Do you get the feeling that we have all the technical fixes we need, either at our fingertips or in the pipeline to heal the climate - but we just can't get it together? While some of us are beavering away trying to do the right thing, there are others in the world killing, lying, … Continue reading The inner development goals
The industrial food system is causing climate chaos and biodiversity loss, but most of us still support it. Just witness the multitudes that frequent corporate fast food outlets, or the millions of dollars spent in supermarkets every day. Profit rather than nutrition drives the food system. Being a conscious consumer As I have gotten older … Continue reading Kai communities
In the image above Otto Scharmer distills the essence of systems change. Here is the video where the image comes from. He starts talking about systems thinking at about 17.40 (the wole video is a good watch). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPOVCSn9pdU A key point is to step into a future that wants to emerge, our institutions have to … Continue reading Systems Change for a cooler climate
There is a big hole in climate discourse. Mitigation policy is focussed almost entirely on greenhouse gases (GHGs) ignoring opportunities to cool the panet by increasing vegetation. A paper from the Earth's Future Journal, A Century of Reforestation Reduced AnthropogenicWarming in the Eastern United States identifies that increased levels of reforestation in the Eastern US … Continue reading MOre evidence for local cooling
There are a lot of people working in groups around Te Tai Tokerau to make the world a better place. At Climate Action Tai Tokerau our focus naturally is on climate change, but in reality, climate change is just one facet of a crisis that is much bigger. Some call it the poly-crisis. Others call … Continue reading Help Grow the climate action community
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