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The final day of kyu House highlighted the future of climate action — and what that future looks like when we get things right. 🇯🇵 ENND PARTNERS leaders Tim Brown and Masanobu Iwabuchi were joined by Marukome USA Inc.’s Shuta Aoki to explore Japanese business lessons and how they can help in the climate fight. They talked existing in the space between the past and future, the concept of “mottainai” (a sense of regret concerning waste), and more. 💪 Leadership in the Climate Era isn’t just about the now. SYPartners’ Jessica Orkin and Kite Insights’s Sophie Lambin 🪁 hosted an intimate conversation that saw next-generation leaders like Alexandre da Rocha Leão and Sage Lenier taking center stage. 🏙️ Cities represent a path to a lower-emissions world. “Done right, they are profoundly good for the planet,” said Third Derivative and RMI’s Rushad Nanavatty in his introduction to Gehl - Making Cities for People, RMI, and World Resources Institute’s standing-room-only session. “We need a language to talk about the kind of life that a climate-aligned city offers,” said Gehl’s Blaine Merker, who pointed to examples of Gehl’s impactful work in places like Shanghai, Sydney, and Carmel, Indiana. The good vibes continued with an engaging panel hosted by Yuki Numata and featuring Majora Carter, Felipe Ramírez Buitrago, and Robin Chase. 🐝 What happens when we bring more nature and biodiversity into our everyday lives? Gehl’s second kyu House session explored how we can increase productivity, creativity, and well-being by transforming urban spaces. Gehl's Jeff Risom gathered insights from experts doing just that: urban ecologist Robin Grossinger, Majken Kalhave, Kristen Rydberg (of the urban beekeeping company Alvéole), and Merker. 📣 LinkedIn and Kite Insights got us pumped with another stellar debate — this time exploring “Is Climate Action Job Creation?” Debaters Dawn Lippert, Patrick Flynn, David Carlin, Ajaita S., Kwolanne Felix, and Caterina Sarfatti covered intentionality, entrepreneurship, global perspectives, and more for impressed jury members Wanjira Mathai, Nigar Arpadarai, and Allen Blue. While the “Against” debaters clinched victory, the vital discourse was a win for everyone. 🌍 kyu House wrapped up with a compelling vision of the future in a WRI and The Green Belt Movement session that centered on African entrepreneurship. “The challenge that I want to pose to all of us today is to see entrepreneurs all the way through. They're not just a ‘feel good’ story, they are a scale-up story,” said Endeavor Kenya’s Maryanne Ochola. We’ve had so many brilliant guests stop by kyu House at Climate Week NYC and we’re still buzzing about the compelling ideas they shared. See you next time at kyu House. 📸: David Dini for kyu House #kyuhouse #ClimateWeekNYC #ClimateAction

A true pleasure collaborating with Nicolas Maitret and Mikhael Cohen from SYPartners on building #coalitions to find #climatesolutions. Thank you! #ClimateWeekNYC

Yesterday, we kicked off kyu House by focusing on coalitions, gender equality, the leadership needed to bring about true climate action, and more! 🤝 SYPartners and The Aspen Institute taught us how true collaboration can make all the difference in the climate fight. However, working across organizations requires intention and know-how. “Coalitions have to find the productive space to navigate conflict,” said María Ortiz Pérez (The Aspen Institute). ⚖️ The kyu House Cafe was a full house for IDEO.org’s session. Margaret E. Greene, PhD introduced a gender x climate framework, that IDEO.org co-created with The Chroma Collective, which evaluates projects along an axis of exploitative to transformative and harmful to regenerative. IDEO.org’s Victoria Yan chatted with an expert panel (Teju N. Adisa-Farrar, Phoebe Lane, and Soraya Hassanali) about the opportunities and challenges that arise when considering gender and climate action together.  “We need an ecosystem of solutions,” said Adisa-Farrar, of the Black Fiber & Textile Network. 🥂 Opening Night was all about connecting the climate community around some friendly debate. 🗣️ Kite Insights and BSR brought the drama (in the best possible way) with the question: “𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱?” Debaters Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Genevieve Guenther, PhD, Kirsten Dunlop, Clover Hogan, Gerald Butts, and Aron Cramer battled it out with persuasive arguments before jury members Tim Brown, Azeem Azhar, and Kathy Baughman McLeod. The night’s biggest surprise was when the “against” debaters managed to pull the rapt audience over to their side. 🧠 👬 IDEO brought back a kyu House classic, the “Creative Tensions" exercise. Brown and Bryan Walker led the room in a series of literal floor debates, asking questions like, “Where is greater creative leadership needed? In the realm of policy or desirability? In iconic or systemic innovation? Fear versus hope?” It was a joy to see friends old and new mix, mingle, and swap solutions around climate action in our 395 Hudson Street space. Bring on Day 2 of kyu House! 📸: David Dini #kyuhouse #ClimateWeekNYC #ClimateAction

Come join SYPartners, The Aspen Institute, Kite Insights and more at the #kyuhouse for NYC Climate Week conversations. Sophie Lambin 🪁and I are hosting a gathering on intergenerational leadership and making sure that younger people are not only in the rooms where decisions get made, but are making them.

As we continue to partner with SOMA MATER in advancing the sustainability agenda in the #UAE, we're proud to have collaborated on a new white paper diving into strategies for long-term environmental sustainability and longevity. Our exploration considers the emerging principles that ask us to imagine the future we want to leave behind. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gkD2Etqq

Last year our collective launched kyu House at COP28 UAE in Dubai. With great partners and new friends, we forged connections that led to new collaborations between often siloed topics across policy, investment, innovation, and community action. This year at kyu House x Climate Week NYC, SYPartners will be hosting two sessions building on our learnings. On Monday, SYPartners and The Aspen Institute are hosting a roundtable inviting leaders at the forefront of business and climate to explore the state of collective action in the space—diving deep into opportunities and challenges, what’s working and what isn’t, and what it takes to build and run coalitions that work. On Wednesday, SYPartners and Kite Insights bring together a multiplicity of voices to discuss how a new generation of leaders will shape strategy, policy, and decision-making across organizations and industries. We'll hear from Jessica Orkin, Sophie Lambin, Sage Lenier, and Alexandre da Rocha Leão. We hope to see new and familiar faces as we push into new and less familiar topics together. See all events and RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/dz-cwD3y

⏳ 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 2 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐤𝐲𝐮 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐭 #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐍𝐘𝐂 ⏳ Don’t miss your chance to be part of the action September 23–25 as some of the kyu Collective’s brightest creative minds tackle our biggest climate challenges. 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒕 𝒌𝒚𝒖 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆?  Tim Brown, Nicolas Maitret, Jessica Orkin, Blaine Merker, and Nazlican Goksu are just some of the guests we’re welcoming. Spaces are filling up! Reserve your spot today at https://lnkd.in/e_XJNM-e. IDEO SYPartners Gehl - Making Cities for People Kepler BEworks C2 IDEO.org Kite Insights LinkedIn BSR The Aspen Institute RMI World Resources Institute #kyuhouse #ClimateWeekNYC #ClimateAction

An invitation to go where do not know.... “Can you make dirt stand up?,” I asked. I got a strange expression in return from my colleague at SYPartners Erik Edelmen. “I can make dirt stand up,” Erik Edelman said. But how? And why? Days passed. I asked, “How will you make dirt stand up?” “I know how,” Erik said. Okay let’s do it. Let’s make dirt stand up. As designers, many times we begin with an objective—to do something in order to achieve an understandable or measurable result. Once you have an objective, you figure out what you might make or what you might do in order to meet that objective. In contrast to that approach, for this project, we started with an image born from imagination … of dirt, more specifically of typography, rising from the dirt as little mounds. We were without a clear path of how to create it, what the typography could say, of how it might succeed or fail. Of what job it needed to accomplish. Abandoning the typical ways of working led us to create something brand new, that neither of us knew what would happen. The statement emerging from the dirt would ultimately say “I am because we are”, from the African philosophy of “Ubuntu, inspired in part by a student in my class at School of Visual Arts. It is a concept in which your sense of self is shaped by your relationships with other people. Our unique identities are formed by who we know, what we do, and how we live. Our humanity is intertwined. We are shaped by each other, by the environment, by the Earth. It expressed the idea of ‘harmony’, a defining concept for organizational cohesion. Harmony means an agreement of ideas, feelings, or actions, or a pleasing combination of different parts, its genesis from music when the sound of two or more notes are heard simultaneously. We produced the piece by testing different soil and glue mixtures, selecting one that would create the best texture of what we wanted. Erik printed 3D letters for us to coat in our dirt mixture. We blocked a few hours to create it - I was to bring the glue, Erik to bring the dirt and the plan. We got to work and let the dirt tell us what to do without a map of how or what, navigating what the material mixture would allow us to create and trying to expand what it wanted to do. Ultimately, we came to a compromise with our dirt and pushed it around until the letters found their natural home. There was an intent.  There was how the creative act unfurled.  There was what was created. I am because we are. Erik was smart enough to capture the whole on video.

We are proud to have been a part of the foundational brand strategy for Brooklyn Museum. Congratulations to Brooklyn Museum and Other Means on the new visual identity!

We’re only 2½ weeks from kyu House at #ClimateWeekNYC and that means it’s time to spotlight some of the exciting sessions and speakers joining us at 395 Hudson Street. Check out three sessions from SYPartners, The Aspen Institute, IDEO, Gehl - Making Cities for People, and RMI that you’ll find only at kyu House — and register now to secure your spot! 🤝 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 (9/23 𝘢𝘵 12𝘱𝘮 𝘌𝘛) What does it take to build and run an effective coalition? SYPartners and The Aspen Institute will help you find out. Join leaders at the intersection of climate and business for a deep dive into how to utilize the power of collective action. 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐖 at https://lnkd.in/eBAptxhy 🤖 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 & 𝐀𝐈 (9/24 𝘢𝘵 4𝘱𝘮 𝘌𝘛) Want to know how to harness AI's potential to drive sustainable innovation? Join IDEO’s Sergio Fregoni and Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s Sandra Topić as they share real-world stories of how organizations are using AI to create breakthrough solutions in the Climate Era. 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐖 at https://lnkd.in/eBipJSQw 🏙️ 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧, 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲 (9/25 𝘢𝘵 1:30𝘱𝘮 𝘌𝘛) Climate-friendly urbanism creates neighborhoods that keep us healthier, happier, and more connected. In this interactive session, Gehl - Making Cities for People and RMI highlight the critical role of urban form in achieving climate goals. It’s time to take control of our climate destiny by reshaping our cities! 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐖 at https://lnkd.in/eeuEBxW8 #kyuhouse #ClimateWeekNYC #ClimateAction