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Category Archives: Systems Thinking
Climate Policy Engagement: Does Your Carbon Handprint Reduce or Increase Your Carbon Footprint?
We spend a lot of effort understanding and trying to reduce our carbon footprint. That’s great. But it’s also important to understand and optimize our carbon handprint, sometimes defined as the impact (positive or negative) we have on other’s carbon … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Carbon Management, Climate Change, Systems Thinking, Uncategorized
Tagged climate change, Global Warming
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Planting Seeds So Something Bigger Might Emerge
This is a re-blog of a really great interview with Kevin Anderson. It covers the Paris Climate Agreement, why most of us should hardly ever fly, and how change can happen in complex systems. Highly recommended reading! The Paris Agreement … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Systems Thinking
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Want Change? Include People, Process and Tools
In my 30+ years of working in and with many organizations, I have seen many attempts to change the way people do things. Some are successful, some fail. Systems thinking can give us insights on how to make change initiatives … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Carbon Management, Systems Thinking
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Queen’s University Should Divest from Fossil Fuels
The Advisory Committee on Divestment of Fossil Fuels at Queen’s University asked for submissions concerning if the university should divest its pooled endowment fund and pooled investment fund from companies engaged in fossil fuel extraction and distribution. I offered the following … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Management, Climate Change, Systems Thinking
Tagged Canada, climate change
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A Tale of Two Headlines: When is Switching to an Electric Car a Good Thing?
Imagine two headlines for a story about electric cars: Switching to an electric car isn’t always good for the environment Switching to an electric car would reduce carbon emissions for over 80% of Canadians CBC radio recently ran a story … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Systems Thinking
Tagged Canada, climate change, Culture
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Duncan Noble 