Hi everyone, After ten days of lessons — and a bonus lesson to tie it all together — the entire Billionaire Mechanisms course is now complete and ready for you to explore at your own pace. This series looks beyond headlines and personality stories and focuses instead on the systemic mechanisms that create extreme wealth — and how those same mechanisms shape our politics, our economy, and our climate future. To make it easy to review everything in one place, I’ve created a single-page visual summary of all 10 core lessons + the bonus lesson. It’s included below. This sheet gives you a quick snapshot of: - how companies externalise costs - how monopolies emerge - why shareholder pressure matters so much - how CEO wealth is amplified - how tax avoidance is structured - how lobbying shapes the rules - why debt and leverage accelerate growth - how public money fuels private gain - how all these mechanisms reinforce each other - what this means for the climate - and whether ethical billionaire wealth is possible It’s a map you can refer back to anytime. 👉 You can now access the full course here 💬 I’d love to hear from you As you revisit the lessons, I’d be interested to know: Which mechanism surprised you the most — and which one feels most connected to the climate crisis? Your reflections help others see the system more clearly, and they shape what we build next inside Has2BGreen.

@Lorna Willimott kindly shared a link with me to Matt Farrell, who blogs about emerging and maturing technologies. His blogs are beautifully crafted and scripted. They are interesting, positive and factual. I had recently seen a post about large areas of agricultural land being damaged as solar panel arrays were installed on the land. The land is degraded, and although the product—electricity—is needed, it comes at a significant cost to the land. The Idea that Mat discusses is raising the panels higher and opening gaps between the panels, allowing light to pass through—enough to be beneficial to shade-loving crops. The difference is that instead of covering fields, the panels are installed over, for example, raspberry bushes. These bushes are usually covered in plastic sheeting to protect them from excessive sun, severe weather (such as hail), and wind. Installing the solar panels over the top of the bushes handled all of these issues and reduced the amount of water needed by the crops by 50%. It also ended the use of the plastic sheeting, which had to be renewed frequently. In years of low sun, the crop yield was lower, but in other years, the yield was higher. On average, the yeidl was higher. The byproduct was electricity. The link to his YouTube page is here.

Thanks to Ricky joining the group, I have dug deeper and found out that a barrier to commenting and posting that I was part of the basic structure of Skool was in fact a setting I made in the first 2 minutes of setting up the group. I have now removed that restriction. f you were longing to comment, you can now do so!

As I was thinking how to frame my question, I realized that one of my main roadblocks to doing more about climate change isn't practical, it's social. And social solutions are certainly not my forte. Anyway, here it is: How do I handle situations where my actions to lower MY carbon footprint impact my loved ones? Examples: I want to cut down car usage, but if my daughter walks to work (or even to a bus) she'll arrive sweaty in summer or cold and wet in winter, so I drive her more often than I'd like. I hate heating a swimming pool with natural gas, but my wife finds water exercises easier on her body. OK, and one about me: I want to switch to an electric car, but I love driving my 15 year-old stick-shift Mini Cooper. (And electric cars don't have stick-shift!) Maybe this isn't really a question. Just to say that Climate change action isn't easy. What do you think?

I'm a retired IT guy who still creates and uses his own Windows apps and maintains two websites. I've begun to dabble in AI. I like to do things myself as much as possible, and maintain a workshop mostly for the fun of making tools rather than actually making things. However, that also affords me the opportunity to fix things that others would just throw away, like re-gluing soles on my shoes, fixing a dropped laptop (although I finally gave up on that project after installing a new drive, keyboard and battery) and plastic welding broken plastic like a garbage bin. I try to improve rather than merely maintain my body and I'm rather proud that I can do some things my yoga instructors can't do. So while I feel I have a handle on not polluting the Earth by reusing, repurposing and recycling, I'm a bit lost when it comes to mitigating Climate change - after switching to LED lightbulbs, insulating the attic and reducing unnecessary travel: what's next? I'm going to look for help in the Questions section - see you there!