Sacred Earth, Sacred Duty- Lopez Island

Welcome to everyone who attended the Interfaith one day retreat last month at Grace Hall, and to any new attendees who are interested in working at the intersections of environmental stewardship and interfaith co-working. For this second session held on Saturday, November 21 from 2-4 pm again at Grace Hall, we will recap our day together then move into some new learning with a facilitated session of Climate Interactive's EnROADS, a MIT interactive climate simulator that helps inform our mental models about climate solutions using all the best up to date science and global data into an easy to navigate dashboard (please read on more below for details). Nikyta Palmisani and Kanan Puntambekar will be leading this 60 minute experience which will be followed by moving into a discussion of defining what the climate challenge our Lopez Island group wants to tackle and from there, ideating on possible solutions to this clearly defined challenge. Please pass this invitation on to anyone else who you think may be interested. Our goal is to focus this group on actions on Lopez Island, with the parallel goal of creating an Interislands and county wide gathering in 2027. Overview of EnROADS workshop: The Climate Solutions Workshop is an interactive group exercise guided by a trained facilitator where people work together to test solutions for addressing climate change. Participants use the En-ROADS simulation model, which is built with the best available science, to test their ideas for which policies and solutions should be enacted. The goal of the workshop is to create a scenario that limits global warming to well below 2°C and aims for 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the international goals formally recognized in the Paris climate agreement. The resulting experience of this workshop is solutions-oriented, science-based, hopeful, and eye-opening. In the first part of the workshop, participants discuss their own climate actions at any level—individual, business, community, country, or region—and use the En-ROADS simulation model to learn about the global impact if their actions were to spread worldwide. Then, the group determines what else is needed to meet the climate goals. During the second part of the workshop, participants engage in a rich debriefing discussion to explore their feelings, insights, and individual actions. The workshop is designed to ground participants in the best available science on climate change and delve into difficult questions with the help of a facilitator and group. Participants can emerge empowered and activated for climate leadership. The workshop can be run online or in-person and can accommodate groups of any size. People from all different backgrounds and levels of familiarity with climate change can learn from this experience. The workshop was developed through a collaboration of several partners led by Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan School of Management. Purposes The Climate Solutions Workshop was developed to address three important purposes: 1. Offer insights and understanding about climate change – Enable participants to gain insights into the factors that affect climate change and what the solutions and possible paths are for equitably and effectively addressing climate change and achieving the international climate goals. 2. Provide interactive learning – Create a participant-centered, interactive learning experience to explore the best available science on climate impacts and solutions. Participants drive their own learning, so they are more engaged and gain more than they would through a lecture format. They also learn from each other as they work together to create a climate scenario for our global future. 3. Engage people in effective action and diffusion – Participants gain a meaningful climate leadership perspective and lasting impression that can translate into change in the real world. They learn which types of climate policies and solutions make a difference in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and explore the ways that challenges beyond climate change might be addressed by the same steps. Learn more here: https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/