Rincon's Hannah Mize captured the spirit of #ClimateWeekNYC beautifully, reminding us that change is built on data, dialogue, community, and action. We’re grateful to have such passionate and thoughtful voices on our team and are excited to continue this work together!
Spending the week with such incredibly brilliant, talented, innovative, and hopeful people during Climate Week NYC 🗽📝🌎 has been an experience that I won’t soon forget! The events I have attended and people I’ve met have been fascinating and inspiring. Some of the key thoughts I’ve taken away from the last few days: 📊 Expanded access to open source, high-quality data will change the way we understand our world and all of the pieces that fit into it. We have an opportunity, an obligation even, to manage the data that has been collected effectively and retain honest lines of replicable information to facilitate data driven decision making and progress tracking/monitoring. 🙉 Dialogue cannot be performative because there is a true human cost to not speaking to each other and more importantly, not listening. 🧠 Community, culture, and participation are key to making real change. We are stewards — of each other, the spaces we inhabit, the ideas we share. ✅ We can’t let perfection be the enemy of the good. We all must roll up our sleeves and get to work! I will also take away extra gratitude for the work that we do — the idea that we have the opportunity to implement meaningful solutions (and of course, test, monitor, report, refine…). We can fundamentally transform communities into hubs where people know their neighbors, have access to clean and reliable resources, and rewild ecosystems, while simultaneously establishing the foundations that will eventually build generational trust and embedded equity that we so desperately need for long-term success. We are fortunate that we have time (albeit, not much) to still do the right things, and even more fortunate that we can do it together. More to come as I percolate on such an energizing experience. For now, I know that we have a fair amount of hard work to do, and a lot of smart, passionate people to do it. Onward, friends!! Looking forward to staying connected with you if we met in person, if we didn’t meet yet, but you want to chat, let’s connect! Major thanks and recognition to Rincon Consultants, supporting the constant opportunity to grow, learn, and do even more meaningful work. And thanks to Ryan Gardner for showing me around the City 🏙️ and making sure I had all the great coffee and food along the way!! #climateweek #climateweekNYC #climateaction #resilience #stewardship #sustainability
