What are you reading these days? People obviously read for a variety of reasons and their choices tend to marry their intent for the reading. Pleasure, informational, even social affiliation often work as motives. Below are a handful of recommendations addressing the tremendous challenges we face in our communities. These fiction and nonfiction recommendations are…
This blog post provides insight on SP3’s approach to improving upward mobility in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area. Upward mobility refers to an intergenerational movement from one social level to a higher one and all the related benefits a group of people gain from this upward movement. In 2013, a Harvard University/UC Berkeley study found that Charlotte-Mecklenburg ranked…
Cattle get a bad rap when it comes to environmental and health outcomes. They are blamed for consuming lots of water (some say as high as 2500 gallons of water for one pound of beef), for being unhealthy, for contributing to global climate change through their bovine burps, flatulence and even bad breadth, and their…
by Dr. Krista Singleton-Cambage, Founder and CEO, Sustainability Connections This week the annual climate change gathering kicks off, with delegates from around the world descending on Bonn, Germany. The rotating host country this year is Fiji and, in an interesting partnership, they are bringing the Pacific to Europe to hold the meeting near the UN…
This is a summary of the last several weeks’ blog posts dedicated to getting people to care, act, and adapt to human-caused conditions of climate change. Imagine owning property on the North Carolina coast and knowing it will be underwater in 15 years. Insurance companies will not insure the property as current projections show that…
This is the final blog exploring the “E” in the CLIMATE model. “E” represents education and its ability to build capacity to address important issues such as climate change and other environmental and social challenges. In this blog, I focus on educating future organizational leaders in the university setting. The target markets are individuals entering…
The “T” part of the CLIMATE model stands for technology and design. Redesigning the way we work can have profound impacts on how effective we are at confronting the climate change impacts we are experiencing. Our goals are simple: to slow down the impacts of climate change and to build resiliency. To be resilient we…
I continue our discussion of the CLIMATE model, focusing on the “A” representing affiliation. In this post, I’ll discuss how we can use social capital to address climate change challenges and build more resilient and adaptable individuals and communities. Cultural values can be both facilitating and prohibiting. For example, we have values that conflict with…
Cape Wind is nearing construction to become America’s first offshore wind farm. Cape Wind will consist of 130 Siemens 3.6-megawatt offshore wind turbines with a capacity of 468 megawatts. The project will be located in Federal waters off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound off the coast of the…
We continue the discussion of our CLIMATE model, which is an acronym for getting people to act. This blog covers the “M” of the model, motivating people to act. Motivation contains several components, but in this blog I focus on how the market encourages people to take action. More specifically, I prescribe engaging in impact…
