What’s Critical for Climate? You!

Climate Critical is more or less two years old but it has been emerging for much longer in the hearts and minds of servant leaders in climate and environment. We exist (!) as an entity for the purpose of providing multigenerational movement support for the humans that labor on behalf of people and planet. We’re a collective reminder to diverse movements that our power isn’t just in the numbers of megawatts saved, or emissions avoided but in the maintenance, sustainability and retention of a creative, caring and connected network of interdependence that thrives on its investments in souls not just statistics.

As a governing body we are dynamic. Our leadership includes a Board of Directors, Advisors and a Founder. All of us are members of this community, drivers of its innovation and practitioners in the life work of care and repair. You may know us through our campaign work, our writing, network weaving, our policy acumen and relationships but Climate Critical is a vision of how we work rather than where we work and what it does.

Our vision for movements requires integrated lifecycle development of talent, energy and capacity for the climate and environmental workforce. It looks like campaigns with clear periods of rest built into its arcs, and periods of unscheduled time for ideation on the challenges of our age, and nurtured, trauma-informed staffing at capacity that enables staggered, synchronous and systemic restoration as necessary elements of deliverables. Simple, right?

In order to achieve this vision we have begun to make the case that every person lost to burnout in climate and environment is unacceptable attrition because it deprives our movement of experience, talent, knowledge and networks that we cannot live without at a time when we should be growing the force of folks who can stand up to isms, binaries, and thieving division that snatches precious capacity as the climate clock winds down. If you have read our first Climate Burnout Report, you know that this false scarcity is more than a feeling. And if you have joined us in rest practice than you know that we are committed to intervening in the brain drain, heartbreak and business as usual that passes for work.

As we evolve our work towards year three, we want to do more outreach to you. We are planning to launch in some ways that bring you into our practice as members, as folks up for more humanity in our work and down to try it our together. So please watch our socials including Linkedin, and for an announcement in this blog on how you can get connected.

In care and solidarity,

Tamara
Founder and friend