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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.

Hiske Overweg is Sustainability Educator bij de door haar opgerichte Donutlobby en maakt zich sterk voor een toekomstbestendige planeet. Dat doet ze onder meer door het geven van bedrijfstrainingen en workshops voor onderwijsinstellingen.  Daarbij staat de online simulator En-ROADS centraal. Maar ze is ook klimaatburgemeester van Hilversum en geeft concerten met een ensemble. Van vele markten thuis dus. Als het maar past in haar missie: “te laten zien hoe waardevol het kan zijn om samen te werken op een future proof planeet”. Shownotes - LinkedIn-profiel Hiske Overweg - Website de donutlobby - Website En-ROADS Disclaimer De standpunten, gedachten en meningen in deze podcast zijn die van de spreker en vertegenwoordigen niet de standpunten, gedachten en meningen van BNP Paribas. BNP Paribas heeft geen controle over en/of is niet verantwoordelijk voor de kwaliteit, volledigheid en nauwkeurigheid van de informatie die door sprekers wordt verstrekt. De informatie die hier wordt gepresenteerd is enkel voor algemene informatiedoeleinden en mag niet worden beschouwd als professioneel advies. BNP Paribas onderschrijft, beveelt of keurt geen specifieke mening, organisatie, product of dienst goed waarnaar in deze podcast wordt verwezen.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:45:00 +0000 https://jungeanleger.podigee.io/1445-borsepeople-im-podcast-s12-05-alexandra-bolena 5a69a612c5fc5ec81ef1e4cb6b499038 Alexandra Bolena ist Ex-Politikerin, Expertin für Sustainable Finance und Impact Investments sowie Gründerin einer Veranstaltungslocation. Manche werden Alexandra wohl aus ihrer politischen Zeit beim Liberalen Forum kennen, sie war in einer Ära mit u.a. Heide Schmidt und Hans-Peter Haselsteiner auf Bundesebene ganz vorne dabei, später dann in Wien u.a. mit meinem Schulkollegen Kave Atefie. Seit mehr als 20 Jahren betreut sie nunmehr Institutionelle Anleger zum Thema Alternative Investments. In den letzten Jahren lag dabei der Schwerpunkt klar auf nachhaltigen Angeboten, ESG-Themen und Impact Investments. Wir sprechen über ESG/SRI, En-Roads. UZ 49, dragonlfy sowie neue Wegbegleiter wie Stefan Kainz. Natürlich frage ich auch, wie es einer Liberalen mit Regulierungswahnsinn und Bürokratie gerade im ESG-Bereich geht. https://www.impact-investments.at Buch "Nachhaltig investieren für Dummies": zB https://www.thalia.at/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1058647521? Lokal/Partylocation in 1080 Wien: http://www.bolena.at About: Die Serie Börsepeople findet im Rahmen von http://www.audio-cd.at und dem Podcast "Audio-CD.at Indie Podcasts" statt. Es handelt sich dabei um typische Personality- und Werdegang-Gespräche. Die Season 12 umfasst unter dem Motto „24 Börsepeople“ 24 Talks. Presenter der Season 12 ist Re:Guest, https://www.reguest.io/de/buchungssoftware-hotel/1-0.html .Welcher der meistgehörte Börsepeople Podcast ist, sieht man unter http://www.audio-cd.at/people. Der Zwischenstand des laufenden Rankings ist tagesaktuell um 12 Uhr aktualisiert. Bewertungen bei Apple (oder auch Spotify) machen mir Freude: https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/audio-cd-at-indie-podcasts-wiener-boerse-sport-musik-und-mehr/id1484919130 . 1445 full no Christian Drastil Comm.

In this episode we look at the funny side of Climate Change with award winning comedian, podcaster and business speaker, Stuart Goldsmith. He grabbed the headlines at the Edinburgh Festival in 2023 with his show about Climate Change, called Spoilers. Stuart talks about his journey in stand-up over the last 20 years, and his mission to engage a wider audience on Climate Change through comedy. Why did Stuart Goldsmith decide to make jokes about Climate Change? Stuart talks about spending 10 years as a street performer and his increasing feeling of ‘eco-dread'. He acted on this feeling by writing and performing comedy about Climate Change. Stuart talks about the challenges of performing material about the Climate Crisis to audiences. How does Climate Change comedy compare to activism? Charlie asks Stuart whether this was a form of activism. Stuart has attended Extinction Rebellion protests and a Just Stop Oil meeting. He respects their commitment but didn't feel like these were his normal social group. Will highlights when we tackle a new way of sending a message, it is a kind of activism. Will compares it to when he worked in sustainability in the early days of his career. Stuart talks about his journey writing jokes on the Climate Crisis and soliciting climate confessions from the audience. But tries to go further and influence his more famous comedy friends to include the topic in their material. Stuart wants his audiences to feel more comfortable starting a conversion about Climate Change with friends. Stuart also shares a joke about flying business class. How does Stuart gather research? Stuart talks about taking part in Climate Fresk, a workshop designed to teach the fundamental science behind Climate Change, and also playing EN-ROADS, an online simulator with the ability to test and explore cross-sector climate solutions. Will and Stuart discuss the impact of flying that's both negative and positive to society. Stuart talks about interviewing people for his podcast, The Comedian's Comedian, using one example of a global sustainability person for a huge US investment bank talking about Climate Change, politics, and Trump. This interviewee stressed that capital money has decided that [Climate Change] is real, so we can't pretend it's not real. Charlie offers the example of Trump supporting the reopening of coal mines, but none opened because no-one would invest in them. Stuart raises climate justice, and the fact people are already running for their lives. He asks what will humanity look like in the future? Charlie responds by quoting James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, where he recorded that if we hit an increase if 5-5 degrees above pre-industrial levels we could go from 8 billion people down to 1.5 billion living in the far North and far South. What's the worst thing Stuart jokes about? Stuart doesn't communicate how horrible a topic is to his audience, or they will stop listening. He thinks we need to safeguard our mental health. Stuart talks about being a parent and offers a ‘worst thing' joke related to his fellow playground dad's...

The online tool called En-ROADS helps communities understand which policies will help the most. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

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.

Who says lobby meetings should be formal? Learn about the fun and inventive ways Western NC, Utah, and Maine CCL chapters have engaged their members of Congress outside of conventional lobby meetings. From farm visits, to ping pong tournaments, and En-ROADS workshops, CCLers are ensuring their elected officials walk away from meetings they won't forget.

We've come to the end of yet another season on the "EcoRight Speaks" podcast. Before we turn the page, we'd like to celebrate with a "best of" season six show featuring many of the outstanding guests we had to start 2023. Host Chelsea Henderson takes a look back on season six with highlights from some of our guests including Climate Leadership Council's Greg Bertelsen and Catrina Rorke, Alliance for Market Solutions' Alex Flint, accomplished conservative hunter Cristina Jones, Trout Unlimited's Connor Parrish and EN-Roads executive director Andrew Jones just to name a few. Check out our final episode of the season before we launch season seven in just a few weeks. And follow us on social media (@republicEn) to find out when the first episode of season seven will drop in July. Thanks to all our listeners for investing your time and making it another great season! 

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. 

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!

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 Executive Director and Co-Founder Andrew Jones said more policymakers are utilizing the En-ROADS simulation a lot more lately. Listen to past interviews from the EcoRight Speaks!

Mit der Vision der Universität Stuttgart "Intelligente Systeme für eine zukunftsfähige Gesellschaft" ist eine Vielzahl von Fragestellungen verbunden – u.a. naturwissenschaftliche, ingenieurwissenschaftliche, philosophische, aber auch wirtschafts-, sozial-, erziehungs- und rechtswissenschaftliche. Mit ausgewählten Themen zu Letzteren setzten sich die sieben Vorträge der Ringvorlesung der Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Stuttgart im Wintersemester 2021/22 auseinander. Unsere Gesprächsreihe thematisiert die Forschungsergebnisse und Thesen im Gespräch mit den Referent:innen. In der ersten Folge der Reihe geht es um die Klimakrise und was das Computersimulationssystem En-Roads durch Simulation politischer und wirtschaftlicher Szenarien dagegen tun kann. Rebecca Beiter (Cyber Valley) und PD Dr. Felix Heidenreich (IZKT) sprechen mit Prof. Dr. Andreas Größler vom betriebswirtschaftlichen Institut der Universität Stuttgart. Er forscht zur Simulation nachhaltiger globaler Strategien zur Begrenzung der Klimakrise. Kooperationsprojekt der Universität Stuttgart (Fakultät 10 & Internationales Zentrum für Kultur- und Technikforschung (IZKT)) mit dem Cyber Valley (Public Engagement).

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.

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/ 

COP26, the United Nations climate change conference, is fast approaching. This international conference allows world leaders to address the pressing issues of climate change and consider solutions. As the climate emergency becomes an increasingly urgent issue, we ask how Humber can be part of the solution. We talk to faculty members Vidya Rampersad, Rossie Kadiyska, Vladimira Steffek and discover how they embed sustainability into their teaching practices. Jennifer Ball introduces the En-ROADS climate simulation tool; an interactive, role-playing tool perfect for use in the classroom. Devon Fernandes chats about Humber's innovative approach to sustainability. En-ROADS - Climate Change Solutions Simulator https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/en-roads/ COP26 - UN Climate Change Conference https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/cop26 Humber College - Office of Sustainability https://humber.ca/sustainability/

Copyright 2021 - The Energy Show, Barry Cinnamon So… regarding global warming, are we doomed? Or are there practical decarbonization paths to limit the impact of global warming? I am an optimist (otherwise I would not have been in the solar business for over 40 years). There is a clear path to limiting global temperature increases to 2 degrees celsius by 2100. However, the necessary actions to achieve this goal creates “winners and loser,” resulting in political risks — regardless of the underlying social and economic needs. To be clear, the winners will be various clean energy technologies, including wind, solar, EVs, building electrification and energy storage. The “losers" will be the incumbent fossil fuel industry, as well as their downstream customers. Unfortunately, the incumbent losers have much more lobbying money than the upstart clean energy winners. Fortunately, except for industrial process heat, electricity generated from clean energy sources is cheaper than fossil fuel power generation. But we need to transition to these clean energy sources much faster than we are now. I have been involved in many formal and informal discussions about the costs, benefits and effects of various global warming solutions. However, it is tricky to see the interactions of these actions when taken considered together. For example, if we put a higher tax on carbon, does that mean that we do not need to incentivize renewables as much? If we are confident that carbon sequestration will become available at scale in 2030, does that mean we can expand our natural gas use? Or, if we plant a trillion trees, do we need a carbon tax? Basically, there are many levers we can use to get to the desired result. To help provide guidance on the effectiveness of these various global warming solutions, I have been using a simulation tool called EN-ROADS. Please tune in to this week's Energy Show for an introduction to EN-ROADS. We'll also discuss my simulation efforts to keep the Earth's temperature rise under 2 C by 2100 (hint: lots of renewables, electrification, nuclear and a carbon tax).

This episode looks at student-led eco-work in schools as well as how schools can reduce their carbon emissions. Our panel includes both teachers and students and offers a range of ideas large and small for projects and cost-saving initiatives. The podcast is inspired by the Let's Go Zero schools campaign. We look at practical carbon reduction ideas, wider eco-work including single-use plastics and food waste, how student eco-teams can work, using the free En-ROADS simulator resource, and the Youth Climate Action Network. We consider how schools can save money by prioritising carbon reduction, including energy surveys, reducing energy-use and procurement.

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

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.

Show Notes:Citizens Climate LobbyEn-ROADSMaking the best of your Carbon Fee and Dividend presentations using the EN-ROADS Climate Simulator: The EN-ROADS Climate Simulator is a powerful tool which when used properly communicates how carbon pricing is an essential component of any successful climate policy. It provides third party verification in the effectiveness of carbon pricing and allows audiences to explore and compare possible climate policies in a way that is both educational and fun. Learn how EN-ROADS can improve your presentations and enhance your effectiveness as a climate advocate. "If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking" - Buckminster Fuller Peter Dugas is a musician and educator who currently serves as volunteer co-chair of the Portland chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby. A Portland native, Peter earned a BS in physics and engineering from Brown University and is a veteran advocate for effective and equitable climate action. He is an EN-ROADS Climate Ambassador and serves as the Citizens' Climate Lobby Portland Co-Chair, Grasstops leader and liaison to Senator Angus King (I).Don Parent is a consulting engineer with a longstanding concern about our collective lack of action on climate change. A Lewiston native, he has engineering degrees from Northeastern and Stanford with a focus in the thermosciences. He is active in the Citizens’ Climate Lobby and strongly supports pricing carbon as the most effective means to reduce emissions.

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Is the zeitgeist shifting toward action to curb global warming and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? Veteran Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett joins Edie Lush and Claudia Romo Edelman to consider that question in the aftermath of the United Nation’s climate summit and General Assembly. While the actions of governments were disappointing, they see a new attitude among many businesses, who were far more engaged in UN activity this year. “The balance of risks in the eyes of many business executives have shifted,” says Tett. Many executives now think it is “riskier to stand on the sidelines and do nothing than to actually be involved in some of these social and climate change movements,” Tett reports. The challenge now is not whether to act but how. Edie completes her visit with Professor John Sterman at MIT, whose En-Roads computer model of the climate lets Edie identify policy actions that will hold contain heating of the atmosphere. “The conclusion here is it is, technically, still possible to limit expected warming to 1.5” degrees Celsius, Sterman concludes.  Facts and Actions come this week from Bradley Tusk, venture capitalist, political strategist, writer and host of the podcast, Firewall, which looks at the intersection of tech, politics and culture. This episode is sponsored by BSR, a non-profit working with member companies to support corporate social responsibility. Check out their upcoming event here: https://bsr19.org/Podcast

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

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.