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Daniele Catalanotto
Start with What You Already Have
Often when I run workshops with communities to imagine new futures, they first always focus on what's missing. We're so ...
Daniele Catalanotto
Use less digital resources
We all know that we have to turn off the light when we go out of the room to save some energy. We all know that we don't...
Daniele Catalanotto
Do the “edge of the mattress check”
When you have a hard time going out of bed or doing some work, it’s often the signal of something deeper.
It can mean we...
Daniele Catalanotto
Don’t be a dick while saving the world
There are important things we need to change in our way of living. And it’s urgent. So it’s natural that we might get an...
Daniele Catalanotto
Think about the stuff that you leave at the end of the service
We spend an enormous amount of time into thinking how things should start (1). Service creators and owners spend also a ...
Daniele Catalanotto
Don’t build it. Partner to make it happen
A lot of the time, things already exist in some shape or form. Instead of building a new service from scratch, what if y...
Daniele Catalanotto
Think in seven generations
The seven generations principle is an idea used by Indigenous people (1) to reflect on a long-term perspective.
It makes...
Daniele Catalanotto
When in doubt, look for the co-benefits
How do you choose between two options to make your service more sustainable? Sometimes these decisions feel like a vanil...
Daniele Catalanotto
Be imperfect but be consistent
If I can’t do it well, I won’t do it.
That’s a bit the thinking that many of us have.
For example we say to ourselves: I w...
Daniele Catalanotto
Turn sustainability into a creative constraint
I did a bit of math to figure out how much more resources me doing videos instead of written articles has. The short ans...