You know this 'all of government' climate approach the Biden admin is rolling out? In 2008 @AndrewPJones & I were invited by the director of the Environmental Grant Makers to give a training whose main point was that every action across society should be taken with a climate lens

That's a slide from the presentation I just found in the deep dark recesses of my hard drive.

I remember distinctly the EGA director, Dana Lanza, calling us, saying there was this radical perspective needed across philanthropy and beyond and asking if we, as a systems analysts, could put something together.

At the workshop, folks were polite and engaged, but I remember distinctly also that our words kind of slipped past everyone. "We fund buildings (or social work or conservation or the arts) we don't work on climate change."

It sounds weird now. And like our thesis back then is the most obvious thing in the world. A big 'so what.' But it wasn't. It was so radical it just slipped right past people and they couldn't grab on.

Fast forward to 2018 and my TEDx talk on #multisolving. Still a novel idea, but more traction, and many more communicators and thinkers saying the same thing thanks to environmental justice leaders who had been making the case for years and years.

This is how change happens my friends. We say what we know to be true, what is right out the edges of our own understanding, what's hazy, what seems to be the right direction. And we say it again and again and we experiment and it gets clearer

...and it feels hard and slow and impossible and then one day, in high places, it's just obvious common sense.

Thirteen years is a long time. A chunk of carbon budget. And of course there's a gulf between a vision and a plan and implementation and delivery. But it's worth registering that change happened, and that what feels like we've always known, we haven't.

So many good people are leaping into the hard important work of implementation now. That's so badly needed. And that's full of its own challenges, contradictions and obstacles

But, those of you thinking a decade out, with ideas that seem to slide on by with nothing to stick to, well, we need you to keep on with that too, so that the future can march towards us.