Sunrise did a really good job of putting climate front and centre in national politics. And i'm particularly thinking of the inflation reduction act, which reduces our emissions by forty % by 20 30. I think thatl set the stage for the moment ta we are in right now - where people in congress are trying so hard to actually fight for climate legislation. That would have been unthinkable without social movements like sunrise,. Like the climate strikes, and many others. It's obvious, it's, like, not perfect by any means. But when you look back, what are you most proud of so far, in terms of sunrises winds? What do you want to build on from here?
The relationship between structure and impact is an important one for organizations to explore. The same goes for social movements. The Sunrise Movement is a youth-led coalition on a mission to stop climate change—and recently, they placed their own OS under a microscope: How should the org make decisions? How should its principles evolve? How could it balance centralization and decentralization? Sunrise asked itself these questions to help design a structure capable of meeting our current climate moment.
In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans chat with Aru Shiney-Ajay and Dejah Powell from Sunrise Movement about the connection between internal and external change and how org design can help contribute to tackling the climate crisis.
Learn more about Sunrise Movement's principles: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/principles/?ms=Sunrise%27sPrinciples
Learn more about Sunrise Movement's DNA: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/campaign/sunrise-re-launch/
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