Insights
Thoughts, insights, and reflections about futures, facilitation, communication, storytelling, and how we get from where we are now to co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures.
CliMate, your climate conversation coach
Created by The Suzuki Foundation, this fun and simple chatbot on Facebook Messenger will teach you how stop arguing and start understanding people through a choose-your-own adventure style practice conversation. You’ll get to choose your responses from a set of options, and your conversation coach will guide you through it, providing insight into the reaction your responses might elicit.
Book recommendation: Storytelling for a Greener World
Sustainability meets heritage: powering heritage buildings with solar electricity is a no-brainer
The “protected status” of heritage buildings means that solar photovoltaic panels are seldom seen on roofs, but does this make sense in our changing world?
Sustainability meets heritage: powering heritage buildings with solar electricity is a no-brainer
If a heritage building has protected status, where does that leave the use of solar panels, insulation and so on, all necessary in our quest for clean, climate-friendly energy?
#Watch How to turn climate anxiety into action (TED)
It’s normal to feel anxious or overwhelmed by climate change, says psychologist Renée Lertzman. Can we turn those feelings into something productive? In an affirming talk, Lertzman discusses the emotional effects of climate change and offers insights on how psychology can help us discover both the creativity and resilience needed to act on environmental issues.
Aligning values with your recruitment process
“We care about our people.” Really? So why do so many companies fail to simply acknowledge receipt of job applications, and send out an automated response when the position is filled?
Lessons learned from the first Deep Time Walk in Innsbruck
Some notes about how I planned my first Deep Time Walk in Innsbruck, what worked, what didn’t, and what lessons I need to apply in the future.
What if we all took small but consistent action to tackle today’s sustainability challenges?
The “protected status” of heritage buildings means that solar photovoltaic panels are seldom seen on roofs, but does this make sense in our changing world?
Using framing to unlock change
Research into the science of framing and how it can help us to be heard and understood. When we change the story and how we tell it, we can change the world. [Fran mentioned this in Storytell.] #framing #conversations #facilitation #scicomm #climate
Make BIG changes by starting a tiny push
Let’s talk about physics and how one small action (yours) can end up making a significant difference (for yourself or the world).