The Solutionists: How Businesses Can Fix the Future 9781398609341, 9781398609327, 9781398609334, 2022062093, 139860934X
In the face of our climate emergency, we desperately need solutionists working to fix the future. This is your handbook
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Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Welcome to the Solutions Economy
Seeing the light
What about net zero?
The only constant is change
How do we get there?
2 Your star
Making changemakers
The point of vision
The point of grit
The point of flex
The point of fun
The point of soul
The itch to answer
Solutionist from the start
Life-changing moments
Thoughtful change
3 Architects, Accelerators and Actioners
Which type of Solutionist are you?
How can I use this?
4 The Mississippi mind
The magic of changing your mind
Minds are made not born
First, fall in love with failure
Flex your mindset
Don’t sink your costs
Let’s get gritty
Calculated grit
Eyes on the horizon
5 Fix it formula
Fill your stack
Multiply your wins
Nice bum
Start stacking
6 Hope is a business plan
1. The business of energy solutions
2. The business of infrastructure solutions
3. The business of transport solutions
4. The business of food solutions
5. The business of material solutions
6. The business of financial solutions
7. The business of nature-based solutions
8. The business of digital solutions
9. The business of cultural solutions
Are you ready?
7 The quarter rule
What’s the point?
Why 25 per cent?
Who tipped the electric car?
Plant-based power
The other type of tip
8 Storytelling the solutions
Change the story, save the world
Storytelling as Solutionists
Marketing solutions
Greenhushing happens
Big-up benefits
Solutions movements
9 Myths and traps
The myths
The traps
10 Joyful entrepreneurship
Joy for its own sake
Deep breath
Set boundaries
Rest wisely
Be small
Accept unfinished business
Give empathy a break
Multiply wins
Remember why
11 Signal boost
Indigenous and traditional answers
Older and younger Solutionists
MAPA and Global South Solutionists
Black, brown, female, neurodiverse, LGBTQIA+, disabled and other traditionally under-represented Solutionists
Answers everywhere
Conclusion
References
Index
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Welcome to the Solutions Economy
Seeing the light
What about net zero?
The only constant is change
How do we get there?
2 Your star
Making changemakers
The point of vision
The point of grit
The point of flex
The point of fun
The point of soul
The itch to answer
Solutionist from the start
Life-changing moments
Thoughtful change
3 Architects, Accelerators and Actioners
Which type of Solutionist are you?
How can I use this?
4 The Mississippi mind
The magic of changing your mind
Minds are made not born
First, fall in love with failure
Flex your mindset
Don’t sink your costs
Let’s get gritty
Calculated grit
Eyes on the horizon
5 Fix it formula
Fill your stack
Multiply your wins
Nice bum
Start stacking
6 Hope is a business plan
1. The business of energy solutions
2. The business of infrastructure solutions
3. The business of transport solutions
4. The business of food solutions
5. The business of material solutions
6. The business of financial solutions
7. The business of nature-based solutions
8. The business of digital solutions
9. The business of cultural solutions
Are you ready?
7 The quarter rule
What’s the point?
Why 25 per cent?
Who tipped the electric car?
Plant-based power
The other type of tip
8 Storytelling the solutions
Change the story, save the world
Storytelling as Solutionists
Marketing solutions
Greenhushing happens
Big-up benefits
Solutions movements
9 Myths and traps
The myths
The traps
10 Joyful entrepreneurship
Joy for its own sake
Deep breath
Set boundaries
Rest wisely
Be small
Accept unfinished business
Give empathy a break
Multiply wins
Remember why
11 Signal boost
Indigenous and traditional answers
Older and younger Solutionists
MAPA and Global South Solutionists
Black, brown, female, neurodiverse, LGBTQIA+, disabled and other traditionally under-represented Solutionists
Answers everywhere
Conclusion
References
Index
- Author / Uploaded
- Solitaire Townsend
