Climate Change: What You Can Do Now

Welcome to LMI’s blog for Climate Change: What You Can Do Now. This is our way of bridging the gap between our last day of working on the book, and today.

We’re enormously proud of the book, and expect this blog to be a great medium for continuing the conversations we’ve started—a platform for all those things that will become part of the climate change discussion in the coming months, and for issues that benefit from added depth and perspective.

But first, let me tell you about the book.

LMI has previously written a book about climate change: A Federal Leader’s Guide to Climate Change. We believe that book still stands as the definitive guide to climate change for the federal sector. It’s unbiased, nonpartisan, and easy to use. It’s a great reference piece for federal leaders.

This new book offers a different take on the climate change issue—one that steps beyond our first book’s discussion of federal government and the science involved in the issues. We wrote this book with managers in mind, not only in the public sector, but in the private sector as well. That’s because the functional areas that we focus on in this book are relevant to almost every organization and every level of government—public health, IT and communications, land use, infrastructure, vehicles and fleets, supply chain, and national security.

Each of these areas can be a starting point for action, whether it’s mitigation or adaptation to a changing climate. And each of these areas can be where the strategies are developed and implemented and eventually touch the other functional areas we discuss. In many cases, these strategies can spur an entire organizational effort on the climate change issue.

One thing we’re acutely aware of is that action on climate change remains a tough sell—especially when the bottom line remains a key consideration. With this in mind, we also found that the tools most managers already have at their disposal—the use of risk and cost-benefit analysis, for example—are well-suited for application to the climate change issue.

As this blog evolves, you’ll get to hear from the authors of the book and engage them in the conversation you’d like to have about the climate change issue. Each of these individuals is an expert in what they do. They have very unique perspectives and are highly qualified to speak in their area of interest. I have no doubt that you’ll be able to gain insight into how they view the climate change issue.

So welcome to our blog! If you’ve not yet read the book, I hope this website and the discussions here pique your interest. And if you have read our book—thank you. I hope we can use this blog to continue a meaningful discussion on how we can all work collaboratively to address the pressing issue of climate change.