WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 024 | May 20, 2026 A Pause, A Laugh, A Bond Lessons from the Long Haul A shadow shifted in the dark corner of the downstairs living room. Imperceptible at first. Then it grew, emerging from the recesses of the stairwell, low to the ground. The light caught dark spikey strands rippling with each slouching movement. A flattened snout. Hollow eye slits. The first cousin to...
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WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 023 | May 6, 2026 Time Builds Something Real Lessons from the Long Haul The first frost had come overnight. I remember the white film across the grass along the driveway, the weight of my metal lunch pail, white with a blue rim and smiley-faced bears friends crowded together in yellow and pink and orange and blue. My mother drove my sister and me across town and through the...
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WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 022 | April 22, 2026 The Departure Board Read TBD Lessons from the Long Haul The corners of the windows kept filling with snow, building to the same point before the wind took it all away and started again. Standing inside the former juvenile detention center, now a guesthouse, our group had the place to ourselves. It was impossible to tell whether it was actually snowing or...
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WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 021 | April 8, 2026 What Gathering Makes Possible Lessons from the Long Haul The phone call was always brief. "Come get some moose soup," my tsook'al (grandmother) would say, or "I baked bread." The click of her hanging up echoed in my ear before I could respond. Even as a young child, I understood: get over there quickly. There might be cinnamon rolls. Three blocks separated...
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WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 020 | March 25, 2026 Tending What Grows Lessons from the Long Haul Something caught my eye just left of my shoulder. A canoe-shaped flash of green sailed through the air before landing softly in the dark soil a few feet ahead of me. I spun around. No one there. But I wasn't alone. The garden row stretched fifteen feet end to end, just enough space to disappear into if you...
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WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 019 | March 11, 2026 Your Day, Your Way Forward Lessons from the Long Haul The reflected light in my office suddenly dims to a deep charcoal around 3:30 pm in January. Not dark yet, but changed enough to reach for the lamp. The inbox has quieted, east coast colleagues logged off, and the little red notification bubbles finally still. And there, on the sticky note beside my...
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WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 018 | February 25, 2026 Rediscovering Joy Lessons from the Long Haul The garage door opened straight into our kitchen, revealing white and yellow speckled linoleum that had seen a thousand muddy boots. In far less time than it took to bundle up, Iโd shed hats and mittens and coats to a lower row of metal hooks, kicked snow boots onto the drying rail my dad had built over the...
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WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 017 | February 11, 2026 Strongest at the center Lessons from the Long Haul Iโve been thinking about transitions lately. The email arrives, or an announcement at an all-staff meeting, or youโre scrolling the news over breakfast. Those first moments of processing. Your eyes scanning words while your mind already runs calculations. One blustery November afternoon, I sat in my...
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WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 016 | January 28, 2026 When snow teaches you to build Lessons from the Long Haul There was nothing better than waking up to a big snowfall. School almost never closed, but my dad would already be outside with his self-designed snow scoop, a wide metal shovel with a long curved handle that could move three times the normal load. This was the 1980s, before such things became...
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