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🌐 Work That Lasts

by Nikoosh Carlo

Work That Lasts is for climate leaders designing systems that sustain people, purpose, and the planet. Every other Wednesday Work that Lasts delivers regenerative workflows, leadership insights, and tools to help you do meaningful climate work without sacrificing your wellbeing.

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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...

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Four-level iceberg diagram showing Crisis at surface, Trends below, then Frameworks level, and Worldviews at the deepest level.

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...

20 days agoΒ β€’Β 3 min read
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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 morningβ€”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...

about 1 month agoΒ β€’Β 3 min read

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...

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