) but love everything I’m seeing. That said, eager to learn and share more when appropriate.
I am a recovering corporate media broadcaster turned independent green content creator for more than 2 decades. I interview solutionaries in the forefront of climate and all shades of green. I hope you ‘ll add climate communicators to the description of your platform. As I often say, we will never meet our emissions, etc. goals if we don’t bring the public along. Educating and engaging mainstream audiences is a key missing piece of the solutions puzzle. But for some reason its an overlooked area for support.
Perhaps this community can help change that in 2026🌏
Really happy to read this Betsy! Happy new year! :)
We've just grouped communicators with similar groups as "enablers" on inClimate, so you absolutely are welcome to join! Would be great to see you there!
We used to have dozens of categories, but it just overcomplicated the onboarding.
Let me know how you like it and what to improve, it's still far from perfect!
I think its a great thought. If at some point your community would connect with other world-wide clean energy communities (to form something like a super-mega-worldwide-community), perhaps connecting those 3 elements (community, talent and insights) could happen even faster. Food for thought!
Such a good idea and I really agree! :) I was considering that members can add to their profiles what other communities they belong to, and then we can create member pages for other communities - or something in that direction 😊
Still haven’t fully thought it through though - will people truthfully fill this out or just add themselves to all community lists? What’s the exact benefit for other communities? :)
Yes, could be tricky, was thinking about it more from a systemic impact perspective of connecting more agents in the system (worldwide). Would need some thought of it from an implementation point of view, but could be a future level of scaling :)
Good question, I think if we apply technology and steer tech towards companies who are working towars climate change that is step one. Second step is transitioning from fossil fuels, if the first 2 don’t work, we stand up as a collective?
My experience is no matter what great innovations we design, we still need to undo old systems which seem to infiltrate work places, organisations and systems.
A few outliers seem to be creating healthy work place environments (can't be confident from the outside) which can shape change, but a lot revert to the old patterns - so even if you have good people in good jobs - they may still find themselves unable to leverage what they know for organisational and climate wellbeing - because they are blocked internally in different ways.
That said, I think trying especially with the willingness to adapt and learn is also valuable and if you have the capacity to get one of these ideas off the ground then I would!
Hi Tim! I was captivated by your newsletter title because man, I am dying for some answers to "How the heck do we stop the climate crisis?" And what I gather is that your perspective is mostly focused on innovation and the deployment thereof. When I began my journey into climate focus, I was deeply invested in technological solutions. And it's no doubt that technology will play a pivotal role in solving the climate crisis (ex. carbon removal). But as I've learned more, primarily from my experiences in the Climatebase Fellowship, my focus has shifted to viewing the climate crisis as a social and political issue. There are deep-rooted systems that will continue to affect the climate and its inhabitants negatively no matter how many innovations we apply to it. Connecting people is a move in the right direction in the sense that it creates the community we need, but it has to go deeper than the professional level. It has to meet us at home.
Anyway, just wanted to toss that perspective out there and get your thoughts! Would be happy to discuss more any time.
I completely agree. Technology is only part of the solution. It can also be exclusionary for people who are unable to afford it. It’s the social and political aspects which require more focus if we really want to tackle climate change head on.
Dear Tim, I am touched by the level of devotion you pour into not only the topic of climate change but also any of the ventures you get behind. I admire the vigor by which you seek answers, inspire and connect people, shine a light on what seemingly works and what does not.
I would love to offer a personal perspective from an ever evolving inquiry that has accompanied and stretched me this past decade, after myself standing in front of the white board mapping industries, bottlenecks, obvious issues, and what seemed to be obvious answers (mainly technologies that do in fact, as you say, already exist).
I have been down a plethora of rabbit holes since that time with the white board, as I'm sure you have too. A key “ponderance” that started pouring into my field was that of consciousness itself and the well known idea/quote of not being able to "solve problems with the same mind/consciousness we used when we created them"... and that perhaps to once again co-create beauty and a thriving ecosystem in the outside we need to tend to our inner ecosystems first. Ecosystems that at least in our modern society have been vastly overstrained.
To meet ourselves in our deepest darkest valleys (and also peaks) and to muster enough courage and love to repair and re-ignite through tenderness and care. To learn to feel our very own nature again, and in the same breath to once again commune with the Great Mother Earth, the ecosystems, forests, mycelium, oceans, cycles and rhythms that she brings forth. Perhaps only if we once again feel ourselves as part of her will we understand truly how to nourish her as she does us in sacred reciprocity. Not out of wanting something, or even wanting to fix, but truly understanding and devoting and letting her guide us to be true stewards of the lands we inhabit.
Perhaps we get to bring those who are walking that path, wisdom keepers, indigenous peoples and way showers, elders who have devoted their lives to this with greatest humility, to more tables. To listen to those who still commune and communicate with the forests, the winds and fires, the mountains. Those who have remembered or never forgot. Those that speak the language of the land. Those whose voices may not be loud and whose words may not be many - but when they do speak, your heart and bones feel a truth you may only recognize from a distant memory.
And from that place wielding & creating our beautiful technologies.
Let’s get it !
Vamos! 😊
So many likes already and it's still quite early morning.... that's a compliment to you!
I have no idea how your newsletter slid into my inbox (sounds kind of racy:) but what a wonderful post holiday/New Year’s gift, thank you!
I’ve only had time just now to read the last 2 newsletters (its midnight here in California) but love everything I’m seeing. That said, eager to learn and share more when appropriate.
I am a recovering corporate media broadcaster turned independent green content creator for more than 2 decades. I interview solutionaries in the forefront of climate and all shades of green. I hope you ‘ll add climate communicators to the description of your platform. As I often say, we will never meet our emissions, etc. goals if we don’t bring the public along. Educating and engaging mainstream audiences is a key missing piece of the solutions puzzle. But for some reason its an overlooked area for support.
Perhaps this community can help change that in 2026🌏
Really happy to read this Betsy! Happy new year! :)
We've just grouped communicators with similar groups as "enablers" on inClimate, so you absolutely are welcome to join! Would be great to see you there!
We used to have dozens of categories, but it just overcomplicated the onboarding.
Let me know how you like it and what to improve, it's still far from perfect!
Zillion encouragements on a Quadrillion courageous initiative !
Thank you Frank!! 🙏🙏
love the motivation and reasoning - lfg
I think its a great thought. If at some point your community would connect with other world-wide clean energy communities (to form something like a super-mega-worldwide-community), perhaps connecting those 3 elements (community, talent and insights) could happen even faster. Food for thought!
Such a good idea and I really agree! :) I was considering that members can add to their profiles what other communities they belong to, and then we can create member pages for other communities - or something in that direction 😊
Still haven’t fully thought it through though - will people truthfully fill this out or just add themselves to all community lists? What’s the exact benefit for other communities? :)
Yes, could be tricky, was thinking about it more from a systemic impact perspective of connecting more agents in the system (worldwide). Would need some thought of it from an implementation point of view, but could be a future level of scaling :)
Good question, I think if we apply technology and steer tech towards companies who are working towars climate change that is step one. Second step is transitioning from fossil fuels, if the first 2 don’t work, we stand up as a collective?
My experience is no matter what great innovations we design, we still need to undo old systems which seem to infiltrate work places, organisations and systems.
A few outliers seem to be creating healthy work place environments (can't be confident from the outside) which can shape change, but a lot revert to the old patterns - so even if you have good people in good jobs - they may still find themselves unable to leverage what they know for organisational and climate wellbeing - because they are blocked internally in different ways.
That said, I think trying especially with the willingness to adapt and learn is also valuable and if you have the capacity to get one of these ideas off the ground then I would!
Hi Tim! I was captivated by your newsletter title because man, I am dying for some answers to "How the heck do we stop the climate crisis?" And what I gather is that your perspective is mostly focused on innovation and the deployment thereof. When I began my journey into climate focus, I was deeply invested in technological solutions. And it's no doubt that technology will play a pivotal role in solving the climate crisis (ex. carbon removal). But as I've learned more, primarily from my experiences in the Climatebase Fellowship, my focus has shifted to viewing the climate crisis as a social and political issue. There are deep-rooted systems that will continue to affect the climate and its inhabitants negatively no matter how many innovations we apply to it. Connecting people is a move in the right direction in the sense that it creates the community we need, but it has to go deeper than the professional level. It has to meet us at home.
Anyway, just wanted to toss that perspective out there and get your thoughts! Would be happy to discuss more any time.
I completely agree. Technology is only part of the solution. It can also be exclusionary for people who are unable to afford it. It’s the social and political aspects which require more focus if we really want to tackle climate change head on.
Dear Tim, I am touched by the level of devotion you pour into not only the topic of climate change but also any of the ventures you get behind. I admire the vigor by which you seek answers, inspire and connect people, shine a light on what seemingly works and what does not.
I would love to offer a personal perspective from an ever evolving inquiry that has accompanied and stretched me this past decade, after myself standing in front of the white board mapping industries, bottlenecks, obvious issues, and what seemed to be obvious answers (mainly technologies that do in fact, as you say, already exist).
I have been down a plethora of rabbit holes since that time with the white board, as I'm sure you have too. A key “ponderance” that started pouring into my field was that of consciousness itself and the well known idea/quote of not being able to "solve problems with the same mind/consciousness we used when we created them"... and that perhaps to once again co-create beauty and a thriving ecosystem in the outside we need to tend to our inner ecosystems first. Ecosystems that at least in our modern society have been vastly overstrained.
To meet ourselves in our deepest darkest valleys (and also peaks) and to muster enough courage and love to repair and re-ignite through tenderness and care. To learn to feel our very own nature again, and in the same breath to once again commune with the Great Mother Earth, the ecosystems, forests, mycelium, oceans, cycles and rhythms that she brings forth. Perhaps only if we once again feel ourselves as part of her will we understand truly how to nourish her as she does us in sacred reciprocity. Not out of wanting something, or even wanting to fix, but truly understanding and devoting and letting her guide us to be true stewards of the lands we inhabit.
Perhaps we get to bring those who are walking that path, wisdom keepers, indigenous peoples and way showers, elders who have devoted their lives to this with greatest humility, to more tables. To listen to those who still commune and communicate with the forests, the winds and fires, the mountains. Those who have remembered or never forgot. Those that speak the language of the land. Those whose voices may not be loud and whose words may not be many - but when they do speak, your heart and bones feel a truth you may only recognize from a distant memory.
And from that place wielding & creating our beautiful technologies.
With warmest blessings,
Carolin
The market seems fragmented. With a missing 'linkedin' for climate.