2. BARRIER: Centralized, Slow-toChange Systems Actionable Solution: Utilize more decentralized impact methods
Responding rapidly to the climate crisis is made more difficult due to the bureaucracy embedded in our institutions. Rather than waiting for economic and policy incentives to manifest, businesses and individuals must embrace proactive change, whether on a small or large scale. Intrapreneurs—individual changemakers who launch new initiatives for social and environmental change from within their institutions—have sparked some of society’s most important shifts through their first steps. Enabling changemakers to boldly respond to the climate crisis in their workplace, organization, or community will help to bridge the chasm between public calls-to-action and slowmoving systems.
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Local-level governments were much quicker to recognize the failings of the conventional water management model [than city-level governments], and to say we need solutions for where the system fails. Now the conversation is starting to go beyond the people working in the water supply field or those who live in houses disconnected from the grid. It’s started to make its way into the broader public imagination, and people are talking about it. Enrique Lomnitz, Founder and General Director of Isla Urbana. Ashoka Fellow
