Burning Inside Out: Lessons in Resilience Through Change
The world burns, floods, dries up, and starves. Species vanish. We witness war and mass shootings. How-to books promise solutions to wicked problems, yet no one talks about the cost of being a change maker. Burning Inside Out is a survival guide for resilience through change, not another how-to book on innovation. Here we answer the most frequently asked questions (FAQs).
Positive Progress: Sustainable Solutions for Earth’s Space Future
Earth observations are essential to sustainable development on Earth, yet how they are funded and the business model that supports it is not sustainable.
Eaton Megafire – When the Flames Are Gone
https://youtu.be/_K6RH-HOkiU Megafires – the fires with devastating effects to life, property, and ecosystems – are becoming more common. Their size, speed, and impact is increasing. Some of this is because of climate change, some of it is because of how we have managed our lands and build our homes and infrastructure. I was the first […]
Sustainable Environmental Resilience Technologies: FREE Open-Access paper
Designing environmental resilience technology that transition research to commercialization providing sustainable solutions In this paper we talk about a model for defining requirements for providing information technologies and data analytics as “environmental resilience technologies”. This methodology combines systematic analysis of the decision space with human centered design (HCD) to provide a model for transition research […]
Wicked Problems need WKID Innovation
At WKID Solutions, we have been working for nearly two years to develop resources to help innovators make real changes in the complex systems they navigate every day. We all see problems that we wish we could solve from obesity, employee burnout, systemic racism, to climate change. So often, people want to dive into the […]
The Climate Crisis: The Marshall Fire is the Perfect Example
A Climate Emergency that is Personal is a Climate Crisis! In 2003, my family evacuated our home in one of the first megafires of the 21st century. They did it again in 2007. This time my childhood friends lost their homes. In 2020, we evacuated again pre-empting an evacuation mandate for the Bobcat Fire that […]
Fires on Earth – What You Need to Know
Dr. Natasha Stavros gave a talk at the American Museum of Natural History for the 2021 Climate Week in New York City. She worked with data visualization expert Carter Emmart and together they tell a visually compelling story for a general audience of fire on Earth, the physics behind it, and the context of those […]
Best Practices for Meetings: Reduce Stress, Foster Inclusion, and Promote Respect
Why do we need Meeting Best Practices? Working remotely, we cannot do what we did in an in-person environment. Remote work has led to an increase in remote meetings that are having uncharacterized effects on employee mental and physical health as well as work-life balance. Long-term implications could reduce employee efficacy and productivity and increase […]
Megafires Today: Couldn’t we just rake?
I received this email in my inbox about megafires and management… Hi Dr. Stavros, I read the transcript of your talk on wildfires. I am curious: does a lack of tree pruning and underbrush clearing (controlled burning) contribute to the likeliness of wildfires? I know that wildfires happen almost everywhere that there is forest, but […]
Fire, Technology and Where We Are Today
Interview Transcript from CU On the Air Already in the U.S. in 2021, some 95 large fires have burned more than 2 million acres in 15 states. Nearly 24,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel are on the front lines across the country. Today on CU on the Air, host Emily Davies talks with CU Boulder Professor Natasha […]