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Climate Resilience is Key to Avoiding Collapse

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 01.13.2020

 

“Climate resilience is the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to hazardous events, trends, or disturbances related to climate. Improving climate resilience involves assessing how climate change creates new, or alters current, climate-related risks. We can take steps to better cope with these risks.”1   Humanity has a lot of problems. Climate change, political […]

 

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Sufficiency: Enough is Enough

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 09.10.2019

 

Our society lives in an Extract/Make/Sell… Buy/Use/Discard paradigm. 70% of U.S GDP is consumer-driven. This results in a dreadful amount of waste, and we are using up the planet’s resources faster than it can regenerate them.     Unsurprisingly, we are drowning in stuff. Despite the average home doubling in size over the past generation […]

 

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