ISSUE 207

Helloooooo from JFK Terminal 4! I'm sitting at my gate, exhausted and overstimulated in the best possible way.

You guessed it - Climate Week NYC.

I have endless notes to review, people to follow up with and experiences to process - and there’s no way this tender little brain’s in any kind of state to serve up coherent insights in time for this week’s newsletter.

What I can share is that I came into this year’s Climate Week hungry for new ideas, inspiration and energy. And boy did it deliver - but not in the places or spaces I imagined.

I shared a bit on LinkedIn here and here, but a deeper, hopefully more coherent reflection will come in the next issue.

To all my fellow travelers (and those tired just from following the hubbub online) - rest up this weekend! We've got work to do.

✌️

Jessica Marati Radparvar
Founder, Reconsidered​

Thanks for the F*ck Doom merch, Solutions House - y'all were great.

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What's On In Our World

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This Week's 5 Links

🧭 The Sustainability Double Bind — Higher Ground on Substack

Alison Taylor’s new Substack series on the changing nature of the sustainability profession perfectly captures so many of the sentiments I heard from in-house friends this week. Following a soul-stirring first installment on the grief and pragmatism that's required to work in this space, this second article interrogates the “party line” that was shared on stages across NYC this week: “Yes, the terminology has changed, political pressures are real, but under the hood, the work continues.” But does it? The reality, Alison argues, is much more complex. (16 minutes)

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☔️ At Climate Week, Elmo recalls a storm on Sesame Street: ‘Courage is when you still help others’ — The Guardian

Elmo was one of the hottest tickets in town this Climate Week - which either means the climate conversation is getting brilliantly more creative or things in our space have gotten really, truly weird. Both/and, baby!!! The furry guy popped up at a sold-out Solutions House panel exploring the impact of extreme heat on children, with the conversation highlighting Sesame Workshop’s recent Storm on Sesame Street special featuring Post Malone. (3 minutes)

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🎮 The Hit Video Games Sneaking in Climate Storylines — The Hollywood Reporter

What is an April article doing in my Climate Week roundup? At a separate Solutions House panel, Futerra founder (and new novelist) Solitaire Townsend, author Jo Piazza and Grist’s Tory Stephens explored the power of fiction and worldbuilding in driving climate action. The conversation about writing was fascinating, but the moment that caught the room’s attention was when Jo teasingly suggested turning Soli’s new book Godstorm into a video game. You could hear the collective gasp around the potential of this participatory medium, so I had to do more research into what’s happening in this space. There’s momentum here and there - but imagine what’d be possible with more? (9 minutes)

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​🪫 Gen Z Isn’t Checked Out. They’re Worn Out. — BBMG, Earth Guardians, GlobeScan, Culturas & Guru Media

Say the word “climate” and feelings of stress, urgency and overwhelm rise to the surface. But “nature”? Connection, awe, calm. This is just one insight from new research around the question: why are so many young people who care the most also the least likely to act? This "Gen Z dilemma" feels as present for my peers as it does for those starting out, and this analysis (anchored in a meaningful personal story from BBMG founder Raphael Bemporad) proposes a few answers… or at the very least, first steps on a path out of overwhelm. (10 minutes)

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🌻 The Lost Art of Connecting — Susan McPherson

There’s a lot of networking happening during Climate Week. But connecting - really connecting? Much harder to come by. I was fortunate to be included in an intimate pre-Climate Week gathering co-hosted by Susan, known across the social impact space as a serial connector, and witness her approach to holding space firsthand. Her book, published in 2021, shares her “gather-ask-do” method for building meaningful relationships and is worth a read (or reread) before next Climate Week rolls around.

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Impact Jobs

A few highlights from this week’s curation:

• ​Chanel — Executive Assistant, Sustainability (London)
• ​Environmental Defense Fund — Analyst, Energy Transition, Clean Electricity (Remote, Western U.S.)
• ​Google — Environmental Initiatives Lead, Sustainability (Chicago, New York City or San Francisco)
• ​LEGO Group — Student Worker, Sustainable Operations (Part-Time, Billund, Denmark)
• ​The Nature Conservancy — Partnership Associate, Water and Resilience (Remote)

View This Week's Jobs Curation

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Quick Hits

🌡️ Most clicked from the last issue… I Read the New UN Climate Report So You Don't Have To — What If We Get It Right? On Substack. You all appreciated Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s walkthrough of the UNEP Limiting Overshoot report.

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