Podcasts about resilience hub

No 43º e último episódio de 2024 de "O Futuro vem do Futuro", Lara Silbiger, head de produtos editoriais da MIT Sloan Review Brasil, e Adriana Salles Gomes, diretora editorial, recebem Carlos de Mathias Martins, especialista em energia renovável e compensação de carbono, para uma conversa essencial sobre o futuro ambiental e seus impactos nas empresas. Neste episódio, que encerra o ano de 2024, Carlos compartilha sua visão sobre as tensões e os avanços debatidos na COP29, realizada no Azerbaijão, destacando como a inércia institucional e os conflitos de interesse comprometem a ação climática global. Ele também analisa os desafios para a COP30, que será sediada no Brasil, e como o país pode aproveitar essa oportunidade para impulsionar soluções sustentáveis em âmbito internacional. Entre os temas abordados estão os compromissos de mobilizar US$ 1,3 trilhão anuais até 2035 para uma economia de baixo carbono e a regulamentação do comércio de créditos de carbono. Carlos detalha como essas medidas podem transformar as dinâmicas empresariais, enquanto as políticas ambientais de governos como o dos EUA desafiam o progresso global. Outro ponto alto é a reflexão sobre as tecnologias limpas lideradas pela China e a relevância do Resilience Hub na COP29, que propõe soluções como resiliência urbana e integração de conhecimentos culturais para enfrentar os desafios climáticos. O episódio também debate o papel das empresas brasileiras na redução de impactos ambientais, mesmo diante de um cenário global adverso, e como líderes podem alinhar ações climáticas às estratégias de negócios para garantir resiliência e competitividade. Com questões urgentes e reflexões instigantes, este episódio encerra o ano com um convite para entender como agir agora pode definir os futuros que queremos criar. ⁠Inscreva-se⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ na Newsletter Xtended ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Inscreva-se⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ na Newsletter Future-ready

In this episode, we're thrilled to welcome Dr. Estelle-Marie Montgomery, Executive Director of the FH Faunteroy Community Enrichment Center. Over the past four years, Dr. Montgomery and guest host Mark Drury have collaborated on workforce development initiatives, and today, she shares her inspiring journey to Deanwood along with her vision for Washington DC's first Resilience Hub. We'll dive into how resilient communities benefit employers seeking talent, the importance of candidate vetting in construction bootcamps, and how the construction community can support this exciting project. Don't miss this insightful conversation!

Climate change stands as the defining challenge of our era, a topic that can feel overwhelming in its scope and implications. As we grapple with this global crisis, many of us also face mounting anxiety about upcoming elections, whose outcomes could profoundly shape our response to climate change and impact the world we cherish. In this workshop, we'll explore the intersection of climate and election anxiety. We'll begin by defining these phenomena and examining their root causes and common manifestations. Most importantly, we'll introduce a practical five-step framework designed to help you navigate these complex emotions and concerns skillfully. By the end of our session, you'll have a deeper understanding of climate and election anxiety, as well as concrete tools to manage these feelings effectively. Our goal is to empower you to engage with these critical issues while maintaining your well-being and sense of agency. Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/election-climate-anxiety   Resilience Hub: https://cclusa.org/resilience  Skip ahead to the following section(s): (0:00) Intro & Agenda (2:51) Exploring Anxiety (13:10) Five Steps to Resilience (31:34) Practice Ideas

Rachel Davidson is a research engineer at the University of Delaware and principal investigator for the “Coastal Hazards Equity, Economic Prosperity, and Resilience Hub,” or CHEERHub. The five-year, $16M, NSF-funded, multi-disciplinary research network is tackling the complexity of coastal resilience by focusing on stakeholder decision making. Davidson introduces CHEER and explains why so many good ideas for managing disaster risks do not get implemented. Learn more about the CHEERHub https://www.drc.udel.edu/cheer/ Read about the NHERI-CHEER partnershiphttps://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2024/july/nheri-partners-cheer-hub-hurricane-decision-making-framework/ CHEERHub's NSF award summaryhttps://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2209190&HistoricalAwards=false CHEERHub on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cheer-hub/posts/?feedView=all Rachel Davidson is an accomplished academic and research engineer. Discover more about her career and work:https://ccee.udel.edu/faculty/rachel-davidson/

8/20/24:  Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: The Dem Convention & The Resilience Hub. Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Pam Victor & Laura Patrick.  Smith Prof Carrie Baker w/ activist-in-residence Ann Beeson. Bill Dwight joins our coffee klatch to reflect on the Democratic National Convention.

8/20/24:  Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: The Dem Convention & The Resilience Hub. Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Pam Victor & Laura Patrick.  Smith Prof Carrie Baker w/ activist-in-residence Ann Beeson. Bill Dwight joins our coffee klatch to reflect on the Democratic National Convention.

8/20/24:  Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: The Dem Convention & The Resilience Hub. Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Pam Victor & Laura Patrick.  Smith Prof Carrie Baker w/ activist-in-residence Ann Beeson. Bill Dwight joins our coffee klatch to reflect on the Democratic National Convention.

8/20/24:  Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: The Dem Convention & The Resilience Hub. Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Pam Victor & Laura Patrick.  Smith Prof Carrie Baker w/ activist-in-residence Ann Beeson. Bill Dwight joins our coffee klatch to reflect on the Democratic National Convention.

In this episode of Citizens Climate Radio, hosts Horace Mo and Erica Valdez bring together diverse voices to discuss current efforts to address climate change. Horace Mo speaks with Ann E Burg, a celebrated author known for compelling historical novels for young readers, about her newly published novel “Force of Nature–A Novel of Rachel Carson” which opens a new door for readers to experience the life of Carson, a well-known environmental pioneer in the US, by reading her field notes and Ann's innovative writing. Erica Valdez discusses the American fossil fuel divestment movement, highlighting the work of younger generations. She has a conversation with Aly Horton, another student taking the initiative to promote the fossil fuel divestment movement on their campus at Northern Arizona University. In the Resilience Corner, Tamara Staton speaks on mastering the banjo and how this uniquely relates to addressing climate change. Finally, we have a Good News story from Peterson Toscano regarding South Africa's energy supply. Ann E Burg Explores Rachel Carson's Life In this episode, author Ann E Burg dives into her latest work, “Force of Nature.” This novel is inspired by Rachel Carson's groundbreaking environmental book Silent Spring. It is beautifully illustrated by Sophie Blackall. After World War II, DDT became a common pesticide in neighborhoods and farms; however, it had dire consequences for ecosystems, entering the food chain and harming various species. This alarming situation inspired Rachel Carson to write and publish her now-famous book, “Silent Spring”, in 1962. Ann E Burg tells us how Carson's book "explored DDT but also started with a fable for tomorrow. It suggested what life would be like if spring came and no birds were there to sing."   Ann E. Burg considers Rachel Carson a role model for her scientific rigor and environmental advocacy. Carson's ability to illuminate the beauty and complexity of nature-inspired Burg to see the world differently. This novel, “Force of Nature,” is not merely a recounting of Carson's life but an immersive experience of her world. Burg hopes readers will see the world through Carson's eyes and appreciate the interconnectedness of all life. About Ann E Burg Ann E Burg's debut novel, “All the Broken Pieces,” was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Jefferson Cup award winner, and an IRA Notable Book for a Global Society, among its many honors. Her subsequent novels in verse have garnered multiple awards and starred reviews. “Serafina's Promise” was named an ALA Notable, a Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner, and an NAACP Image Award finalist. “Unbound” won the New York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize, the Christopher Award, and an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor. “Flooded–A Requiem for Johnstown” was a Bank Street College Claudia Lewis Award winner, a Bank Street College Best Children's Book (with outstanding merit), and a Junior Library Guild selection. Before becoming a full-time writer, Burg worked as an English teacher for ten years. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York, with her family. To learn more about Ann E Burg, visit her online at anneburg.com The Student-Led Drive for Fossil Fuel Divestment Erica Valdez discusses the fossil fuel divestment movement, highlighting the efforts on her campus, Northern Arizona University (NAU). Climate change is a human-caused phenomenon in which the fossil fuel industry plays a significant role. Erica dives into what divestment is and how it may be one of the most effective steps that institutions can take to slow climate change. Erica invites Aly Horton, president of Fossil Free NAU, a student-led group demanding complete divestment. Aly explains the club's efforts and goals to hold the university accountable to its environmental commitments.  Aly and Erica also discuss recent pushback from the university administration. Nevertheless, Fossil Free NAU remains determined to continue its mission because it is just a small chapter of an international movement. Although it may be difficult, many institutions have already divested from fossil fuels. Aly shares inspiring advice to organizers worldwide who are working towards divestment. Resilience Corner For this month's Resilience Corner, Tamara Staton draws parallels between her desire to master the banjo and the overwhelming task of addressing climate change. When practicing banjo, she faces common emotional barriers like fear, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and information overload. We also face these barriers when we talk about climate change. Tamara discusses why it is important to recognize these feelings, encouraging listeners to embrace imperfections and persistent efforts. To learn more about building resilience in the face of climate challenges, visit the Resilience Hub. You can also email Tamara at radio @ citizensclimate.org or text or leave a message at 619-512-9646. Good News! Peterson Toscano shares a good news story from Limpopo Province, South Africa, where earlier this month he was staying in a game reserve. He reflects on the progress in South Africa's energy sector since his previous stay, highlighting the severe scheduled power outages known as load-shedding issues caused by unreliable coal-powered plants. He notes that significant changes have occurred since President Cyril Ramaphosa raised the licensing threshold for private power generation, leading to over 1,000 registered renewable energy projects. These projects, primarily solar and wind, are now providing nearly 4,500 megawatts of new capacity, significantly reducing power outages and transforming the country's energy landscape. Take a Meaningful Next Step Each month, we will suggest meaningful, achievable, and measurable next steps for you to consider. We recognize that action is an antidote to despair. If you are struggling with what you can do, visit our Action Page Listener Survey We want to hear your feedback about this episode. After you listen, feel free to fill in this short survey. Your feedback will help us make new decisions about the show's content, guests, and style. You can fill it out anonymously and answer whichever questions you like. You can also reach us by email: radio@citizensclimatelobby.org  Special Thanks to the following people and groups for the ways they promote us through social media: Robert D. Evans, Pete Marsh, Bill Nash, 1.5, EG Hibdon, Mats Söderlund, Justin D'Atri, and last month's guest, Rob Hopkins.Earthbased.Soul, FCWC, CCL Alameda, Alaska, and the CCL Young Conservative Caucus.  We Want to Hear from You Email: radio @ citizensclimate.org Text/Voicemail: 619-512-9646 Production Team: Written and produced by Horace Mo, Erica Valdez, with assistance from Peterson Toscano. Technical Support: Ricky Bradley, and Brett Cease. Social Media Assistance: Flannery Winchester. Music is provided by epidemicsound.com Social Media: Follow us on X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok.

In this episode of Citizens Climate Radio, co-hosts Peterson Toscano and Erica Valdez explore the theme of climate change and its impact on Antarctica. They interviewed Elizabeth Rush, author of “The Quickening, Creation, and Community at the Ends of the Earth,” who shares her experiences and insights from a research expedition to Thwaites Glacier. They also spoke with Brett Cease, Vice President of Programming for Citizens' Climate Lobby, who traveled to Antarctica and shared his observations. Additionally, they discuss sustainable fashion, resilience, and the Great School Electrification Challenge. For full show notes, photos, and transcripts, visit www.cclusa.org/radio Journey to Thwaites Glacier with writer Elizabeth Rush Elizabeth Rush joined a research expedition aboard an icebreaker in 2019 and headed for Thwaites Glacier for 54 days. This remote and deteriorating glacier is critical in understanding global sea level rise. Her book documents this journey, weaving together the awe-inspiring encounters with icebergs and the intense efforts of scientific labor.  A Deep Feminist Rewriting of Antarctic History During her time on the icebreaker, Elizabeth embraced her role as writer-in-residence to shift the narrative focus. Antarctic history, often dominated by tales of conquest by wealthy, white men from the Global North, is ripe for reexamination. Elizabeth spent considerable time engaging with the ship's diverse crew members, including engineers and cooks from the Philippines, whose stories are usually overshadowed by scientists' stories. By doing so, she highlights the essential labor that makes scientific discovery possible and challenges the traditional narrative that has long defined Antarctic expeditions. Life Aboard the Icebreaker Elizabeth's account transcends typical adventure narratives, offering a glimpse into the daily realities of life on a research vessel. The absence of the internet and the close quarters created an environment of authenticity and camaraderie among the crew. This unique setting allowed genuine interactions and reflections that are rare in our every day, digitally-saturated lives. A Thoughtful Dialogue on Climate Change and Parenthood "The Quickening" provocatively explores the intersections of climate change and the decision to bring children into the world. Elizabeth tackles this complex topic not by dictating what to think but by inviting readers to engage in a thoughtful dialogue. The narrative steers clear of simplifying the issue to mere carbon footprints, instead enriching the discussion with nuanced perspectives on regeneration and balance. About Elizabeth Rush Elizabeth Rush is a distinguished author known for her impactful exploration of climate change and its effects on communities. Her acclaimed book, “Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore,” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and has garnered praise for its deeply felt portrayal of frontline communities facing environmental challenges. Rush's writing is characterized by her commitment to listening to marginalized voices, whether they are those affected by climate change, the melting glaciers of Antarctica, or individuals excluded from environmental conversations. "Rising" has been lauded as a vital contribution to the discourse on climate change and sea levels, earning acclaim from publications like the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. Rush's work extends beyond her book, with her writings appearing in prestigious publications such as Orion and Guernica. Rush has received numerous fellowships from institutions like the National Endowment for the Arts, National Geographic, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Currently based in Providence, Rhode Island, she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University while living with her husband and two children. This is the fourth time CCR has featured Elizabeth Rush on the show. She also appears in Episode 26 In Deep Water, Episode 29, Truth, Fact, and Cli-Fi, and Episode 47, Eco-Grief in a Time of Coronavirus Mourning.  Brett Cease's Antarctic Adventure Brett Cease, Vice President of Programming for Citizens' Climate Lobby, shared his enlightening journey to the Antarctic Peninsula. His voyage on the Ushuaia, a research vessel turned expedition ship, offered firsthand insights into Antarctica's harsh realities and stunning beauty. Navigating through towering waves and enduring 24-hour daylight, Brett's expedition highlighted the Southern Ocean's raw power and unpredictability. The trip provided an up-close view of the continent's dramatic landscapes and unique wildlife, including several species of penguins. Penguins and the Impact of Climate Change One of the most striking aspects of the journey was observing the effects of climate change on local wildlife. The Adelie penguins, in particular, suffer as rising temperatures cause the sea ice they depend on to form later and melt earlier each year. Brett vividly described the overwhelming smell of penguin colonies, a mix of old cigarettes, ammonia, and rotten shrimp, illustrating the less glamorous side of these adorable but squalid creatures. Ice Loss and Its Global Implications The voyage underscored the dramatic ice loss in Antarctica, with the continent shedding approximately 150 billion tons of ice annually. Witnessing these changes was humbling and a stark reminder of the urgent need for global climate action. Resilience Corner Tamara Staton explores the surprising relationship between puppies and climate change. Through her experience with her puppy, Mica, Tamara highlights how pets contribute to our well-being, from reducing stress to promoting physical activity and combating loneliness. She emphasizes how the positive effects of pet ownership can indirectly support climate action by fostering healthier, happier individuals. Tamara invites us to consider pet ownership or pet-sitting as a means of experiencing these benefits.  To learn more about building resilience in the face of climate challenges, visit the Resilience Hub. Share your resiliency questions with Tamara via email at radio @ citizensclimate.org or you can text or leave a message at 619-512-9646. CCL Youth Corner with Veda Ganesan Veda tells us about the Great School Electrification Challenge, an initiative spearheaded by CCL National Youth Action Team that aims to transform schools into hubs of sustainability by advocating for the electrification of various systems, including HVAC, transportation, and energy sources like solar panels. Through the stories of youth teams in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dallas, Texas, Veda showcases the grassroots efforts to engage school boards, policymakers, and the community in adopting clean energy practices. Highlighting the recent success of the Cincinnati team in getting their electrification resolution unanimously passed, she encourages listeners to join the cause and participate in the challenge.  Veda Genesan is a high school student from Texas and the host of the Sustainable Cents podcast.  Good News Erica Valdez shares the adverse environmental effects of the fashion industry, as it uses resources and generates emissions to produce, package, and transport clothing. The good news is there are many groups taking action and bringing this issue to light. Erica highlights the Scrounger's Center for Reusable Art Parts (SCRAP), a nonprofit center for creative reuse in San Francisco.  Through after-school programs like Sustainable Fashion Design for Teens, SCRAP educates students about the environmental effects of the fashion industry and teaches them how to reuse and revitalize clothing materials. This program empowers young people with hands-on workshops and educational sessions. It also provides a space to learn and process climate information and connect with other young advocates. SCRAP is a perfect example of how important individual and collective action is and how creative it can look. Monthly Question If you could advocate for the climate through art, what kind of art piece would you create?  This can be music, dance, film, writing, or other mediums you've used in rural climate work. We want to hear about it. Please email your answer to radio @ citizens climate.org. You can also text or leave a voicemail at 619-512-9646. Tell us your story of using art in your climate work. Listener Survey We want to hear your feedback about this episode. After you listen, feel free to fill in this short survey. Your feedback will help us make new decisions about the show's content, guests, and style. You can fill it out anonymously and answer whichever questions you like. You can also reach us by email: radio @citizensclimatelobby.org   

In this episode of Citizens Climate Radio, co-hosts Peterson Toscano and Erica Valdez explore the theme of climate change and its impact on Antarctica. They interviewed Elizabeth Rush, author of “The Quickening, Creation, and Community at the Ends of the Earth,” who shares her experiences and insights from a research expedition to Thwaites Glacier. They also spoke with Brett Cease, Vice President of Programming for Citizens' Climate Lobby, who traveled to Antarctica and shared his observations. Additionally, they discuss sustainable fashion, resilience, and the Great School Electrification Challenge. PLUS A Good News Story about Sustainable Fashion, Resilience and Puppies, and The CCL Youth Corner and the Great School Electrification Challenge. For full show notes, links, photos, and transcript, visit https://citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/podcast/episode-26-in-deep-water/ CCL Youth Corner with Veda Ganesan Veda tells us about the Great School Electrification Challenge, an initiative spearheaded by CCL National Youth Action Team that aims to transform schools into hubs of sustainability by advocating for the electrification of various systems, including HVAC, transportation, and energy sources like solar panels. Through the stories of youth teams in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dallas, Texas, Veda showcases the grassroots efforts to engage school boards, policymakers, and the community in adopting clean energy practices. Highlighting the recent success of the Cincinnati team in getting their electrification resolution unanimously passed, she encourages listeners to join the cause and participate in the challenge. Veda Genesan is a high school student from Texas and the host of the Sustainable Cents podcast. Resilience Corner Tamara Staton explores the surprising relationship between puppies and climate change. Through her experience with her puppy, Mica, Tamara highlights how pets contribute to our well-being, from reducing stress to promoting physical activity and combating loneliness. She emphasizes how the positive effects of pet ownership can indirectly support climate action by fostering healthier, happier individuals. Tamara invites us to consider pet ownership or pet-sitting as a means of experiencing these benefits. To learn more about building resilience in the face of climate challenges, visit the Resilience Hub. Share your resiliency questions with Tamara via email at radio @ citizensclimate.org or you can text or leave a message at 619-512-9646. Monthly Question If you could advocate for the climate through art, what kind of art piece would you create? This can be music, dance, film, writing, or other mediums you've used in rural climate work. We want to hear about it. Please email your answer to radio @ citizens climate.org. You can also text or leave a voicemail at 619-512-9646. Tell us your story of using art in your climate work.

In this episode of Citizens Climate Radio, listeners hear stories, insights, and innovative approaches to tackling climate change. From the unique perspective of a climate change comedian who marries humor with serious environmental advocacy to the empowering tales of youth activism at the global COP28 summit, this episode showcases diverse methods of engagement and action. Highlighting the importance of resilience, space for mental and emotional health, and the groundbreaking work of package-free shopping, it will inspire you while providing you with practical guidance.  A Climate Change Comedian? Brian Ettling shares his compelling journey from a park ranger to an influential climate change comedian, a story that encapsulates the essence of turning gloom into bloom. With seventeen years of experience as a seasonal ranger in the majestic landscapes of Crater Lake National Park and Everglades National Park, Brian shares how a simple yet profound question about global warming from a park visitor sparked a drastic shift in his career path and life purpose.  “Excuse me, all-knowing ranger,” a visitor said. “I have a question.” I smiled, humbly curious and certain I had the answer. “What's happening with global warming in the Everglades?” Wait. What?! I knew nothing about global warming, and visitors hate when park rangers tell you, 'I don't know. Brian spent time researching the question and was shocked by what he discovered.  The information I learned scared me. What the (bleep)! Because of climate change, sea level was expected to rise at least three feet in Everglades National Park by the end of the 21st century. The sea would swallow up most of the park and nearby Miami since the highest point of the park road is less than three feet above sea level. UGH, I hate you, climate change! This pivotal moment led him to deeply research climate change, eventually inspiring him to merge his passion for environmental advocacy with his unique sense of humor. An amateur video on YouTube led to two national television appearances on Comedy Central's Tosh.0. Daniel Tosh introduced America to the goofball who became the Climate Change Comedian.  Brian's narrative is a vivid testament to the power of individual transformation and the role of creativity in addressing serious global issues. He illustrates this by recounting defining moments in his journey, and he invites us to experience the journey complete with silly sound effects and a musical score.  Brian Ettling is a dynamic climate change communicator from Portland, Oregon, with a deep history of engagement with Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL). Over the years, he has worn multiple hats within CCL, including legislative liaison, co-chapter leader, and Missouri State co-coordinator. His dedication is evident in his attendance at nine CCL international conferences in Washington, D.C., where he served as a breakout speaker. Additionally, Brian has contributed his insights at the Canadian National CCL conference, showcasing his unwavering commitment to climate advocacy. For a complete transcript and more, visit https://citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/podcast/episode-92-theres-something-funny-about-climate-change/ Resilience Corner Tamara Staton explores the nuanced relationship between space—both physical and emotional—and climate advocacy. Tamara emphasizes the importance of creating space for rest and reflection to enhance effectiveness in climate activism. She illustrates this with personal anecdotes, suggesting, "When I create space, I enable presence and perspective... Creating space widens our window of tolerance, allowing us to respond with grace, ease, and courage to the challenges we face." She underscores the critical balance between passionate activism and the need for self-care to sustain long-term engagement in climate work. Tamara Staton is the Education and Resilience Coordinator for Citizens Climate Education. Get more tips and resources by visiting The Resilience Hub on CCL Community. NEW! The CCL Youth Corner The Citizens Climate Lobby Youth Corner introduces a vibrant platform where middle and high school students across the USA amplify their voices on climate action. Host Veda Ganesan highlights their proactive efforts to make their voices heard at COP28. She shares the important role CCL Youth volunteer Vinay Karthik played at the international conference in Dubai. In the next Youth Corner, you will learn about The Great School Electrification Challenge. Dig Deeper: Check out the CCL Youth Blog. Veda Ganesan is the producer and host of CCR's new Citizens Climate Lobby Youth Corner; it is a project of CCL Youth. Veda also hosts Sustainable Cents podcast.  Good News  Damon Motz-Storey (they, them) shines a spotlight on the Realm Refillery in Portland, Oregon, a pioneering package-free grocery store. It exemplifies sustainable shopping by offering a wide variety of bulk goods, from flour to laundry detergent, all without disposable packaging, presenting a compelling model for reducing single-use plastics and living one's environmental values. Damon Motz-Storey is an active climate advocate and the Oregon Chapter Director of the Sierra Club, dedicated to promoting sustainable practices and environmental conservation. In other Good News, Peterson Toscano highlights two innovative climate change exhibitions in New York City museums. At the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design showcases the intersection of design and sustainability, featuring Solar Ivy, a system of small solar panels resembling leaves that generate energy from sunlight and wind. Additionally, the Climate Museum in SOHO focuses entirely on climate change, currently featuring “The End of Fossil Fuel," and encourages visitors to engage in actionable steps toward environmental advocacy. If you have a Good News Story to share, contact us: Radio @ CitizensClimate.org Take a Meaningful Next Step Each month, we will suggest meaningful, achievable, and measurable next steps for you to consider. We recognize that action is an antidote to despair. If you need help with what you can do, please take a look at one of the following next steps.  If you are in middle or high school, visit CCLUSA.org/Youth to learn about their Great School Electrification Challenge! If you are a college student, you can get involved with CCL Higher Education and the College Carbon Fee and Dividend Movement. You can learn how you can jumpstart a campaign on your campus. Sign up for monthly text reminders to contact your members of Congress and get the step-by-step guidance you need to reach lawmakers effectively. Visit CCLUSA.org/Action Stay Tuned In the March 2024 episode, you will meet Erica Valdez, the newest team member of Citizens Climate Radio. Erica, Horace, and Peterson will engage in a discussion on the various roles individuals can adopt in addressing climate change. Eileen Flannagan, a Quaker author, activist, and trainer, will elaborate on the four roles change-makers often play: Advocate, Rebel, Helper, and Organizer. They ask, “What is your role on this new planet???” The episode is set to premiere on Friday, March 22nd, 2024. Listener Survey We want to hear your feedback about this episode. After you listen, feel free to fill in this short survey. Your feedback will help us make new decisions about the content, guests, and style of the show. You can fill it out anonymously and answer whichever questions you like. You can also reach us by email: radio @citizensclimatelobby.org  

How important is Resilience Hub, Chaos Testing and Well-Architected? We attended the AWS Resilience Day at the Titanic Hotel. We were sitting in the same room where the ill-fated Titanic was designed and drawn! We discuss what we learned. Including the tools and strategies that help software engineers build resilience that were not available for the Titanic engineers. And we talk about the fact that it isn't just one thing that leads to disaster for ships or workloads. Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge Check out our book The Value Flywheel Effect Follow us on Twitter @ServerlessEdge

Teachers: Judy and Woody Square We have had an exciting journey these past two years partnering with the City of San Leandro and our immediate neighbors to develop our church into a Resilience Hub for the community. A resilience hub is a neighborhood center that integrates disaster preparedness, community care and belonging, and sustainability to be "ready for anything." We have a steering committee made up of 4 church members and 8 Lewis Avenue neighbors. We meet about every six weeks to plan block parties, work on an emergency communication system, prepare the church building to serve as an evacuation center, and address the neighborhood's top concerns (crime, traffic calming, etc.) The immediate neighborhood sees us as a valuable resource and asset, and we are building many new connections throughout the city. More and more cities will be starting Resilience Hub initiatives, and they will be reaching out to communities of faith to serve in this capacity. Come and learn how your church can bless your surrounding community in this way.

Payouts fund three main areas of response: damage assessment, removal of debris and reattaching broken coral heads, said Simon Young, senior director, Climate and Resilience Hub, WTW.

Happy New Year podcast listeners, and welcome to season three of the podcast! We have a winter themed episode today featuring many documentaries that we have curated into a list separated by topic. Some of you may remember our interview with Lisa Fernandes from last season. In that interview Lisa mentioned how The Resilience Hub of Portland, Maine hosted movie nights to start building community around regenerative programming. That interview gave us an idea, if we were to make a master list of documentaries and films related to the topics we cover on the podcast - what exactly would that look like? Today's episode is our best attempt! We hope you enjoy the episode, and if there are any that you think we missed and are deserving of being included feel free to reach out to us on instagram @forestgardenpodcast Docs Featured in the Episode: Soil/Regenerative Ag: Kiss the Ground, 2020 (Netflix) Regreening the Desert John D Liu, 2012 (Youtube/Vimeo) Symphony of the Soil, 2012 (Youtube) Living Soil, 2018 (Youtube) Farming: The Biggest Little Farm, 2018 (Rotational Streaming) Fruit/Food The Fruit Hunters, 2012 (Youtube/Rotational Streaming) The Botany of Desire, 2009 (Prime/Rotational Streaming) Bees: The Pollinators, 2019 (Prime) More than Honey, 2012 (Plex/Rotational Streaming) Vanishing of the Bees, 2009 (Plex/Rotational Streaming) Climate/Water: Tomorrow, 2015 (Rotational Streaming/Direct Purchase) Last Call at the Oasis, 2011 (Rotational Streaming) Tapped, 2009 (Youtube/Rotational Streaming) Chasing Ice, 2012 (Rotational Streaming) Permaculture: Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective, 2015 (Direct Purchase Vimeo) Woodlanders Series, 2017 (Vimeo) Permaculture The Documentary: How it Started, 2020 (Youtube) Regenerative Films (Youtube) Mushrooms: Fantastic Fungi, 2019 (Netflix/Rotational Streaming) The Last Season, 2014 (iTunes) How To Change Your Mind, 2022 (Netflix)

Does practice make perfect? Do countries become more resilient to disasters the more they experience them? Or does their resilience break down when disasters strike again and again?Today's guest is Sarah Cumbers, Evidence and Insight Director at the Lloyds Register Foundation. She shares the latest data from the foundation's World Risk Poll. The poll asked people around the globe about their perceptions on risk and safety with the aim of understanding where strengths lie and what can be improved. Your host is Annette Hertwig.About Rethink TalksRethink Talks is Stockholm Resilience Centre's podcast series on resilience thinking and global change. It spotlights conversations between experts on a range of topics that highlight how resilience thinking and biosphere stewardship add value to current debates.This season of the podcast is a collaboration between the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Resilience Hub, released during and after COP27. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The seas are getting crowded. As commercial use of the ocean accelerates exponentially and climate change impacts worsen, marine ecosystems and coastal communities are feeling unprecedented pressures. The ocean has been a source of food since the dawn of time, it facilitates our modern communication, transports our merchandise and is often perceived as a lawless, new economic frontier. This episode's guest, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, who is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, expands on the new ocean reality. He proposes that the ocean may not be as lawless as we think and that we need to ramp up investment and stewardship of the vast waters that are giving us so much. Host for this episode is Annette Hertwig.About Rethink TalksRethink Talks is Stockholm Resilience Centre's podcast series on resilience thinking and global change. It spotlights conversations between experts on a range of topics that highlight how resilience thinking and biosphere stewardship add value to current debates.This season of the podcast is a collaboration between the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Resilience Hub, released during COP27. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Food insecurity, climate change and conflict are placing considerable pressure on the global food system. Inequality, access to land, access to nutrient-rich foods, and the loss of local food cultures and diversity are realities further amplified in the new risk landscape. These challenges are also playing out differently depending on the region you inhabit. In other words, the global south and the global north are both feeling the pressure, however, in disparate ways.This episode's guests Cibele Queiroz and Albert Norström discuss the challenges our global food systems face and explore ways through which we can move towards more resilient, sustainable and just food systems. Albert Norström is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and head of knowledge and evidence at the Global Resilience Partnership. Cibele Queiroz is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Global Resilience Partnership. Your host is Annette Hertwig.About Rethink TalksRethink Talks is Stockholm Resilience Centre's podcast series on resilience thinking and global change. It spotlights conversations between experts on a range of topics that highlight how resilience thinking and biosphere stewardship add value to current debates.This season of the podcast is a collaboration between the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Resilience Hub, released during COP27. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if decision-makers could live through and feel the future consequences of climate change in action today? Would it influence their policy choices? And could gaming or virtual reality simulations help to prioritize action in climate adaptation and resilience building?Video games have evolved beyond pure entertainment and now have the potential to reach a global community of 3 billion people with climate resilience skills and promote behavioural change.Today's guests, video game consultant Chance Glasco and Rosemary Mann from the Arsht-Rock Resilience Center, share their experience in creating gaming technologies for world leaders. Your host is Annette Hertwig. About Rethink TalksRethink Talks is Stockholm Resilience Centre's podcast series on resilience thinking and global change. It spotlights conversations between experts on a range of topics that highlight how resilience thinking and biosphere stewardship add value to current debates.This season of the podcast is a collaboration between the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Resilience Hub, released during COP27. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Droughts, storms or sea water rise – climate change takes its form almost always through a change in water. But water is more than just a destructive force, it is the bloodstream of the biosphere.In this episode Lan Wang Erlandsson, a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, shares with us how freshwater can make or break our ability to successfully combat climate change. She also explains why climate policies must look beyond transitions to renewable energy. Your host is Annette Hertwig.Further reading for this episodeUnpacking freshwater's role in climate change mitigationFreshwater boundary exceeds safe limits About Rethink TalksRethink Talks is Stockholm Resilience Centre's podcast series on resilience thinking and global change. It spotlights conversations between experts on a range of topics that highlight how resilience thinking and biosphere stewardship add value to current debates.This season of the podcast is a collaboration between the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Resilience Hub, released during COP27. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In recent years, hundreds of thousands of people in high-risk disaster areas across the US have been dropped from their insurance policies, leaving them both physically and financially vulnerable. At the same time, premiums have sky-rocketed, making insuring homes and businesses out of reach for many. And federal insurance and relief programs have come under scrutiny for payouts that contribute to inequality.   The insurance industry wasn't set up to account for climate change, which is increasing the frequency, scale and severity of disaster claims. From Hurricane Ian flooding communities across the coast of Florida to fires in the Pacific Northwest, and further storm damage from Puerto Rico to Nova Scotia, we've seen frequent and fierce weather take lives and devastate communities. As more people and property face loss due to extreme weather events, who will pay to protect and rebuild communities? And what policies are being constructed to help the insurance industry stay afloat?  Guests: Junia Howell, Urban Sociologist, University of Illinois Chicago Simon Young, Senior Director, Climate and Resilience Hub, Willis Towers Watson Carolyn Kousky, Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy, Environmental Defense Fund; author of Understanding Disaster Insurance: New Tools for a More Resilient Future Umair Irfan, Climate and Covid Reporter, VOX Eric Letvin, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mitigation, FEMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In recent years, hundreds of thousands of people in high-risk disaster areas across the US have been dropped from their insurance policies, leaving them both physically and financially vulnerable. At the same time, premiums have sky-rocketed, making insuring homes and businesses out of reach for many. And federal insurance and relief programs have come under scrutiny for payouts that contribute to inequality.   The insurance industry wasn't set up to account for climate change, which is increasing the frequency, scale and severity of disaster claims. From flooding in Appalachia to fires in the Pacific Northwest to hurricanes wreaking havoc from Puerto Rico to Nova Scotia, we've seen frequent and fierce weather take lives and devastate communities. As more people and property face loss due to extreme weather events, who will pay to protect and rebuild communities? And what policies are being constructed to help the insurance industry stay afloat?  Guests: Junia Howell, Urban Sociologist, University of Illinois Chicago Simon Young, Senior Director, Climate and Resilience Hub, Willis Towers Watson Carolyn Kousky, Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy, Environmental Defense Fund; author of Understanding Disaster Insurance: New Tools for a More Resilient Future Umair Irfan, Climate and Covid Reporter, VOX Eric Letvin, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mitigation, FEMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back podcast listeners! Today we have a really good one for y'all, a deep dive into the in's and out's of how The Resilience Hub got started. If you have never heard of it, The Resilience Hub is 'a 501c3 organization dedicated to regenerating land, growing healthy food, and building strong, resilient communities.' But it didn't necessarily start out doing all those things! Tune in today to learn about its origins, from our guest Lisa Fernandes - founder of The Resilience Hub, and current Communication Director for the Food Solutions New England network based at the UNH Sustainability Institute in Durham, New Hampshire. Today's episode is a crash course in how to get the ball moving in your own neighborhood if you are interested in establishing a community network of people who want more food crops in public spaces, in neighborhood backyards and front yards, and more! Tune in and don't touch that dial! Or whatever the modern analog for a dial is these days. Don't press that skip button? You get the idea... Remember that if you want to get ahold of us you can find us on instagram at @forestgarden podcast. Organizations Lisa wants you to know about: https://resiliencehub.org/ https://artofhosting.org/ http://www.bollier.org/category/tags/commoning https://www.mainewabanakireach.org/ https://nibezun.org/ https://www.facebook.com/EWRematriation/ https://snefcc.carrd.co/ https://nefoclandtrust.org/  

Laura joins Adam to discuss her many IoT projects, her role at AWS as a Global Solutions Architect for Resilience Hub, how she's continued to find her passion in tech, and some facts about Oxford University. Spoiler: it's really old.

The twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change have already and will continue to affect the livelihoods and survival of the most vulnerable coastal populations. The tide is turning to respond to these complex challenges. What can be done to ensure the conservation of vulnerable coastal ecosystems and foster resilience amongst coastal communities? In this episode of ‘Sustainapod', Belinda and Rachel speak with guest speaker Constance Wong from Willis Towers Watson's Climate and Resilience Hub, to learn more about how financial tools and community engagement can contribute towards cultivate more resilient futures for coastal ecosystems and the communities who depend on them.

For our new 4-part mini-series - Science, Policy and Climate Resilience - Host Rob Doubleday is joined by our new Co-Host Emily So, Professor of Architectural Engineering, University of Cambridge. Season 6 is focusing on the race to resilience global climate campaign and how to accelerate climate priorities after COP26. In this second episode we're discussing how to finance climate actions and resilience, which has been highlighted as one of the main climate priorities for 2022. Hosts Rob Doubleday and Emily So are joined by Andrew Coburn, the CEO of Risilience, a platform dedicated to transforming organisations into new business models and Rowan Douglas, Head of the Climate and Resilience Hub at the consulting firm Willis Towers Watson. -- Season 6 is produced in partnership with the research project Expertise Under Pressure, Centre for the Humanities and Social Change at the University of Cambridge. CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast is edited and produced by CSaP Communications Coordinator Jessica Foster. Research for this series is supported by CSaP Policy Researcher Nick Cosstick. Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here. -- Resources relevant to this episode: Net Zero Finance summit website BBC News article on the Global Methane Pledge UN Climate Change article on COP26 agricultural progress Insurance Development Forum website ClimateWise (at the Centre for Sustainable Finance) website Global Resilience Index website Coalition for Climate Resilience Investment website The Coalition for Climate Resilience Investment's Physical Climate Risk Assessment Methodology (aimed at improving the integration of physical climate risks into investment appraisal practices) Article in The Economist on the effects of heatwaves (in chilly European countries) on voting patterns Sign up to our CSaP newsletter by clicking here.

In this episode, we cover: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:45 - AWS Severless Hero and Gunnar's history using AWS 00:04:42 - Severless as reliability 00:08:10 - How they are testing the connectivity in serverless 00:12:47 - Gunnar shares a suprising result of Chaos Engineering 00:16:00 - Strategy for improving and advice on tracing  00:20:10 - What Gunnar is excited about at AWS 00:28:50 - What Gunnar has going on/Outro Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/GunnarGrosch LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunnargrosch/ TranscriptGunnar: When I started out, I perhaps didn't expect to find that many unexpected things that actually showed more resilience or more reliability than we actually thought.Jason: Welcome to the Break Things on Purpose podcast, a show about Chaos Engineering and building more reliable systems. In this episode, we chat with Gunnar Grosch, a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS about Chaos Engineering with serverless, and the new reliability-related projects at AWS that he's most excited about.Jason: Gunnar, why don't you say hello and introduce yourself.Gunnar: Hi, everyone. Thanks, Jason, for having me. As you mentioned that I'm Gunnar Grosch. I am a Developer Advocate at AWS, and I'm based in Sweden, in the Nordics. And I'm what's called a Regional Developer Advocate, which means that I mainly cover the Nordics and try to engage with the developer community there to, I guess, inspire them on how to build with cloud and with AWS in different ways. And well, as you know, and some of the viewers might know, I've been involved in the Chaos Engineering and resilience community for quite some years as well. So, topics of real interest to me.Jason: Yeah, I think that's where we actually met was around Chaos Engineering, but at the time, I think I knew you as just an AWS Serverless Hero, that's something that you'd gotten into. I'm curious if you could tell us more about that. How did you begin that journey?Gunnar: Well, I guess I started out as an AWS user, built things on AWS. As a builder, developer, I've been through a bunch of different roles throughout my 20-plus something year career by now. But started out as an AWS user. I worked for a company, we were a consulting firm helping others build on AWS, and other platforms as well. And I started getting involved in the AWS community in different ways, by arranging and speaking at different meetups across the Nordics and Europe, also speaking at different conferences, and so on.And through that, I was able to combine that with my interest for resiliency or reliability, as someone who's built systems for myself and for our customers. That has always been a big interest for me. Serverless, it came as I think a part of that because I saw the benefits of using serverless to perhaps remove that undifferentiated heavy lifting that we often talk about with running your own servers, with operating things in your own data centers, and so on. Serverless is really the opposite to that. But then I wanted to combine it with resilience engineering and Chaos Engineering, especially.So, started working with techniques, how to use Chaos Engineering with serverless. That gained some traction, it wasn't a very common topic to talk about back then. Adrian Hornsby, as some people might know, also from AWS, he was previously a Developer Advocate at AWS, now in a different role within the organization. He also talked a bit about Chaos Engineering for serverless. So, teamed up a bit with him, and continue those techniques, started creating different tools and some open-source libraries for how to actually do that. And I guess that's how, maybe, the AWS serverless team got their eyes opened for me as well. So somehow, I managed to become what's known as an AWS Hero in the serverless space.Jason: I'm interested in that experience of thinking about serverless and reliability. I feel like when serverless was first announced, it was that idea of you're not running any infrastructure, you're just deploying code, and that code gets called, and it gets run. Talk to me about how does that change the perception or the approach to reliability within that, right? Because I think a lot of us when we first heard of serverless it's like, “Great, there's Nothing. So theoretically, if all you're doing is calling my code and my code runs, as long as I'm being reliable on my end and, you know, doing testing on my code, then it should be fine, right?” But I think there's some other bits in there or some other angles to reliability that you might want to tune us into.Gunnar: Yeah, for sure. And AWS Lambda really started it all as the compute service for serverless. And, as you said, it's about having your piece of code running that on-demand; you don't have to worry about any underlying infrastructure, it scales as you need it, and so on; the value proposition of serverless, truly. The serverless landscape has really evolved since then. So, now there is a bunch of different services in basically all different categories that are serverless.So, the thing that I started doing was to think about how—I wasn't that concerned about not having my Lambda functions running; they did their job constantly. But then when you start building a system, it becomes a lot more complex. You need to have many different parts. And we know that the distributed systems we build today, they are very complex because they contain so many different moving parts. And that's still the case for serverless.So, even though you perhaps don't have to think about the underlying infrastructure, what servers you're using, how that's running, you still have all of these moving pieces that you've interconnected in different ways. So, that's where the use case for Chaos Engineering came into play, even for serverless. So, testing how these different parts work together to then make sure that it actually works as you intended to. So, it's a bit harder to create those experiments since you don't have control of that underlying infrastructure. So instead, you have to do it in a few different ways, since you can't install any agents to run on the platform, for instance, you can't control the servers—shut down servers, the perhaps most basic of Chaos Engineering experiment.So instead, we're doing it using different libraries, we're doing it by changing configuration of services, and so on. So, it's still apply the same principles, the principles of Chaos Engineering, we just have to be—well, we have to think about it in different way in how we actually create those experiments. So, for me, it's a lot about testing how the different services work together. Since the serverless architectures that you build, they usually contain a bunch of different services that you stitch together to actually create the output that you're looking for.Jason: Yeah. So, I'm curious, what does that actually look like then in testing, how these are stitched together, as you say? Because I know with traditional Chaos Engineering, you would run a blackhole attack or some sort of network attack to disrupt that connectivity between services. Obviously, with Lambdas, they work a little bit differently in the way that they're called and they're more event-driven. So, what does that look like to test the connectivity in serverless?Gunnar: So, what we started out with, both me and Adrian Hornsby was create these libraries that we could run inside the AWS Lambda functions. So, I created one that was for Node.js, something that you can easily install in your Node.js code. Adrian has created one for Python Lambda functions.So, then they in turn contain a few different experiments. So, for instance, you could add latency to your AWS Lambda functions to then control what happens if you add 50 milliseconds per invocation on your Lambda function. So, for each call to a downstream service, say you're using DynamoDB as a data store, so you add latency to each call to DynamoDB to see how this data affect your application. Another example could be to have a blackhole or a denial list, so you're denying calls to specific services. Or it could be downstream services, other AWS services, or it could be third-party, for instance; you're using a third-party for authentication. What if you're not able to reach that specific API or whatever it is?We've created different experiments for—a typical use case for AWS Lambda functions has been to create APIs where you're using an API Gateway service, an AWS Lambda function is called, and then returning something back to that API. And usually, it should return a 200 response, but you could then alter that response to test how does your application behave? How does the front-end application, for instance, behave when it's not getting that 200 response that it's expecting, instead of getting a 502, a 404, or whatever error code you want to test with. So, that was the way, I think, we started out doing these types of experiments. And just by those simple building blocks, you can create a bunch of different experiments that you can then use to test how the application behaves under those adverse conditions.Then if you want to move to create experiments for other services, well, then serverless, as we talked about earlier, since you don't have control over the underlying infrastructure, it is a bit harder. Instead, you have to think about different ways to do with by, for instance, changing configuration, things like that. You could, for instance, restrict concurrent operations on certain services, or you could do experiments to block access, for instance, using different access control lists, and so on. So, different ways, all depending on how that specific service works.Jason: It definitely sounds like you're taking some of those same concepts, and although serverless is fundamentally different in a lot of ways, really just taking that, translating it, and applying those to the serverless.Gunnar: Yeah, exactly. I think that's very important here to think about, that it is still using Chaos Engineering in the exact same way. We're using the traditional principles, we're walking through the same steps. And many times as I know everyone doing Chaos Engineering talks about this, we're learning so much just by doing those initial steps. When we're looking at the steady-state of the application, when we're starting to design the experiments, we learn so much about the application.I think just getting through those initial steps is very important for people building with serverless, as well. So, think about, how does my application behave if something goes wrong? Because many times with serverless—and for good reasons—you don't expect anything to fail. Because it's scales as it should, services are reliant, and they are responding. But it is that old, “What if?” What if something goes wrong? So, just starting out doing it in the same way as you normally would do with Chaos Engineering, there is no difference, really.Jason: And know, when we do these experiments, there's a lot that we end up learning, and a lot that can be very surprising, right? When we assume that our systems are one way, and we run the test, and we follow that regular Chaos Engineering process of creating that hypothesis, testing it, and then getting that unexpected result—Gunnar: Right.Jason: —and having to learn from that. So, I'm interested, if you could share maybe one of the surprising results that you've learned as you've done Chaos Engineering, as you've continued to hone this practice and use it. What's a result that was unexpected for you, that you've learned something about?Gunnar: I think those are very common. And I think we see them all the time in different ways. And when I started out, I perhaps didn't expect to find that many unexpected things that actually showed more resilience or more reliability than we actually thought. And I think that's quite common, that we run an experiment, and we often find that the system is more resilient to failure than we actually thought initially, for instance, that specific services are able to withstand more turbulent conditions than we initially thought.So, we create our hypothesis, we expect the system to behave in a certain way. But it doesn't, instead—it doesn't break, but instead, it's more robust. Certain services can handle more stress than we actually thought, initially. And I think those cases, they, well, they are super common. I see that quite a lot. Not only talking about serverless Chaos Engineering experiments; all the Chaos Engineering experiments we run. I think we see that quite a lot.Jason: That's an excellent point. I really love that because it's, as you mentioned, something that we do see a lot of. In my own experience working with some of our customers, oftentimes, especially around networking, networking can be one of the more complex parts of our systems. And I've dealt with customers who have come back to me and said, “I ran a blackhole attack, or latency attack, or some sort of network disruption and it didn't work.” And so you dig into it, well, why didn't it work? And it's actually well, it did; there was a disruption, but your system was designed well enough that you just never noticed it. And so it didn't show up in your metrics dashboards or anything because system just worked around it just fine.Gunnar: Yeah, and I think that speaks to the complexity of the systems we're often dealing with today. I think it's Casey Rosenthal who talked about this quite early on with Chaos Engineering, that it's hard for any person to create that mental model of how a system works today. And I think that's really true. And those are good examples of exactly that. So, we create this model of how we think the system should behave, but [unintelligible 00:15:46], sometimes it behaves very unexpected… but in the positive way.Jason: So, you mentioned about mental models and how things work. And so since we've been talking about serverless, that brought to mind one of those things for me with serverless is, as people make functions and things because they're so easy to make and because they're so small, you end up having so many of them that work together. What's your strategy for starting to improve or build that mental model, or document what's going on because you have so many more pieces now with things like serverless?Gunnar: There are different approaches to this, and I think this ties in with observability and the way we observe systems today because as these systems—often they aren't static, they continue to evolve all the time, so we add new functionality, and especially using serverless and building it with AWS Lambda functions, for instance, as soon as we start creating new features to our systems, we add more and more AWS Lambda functions or different serverless ways of doing new functionality into our system. So, having that proper observability, I think that's one of the keys of creating that model of how the system actually works, to be able to actually see tracing, see how the system or how a request flows through the system. Besides that, having proper documentation is something that I think most organizations struggle with; that's been the case throughout all of my career, being able to keep up with the pace of innovation that's inside that organization. So, keeping up with the pace of innovation in the system, continuing to evolve your documentation for the system, that's important. But I think it's hard to do it in the way that we build systems today.So, it's not about only keeping that mental model, but keeping documentation and how the system actually looks, the architecture of the system, it's hard today. I think that's just a fact. And ways to deal with that, I think it comes down to how the engineering organization is structured, as well. We have Amazon and AWS, we—well, I guess we're quite famous for our two-pizza teams, the smaller teams that they build and run their systems, their services. And it's very much up to each team to have that exact overview how their part on the bigger picture works. And that's our solution for doing that,j but as we know, it differs from organization to organization.Jason: Absolutely. I think that idea of systems being so dynamic that they're constantly changing, documentation does fall out of step. But when you mentioned tracing, that's always been one of those really key parts, for me at least coming from a background of doing monitoring and observability. But the idea of having tracing that just automatically going to expose things because it's following that request path. As you dive into this, any advice for listeners about how to approach that, how to approach tracing whether that's AWS X-Ray or any other tools?Gunnar: For me, it's always been important to actually do it. And I think what I sometimes see is that's something that's added on later on in the process when people are building. I tend to say that you should start doing it early on because I often think it helps a lot in the development phase as well. So, it shouldn't be an add-on later on, after the fact. So, starting to use tracing no matter if it's as you said, X-Ray or any third-party's service, using it early on, that helps, and it helps a lot while building the system. And we know that there are a bunch of different solutions out there that are really helpful, and many AWS partners that are willing to help with that as well.Jason: So, we've talked a bunch about serverless, but I think your role at AWS encompasses a whole lot of things beyond just serverless. What's exciting you now about things in the AWS ecosystem, like, what are you talking about that just gets you jazzed up?Gunnar: One thing that I am talking a lot about right now that is very exciting is fortunately, we're in line with what we've just talked about, with resilience and with reliability. And many of you might have seen the release from AWS recently called AWS Resilience Hub. So, with AWS Resilience Hub, you're able to make use of all of these best practices that we've gathered throughout the years in our AWS Well-Architected Framework that then guides you on the route to building resilient and reliable systems. But we've created a service that will then, in an, let's say, more opinionated but also easier way, will then help you on how to improve your system with resilience in mind. So, that's one super exciting thing. It's early days for Resilience Hub , but we're seeing customers already starting to use it, and already making use of the service to improve on their architecture, use those best practices to then build more resilient and reliable systems.Jason: So, AWS Resilience Hub is new to me. I haven't actually haven't really gotten into it much. As far as I understand it, it really takes the Well-Architected Framework and combines the products or the services from Amazon into that, and as a guide. Is this something for people that have developed a service for them to add on, or is this for people that are about to create a new service, and really helping them start with a framework?Gunnar: I would say that it's a great fit if you've already built something on AWS because you are then able to describe your application using AWS Resilience Hub. So, if you build it using Infrastructure as Code, or if you have tagging in place, and so on, you can then define your application using that, or describe your application using that. So, you point towards your CloudFormation templates, for instance, and then you're able to see, these are the parts of my application. Then you'll set up policies for your application. And the policies, they include the RTO and the RPO targets for your application, for your infrastructure, and so on.And then you do the assessment of your application. And this then uses the AWS Well-Architected Framework to assess your application based on the policies you c reated. And it will then see if your application RTO and RPO targets are in line with what you set up in your policies. You will also then get an output with recommendations what you can do to improve the resilience of your application based, once again, on the Well-Architected Framework and all of the best practices that we've created throughout the years. So, that means that you, for instance, will get it, you'll build an application that right now is in one single availability zone, well, then Resilience Hub will give you recommendations on how you can improve resilience by spreading your application across multiple availability zones. That could be one example.It could also be an example of recommending you to choose another data store to have a better RTO or RPO, based on how your application works. Then you'll implement these changes, hopefully. And at the end, you'll be able to validate that these new changes then help you reach your targets that you've defined. It also integrates with AWS Fault Injection Simulator, so you're able to actually then run experiments to validate that through the help of this.Jason: That's amazing. So, does it also run those as part of the evaluation, do failure injection to automatically validate and then provide those recommendations? Or, those provided sort of after it does the evaluation, for you to continue to ensure that you're maintaining your objectives?Gunnar: It's the latter. So, you will then get a few experiments recommended based on your application, and you can then easily run those experiments at your convenience. So, it doesn't run them automatically. As of now, at least.Jason: That is really cool because I know a lot of people when they're starting out, it is that idea of you get a tool—no matter what tool that is—for Chaos Engineering, and it's always that question of, “What do I do?” Right? Like, “What's the experiment that I should run?” And so this idea of, let's evaluate your system, determine what your goals are and the things that you can do to meet those, and then also providing that feedback of here's what you can do to test to ensure it, I think that's amazing.Gunnar: Yeah, I think this is super cool one. And as a builder, myself who's used the Well-Architected Framework as a base when building application, I know how hard it can be to actually use that. It's a lot of pages of information to read, to learn how to build using best practices, and having a tool that then helps you to actually validate that, and I think it's great. And then as you mentioned, having recommendations on what experiments to run, it makes it easier to start that Chaos Engineering journey. And that's something that I have found so interesting through these last, I don't know, two, three years, seeing how tools like Gremlin, like, now AWS FIS, and with the different open-source tools out there, as well, all of them have helped push that getting-started limit closer to the users. It is so much easier to start with Chaos Engineering these days, which I think it's super helpful for everyone wanting to get started today.Jason: Absolutely. I had someone recently asked me after running a workshop of, “Well, should I use a Chaos Engineering tool or just do my own thing? Like do it manually?” And, you know, the response was like, “Yeah, you could do it manually. That's an easy, fast way to get started, but given how much effort has been put into all of these tools, there's just so much available that makes it so much easier.” And you don't have to think as much about the safety and the edge cases of what if I manually do this thing? What are all the ways that can go wrong? Since there are these tools now that just makes it so much easier?Gunnar: Exactly. And you mentioned safety, and I think that's a very important part of it. Having that, we've always talked about that automated stop button when doing Chaos Engineering experiments and having the control over that in the system where you're running your experiments, I think that's one of the key features of all of these Chaos Engineering tools today, to have a way to actually abort the experiments if things start to go wrong.Jason: So, we're getting close to the end of our time here. Gunnar, I wanted to ask if you've got anything that you wanted to plug or promote before we wrap up.Gunnar: What I'd like to promote is the different workshops that we have available that you can use to start getting used to AWS Fault Injection Simulator. I would really like people to get that hands-on experience with AWS Fault Injection Simulators, so get your hands dirty, and actually, run some Chaos Engineering experiments. Even though you are far away from actually doing it in your organization, getting that experience, I think that's super helpful as the first step. Then you can start thinking about how could I implement this in my organization? So, have a look at the different workshops that we at AWS have available for running Chaos Engineering.Jason: Yeah, that's a great thing to promote because it is that thing of when people ask, “Where do I start?” I think we often assume not just that, “Let me try this,” but, “How am I going to roll this out in my organization? How am I going to make the business case for this? Who needs to be involved in it?” And then suddenly it becomes a much larger problem that maybe we don't want to tackle. Awesome.Gunnar: Yeah, that's right.Jason: So, if people want to find you around the internet, where can they follow you and find out more about what you're up to?Gunnar: I am available everywhere, I think. I'm on Twitter at @GunnarGrosch. Hard to spell, but you can probably find it in the description. I'm available on LinkedIn, so do connect there. I have a TikTok account, so maybe I'll start posting there as well sometimes.Jason: Fantastic. Well, thanks again for being on the show.Gunnar: Thank you for having me.Jason: For links to all the information mentioned, visit our website at gremlin.com/podcast. If you liked this episode, subscribe to the Break Things on Purpose podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast platform. 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We welcome Matt Scott, expert in green finance and explore how the financial world is coming to terms with Climate Change. Matt talks passionately about risk management but also stewardship, mindset change and the role of compassion. About Matt ScottMatt is Senior Director of the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson, a global advisory firm. Before that he led the Bank of England´s Climate Hub. Matt holds an MBA from Stanford and teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Oxford´s Saïd business school. Matt on: LinkedIn    About the Inner Green Deal The Inner Green Deal podcast, a podcast for exploring compassionate and sustainable leadership is an effort of Awaris and the Inner Green Deal initiative. If you would like to support or start a dialogue with us, please reach out to us here. Reflective questions: For this episode we invite you to contemplate together with us on the following: - Awarenes: what are the risks and opportunities for myself and my organisation while we are transitioning to a sustainable economy? - Alignment of intention: what is my intention? What are our intentions and how do we align these? - Agency: how can I empower myself and everybody around me to take the action we need? Resources: more on Climate Stewardship  more on the Climate Transition Index more on Climate Transition Pathways The Executive Compensation Guidebook for Climate Transition People as the ‘stewards' of climate strategy Central Banks Network for Greening the Financial System The Task force for climate related disclosure Speech by Mark Carney ( former govenor of the bank of England) - Breaking the tragedy of the horizon More On the book "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson Independence The Inner Green Deal is a non-profit initiative of training and leadership development company Awaris. The Inner Green Deal is in the process of establishing itself as an independent non-profit initiative. Neither the Inner Green Deal nor this podcast episode has been funded by any of the guests or their organisations. Credits Intro song "the Inner Green Deal" by WayUpNorth. Made with compassion and active hope. From Brussels, Cologne and Hamburg, your team of the Inner Green Deal podcast.

We understand that Covid has brought with it challenging and uncertain times for everyone, especially if you're working in healthcare. You might be working in unfamiliar environments, with reduced staffing levels, and having to learn new skills, often at speed. This is on top of the worry about your own and your family's health and wellbeing.  Even without Covid, you may feel like your wellbeing needs some attention. And the earlier you can talk things through with someone – and the quicker you can access any help you might need – the better you will be able to manage and keep well. If any of this rings true you could benefit from using the help and support of Greater Manchester Resilience Hub. Run by qualified mental health and psychology professionals, it provides free wellbeing and mental health support to all health and care staff (including their immediate families) who live or work in Greater Manchester. In this episode Lynn Marsland speaks to Dr. Ruth Watson from the hub. You can find out more about the hub here: www.penninecare.nhs.uk/mcrhub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this intro episode to season 2, Jeroen welcomes Tom as the new host for this season. Together they reflect on releasing the podcast while the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 is taking place in Glasgow. They also hint at the changes we will see in the course of season two. Season two will feature 8 inspiring guests (and a new original soundtrack!) Episode 1 with Dianne Dain Chief Innovation Officer world humanitarian forum, founder COPXX release on Wednesday November 3rd Episode 2 with Marcel Beukeboom Climate Envoy of the Netherlands (up to July 2021)Now Dutch Representative to the UN in Rome release on Wednesday November 10th Episode 3 live from COP26 EU Side Event at COP26 recorded on November 10 with Eva Karlsson, CEO Houdini sportswear,  including panel discussion of COP26 event together with Eva Karlsson, Christine Wamsler, Lund University Center for Sustainable Studies and Clara de la Torre, Deputy Director General DG Climate Action at the EU Commission.Release on Wednesday November 17th Episode 4 with Prof. Volker Quaschning Prof. of renewable energy systems, University of Applied Sciences Berlin Release on Wednesday November 24th Episode 5 with Matthias Berninger Global Head of Public Affairs and Sustainability at Bayer release on Wednesday December 1st Episode 6 wiith Heather Grabbe Executive Director of the Open Society European Policy Institute, release on Wednesday December 8th Episode 7 with Matthew Scott Senior Director, Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson, release on Wednesday December 15th Episode 8 with Satish Kumar Peace activist, founder of Schumacher college, editor of Resurgence magazine for 43 years. Release on Wednesday December 22nd About the Inner Green Deal Initiative: The Inner Green Deal podcast, the podcast for exploring compassionate and sustainable leadership, is an initiative of Awaris and the Inner Green Deal initiative. If you would like to support us or start a dialogue, please reach out to us here.  Reflective questions: This season we will invite you in every episode  to reflect together with us on some questions. You will find these questions transcribed here in the show notes. Resources: Whenever we talk about a specific initiative, mention a reference or reflect on something that inspires our guest, we will supply you in this section with links directly to the resources on the web. CreditsIntro song "the Inner Green Deal" by WayUpNorth Made with compassion and active hope. from Brussels, Cologne and Hamburg, your team of the Inner Green Deal podcast.

Community-designed Energy Resiliency. The host for this show is Ali Andrews. The guest is Dotty Kelly-Paddock. We hear from community leader Dotty Kelly-Paddock about how the idea for an energy resilience hub in Hauʻula came about, how the community gives input on the design, and the project status going forward. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6kWM2UqsvD1bOn-4KGceHOF

Lydia Messling speaks to Paula Pagniez, Director at the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson, about how we are beginning to see actions have a real impact –particularly facilitated by innovative insurance products. When we are able to properly understand and convey exposure and vulnerability to risk, we can help to identify tools and actions that can have a lasting impact upon building resilience – sometimes these are very simple solutions. These solutions are being implemented now, giving us much to be hopeful about.

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3EEb1hW Financial and corporate sentiment has tipped with growing regulatory, investor and wider pressures on climate and FOMA on future market developments, trends and opportunities. What is less well known is the role that policymakers and regulators see for the financial sector as stewards of the whole economy, net zero resilient transition. Updated risk frameworks and the reinterpretation of mandates in a Climate Emergency will provide the means to shape the dynamics of credit, investment, insurance markets and regulatory capital to align with current and future climate risks. This climate-energy / risk-sustainability system reset offers opportunities and disruption for incumbents and new entrants. In 2012-2015 Rowan was involved in the early stages of what has become mainstream climate stress testing, disclosure and TCFD, in this seminar he will look ahead to how the next chapter may unfold to 2030 and beyond. Speaker: Rowan Douglas is the Head of Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson, supporting the management, regulation and financing of risks from climate, terrorism, cyber and other perils. Previously, he served on the Board of the Group's reinsurance division, Willis Re, as CEO Global Analytics and was appointed onto the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science & Technology 2011-2016. He founded the Insurance Development Forum with the World Bank, UN and global industry leaders in 2015 to address the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreements. He was made CBE in 2016 for services to the economy through risk, insurance and sustainable growth.

Rowan Douglas, Head of the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson joined us as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference, providing an update on his important work at the intersection of climate science, capital, policy and risk.Rowan explained the importance of access to deep capital in financing for protection against climate risk and increasing climate resilience. Having spoken at our first ever ILS NYC conference five years ago, Rowan highlighted the need for industry engagement on climate matters. He gave us his updated thoughts on the important role of the capital markets in financing support for the closure of climate protection gaps. Alongside insurance and reinsurance, Rowan sees an important place that the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market can participate in helping the world become more resilient to climate risks.The conversation also discussed the important topic of credit and how embedding climate into broader global financial credit decisions could be a tipping point for the need for climate risk transfer capital.

In this latest episode, Rowan Douglas, Head of the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson, explores the challenges of an orderly transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy - from massive industrial transformation to economic dislocation. As climate change becomes increasingly integrated into mainstream financial decision making and organisations respond to their own risks, navigating an orderly transition will depend on climate risk and the wider implications for communities and society being recognised as a responsibility that we all share.

In this latest episode of the Talking Climate and Resilience podcast series, Rowan Douglas, Head of the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson, explores the challenges of an orderly transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy - from massive industrial transformation to economic dislocation. As climate change becomes increasingly integrated into mainstream financial decision making and organisations respond to their own risks, navigating an orderly transition will depend on climate risk and the wider implications for communities and society being recognised as a responsibility that we all share.

Welcome to the first episode of Talking Climate and Resilience with our host Nidia Martinez, Director at the Climate and Resilience Hub. In this episode we will be speaking with John Haley, the CEO of Willis Towers Watson. John will be discussing why climate change is a responsibility that we all share globally. Moreover he elaborates how Willis Towers Watson can help to quantify and manage risks that come with climate change. This can mean anything from helping our clients understand extreme weathers and natural catastrophes to managing perspectives and mitigating such risks.

Unhoused populations are struggling to find enough to eat. Farmers are faced with both surplus produce and lower incomes as they are left without places to sell. Individuals have a renewed desire to plant gardens as they grapple with long grocery lines and rising food prices. In short, the pandemic is surfacing many of the systemic issues in the global food system that we've been mostly ignoring for a long time. But what can we do about this at the community, town, or city levels? One grassroots organization in the San Francisco Bay Area is attempting to answer that question. Today, we're bringing you the audio from a live roundtable discussion we co-hosted with NorCal Resilience Network last week as part of the launch of “Produce for the People.” The new initiative will activate NorCal's existing coalition of organizations and Resilience Hubs to address critical food security needs in a way that can be replicated on a larger scale in communities all over the world. Featured Speakers: Keneda Gibson: artist, community organizer with the East Oakland Neighborhood Initiative, and recipient of a Resilience Hub grant to develop a garden rooted in community at her house Wanda Stewart: Executive Director of Common Vision and garden educator at Hoover Elementary School AshEL Seasunz Eldridge: co-founder of Essential Food and Medicine (EFAM) which reclaims surplus and locally grown produce to make juice, soups, smoothies, and natural medicines that directly serve the most vulnerable people in their communities for free. Moderated by Ayano K. Jeffers-Fabro: independent consultant for community food initiatives (most recently acting as project manager for incubating a community-led grocery cooperative in East Oakland). Our panelists dove into many difficult topics and questions including: The history of racial inequities within the food industry and how this intersection between food justice and racial justice could evolve moving forward How communities have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic What an equitable hyper-local food web could look like in the future (based on the building blocks that currently exist), including resilience hubs as centers for food growing and distribution And how to “squash the beef” by physically working through conflict together while digging into common ground.   A full transcript of this episode is available at www.shareable.net/the-response If you like the show, please hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. And send your feedback about the show to theresponse@shareable.net