CLIMATE STRATEGY

This week I had the pleasure of facilitating the second of three strategy sessions with Zero Positive, using The Strategy Book as a resource.
 
In our first session, last month, we addressed the most important strategy question of all, “What is really going on here?” We sensed the environment and looked beyond the horizon to paint a clear and at times bleak picture of our world’s repeated feeble attempts to address climate change.
 
Our second session yesterday addressed the second most important strategy question, “What are our options?”
 
Working individually and then in groups we fleshed out some cool options for the business. Creative juices were still flowing today when one of the group members shared an idea she had overnight for creating a climate friendly kitchen and inviting Al Gore to share a meal with Zero Positive’s Founders, Alliance Partners, and Volunteers.
 
She also shared that she has been reading a great book called ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ from which she quotes:

“Philosopher Joanne Macy writes of the oblivion we manufacture for ourselves to keep us from looking environmental problems straight in the eye. She quotes R.J Clifton, a psychologist studying human response to catastrophe:

"Suppression of our natural responses to disaster is part of the disease of our time. The refusal to acknowledge these responses causes a dangerous splitting. It divorces our mental calculations from intuitive, emotional, and biological embeddedness in the matrix of life. That split allows us passively to acquiesce in the preparation of our own demise."

Not all strategies are environmentally friendly, even if they are profitable.

I am proud to be working with Zero Positive – a globally focussed ‘true blue’ planet saving organisation that have their strategic priorities in the right order.