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Incubating climate awareness strategies and turning them into campaigns

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Beyond Cassandra + A Different Kind of Job

We Climate Change “hawks” work to communicate the urgency of action and gain traction quickly enough to meet the greatest challenge humans have ever faced. Sustainability expert Gil Friend says it well: "The task ahead (if we were to really tell the truth about it): Reinventing the economy of an entire planet. This planet. In one generation."

BeyondCassandra.org is the culmination of Felix Kramer's lifetime of organizing and almost two decades of involvement with cleantech advocacy and startups. He and colleagues aim to incubate projects and ideas that operate at the grass-roots and that can reach influencers and decision-makers.

As a mini-think tank, we identify and try to fill "missing pieces" in climate strategies and solutions. For near- and mid-term strategies, we're 1. Thinking Big and 2. Focusing on Triples & Home Runs.

We're looking for comments and collaboration. We're eager to hear your suggestions. If you find our ideas compelling and exciting, why not help make them happen? We hope you’ll be intrigued and excited about joining a working group to bring to life one or more projects. If you see anything you could imagine helping to improve and promote, by all means get in touch!

Ambitious Projects, Proposals & Articles

See Felix’s Letter: Updates on new climate projects & collaborators for a rundown on our latest projects and thinking.

A new team launched The ClimateCongress Wikipedia Project a month and a half before the 2016 elections to show what incumbents and candidates say and do about climate change.

In April 2017 we launched The ClimateCalifornia wiki to focus on legislators and bills as California takes the lead on climate policies.

We're retooling to get ready to bring climate issues into the 2018 elections, and expanding to state and local elected and appointed officials.

Published in November 2016: An OpEd at the San Jose Mercury News, Tech Execs to Trump: Table All Anti-Climate Action (we hope).

And at Truthout: Who Will Issue The Galvanizing Call to Action We Need on Climate Change?

See links to 40+ OpEds in The Guardian, The Houston Post, etc. and columns, articles, statements, and testimony since 2005 at What Felix Kramer Has Written on Climate Change & Clean Energy.

  • New: The Mark Jacobson/100% renewable controversy

    New: The Mark Jacobson/100% renewable controversy

    “Even Smart People Are Still Arguing About Fossil-Free Electricity” Triple Pundit gave that headline to the OpEd I wrote with Rosana Francescato about the growing controversy and debate about “how… Read more →

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  • Felix’s Letter: Updates on new climate projects & collaborators

    Felix’s Letter: Updates on new climate projects & collaborators

    Dear Colleagues & Friends I’ll not comment here on the extraordinary time we’re living in. (You can see things I’ve written at the link below.) Instead, I’m writing to catch… Read more →

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  • What Felix Kramer Has Written on Climate Change & Clean Energy

    What Felix Kramer Has Written on Climate Change & Clean Energy

    OpEds, columns, articles, statements, testimony on climate change & clean energy by Felix Kramer since 2005. See also Wikipedia article. (Most significant/favorites are in bold.) Even Smart People Are Still Arguing… Read more →

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  • Truthout: Who Will Issue The Galvanizing Call to Action We Need on Climate Change This Month?

    Truthout: Who Will Issue The Galvanizing Call to Action We Need on Climate Change This Month?

    Memo to some climate heroes and communicators I think of first: Mike Brune, Al Gore, Van Jones, Naomi Klein, Annie Leonard,  Bill McKibben, David Roberts, Robert Reich, Bernie Sanders, Rebecca Solnit (alphabetically)   I’ve… Read more →

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  • Tech Execs to Trump: Table All Anti-Climate Action (we hope)

    Tech Execs to Trump: Table All Anti-Climate Action (we hope)

    “Climate change should be top tech topic with Trump” That’s the headline of Felix Kramer’s OpEd in the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s hometown paper. It went online Friday,… Read more →

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  • From COP21 in Paris: We're all in this together

    From COP21 in Paris: We’re all in this together

    Last weekend, I decided to try to get more of my personal experiences and perspectives about Paris into a story. Joseph Robertson from Citizens’ Climate Lobby started me thinking about the UN’s history, and how we really are all in the same boat. better late than not.   It… Read more →

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  • Elon Musk’s WOW: What if Everyone at the Climate Summit Watches or Reads His Talk?

    Elon Musk’s WOW: What if Everyone at the Climate Summit Watches or Reads His Talk?

      Elon Musk made a surprise trip to Paris last night to an event accompanying COP21, the climate summit. His speech may become part of a climate solutions turning point…. Read more →

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  • Houston Post Publishes Call to a Climate-Changed Family to “Come Out"

    Houston Post Publishes Call to a Climate-Changed Family to “Come Out”

         An idea has long been chasing around my head: I fantasize about the moment when the kids and spouses of top execs at oil and other companies start pestering them with tough… Read more →

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What’s This about Cassandra?

In Greek mythology, Apollo gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy. When she spurned his advances, he cursed her so no one would ever believe her predictions. Her alerts about the Trojan Horse and Agamemnon’s death went unheeded. In the end, she couldn’t even save herself.
We aim to find ways to be heard about ending "Business as Usual." With changed awareness, we can act strategically at a scale & pace matching our challenges. After the Paris Agreement, we began to see signs we might be able to adopt a more optimistic name. Stay tuned!

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  • New: The Mark Jacobson/100% renewable controversy

  • Felix’s Letter: Updates on new climate projects & collaborators

  • What Felix Kramer Has Written on Climate Change & Clean Energy

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