Thanks for a great response to last week's Slides.For those who felt the measurement tool will be helpful, I've since created a simple online form for selecting your scores and plotting them on a graph to keep track of your mental health over time and highlight where to aim your focuses – short and longer term.I'm testing the tool with a small number of individuals, privately, with the hope to extend wider over time. If you'd like to be involved in the testing and future developments, hit the thumbs up at the bottom of the email and I'll be in touch.If you self-scored out of 100 and are looking for what this means for you then here are the three initial ranges of assessment (TBC):Score less than 50 indicates a serious situation and requires intervention from your local mental health community team. Score between 50–75 means you're struggling with more than one element that's impacting your daily life and inevitably happiness, those specific elements require immediate support.Score 75 and above means you're in a good place overall and only have a few elements that require extra focus due to other life happenings taking the limelight and improving.More on the management side of things in future issues.Winning The Climate Crisis WarThis week, I spent a couple of days in Bristol at the inaugural Blue Earth Summit listening to keynote speeches from impassioned leaders in the climate war like Sir Tim Smit of the Eden Project, Jo Morley of City To Sea and Bertrand Piccard of Solar Impulse who are all the perfect blend of dreamers and damn right doers with a natural gift to inspire, which certainly helps!As bonafide pioneers in their fields, they are all driven to be the change that they want to see in the world rather than relying on those in positions of power who, as track records go, are limited in trust when deploying proactive initiatives for good, over profit.Tim Smit of the Eden Project has been instrumental in securing renewable energy sources that will power Eden and up to 35,000 homes in the surrounding area of St. Austell in Cornwall by tapping into the Earth's hot water stores (geothermal) which is 10x more efficient than petroleum and is a clean and reliable source of energy to be turned into heat and electricity. Jo Morley of City To Sea and Hugo Tagholm of Surfers Against Sewage are continuously campaigning for the reduction of single-use plastic in order to reduce demand to cut supply at source. Simple but effective. Jim Cregan of Jimmy's Iced Coffee has done exactly that by removing the plastic from their packaging and replacing with aluminium cans and bottles that can be recycled.And last but by no means least is Swiss psychiatrist and aviator, Bertrand Piccard, the first man to fly around the world for 26 hours straight in a solar-powered plane showing us a new reality of clean air travel without the need of fossil fuels; is using his stature among world leaders to make ecological business an economically viable choice as, unsurprisingly, opposed to the moral obligation...Quite the opposite strategy to Dr. Jane Goodall, who's new book: The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide For An Endangered Planet is released on Tuesday. During a short discussion, whilst walking her dog, Bean, explained to me how they are focusing 100% on youth education and future development – ignoring the existing world leaders – to ensure the next generation learn from the irrefutable mistakes that have directly contributed to the crisis.Whilst the current total energy supply for the UK alone paints a relatively bleak picture for renewable energy powering just 16% of usable energy in 2020, the production costs are decreasing and pressures to pass legislation are increasing.The behaviour change and technological innovation necessary in business and politics to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations will be accelerated should demand from population adoption continue to rise.A question I'll be considering this week:Do my righteous intentions match my actions?Charlie
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Thanks for a great response to last week's Slides.For those who felt the measurement tool will be helpful, I've since created a simple online form for selecting your scores and plotting them on a graph to keep track of your mental health over time and highlight where to aim your focuses – short and longer term.I'm testing the tool with a small number of individuals, privately, with the hope to extend wider over time. If you'd like to be involved in the testing and future developments, hit the thumbs up at the bottom of the email and I'll be in touch.If you self-scored out of 100 and are looking for what this means for you then here are the three initial ranges of assessment (TBC):Score less than 50 indicates a serious situation and requires intervention from your local mental health community team. Score between 50–75 means you're struggling with more than one element that's impacting your daily life and inevitably happiness, those specific elements require immediate support.Score 75 and above means you're in a good place overall and only have a few elements that require extra focus due to other life happenings taking the limelight and improving.More on the management side of things in future issues.Winning The Climate Crisis WarThis week, I spent a couple of days in Bristol at the inaugural Blue Earth Summit listening to keynote speeches from impassioned leaders in the climate war like Sir Tim Smit of the Eden Project, Jo Morley of City To Sea and Bertrand Piccard of Solar Impulse who are all the perfect blend of dreamers and damn right doers with a natural gift to inspire, which certainly helps!As bonafide pioneers in their fields, they are all driven to be the change that they want to see in the world rather than relying on those in positions of power who, as track records go, are limited in trust when deploying proactive initiatives for good, over profit.Tim Smit of the Eden Project has been instrumental in securing renewable energy sources that will power Eden and up to 35,000 homes in the surrounding area of St. Austell in Cornwall by tapping into the Earth's hot water stores (geothermal) which is 10x more efficient than petroleum and is a clean and reliable source of energy to be turned into heat and electricity. Jo Morley of City To Sea and Hugo Tagholm of Surfers Against Sewage are continuously campaigning for the reduction of single-use plastic in order to reduce demand to cut supply at source. Simple but effective. Jim Cregan of Jimmy's Iced Coffee has done exactly that by removing the plastic from their packaging and replacing with aluminium cans and bottles that can be recycled.And last but by no means least is Swiss psychiatrist and aviator, Bertrand Piccard, the first man to fly around the world for 26 hours straight in a solar-powered plane showing us a new reality of clean air travel without the need of fossil fuels; is using his stature among world leaders to make ecological business an economically viable choice as, unsurprisingly, opposed to the moral obligation...Quite the opposite strategy to Dr. Jane Goodall, who's new book: The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide For An Endangered Planet is released on Tuesday. During a short discussion, whilst walking her dog, Bean, explained to me how they are focusing 100% on youth education and future development – ignoring the existing world leaders – to ensure the next generation learn from the irrefutable mistakes that have directly contributed to the crisis.Whilst the current total energy supply for the UK alone paints a relatively bleak picture for renewable energy powering just 16% of usable energy in 2020, the production costs are decreasing and pressures to pass legislation are increasing.The behaviour change and technological innovation necessary in business and politics to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations will be accelerated should demand from population adoption continue to rise.A question I'll be considering this week:Do my righteous intentions match my actions?Charlie