Why We Exist

We are living in the most definitive decade in human history. It is the first time we have been able to foresee a mass extinction, and it is the last chance we have to do anything about it.

We believe knowledge is power and taking informed action is contagious. We also believe we have the resources and ideas we need to meet global climate targets.

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” –Malcolm X

What We Do

New language is emerging –and reemerging– with the growing challenges of the climate crisis. While new words, terms and ideas crystalise the solutions ahead, they can remain stuck in their respective niches. Our job is to document their evolving meaning in an informative, accessible and digestible format.

We invite frontline authors, scientists, Indigenous leaders, policy-makers and environmental justice advocates to choose a word that is most important to their work and define it in their own voice.

While textbook definitions describe an idea, they are missing an element of storytelling. Why is this word important? And why do you care about it? Our collection of definitions invites you to a more human level of communication.

Each word definition is accompanied by a supporting essay, outlining the leading research behind it, and a bibliography of resources for deeper learning.

What We Will Offer

We will offer a free, searchable and user-friendly website, which works like an online dictionary for climate words. The website is a database that documents climate solutions, portraying a cross-section of inspiring leaders in an interdisciplinary range of fields, creating an online community of informed climate optimists.

Our Vision

Our vision is a world in which public sectors, private sectors, organizations, schools, families and individuals align their actions with an equitable, just, circular and regenerative future for all, guided by their knowledge about coexisting in harmony with each other and the natural environment.

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