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 …
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 …
The Climate Crisis: The Marshall Fire is the Perfect Example Read More »
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 …
Best Practices for Meetings: Reduce Stress, Foster Inclusion, and Promote Respect Read More »
I received this email in my inbox about wildfires 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 …
Founder Dr. Natasha Stavros wrote an article for The Conversation about bringing tech innovation to wildfires. Dr. Stavros co-led a workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) affiliated with California Institute of Technology to bring together tech innovators, fire operators, policy makers, and scientists to discuss how to fire fires smarter. Together this …
Dr. Stavros gave a plenary talk on the wicked wildfire problem and solution space to frame the context for the Keck Institute of Space Science workshop on Detecting and Tracking the Fires that Matter. What is needed, what is possible, how do we build it? In this talk, Dr. Stavros provides an overview of what …
Human caused global warming has changed western US climate creating hotter, drier, longer fire seasons that will lead to more megafires. Dr. Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) and Founder Natasha Stavros (@DrFireScience) get real about the mental strain of sounding the alarm as few listen and the urgency to step up and take action. Read the Full Op-Ed: With …
LA Times Op Ed: Global Warming and More Fire in the American West Read More »
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