Category: climate change

Be a Mangrove: Rooting Your Climate Tech Venture in Systems Thinking

In climate change, Entrepreneur, UncategorizedTags climate, entrepreneurJanuary 5, 2024Leave a comment

Mangroves are marvels of adaptation, resilience, and interconnectivity. Their intricate root systems not only support themselves but also the entire ecosystem around them. For climate tech ventures, embracing the ‘Be a Mangrove’ philosophy means nurturing revenue resilience, fostering distribution networks, and engaging in systems thinking for long-term sustainability. Let’s explore how to apply the mangrove analogy to climate tech ventures.

Revenue Resilience: Thriving in Ebb and Flow

Mangroves stand resilient, their roots steadfast in the fluctuating tides, drawing sustenance from

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Rethinking Legacy: The Ancestral Perspective

In climate change, IdeasNovember 29, 2023Leave a comment

Mehrad

I recently attended the Dubai Future Forum 2023, dubbed as the Largest Gathering of Futurists, hosted in the Museum of the Future.

While there, I met Dr Karthick, he shared a profoundly simple yet poignant concept with me, which was “Thinking like ancestors”, it helped me further frame my perception of our responsibilities towards future generations. It underlines the importance of long-term thinking in sustainability and climate action. This perspective compels us to harmonize our immediate goals with the enduring

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The Universality of Weather Volatility: A New Paradigm

In climate change, UncategorizedSeptember 14, 2023Leave a comment

Mehrad

Gazing across the global landscape this September, a narrative as old as time presents itself anew. Our world has always known calamities, but today, it’s a tragedy repeated across latitudes and longitudes, from bustling metropolises to quiet countrysides.

There’s a phrase that’s been swirling in my mind, a new terminology for our epoch: Geo-Climate Equity. It recognizes that the atmosphere knows no distinction between emerging or developed nations. In the theatre of weather volatility, we are all equal actors.

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My Evolving Master Plan (just between you and me)

In Capitalism, climate changeMay 27, 2023Leave a comment

Mehrad

Note: this is a working draft (compiled notes) – v0.2

Having delved into the climate tech ecosystem, encompassing a broad spectrum from global to local challenges, existing and emerging solutions, dialogues with policy-makers to private investors, my perspective on accelerating and scaling the implementation of climate tech solutions has matured and refined.

Last month, I started to see how the work I’ve been doing has been following this grander master plan, that I had yet to articulate. While

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Climate Leverage Points

In climate changeTags climate, systemsApril 23, 2021Leave a comment

Mehrad

For those familiar with systems analysis, there is this allure for utilizing “leverage points” to create outsized outcomes given the relatively smaller shift. Typically these leverage points are found within complex systems whether it is a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem, etc. but the main premise still goes back to the idea of a small shift in one component can produce big changes through out the system.

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Environmental Justice

In climate changeOctober 13, 2020

Mehrad

In our modern society, laws exist to regulate the actions of parties that harm others in our society, but it’s important to understand that the existence of a law and the enforcement of the same law are two very different concepts.

In December 2019, the TRACED Act, the first federal anti-robocall law passed, but the enforcement of the TRACED Act and similar past anti-robocall laws were a difficult process for most consumers prior to

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Unified Climate Sustainability Framework

In climate changeAugust 29, 2020Leave a comment

Mehrad

My climate journey has been a long time coming, gestating since I first watched An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. I later took a course in environmental studies at Santa Monica College that same year. For the last fourteen years I was always been ‘aware but not active’; I never really did much more beyond recycling, the occasional tree planting, and just being a conscious consumer (whenever the option was frictionless).

In the last three

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The Role of Politics in Progress

In climate change, politics, ThoughtsAugust 22, 2020Leave a comment

Mehrad

I recently read The Atlantic article “How a Plan to Save the Power System Disappeared” and it made me rehash a previous thought-note I had made before.

The role of politics is not to be underestimated in the progress we make (or don’t make) in society, whether it comes to energy/climate, health, infrastructure, technologies, etc.

Political opinions aside, I want us to look at how certain decisions by politicians

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