Capacity: Prerequisites for Meaningful Action on Climate Change

In Capacity, systems thinker Carolyn Drugge offers a new and hopeful approach to addressing climate change. Many have argued that new technologies and greater efficiencies will not adequately solve the problem of climate change but few offer actual ways forward. Capacity provides a framework for addressing the issue, not merely the symptoms.
In the space that exists between our desire for a better world and our ability to create it lies a set of under-valued capacities. The good news is that all of these essential capacities exist within each of us. We just need to strengthen them. Capacity takes us on a fascinating exploration of key human competencies that are fundamental to approaching our changing climate in a truly meaningful way. In easily accessible language, Drugge draws from cognitive science, systems design, and 15 years of experience as a sustainability professional, to crystallize the competencies as avenues to move beyond documenting and lamenting the deterioration of our planet. Capacity offers a clear path toward a world in which humanity takes its rightful place on the planet.

Not content with symptom management, Carolyn Drugge takes a systems approach to issues. Drawing from a number of subject matter areas including cognitive science, systems theory, biology, and behavioural economics Drugge's mission is to synthesize coherent approaches to challenges that have multiple and synergistic causes.
Drugge's work as a policy analyst and project manager affords a unique view of how municipal policy and infrastructure design influence our behaviour and reflect and strengthen dominant values. Her experiences with experimental interventions ranging from green infrastructure and public art to dialogue groups have been grounds for recalibration and celebration.
She lives and sails in Vancouver B.C.