Category: Informational
This blog category contains practical advice.
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Don’t Play Favorites: Mitigation and Adaptation Need to Be Friends
Talk about climate change tends to be future-focused. These will be the impacts. If we don’t do this by 2030, we will struggle. I challenge myself to center the conversation in the present day, however, as climate change is very much an active thing in 2025. We have been seeing the effects of too many…
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Decarbonization is Great! (And Essential)
If you hang out in action-focused sustainability spaces often enough, you will run into the idea of decarbonization, an immediately eye-catching term considering carbon’s current reputation amongst climate change. However, it is more complex than just “remove all carbon” because, one, we need carbon to live, and, two, decarbonizing society is a major undertaking. In…
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If You Want to Compete, You Need to Build Trust
There is nothing like being independent to make you realize how interdependent we actually all are. I love feeling that I am in control and under my own power. I am walking to the market, propelling myself. Of course, I am walking on a sidewalk that my town built and maintains, created from bricks and…
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Be Ready for Impact Requirements in the Value Chain
Picture this. You are in the midst of contract renewals with a customer worth a not insignificant part of your revenue. You are confident in your relationship with them. You have worked with the point of contact for several years at this point, and you have been able to address concerns and issues before. There…
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The Thing About Collective Action
I love people. I think people are awesome. People made vaccines, books, music, and hockey. Yes, people make problems, but if I thought the species was totally useless I wouldn’t be in this field. Most of my job involves talking to people and figuring out how to get many people to work together towards some…