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!

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.

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!