Douglas rushkot's new book is about his experience being called in to these private enclaves with maybe six billionaires around the table, and them asking him questions. So there was like a real aha moment for him, like, oh, they're not going to save us, like, they're already looking for where to hide. And so i feel like another question that i've been thinking about a lot is the public supports climate legislation, but most of the public is not taking action on it. How do we build movements that are like, bringing people in everyday, people who are not thinking day to day about the green ideal, about the clima crisis? We need to
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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