Our Philosophy

Our Philosophy

Hope, Agency, Creativity, Community

Action begins with the belief that, individually and collectively, we can improve our climate outcomes. We help organizations, schools and communities build a culture where everyone feels they have agency and the tools to create solutions.

1.    Hope

Hope is essential because when we have no hope, we have no action. Hope is what inspires us and frees us to act. Fear blocks us, or worse, sends us running in the other direction.

2.    Agency

We need to believe in our own capacity to make a difference. Nothing builds agency more than innovating solutions. Even small wins, or ideas that go nowhere, provide an emotional foundation for engagement because we can see our own power to be change-makers.

3.    Creativity

The experience of creating brings joy, hope, and inspiration. Working with our hands, or in images, pushes people out of their comfort zone in a way that flattens the hierarchy. Ideas, not status, become the primary currency. There are no right answers, and no predetermined outcomes. We lose our ability to fall back on the same old language and so we work more collaboratively across silos and domains. The fear of saying something wrong is removed in a bubble of activity that creates a safe zone for exploration.

4.    Community

We change a group’s beliefs by working together to create a collective vision of a better path forward. Working in small teams improves communications, trust, and comfort. Groups also harness a diversity of ideas. When we complete a task that can’t be completed by any individual alone, we go further, and succeed on an individual level as well as an organizational level.