Building is a series of interviews with diverse thinkers and doers from the worlds of research, design, insurance, engineering and farming. Each in turn discusses how their work intersects with climate and building. Five full interviews will be published weekly, from next week, however we kick off this week with a ClimateRelay - a short excerpt from each of five interviews running back-to-back. In so doing, ClimateRelay is designed to demonstrate that climate issues cannot be discussed in silos. The impacts of climate change are intrinsically cross-disciplinary, requiring us to think in complex, non-linear ways. 

Climate change is an enormous planetary challenge that has the potential to impact every little corner of our lives. It can seem quite insurmountable, leaving climate anxiety in its wake. Series 2 explores this risk of despondency and asks what it means to think and act positively at every scale. Climate Positive begins asking how individuals can stay positive, and respond with purpose, before turning to the power of communities, where collective action has long been a catalyst for progress. The series then considers how academic research, so important to understanding root causes and possible solutions, can help shape public policy. Corporations and ‘the market’ is also crucial to positive change, and that means holding them to account (and hosing down the green wash). Finally, the positive and unique role that Australia can play in the global stage, and our transition to a low-carbon future, should not be underestimated. Weaving together people, communities, business, research, and international policy, Climate Positive highlights pathways toward agency, resilience, and hope in the face of the climate crisis.

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