The Flywheel Project seeks to inspire hope and demonstrate progress by visually cataloging progress on the Drawdown solutions.
Carrie Norton talks with us about her “who luck” in working with Paul Hawkin, author of Drawdown and The Ecology of Commerce who taught at one of her company’s first ever Green Business Basecamps and has been an inspiration to so much of her work. A seasoned impact entrepreneur, investor, and consultant, Carrie spent many years in the sustainable energy tech sector, including participating with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in 1998, being in senior management at Garage.com and IdeaLab, and training entrepreneurs on sustainable business. She is also is the co-founder of the Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles.
Her project is still in the beginning phases and is looking for collaborators. The Flywheel project aims to create a free and transparent global registry for verified carbon-reduction projects that correspond to the Drawdown solutions, a tool for collating, illustrating and navigating across our collective progress toward ecosystem regeneration through carbon reduction activities, a platform to match capital to viable projects, and an inspiring vehicle for citizen engagement through education and investment opportunities.
We talk about her ideas have grown and evolved over the years along with understanding the leap from Sustainable to Regenerative.
“We need both,” Carrie says. We also talk about some of her other future initiatives, Regen Learn and Global Regenerative Finance Initiative and the importance of self-honesty of regularly stepping back and asking ourselves “are we on the right path?”
Carrie Norton
https://www.greenbusinessbasecamp.com
https://www.carriemnorton.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/regenerativeeconomybuilder
Redesign Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/redesign/id1505429143
Drawdown by Paul Hawkin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31624481-drawdown
The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawkin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89997.The_Ecology_of_Commerce
Katie Patrick
https://katiepatrick.com
Jen Bolden
https://www.jenboulden.com/
The Academy for Systems Change
https://www.academyforchange.org
Donella Medows
https://donellameadows.org
Jim Collins interview on Tim Ferriss Show
https://tim.blog/2019/02/18/jim-collins
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point
Simplify Language, Lee Shainis
https://www.simplifylanguage.com
Zebras unite
https://zebrasunite.coop
Open Heart Project - Susan Piver
https://openheartproject.com
Trimtab Spacecamp Community
https://trimtab.substack.com
Every year, the Buckminster Fuller Institute (https://www.bfi.org) hosts a dynamic event called Trimtab Space Camp, and each event encourages participants to join or host a Mission, the collaborative learning component of this 8-week online event. This year's Space Camp: Towards Climate Stabilization hosted 20 Missions with over 150 participants. At the end of the eight-week journey, crew-members from each Mission have 5 minutes to share their results with the group and the wider BFI community of over 100,000 people.
The Spaceship Earth Mission Log project will be interviewing leaders from each of the 20 Missions over the next 8 weeks beyond the close of this Space Camp. Subscribe to make deeper connections and be notified when each Mission Log comes out!
Steven Leavitt hosts this series, and is the host of The Language of Creativity podcast, https://www.thelanguageofcreativity.com. He has attended four Space Camps since 2020 and is inspired by Buckminster Fuller's quote: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Carrie Norton: The Flywheel Project