Climate Action Advice
This phrase encourages people to stay involved and not sit on the sidelines when addressing climate change.
What is "Keep Showing Up"
Bren Smith and Ayana teamed up on this addition to the Green New Deal that focuses on the ocean.
What is the Blue New Deal?
Bren Smith emphasizes the both value and underuse of this crop as a fertilizer.
What is Kelp/seaweed
In a successful climate future, these animals help landscapes absorb water and reduce wildfires.
What are beavers?
If we get it right, damaged natural systems like forests and wetlands will begin doing this again.
What is regenerating (or recovering)?
The book says people should identify their strengths and contribute to climate solutions with this phrase.
What is "Bring Your Superpowers"
This organization’s mission is “to replicate and scale regenerative ocean farms to create jobs and protect the planet”
What is GreenWave?
Bren Smith raises this type of animal on his farm. (three correct answers)
(any of the following) What are mussels, oysters, shellfish.
In the future described in the book, energy mostly comes from these two renewable sources.
What are wind and solar?
Instead of fossil fuels, most energy in the future described in the book comes from renewable sources like wind and this.
What is solar power?
Instead of working alone, the author encourages people to participate in organizations or movements with this advice.
What is “Join something”?
Bren Smith helped to develop this app which allows users to take weight measurements and send pictures of their kelp every month in order to collect data and predict climate benefits and yields.
What is MyKelp?
This is a risk management tool for farmers, protecting them against financial losses from crop failures or declining market prices.
What is crop insurance?
Cities would have less traffic because people rely more on this type of transportation with trains and buses.
What is public transit?
In the book’s vision of the future, cities have less traffic because people rely more on walking, biking, and this system of trains and buses.
What is public transit?
This phrase encourages people to connect with like-minded individuals working toward the same goals.
What is “Find your people”?
Businesses owned, managed, and controlled by their employees, operating on a "one-member, one-vote" basis to prioritize worker welfare over external investor profit
What are worker cooperatives/co-ops?
One of Bren Smith’s ideas was to farm on this type of ocean infrastructure
What are offshore wind turbines
Communities grow more of their own food locally rather than relying on long global supply chains.
What is local agriculture or local food systems?
The book suggests communities will grow and eat more of this type of food, produced closer to home.
What is local food?
The author says that focusing on solutions and fixing challenges makes someone this type of person.
What is “Be a problem solver”?
This term refers to a coastal community grounded in farmer-owned infrastructure and an ocean-based economy.
What is a working waterfront?
This type of farming involves growing a polyculture of aquatic species. It is replicable, scalable, and environmentally friendly.
What is regenerative ocean farming
In this future economy, the extractive fossil-fuel system is replaced with this kind of economy.
What is a regenerative economy?
In the future described in the chapter, the fossil-fuel economy is replaced with this kind of economy that restores nature.
What is a regenerative economy?