We win zero games when we stop playing

After 4 tries at climate activations of LIVING BRIGHTLY in the past year, I have stopped. I gave my best presentations and no one took me up on paying for climate action planning. Beyond a first weekend, the idea was to craft a compelling 3-day Xperience so the participants would want to know more and sign up for a year-long program so they would be prepared and understand from a 360-degree view how they might adapt and mitigate their lives to this Xistential threat to all life. They would become part of solutions rather than life-as-usual-part of the problems.

When we stop playing we win zero games. When I stop speaking I persuade zero humans. Climate breakdown is happening now. It is human-caused. It is possible for humans to change and change we must to stop climate change.

Reflecting, I am asking what must I do differently to attract people prepared to listen, learn, leverage their life resources to live lighter with a brighter outlook for our collective finer futures? What must I change? Is it my delivery? Is it the model of a 3-day live enrollment event that does not fit for climate? Are people not willing to pay for something they feel is bigger than they can do anything about? Is it too much? How might I more specifically identify my raving fans? 

Since August I have turned back to tackling climate breakdown by producing two more of the solutions-focused online TEDx events and coaching 100+ other TEDx speakers, and curating dozens more. I simply can not stop completely. If my own LIVING BRIGHTLY events are not captivating clients, then producing TEDx speakers for climate solutions is a tried and proven way to get the word out about solutions. 

TEDxBoston is this coming Sunday and Monday. These are some of the titles of Talks to tackle climate we've been designing.

"Sustainability is More Rigorous Than You Think"

"The Elephant in the Atmosphere: Methane 

"500,000 Climate Champions

7 Years to Save the Planet

Entrepreneurs, climate is calling

A Five-Step Recovery Program for “Sustainable” Fashion

A Plan to Save The Planet

Achieving sustainability beautifully, how we can turn climate crises into a controlled planetary transition through innovation 

AI: preparing for the coming changes

American ingenuity in climate.

An Ocean of Climate Solutions

Boston: model coastal city collaborating with people and nature for resilience, equity and nimbleness

Boycott Dystopia – How to Solve Energy Inequality

What can chocolate tell us about climate change?

Building the World's Largest Vertical Farm -- Challenges and Opportunities for the Future

Can Biotech Invent a Sustainable Future for the Beauty Industry?

Catholic Church cartography mapping a climate survivable future. 

Capitalism in Service of Human Rights

Cities: engines for cooling and carbon sequestration

Climate Resilience Blind Spots: How a Transdisciplinary Approach can Transform our Adaptation Efforts

Climate Restoration Is Achievable If 50 Years of Tech is Applied to Nuclear Energy

Co-creating A Regenerative Blue Economy For All

Day to Night: Visualizing time & expanding our consciousness of life on our planet

Deep in the Forest, the Mushrooms Await….

Developing a Stratospheric Airborne Climate Observatory System to monitor the breakup of the Thwaites glacier in Antartica which will control the rate of sea level rise over the next 30 years.

Discussing Future Worlds: Design and Action for the future we want to live in

Eat the Rainbow: Electric-Powered Healthy Food in NYC

Eliminate energy waste associated with chemical separations with efficient membrane technology

Emerging Geographies of Cooperation: Pathways to Worldwide 100% Renewable Energy​

Environmentally sustainable and green Artificial Intelligence

Fantastic Electrons and Where They Come From

Farming While Black - (a must see!)

Fashion brands must collaborate for humans and the planet

Fork, Yeah OR Eat Climate Change

Grassroots resistance to fracking in Texas or Mothering in an Age of Ecocide

Green vs gray or maybe not? Painting the future of shoreline protection

Growing a new Thermal Energy System in Common Ground

Harnessing Fungi Fermentation to Create a Climate of Change in the Meat World

Heal your planet, heal your heart

How Chemical Upcycling can revive our broken Plastic Recycling System

How Data Recycling Can Save Your Town

How Green Chemistry is Shaping the Future of Responsible Beauty

How Protecting Our Planet Protects Our Health

How to Give Up a Nuclear Bomb

How to pull the plug on our carbon dioxide legacy

Securing youth and nature's rights through the courts and Constitution

How we get more scientists & engineers into climate investing

Humans are animals, too OR We are part of nature - let's act like it

Hyper-LOCAL solutions to GLOBAL warming

Ice, Ice Baby: What Ice Cores Tell Us About Past and Future

Interspecies Co-Creation

Investing in BIPOC led organizations to save our planet

Is VCs Inclusion Problem Driving Our Environmental Crisis?

It is time to re-indigenize what it means to be stewards of our Earth Mother

Let's plan for human ingenuity in the fight against climate change

Leveraging financial interests behind fossil-fuel extraction for an accelerated fossil fuel phaseout

Linking the global financial system to ending the great disconnect with Earth

Modular data centers that eat natural gas flares and methane emissions

Mycelium Meditation

One simple change to save our forests.

Organized Moms create a better world for their kids

Pioneering research and apps to fight noise pollution in the inner city

Pioneering the art and science of growing complete structures with mycelium

Portraits of a PlanetProactively preventing tomorrow’s environmental issues today.

Recovery: How The Mirror Of (Luminous Public) Art Can Save Us From Ourselves

Sense of Place and Planet: How visualizing our own sacred places is a vital step toward authentic stewardship

Shark teeth: sentinels of climate change

Slingshot: A Sustainability Plan that Generates Higher Profits for Small and Medium Sized Businesses

Sponge City and Sponge Planet

Telling stories about wildlife conservation and climate change through independent documentary films.

The Drawdown Roadmap, a Science-Based Framework for Deploying Climate Solutions & Cautious Climate Optimism

The Future of Climate-Tech

The Infinity Project.

The Limits of Corporate Voluntary Action or Don't Expect an Electrician to Cook You A Gourmet Meal

The power of soil for climate, community, and course correction

The Transformative Power of Nature Connection

The Webb Telescope looks out at the Universe - an Astronaut looks back at the Earth.

Think like an Awesome Ancestor

A Daily Practice to Channel Eco-Anxiety To Farm or Not to Farm.....

In Our Public Waters

Unlocking carbon markets with forests.

Unlocking the Energy Beneath our Feet: Geothermal as the Silver Bullet for the Energy Transition

Using AI to dramatically reduce Methane emissions from cow burps

Utilizing Natural Time Capsules to Predict Future Hurricane Risks

Warzone to Tabe (or Love ‘Us’ Like You Love Our Food)

We Are The Asteroid

Why They Don't Have Climate Models in Kindergarden. Featuring a sprinkle of machine learning. 

Still in a game, just not my game of climate coaching - YET. I am committed to figuring this out. There are about 2,000 other climate coaches in this same game. We are ready. Put us in clients. We are in this together. Let's play today!