Climate Action
Venn Diagram

How you – specifically you – can help with climate solutions:

To find your meaningful and bespoke way to help address the climate crisis, draw your own Climate Action Venn Diagram.

  1. What are you good at? What are your areas of expertise? What can you bring to the table? Think about your skills, resources, and networks—you have a lot to offer. 

  2. What work needs doing? Are there particular climate and justice solutions you want to focus on? Think about systemic changes and efforts that can be replicated or scaled. There are heaps of options.

  3. What brings you joy? Or perhaps a better word is “satisfaction.” What gets you out of bed in the morning? Choose climate actions that energize and enliven you.

Need tips?

The TED talk below is a 10-minute answer to the question “What can I do to help address the climate crisis?” The short answer is “get to the heart of your climate Venn!” and the talk lays out a deeper answer.

[If you’re familiar with the Japanese concept of Ikigai, think of this as a simplified, climate-focused version of that.]

The goal is to be in the heart of your Venn diagram, where these three circles overlap, for as many minutes of your life as you can. That will create way more progress on climate solutions than if each of us get sucked into obsessing only about our individual carbon footprints.

Yes, the climate challenge is enormous. We need to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from electricity, agriculture, transportation, industry, and buildings. We must protect and restore ecosystems. We have to change society, policy, economy, and culture. This is about transformation.

Also yes: There is something meaningful each of us can contribute to climate solutions. This is the work of our lifetimes.