🌐 Work That Lasts

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🌐 Work That Lasts 006 | Your Energy Fingerprint

WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 006 | August 27, 2025 Finding Your Peak Hours Lessons from the Long Haul The moment that the sky turns from dark blue to a lighter gray, the metal blinds cast thin silver lines across the room. The robins have been up for hours, their caroling energetic and clear as it echoes throughout the neighborhood, only to quiet down as soon as the sun fully rises. This is when my real...

4 days ago • 4 min read

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🌐 Work That Lasts 005 | The Art of the Strategic No

WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 005 | August 13, 2025 The Weight of Every Yes Lessons from the Long Haul The hotel lobby buzzed with the familiar energy of an environmental science conference—conversations layered over the hum of recycled air. I sat tucked into a corner, sitting crosslegged on the bright blue carpet tiles covering chilly concrete floors. Laptop balanced on my legs, trying to make sense of...

18 days ago • 3 min read

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🌐 Work That Lasts 004 | Questions that Unlock Understanding

WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 004 | July 30, 2025 The Questions that Matter Most Lessons from the Long Haul The fluorescent lights hummed overhead in an austere D.C. federal building, casting everything in harsh relief. Twenty-plus people sat around a conference table that had seen countless meetings, its surface scarred by decades of rushed note-taking and coffee cup rings. The air felt thick with...

about 1 month ago • 4 min read

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🌐 Work That Lasts 003 | The Iceberg Beneath Your Project

WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 003 | July 16, 2025 The Iceberg Beneath Your Project Lessons from the Long Haul There is a delicate balance between jumping into a big project quickly, gaining momentum, and taking deliberate and often slower steps forward. I’ve felt the pull of energy to rush ahead when something seems to have the right people involved and the resources behind it. Only to find out later that...

about 2 months ago • 3 min read

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🌐 Work That Lasts 002 | The Sound of Focus

WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 002 | July 02, 2025 The Sound of Focus: Training Your Attention Lessons from the Long Haul There's a particular kind of quiet that settles over my desk in the early morning—my first espresso still steaming, headphones on, acoustic piano streaming, and digital stacks of climate reports that seem to multiply overnight. It's in these early moments, before the urgency of...

2 months ago • 3 min read

🌐 Work That Lasts 001 | Getting Words on the Page

WORK THAT LASTS Tools, stories, and wisdom for climate leaders building sustainable impact. by Nikoosh Carlo WTL Issue 001 | June 18, 2025 Getting Words on the Page (Even When Everything Feels Urgent) Lessons from the Long Haul Scratch, scratch, scratch. The wooden school desktop is cool and smooth, allowing my forearm to slide as my No. 2 pencil scratches words across lined paper. Words that become sentences. Sentences that become paragraphs. Paragraphs that multiply, punctuated by stick...

2 months ago • 3 min read