A Line I Heard

"Where does climate innovation come from?"

Journey Framing:

I’ve been asking where does climate innovation come from as I cast the San Francisco episode of How on Earth? LIVE!

Let’s move through it together
To build language for real conversations

Starting with "Notice" on the next slide

NOTICE

What happens when you read this quote?

Maybe your brain immediately goes to labs and startups and people way smarter than you. Or maybe you feel curious—like there's an answer here that isn't the obvious one.

Or maybe you wonder if you're supposed to already know this.

Whatever's showing up, just notice it's there.

CONNECT

Did you find yourself looking for innovation in the "official" places while ignoring the community garden teaching soil health, the local policy that just shifted procurement, the neighbor who figured out the solar panel fix?

Here's what Network sees: Climate innovation is happening in kitchens and city councils and backyard experiments. The question isn't where does it come from—it's where are you already looking?

Because when you start seeing small-scale problem-solving as innovation, you stop waiting for someone else to figure it out.

TRY

This week, try this:

Notice one small climate solution happening around you. Someone composting. A bus route that works. A building with good insulation. An episode of How on Earth? LIVE scheduled in San Francisco on April 19th!

Ask yourself: what problem did someone solve here?

That's innovation. Maybe it makes headlines. Maybe you noticing and sharing spreads the word.

REST

You don't have to invent the next big climate breakthrough.

Innovation includes the quiet work of making things better, one fix at a time.

& REPEAT

Watch for this pattern elsewhere.

Notice when you're waiting for "real" innovation from the "right" people instead of seeing the problem-solving already happening.

Each time you catch it, your definition of innovation gets bigger. And you stop feeling like you're waiting for permission to try something small.

In Community,

Amber Peoples

Creator of Earth Archetypes

p.s. Join Us in San Francisco on April 19th!