Alyssa Gilbert is Director of Undaunted which is a community of creative, proactive people exploring how innovation can help humans tackle climate change. She is also the Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute which was established in 2007 to provide a vital global centre of excellence for research and education on climate change. Today, the Grantham Institute is established as a leading authority on climate and environmental science. She is an all round expert on environmental and climate change policy and science having worked in the field in numerous roles and several countries for over 20 years.
In this conversation we talked about:
Building open innovation Infrastructure for the climate ecosystem
Finding and scaling silver bullets and business models for climate innovation
Cities and places as serendipity engines
Where could and should climate leadership come from?
Highlights include:
Why she is not getting angry about the net zero backtracking where the object is to divide people and the solution is not to be divided.
The role of place in driving climate innovation as part of a global supercluster of talent and technology.
That it's great to care but you cannot take the world upon your shoulders - everyone has a role to play in addressing the climate emergency.
This podcast was produced by Liminal - a collective intelligence community. Thanks to all of our community members, clients, partners and patrons. Here are links to some of the things we discussed.
Undaunted https://undaunted-hq.org/
Grantham https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/
Climate Tech Supercluster https://www.climatetechsupercluster.com/
Conception X https://www.conceptionx.org/
Liminal https://www.weareliminal.co/
RethinkX https://www.rethinkx.com/
Notpla https://www.notpla.com/
Ministry for the future https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-for-the-future
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