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Earth Catalyst gathers & hand-filters the most recent updates from over 1,000 green tech and sustainability organizations. Here are all of the updates; if you subscribe to our free newsletter, we'll send you 3 each weekday we think will be meaningful to you.

Finding Flow and Taking Action for Climate

Writer's picture: Andrea GonzalesAndrea Gonzales

This is my opening intro that goes out to everyone, before the bulk of this email is personalized for each subscriber individually. What do I want to say to everyone on Day 1 of the new US administration? I want to say it's imperative we take our work to the next level now. As the startup book The Hard Thing About Hard Things says, the startups that succeed are the ones where the founders keep their eyes on the window of remaining opportunity, no matter how small it sometimes feels like it's getting.

 

I'm going to do that by writing more clearly, opening the things I write by setting the stage and then offering a clear call to action.

 

Here are 3:

  • Flow state: If you can spend some more of your day in a state of flow, that time is going to be up to 5X as productive as it would have been otherwise. We can Robin Hood that insight from the consulting firm McKinsey, who famously found that across 5,000 executives, 10%-50% of one's day could be spent in a flow state and every moment of it makes a difference. How do you get there? They found three keys: Clear role and purpose, trust and respect between team members, exciting challenges with high stakes. (See McKinsey's Increasing the Meaning Quotient of Work)

  • VC landscape overview: If you're looking to scale your work rapidly with outside investment, Siteline's webinar on Thursday should be an excellent overview of the current state of things.

  • Just transition: Environmental justice is under threat by authoritarians taking power all over the world. Let's get aligned on what the earth's most direct guardians, Indigenous communities, are calling for in an effective and just transition to a more sustainable economy. SIRGE Coalition is hosting a webinar tomorrow morning that I highly recommend.

 

Ok, clarity, action, flow state, then rest, recover, and reset for the next play in this infinite and difficult game.


That's some big picture context - let's get into all of today's selected updates. Email subscribers (see above) will get 3 picks just for you.


-Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Visual of the Day

A Relentless Rise

NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory shows the stark, unabating increase in atmospheric CO2 from 1980 to present. According to Yale Environment 360 and as measured at Mauna Loa, 2024 saw the largest single-year jump ever recorded at 3.58 ppm, a surge that even record fossil fuel emissions alone cannot fully explain, as climate change itself is now hampering Earth's natural carbon absorption capabilities.

 

The link above is to veteran climate writer Steve Hanley's write-up of this in Clean Technica. It's got Carl Sagan quotes, it's a good, powerful read.

 

This number is a major downer. I move we process our feelings about this as best we can and get back to work, as strategically and empathetically as possible.


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