We have the solutions.
What we need is action.
What if I told you that the things we need to do to keep living on an earth that is not overheated, with abundant food and water, and where all the cool beaches are still there and not underwater – that those things would actually make our lives better and more prosperous?
What if I showed you how these things could add years to our lives and allow our natural world to thrive?
What if I said we have mostly everything we need to get to this happy place right now?
It sounds good, right? What’s that, you say? That it’s hard to imagine? That you can’t picture what it would look like – and how you are a part of making it happen?
Let me help you with that.
Biophilia: Baby, You Were Born This Way
Biophilia is the word for our innate love of nature. This connection is as deep and important as our need for human connection. We have built a society that systematically severs our connection to the living world, to each other, and to ourselves. We have a deep longing to get this connection back, even if we can’t name it. But reconnecting with the living world isn’t about going back to an imagined past or rejecting urban life. We can create a future where our deep need for nature is integrated into our lives and the world we create around us.
Prioritizing Equity and Health in Electrification
To protect our climate and human health, cities like San José, California, are taking strategic measures to electrify residential buildings while prioritizing community needs, equity, and affordable housing. San José and the State of California are offering technical support and resources to building owners to make electrification easier.
Exhausted
The depletion we experience today as parents has common roots with the depletion of our living world.
What’s the Future We Are Fighting For?
Fossil fuels are so integrated into our society that it’s not enough to just be against them, we need to champion the future we want: healthy, powered by clean energy, equitable and just, and with a thriving natural world.
Report: Leading the way in San José
Experts from around the US recommend key measures for the City of San Jose to support existing building electrification and distributed clean energy
How Sexy is Your Heat Pump?
Heat pumps have an image problem. They need to move from being overlooked Gen Xer to their rightful stature as the sexiest, most important climate technology in our homes.
A Little Too Excited About Induction Stoves
I love talking about how amazing our all-electric future can be and yet I had goofed up this simple conversation with someone I am very comfortable talking with. I realized that I was going to need to talk a lot more people and get more perspectives that I wasn’t naturally seeing with my stats-and-facts goggles.
Big ships can turn around: What Covid-19 tells us about the climate crisis
We can and will do whatever it takes when we want to.