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Andrew Jones, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Climate Interactive joins us to explore groundbreaking climate simulation tools shaping global policy decisions. We dive into Climate Interactive's En ROADS model, used by Congress members and educators worldwide, and we discuss its role in making climate science actionable. Andrew highlights effective climate solutions, challenges less impactful ones, and emphasizes the importance of reducing fossil fuel use and protecting forests. Tune in for a deep dive into how data-driven simulations bridge the gap between climate knowledge and action. If you want to help us reach our goal of planting 30k trees AND get a free tree planted in your name, visit www.aclimatechange.com/trees to learn how.

Ready to make a difference in climate policy, but not sure where to start? We have you covered. The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to view our start-of-the-new-Congress briefing series, Climate Camp. We review climate science, cutting-edge innovations, and the role of the legislative process in climate mitigation and adaptation. EESI's first Climate Camp briefing served as an interactive refresher on the drivers of climate change and the latest deployable solutions to address the challenge. This Congress, topics such as agriculture, infrastructure, and national security will be front and center. The briefing covered climate concepts and terminology—from types of greenhouse gases to renewable energy technologies—to help you identify policy solutions at the intersection of these issue areas. At this briefing, panelists showcased tools—like the EN-ROADS simulator, co-developed by MIT Sloan and Climate Interactive—that staff can use to easily digest climate data and generate policy ideas. They also highlighted federal agency resources essential to understanding the climate challenge and innovative solutions to address it.

Is multisolving the future? Is it today? Should we do more? That's all today's big question and my guest is Dr. Elizabeth Sawin. Dr. Sawin is the Founder and Director of the Multisolving Institute, which is convenient for our conversation. She's an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health, well being, and economic vitality. She developed multisolving to describe such win win win solutions. Beth writes and speaks about multisolving, climate change, and leadership in complex systems for both national and international audiences. Since 2014, Beth has participated in the Council on the Uncertain Human Future, a continuing dialogue on issues of climate change and sustainability among a select group of humanities scholars, writers, artists, and climate scientists.Beth is a biologist with a Ph.D. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M. I. T. She co-founded Climate Interactive in 2010 and served as Climate Interactive's co-director from 2010 until 2022. Beth's work has influenced me quite a bit, as you can see in the app.We've got co benefits all over the place, more on that soon and today. She's been on the list for a while here, and yet it took a couple recent hurricanes to actually get her on the show to talk about her journey, her mentors, her new book, and how we can most effectively deal with all of this.-----------Have feedback or questions? Tweet us, or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.comNew here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com.-----------INI Book Club:Always Coming Home and The Dispossessed by Ursula Le GuinFind all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-clubLinks:Learn more about multisolving at the Multisolving InstituteBuy Dr. Sawin's book Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured WorldCheck out the FLOWER AppFollow Dr Sawin on Bluesky and TwitterFollow us:Subscribe to our newsletter at importantnotimportant.comSupport our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgradeGet our merchFollow us on Twitter:

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - “A ccording to NASA, if we look back 800,000 years, we can see that carbon dioxide concentration fluctuated between roughly 180 and  280 parts per million and just in the geological blink of an eye, we have sent that  parts per million up to just about 400. So we're getting very close to a doubling of CO2 relative to where it has been for a long time.”  That quote was Max Thaysen, from FOCI's Climate Action Committee, explaining one of the slides (top of page) shown at ‘Our Fair Share,' an interactive online climate solutions workshop held in Mansons Hall on Thursday, October 3, 2024.  The event was hosted by the Climate Action Committee.  Max Thaysen introduced emissions targets and the concept of a fair share. Christine Leclerc, from Simon Fraser University's Climate Research Lab, guided participants through the En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator, developed by MIT Sloan and Climate Interactive.  Max Thaysen: “The other thing I hope they got, especially from playing with the simulator, is we have options. We're not stuck. There's actually no good reason, other than the political will and the will of the public, that we can't do this. The simulator helps to show that.” “All we have to do is the things that we already know we have to do. We don't even need magical technology in the future, which a lot of people's plans rely on.  We just have to do it thoroughly and sufficiently. We have to actually do it and that's the hard part.”  “The overall goal of the workshop was to expose people to this simulator that helps people see the impact of different kinds of changes, different kinds of climate solutions. We're trying to increase some ambition and attention and energy on the issue of climate change, trying to  help us all stop contributing to the pollution that changes the climate in increasingly extreme ways.” “Half of the workshop was an information presentation with a bunch of slides, charts and graphs, letting people know here's what the admission levels  are right now, what the impacts of that are now, and a little bit about what the impacts of increased warming  are projected to be in the future.”
  “The piece that I contributed was mainly helping people walk through the process that I went through, of understanding what it means to have a sufficient emissions reduction target?” “When governments and individuals want to address the role that they play in climate change, they're thinking ‘how much emissions do I need? How much less pollution should I put up into the atmosphere?' The only  scientific way to figure that out is to determine how much pollution causes how much warming and decide how much warming you're willing to tolerate, live with, or survive. Then  stay within that amount of pollution. That's called  a carbon budget or pollution budget, if you want to put it more simply.”   “We looked at some different opinions about how to fairly share and this is where the title of the workshop comes in. Our fair share is about understanding if we have a global pollution budget, how do we translate that into how fast we need to reduce emissions and that translation requires fairness.”  “When we signed on to the Paris agreement, we agreed to limit warming to 1.5°C, or try for 1.5°C and definitely keep well below 2°C.”  “We also agreed to do that with a strong sense of fairness. In the Paris agreement, they call it common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities. That's referring to things like historical emissions. How much pollution have you contributed in the past? Well, that might have something to say about how much of the current pollution budget you should have access to. We can all  understand that. If we're sharing a birthday cake and there's a couple pieces left, we might want to know how many pieces somebody has already eaten.”

~Co-presented with Commonweal's Collaborative for Health and the Environment~ We're now in the dangerous, uncharted territory climate scientists have been warning about for decades. Meanwhile, biologists and toxicologists are sounding the alarm about surpassing the “planetary boundary” for chemical pollution, beyond which both ecosystems and our health are endangered. We know climate change and chemical pollution are related in ways that can accelerate both crises, but does their interlinked nature also offer opportunities? Join Host Kristin Schafer with biologist and systems thinker Dr. Elizabeth Sawin and chemicals expert and clean production advocate Beverley Thorpe as they explore opportunities to prioritize solutions that concurrently address climate change and the global crisis of chemical contamination — while also improving public health, equity and economic vitality. Multisolving Institute a think-do tank that helps people implement solutions that protect the climate while improving, equity, health, biodiversity, economic vitality, and well-being. Beth writes and speaks about multisolving, climate change, and leadership in complex systems for both national and international audiences. Her work has been published widely, including in Non-Profit Quarterly, The Stanford Social Innovation Review, U.S. News, The Daily Climate, and System Dynamics Review. In 2010, Beth co-founded Climate Interactive, which she co-directed until 2021. Since 2014, Beth has participated in the Council on the Uncertain Human Future, a continuing dialogue on issues of climate change and sustainability. She is a biologist with a PhD from MIT who has been analyzing complex systems related to climate change for 25 years. Beth trained in system dynamics and sustainability with Donella Meadows and worked at Sustainability Institute, the research institute founded by Meadows, for 13 years. Beth has two adult daughters and lives in rural Vermont where she and her husband grow as much of their own food as they can manage. Beverley Thorpe Beverley is Co-Founder of Clean Production Action, and has researched and promoted clean production strategies to advance a non-toxic economy internationally since 1986. She was the first clean production technical expert for Greenpeace International on chemical and waste issues. Bev's work on alternatives to PVC, organohalogens and hazardous waste incineration helped drive momentum for safer substitution practices in company practices. As the NGO representative in the first United Nations Environment Programme for Cleaner Production, she promoted the value of public participation in industrial policies. Bev received her degree in Geography from Leicester University, UK and is an annual lecturer at Lund University in Sweden on chemicals policy and corporate practices. She is a past Director of Greenpeace International and a founding board member of the Story of Stuff in the US. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Host Kristin Shafer Kristin is director of Commonweal's Collaborative for Health and the Environment, and three decades of experience in the field of environmental health and justice. After working as a Communications Specialist at EPA and with World Resources Institute in Washington, DC, she moved back to Northern California where she held various roles—including executive director—over her 25-year tenure at Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America. Kristin holds a Masters in Social Change and Development from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She lives with her husband in downtown San Jose where she loves to bike ride and garden, and currently serves as board co-chair for the community-building urban farm, Veggielution. Find out more about The New School at Commonweal on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And like/follow our Soundcloud channel for more great podcasts.

In this episode of Flanigan's Eco-Logic, Ted speaks with Andrew Jones, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Climate Interactive, and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan. Climate Interactive is rooted in the fields of system dynamics modelling and systems thinking. His team creates and share tools that help people see connections and drive effective and equitable climate action.He and Ted discuss how climate modelling is an important step towards mitigating carbon emissions and making the right policy and personal choices to drive down emissionsAndrew was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and trained in environmental engineering and system dynamics modelling through a B.A. at Dartmouth College and a M.S. in Technology and Policy at MIT. At Dartmouth College, he became a student of Dana Meadows, who introduced him to the world of both systems thinking and global models as ways for citizens and top decision makers to test their thinking about what it is really going to take to create a sustainable world.He then worked with Ted at Rocky Mountain Institute in the 1990s and in the 2000s with Dana Meadows at Sustainability Institute. At Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan, he and his team developed C-ROADS and En-ROADS, two user-friendly climate simulations in use by analysts around the world. His interviews have appeared in multiple media, including The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, and NPR's Morning Edition. Andrew has also written two op-eds in the Sunday New York Times — one on building grounded hope and another in the form of an interactive simulation.He co-accepted the ASysT Applied Systems Thinking Prize for “a significant accomplishment achieved through the application of systems thinking to a problem of U.S. national significance” and the System Dynamics Society's Applications Award for the best real-world application of modelling. He is the 1990 recipient of Dartmouth College's Ray W. Smith Award for the most significant contribution to the status of the College.Andrew is based in Asheville, North Carolina, and teaches system dynamics at MIT Sloan and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Climate Interactive co-founder Andrew Jones explains the transparency factor which can be changed and shifted in the En-ROADS simulation. Check out the En-ROADS simulation tool online!

Climate Interactive's Andrew Jones on what sparked his idea for creating En-ROADS, the online simulator for exploring cross-sector climate solutions. Catch the entire interview online at: https://republicen.org/podcast!

You've heard a few of our past guests mention him recently and it's time we welcomed Climate Interactive Executive Director and Co-Founder Andrew Jones to the EcoRight Speaks! Jones created the popular interactive, online tool En-ROADS, allowing anyone to explore and see the long-term effects of global climate policies. En-ROADS is a free simulator used by policymakers, educators, businesses, the media, and the public with the ability to test cross-sector climate solutions while factoring in hunters of variables like energy prices, temperature, air quality and sea-level rise. Jones details where the idea for En-ROADS came from and how an interactive tool is more effective because "research shows that showing people research doesn't work," a premise coined by a fellow MIT Sloan colleague. This tool is used to help improve people's "mental models" in actionable ways versus laying out pages of data and research. 

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What will it take to keep global warming below dangerous thresholds? Thanks to Andrew Jones and his team at Climate Interactive, we have answers to that question. They developed the climate simulators, C-ROADS and En-ROADS, that make it easy for users to see how combinations of various solutions will affect global temperatures. As Citizens' Climate Lobby explores legislation to address climate change, these simulators can show us how to get the biggest bang for our buck. (Spoiler alert: Pricing carbon has the greatest impact.) In addition to being the director and co-founder of Climate Interactive, Andrew has worked at the Rocky Mountain Institute and Sustainability Institute. He currently teaches system dynamics at MIT Sloan and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In episode 3, Sarah and Jenna make it to Baltimore for a two-day stay! Tune in to hear their discussion with Shanna Edberg, Director of Conservation Programs for Hispanic Access Foundation and cherished partner of the Healthy Ocean Coalition. Shanna leads a team that plans and executes programming to advance national conservation and climate goals while serving Latino communities. Shanna is a longtime conservation advocate and promoter of environmental justice in the U.S. and abroad. She comes to Hispanic Access Foundation from an extensive professional background including working in sustainable development at the World Bank and Global Environment Facility, climate policy at the nonprofit Climate Interactive, civil service with local government, and managing her own photography business.

Andrei Covatariu este expert internațional în energie și schimbări climatice. Activitatea sa se concentrează pe politicile climatice și energetice, concentrându-se pe procesul de tranziție energetică și provocările geopolitice, economice și sociale ale acestuia. Opiniile și analizele de politică ale lui Andrei sunt publicate și citate în mod constant în mass-media internaționale. Andrei este în prezent expert în Task Force pentru „Digitalizarea în energie”, la Comisia Economică pentru Europa a Națiunilor Unite (UNECE). Totodată, Andrei este bursier nerezident în Programul Climate and Water, la Institutul Orientului Mijlociu (Statele Unite), și Senior Research Associate la Energy Policy Group (România). În 2021, Andrei a co-fondat ECERA, o rețea de practicieni în sustenabilitate care își propune să producă cunoștințe relevante pentru politici, ajutând guvernele, companiile, ONG-urile, universitățile și alții să navigheze în diferitele fațete ale sustenabilității. În trecut, Andrei a lucrat cu alte companii cu scop profit (Enel România, unde a fost Șef de Afaceri Publice la Enel România, anterior având alte roluri, cum ar fi Director Afaceri Reglementare, Manager Digital, Asistent Executiv al CEO & Country Manager ), organizații multilaterale și internaționale (World Energy Council, în calitate de fost membru al Consiliului de administrație al FEL-100), think tank-uri (Harvard's Belfer Center; Center on Regulation in Europe; Energy Policy Group etc.) sau ONG-uri (Climate Reality Project, Climate Interactive etc.). A fost bursier la programul Frontier Europe al Institutului Orientului Mijlociu (în 2020, Washington DC) și lider în viitor al Institutului Masdar (în 2022, Abu Dhabi). Andrei deține o diplomă de licență și un master în inginerie nucleară și un master în administrarea afacerilor. Andrei a absolvit și un master în politici publice (MPP) la Blavatnik School of Government, Universitatea din Oxford, cu un proiect de vară la Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Unde puteţi urmări Sustainable Living Podcast: Website: www.sustainable living.ro Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3rI4agY YouTube: https://bit.ly/2QWCPuB Facebook: www.facebook.com/SustainableLiving.ro Instagram: www.instagram.com/SustainableLiving.ro #Sustainablelivingpodcast #NicoletaTalpes #AndreiCovatariu

We live as part of a wondrous planet, an intricate web of interconnections and relationships. We have been taught, though, to think not in wholes and connections, but rather to break everything into simple, easy-to-digest pieces. What is often lost is our knowledge that we are whole, and that we belong here. Fortunately, systems thinking helps us to see interconnections and complexities, and learn from whole systems, like a body, ecosystem, economy, community, or planet.  Drawing on this way of thinking, multisolving helps us solve complex problems by taking actions that result in many interconnected benefits. This conversation looks at systems thinking and multisolving - starting with a decades-long experience of cultivating an intentional community. Reseed guest Dr. Elizabeth Sawin brings decades of experience as a systems thinker who leans into complexity to help small seeds grow into big changes. She is a wise systems thinking expert, and she is leading the forefront of multisolving. as the Founder of the Multisolving Institute. A biologist with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beth co-founded Climate Interactive in 2010 and served as Co-Director from 2010 until 2021. While at Climate Interactive, she led the scientific team that offered the first assessment of the sufficiency of country pledges to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2008. Elizabeth helped create Cobb Hill, an intentional community of people who want to explore the challenge of living in ways that are materially sufficient and socially and ecologically responsible, with 23 households managing 270 acres in Vermont. She raised her family in this community that is now home to community-supported agriculture, beekeepers, and more, built on the three pillars of community, sustainability, and land and farm. Elizabeth digs into the experience of cultivating an intentional community in this conversation.A systems view encourages us all to look beyond the false boundaries and lines that have been drawn, and calls on us instead to see how many parts interconnect as a whole. This is a conversation about changing how we see the Earth - and our place within her.Listen at reseed.ca. 

Elizabeth Sawin is unlocking the power of multi-solving for people and planet. A student of biology, she became fascinated with the interconnectedness of all things, in a world that is often ready to simplify and seperate. Climate change sat at the heart of those connections, leading her on a path to activism and the co-founding of Climate Interactive, a group that uses system dynamics — an approach to understand the behaviour of complex systems — to drive meaningful and equitable climate action. This year, Elizabeth has moved on to a new role as director of the Multisolving Institute, which focuses on solutions that address the climate emergency while also improving health, well-being, equity, and economic vitality. Elizabeth developed the idea of ‘multisolving' to help people see and create conditions for these win-win-win solutions. Earlier this year, she spoke with our contributor Myke Bartlett for our systems change of issue of Dumbo Feather magazine.

On the occasion of todays global climate strike, we discussed climate mitigation policies and the takeaways from our workshop with Climate Interactive. In January, oikos Vienna participated in a climate workshop in which we worked with the EN-Roads simulation model developed by Climate Interactive and MIT. As part of a simulated UN climate emergency summit, we developed climate policy measures to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees by 2100, as outlined in the Paris climate agreement. Try it out for yourself: En-ROADS (climateinteractive.org) If you're interested in a climate workshop, check out Climate Interactive: https://old.climateinteractive.org/tools/delivering-online-events/ An Interview with Lucia Mack and Melina Matzawrakos, hosted by Marlena Niedl

En-ROADS is a transparent, policy simulation model that gives people the chance to experiment with different scenarios that limit future global warming. Ellie Johnston, Climate Interactive's Climate and Energy Lead, will demonstrate this model and share how you can use it in your advocacy. https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/en-roads/ 

Panelists from Climate Interactive, Yale Program on Climate Change Communications, and Project Drawdown Georgia, will each discuss their work which focuses on analyzing, communicating, and implementing various climate solutions. What solutions are most impactful? How can grassroots groups like CCL incorporate these solutions into our advocacy? Panel moderated by Tony Sirna, CCL Strategy Director. Dr. Marilyn A. Brown Regents and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems Georgia Institute of Technology https://www.drawdownga.org/  Ellie Johnston Climate & Energy Lead Climate Interactive https://www.climateinteractive.org/  Jennifer Marlon, PhD Research Scientist and Lecturer Yale School of the Environment and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/  Tony Sirna Strategy Director Citizens' Climate Lobby https://citizensclimatelobby.org/join-citizens-climate-lobby/ 

Dr. John Sterman of the M.I.T. Sloan Management School shares his CLIMATE INTERACTIVE World Climate Simulation group exercise that he's run with everyone from the UN to members of Congress to the COP Climate Conferences, but this time he's faced with a challenge — making it understandable to The Fool (Dr. Patty Limerick). Dr. John Sterman https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/en-roads/ Patty Limerick Blog:  https://www.colorado.edu/center/west/about/patty-limerick/blog-not-my-first-rodeo Randy Olson https://twitter.com/ABTagenda​ Randy's Blog: http://scienceneedsstory.com​ Learn more about the ABT Framework Course: http://storycirclestraining.com/ Jen Martin https://twitter.com/scidocmartin https://www.instagram.com/scidocmartin/ Science Communication at the University of Melbourne: https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/science-communication/ Jen's Blog: https://espressoscience.com/

In this interview with Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, we talk about systems change, Climate Interactive's influence on UN climate conference negotiations, multisolving, the importance of building relationships and networks, the emissions gap, cultural narratives & paradigms, and lots of advice for folks on their climate journeys!Beth is the Co-founder and co-director at Climate Interactive which is a non profit think tank that specializes in making science-based tools to help people understand what actions are best for addressing the biggest challenges we face - like the climate crisis. Before Climate Interactive, Beth was a Program Director at the Sustainability Institute where she worked at the intersection of system dynamics and sustainability for 13 years. Timeline:0:00 Intro.1:30 Beth's climate journey.6:40 How much the climate space has changed over the decades.11:00 What Climate Interactive is, how it got started, and their pivotal role at the UN climate conferences. 15:40 What it's like to be at/play a crucial role at COP, influencing government leaders.23:15 How framing, short-term thinking, & not seeing the full picture has held back action. 28:00 Multisolving, solidarity, and core benefits vs. co-benefits.34:00 Climate movement needs a strategy around funding a broad, diverse, and interconnected movement - this starts with building relationships.38:45 Advice on how to accelerate multisolving where you live and work.43:40 What the emissions gap is and how to start closing it faster. And why Beth is dedicating the rest of her career to strengthening relationships and building networks. 52:40 Systems thinking: climate change is a symptom of a giant misunderstanding about who we are and what we're a part of. Partnership vs. domination paradigms.57:45 Society's narrative & human nature. Who is "we"?1:02:00 Advice for people who are just starting their climate journeys.1:05:35 Advice on how to find a mentor.1:08:40 How Beth takes care of herself and where she finds strength.1:12:10 Thoughts on building networks and strengthening relationships.1:17:10 Defining systems change, systems dynamics, and why they matter.1:20:40 Beth's book recommendation and final message to listeners. (every investment decision is a moment of opportunity).Follow Beth, Climate Interactive, and check out the resources she mentioned here:- Follow Beth on Twitter  - Website & ENROADS - Beth's Multisolving Ted Talk - Climate Interactive's Systems Thinking training- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows - Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System- Climate puppet show Crowdsourcing Sustainability links:- Sign up for the Crowdsourcing Sustainability newsletter! - Crowdsourcing Sustainability's website And a huge thank you to Diego Rentsch for editing as always!!Support the show (https://crowdsourcingsustainability.org/donate/)

Join CCL Education & Engagement Director Brett Cease and CCL Michigan Liaisons Coordinator Lisa DelBuono, MD, for a training that will review the background, details, and how to host a simulation event with Climate Interactive's climate policy simulator, En-ROADS, built with MIT Sloan. Lisa demonstrates two sample presentations using the tool to help groups explore the power of a steadily rising price on carbon through policies like the Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act as well as other strategies to address climate change to highlight complementary climate goals including the impact of changes in energy, land use, consumption, agriculture, and other policies. Skip ahead to the following section(s): (0:00) Intro & Agenda (2:25) En-ROADS Background (8:01) How To Use The Simulator (13:26) Example Carbon Pricing En-Roads Simulation For Progressive-Leaning Audience (stand alone version: https://youtu.be/awyp495Ran4) (28:25) Example Carbon Pricing En-Roads Simulation For Conservative-Leaning Audience (stand alone version: https://youtu.be/162gInMuJws) (40:06) Next Steps In Your Outreach (44:22) En-ROADS Training Updates! Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/enroads-update En-ROADS Simulator: http://en-roads.org En-ROADS Training: https://learn.climateinteractive.org/ What's working for you? Share on CCL Community's Forums: https://community.citizensclimate.org/forums

Dr. Drew Shindell is a faculty member at the Nicholas School of the Environment and at Tel Aviv University. His area of interest is focused broadly on the societal impact of climate change and action needed against climate change, including the link to air pollution. He has testified in front of Congress and has helped lead two IPCC reports. In this episode, we cover an overview of international climate relations and the international political steps we need to reach carbon neutrality. Climate simulators: EnRoads Simulator from Climate Interactive: https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=21.6.0 Climate Time Machine from NASA: https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/climate-time-machine/ Energy Policy Solutions from Energy Innovation: https://us.energypolicy.solutions/scenarios/home Guest: Dr. Drew Shindell Hosts: Emily Nagamoto and Matthew Brune Producers: Aimi Wen, Emily Nagamoto, Matthew Brune Audio Editor: Aimi Wen Music: Cali by Wataboi, What U Thinkin by Wataboi Visit our website at bit.ly/operationclimatepodcast for a full transcript of this episode and to learn more about how to get involved with Operation Climate! Follow us on Instagram at @operationclimate for breakdowns of climate topics, the latest climate news, and updates from the OC team! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/operation-climate/support

Did you ever think a baseball melee could effectively explain nuanced topics like cybernetics and systems dynamics? This episode examines the fascinating world of positive feedback loops, which play an outsized role in the not-so-positive phenomena of climate change, biodiversity loss, and political polarization. In addition to basebrawls, you'll hear how these feedback loops produce a variety of outcomes, from the mundane (e.g., restaurant acoustics and family squabbles) to the horrendous (e.g., ecosystem annihilation and nuclear meltdowns). To ensure safety, none of the podcast hosts were allowed to bring baseball bats into the recording studio. Beth Sawin, co-founder and co-director of Climate Interactive, joins the program to explain how reinforcing feedback loops can catalyze social and environmental transformations.Support the show (https://www.postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/)

Do you enjoy gaming? Do you enjoy surviving our climate apocalypse? Well, good news! You can enjoy both at the same time!  Last fall, Nature N8 went to a World Climate Simulation event, called En-ROADS, where participants roleplay as all sorts of different sectors to negotiate for better climate policies. N8 finds out what goes on throughout the simulation, and why this game was created in the first place.   Thank you to Omplexity, TWYCC, and the Hive Taipei for organizing this En-ROADS session. And special shoutout to our Patreon patron Brian for inviting us to the event!  You can play En-ROADS yourself on the Climate Interactive website.  Finally, a quote on hope:  “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark Support “Waste Not Why Not” on Patreon. Follow us on Twitter @wastenotpod. Send questions to ask@wastenotwhynot.com. Subscribe to “Waste Not a Newsletter" on Substack. EPISODE CREDIT | Nate Maynard (@N8May), host | Yu-Chen Lai (@aGuavaEmoji), producer | Emily Y. Wu (@emilyywu), executive producer | Angela Chao, production assistant | a Ghost Island Media production (@ghostislandme) | www.ghostisland.media Support the show: https://patreon.com/wastenotwhynot See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 How do a type One and type Three co-lead a team?  Find out as Chris and Sandra talk with Elizabeth Sawin & Drew Jones, Co-founders of Climate Interactive. Beth and Drew share the insights they have gleaned from years of co-leading and how their leadership styles relate to their Enneagram Types. 

"If you want to make a difference, target both individuals and policy makers. Don't make it one way activism. Target both."Joshua Amponsem is an environmentalist, climate activist and founder of Green Africa Youth Organisation. He focuses a majority of his effort on the youth, through education, implementation and policies and in 2016, he was named World Climate Ambassador by MIT Sloan’s Climate Interactive. The key topics in today's episode:- Climate change solutions- Transport industry- Youth action climate report- Our carbon footprint- Is each country equal- Tokenism- Empowering the younger generationVideo Version: https://youtu.be/8QhPHK9rWCkConnect with Josh:Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/amponsem Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/amponsemjoshua/Twitter | https://twitter.com/amponsemjoshuaConnect with me:Instagram | @plant.paradigmInstagram | @tomsimakYouTube | The Plant ParadigmTwitter | @plantparadigmSubscribe to the podcast:Apple | Spotify | Stitcher |Stay happy,Eat plants,Peace

Photographer Garth Lenz and systems scientist Dr. Elizabeth Sawin help us take the details of the past four episodes, process them together, and see the big picture—both through Lenz's aerial photography and Sawin's "multisolving" approach to systemic change.Learn more about "Rising Tide" and stream the movie at www.novaslc.org/crossroads.Transcript available at novaslc.org/podcastLearn more about Climate Interactive at climateinteractive.org, and Dr. Sawin’s TED Talk at youtube.com/watch?v=prF8trTallQView Garth Lenz’s photographer at garthlenz.com. His TED Talk on the tar sands can be viewed at ted.com/talks/garth_lenz_the_true_cost_of_oilHosts:Anne Francis Bayless, Fry Street Quartet cellistDr. Rob Davies, Utah State University Dept of Physics (Twitter @robsMast)Guests:Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, Systems Scientist and Co-Founder/Co-Director of Climate Interactive (Twitter @bethsawin)Garth Lenz, Photojournalist and Fine Art Photographer (Instagram @Garth.Lenz)produced by Chris Myers (argylearts.com)Transcript available at novaslc.org/podcast

Prof. John Sterman joins me to discuss tools for informed decision-making for climate change policy. For more info, visit Climate Interactive: https://www.climateinteractive.org/ Including the "en-roads" climate simulator: http://en-roads.org/ More info: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/ https://mitsloan.mit.edu/sustainability/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/climate-scientists/message

2020 feels like a whirlwind of news and change. But even as new issues — like the coronavirus have arisen — previous problems haven’t gone away and their depths have been highlighted or exacerbated amid the pandemic. One of those issues is climate change. In the early months of the pandemic, the levels of two major air pollutants drastically dropped. And the need for fossil fuels declined as planes were grounded due to the lack of travel. But the world is trying to return to various economic and social activities as people figure out how to live with the virus, and so the green effects of the early months of quarantine are likely fleeting. In all of this, climate change activists are watching and weighing the lessons of the pandemic as they move forward. MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with a meteorologist and a biologist on Tuesday at 9 a.m. about what we’re learning about climate change, education and activism in this period of transformation. Guests: Eric Holthaus is a meteorologist, journalist and author of “The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming.” Elizabeth Sawin is co-founder and co-director of Climate Interactive. To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above.

Elizabeth Sawin is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive and an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health, well-being, equity, and economic vitality, and she is the originator of the term ‘multisolving’ to describe such win-win-win solutions. Beth writes and speaks about multisolving, climate change, and leadership based on systems thinking to local, national, and international audiences. Her work has been published in Non-Profit Quarterly, The Sandford Social Innovation Review, U. S. News, The Daily Climate, System Dynamics Review, and more. She has trained and mentored global sustainability leaders in the Donella Meadows Fellows Program and provided systems thinking training to both Ashoka and Dalai Lama Fellows. A biologist with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beth trained in system dynamics and sustainability with Donella Meadows and worked at Sustainability Institute, the research institute founded by Meadows, for 13 years. https://www.climateinteractive.org/ https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/en-roads/climate-ambassadors/ http://www.cobbhill.org/ https://nexuspmg.com/

Hey All!This episode is a continuation of my chat with Juliette (see Episode #8). Now we move past her background and we dig a lot deeper into the psychology of Climate Change. Listen as she tells stories from her classes, experiences with colleagues and some very cool Interactive Climate Policy Simulations.Don't miss this one!-DanaPS: https://www.uml.edu/research/climate-change/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/2degreesC)

This is a rebroadcast of our Skimm Special that originally aired on April 18th. We’ll be back tomorrow with new episodes. Across the world, economies have essentially been on pause due to COVID-19. The unintended consequence? A significant decrease in air pollution and carbon emissions. We talked to climate experts about how the pandemic is highlighting the human impact on the planet. And what that can teach us about the steps individuals and governments need to take to tackle climate change. You’ll hear from: Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, co-director of Climate Interactive, a think tank that builds computer simulations related to climate change solutions. Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, which specializes in understanding Americans’ attitudes toward climate change.

Across the world, economies have essentially been on pause due to COVID-19. The unintended consequence? A significant decrease in air pollution and carbon emissions. We talked to climate experts about how the pandemic is highlighting the human impact on the planet. And what that can teach us about the steps individuals and governments need to take to tackle climate change. You’ll hear from: Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, co-director of Climate Interactive, a think tank that builds computer simulations related to climate change solutions. Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, which specializes in understanding Americans’ attitudes toward climate change.

Hey Peeps!On this episode I had the chance to speak with one of my old professors from UMass Lowell; Juliette Rooney-Varga. Back in 2012 she taught a class of mine on Climate Change and I still remember a lot of our projects (climate simulations). She really knows her stuff! Was Juliette always interested in Climate Science? What influenced her when she was a kid?As someone that has been involved in Climate Science most of her life; her path to present day is fascinating. Give it a listen :)-DanaSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/2degreesC)

Andrew Jones, CCL's July 2019 monthly speaker and co-founder of Climate Interactive, engages attendees with a review of Climate Interactive's new climate policy simulator, En-ROADS, built with MIT Sloan. Explore the power of a steadily rising price on carbon through policies like the Energy Innovation Act as well as other strategies to address climate change to highlight complementary climate goals including the impact of changes in energy, land use, consumption, agriculture, and other policies. Skip ahead to the following section(s):Background and History of the En-ROADS Tool (3:11)Expert Opinion and Assumptions (7:24)Using the Simulator (9:30)Demo-ing the Simulator (12:00)Modeling the Energy Innovation Act's Inputs (24:20)When En-ROADS Will Be Released & Training Plan (26:58) For Additional Q&A Go To: https://youtu.be/apFC6iaKm7k Find This Training on CCL Community: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/418Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/climate-simulationsFollow Citizens' Climate Lobby on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CitizensClimateLobby/Twitter: https://twitter.com/citizensclimate

Drew Jones, is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive, a think tank that provides modeling for climate policies and tools, giving policy-makers a realistic view of what's needed to contain global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. Drew will share details of Climate Interactive's new climate policy simulator En-ROADS, a fast, powerful tool for understanding how we can achieve our climate goals through changes in energy, land use, consumption, agriculture, and other policies. Helpful Links:To sign up for En-ROADS updates and the tool: http://en-roads.orgMonthly Action Sheet: http://cclusa.org/actionsheetFor the video shown at the end, visit: https://youtu.be/bd8SjXTMgco

Andrew Jones is an expert on international climate and energy issues, he is a system dynamics modeler, keynote speaker, and designer of simulation-based learning environments. He is also the co-founder and co-director of Climate Interactive. On this week’s episode, he speaks about the motivations that led to him start his non-profit, and why he now understands that we need to go beyond simply showing people the research. After spending his own career as a systems modeler who knew the impacts of climate change in the long term, as well as the limitations in science communication to large audiences, he decided to find a different way. His simulations and tools now reach thousands of people across the United States and around the world, and have inspired them to understand and want to take collective action in finding solutions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen award-winning books including The Party’s Over; Powerdown; Peak Everything; The End of Growth; and Our Renewable Future, as well as hundreds of articles and essays. He is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from fossil fuels. He has delivered hundreds of lectures to audiences around the world and has been published in Nature, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and Reuters. Richard Heinberg joins Sustainable Nation to discuss: The current state of energy and its contributions to the climate crisis The shale gas and tight oil bubble Community resiliency The transition to a fossil fuel free future Recommendations and advice for sustainability leaders Richard Heinberg's Final Five: What is one piece of advice you'd give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? I don't know if it's a piece of advice, but I'd just say, hey you're doing the most important work anybody is doing right now, so even if it's tough, keep at it. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability and regenerative development? One of the things I'm excited about is carbon farming. I think there's a huge opportunity for us to take CO2 out of the atmosphere and put it back in soil, and as a result of that, we could change our whole food system for the better. And we could reverse climate change if everybody switched over to regenerative agriculture practices. Northern California is definitely doing a lot of great work in that area. What is one book you would recommend sustainability professionals read? Sustainability professionals are sort of keeping up with the latest literature on climate and renewable energy and so on. But I would really recommend that sustainable professionals also read some of the classics in the field going back all the way to the seventies and before. Things like Limits to Growth. If you haven't read that book, you really owe it to yourself to study it closely. How are we tracking those predictions from that book? We're very much on track. Not just the team of scientists who produced that book, but also independent groups have gone back and looked at the scenarios and the trajectories that were discussed in Limits to Growth. It's some of the most accurate modeling that's been done on world systems. That's pretty incredible. Especially, all the controversy surrounding that book when it came out. And here we are 40 years later, 50 years almost, and where we're right on track with most of it. It's kind of scary. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in the work that you do? You know, there's a great website for modeling energy and climate. It's called Climate Interactive. And you can go there and tweak the dials yourself. There's a tool called C Roads that's for carbon emissions, and one called EN Roads that's for working with an energy sources. And again, you can tweak the dials with energy and public policy and so on, and see what actually happens in terms of carbon emissions. If you do that, I think one of the things you learn is that there are no easy answers. There are a lot of tradeoffs and there's no silver bullet. And finally, where can our listeners go to learn more about you and your work? There are a couple of websites I've mentioned for my work, Richard Heiberg.com is a good place to go. I have lots and lots of archived essays there. And then for Post Carbon Institute I would recommend our public website resilience.org. And that's just a fantastic website to look at every morning to see news about resilience work and sustainability. Not just in the US, but also elsewhere in the world. So those are the best.

Enneagram Type 3 with guest Drew Jones, executive director of Climate Interactive.

Climate Interactive’s Co-Director Drew Jones, and NASA scientist Dr. Gavin Schmidt talk about recent trends with the warming Earth, and climate change science. Next, Dr. Karin Muraszko, Chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan, talks multiple sclerosis and other neurological health issues as she attends a neurological conference in New Orleans. Then, local attorney and art collector Chris Alfieri discusses a lost sculpture by Lynda Benglis from the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans that he found in Kenner, restored with the help of the Helis Foundation, and placed in City Park. Finally, artist Monique Verdin, discusses her work that focuses on the culture and challenges of Houma Indians.