I get paid to live where I like and do what I love. And yet I’ve made some poor decisions that have set me back, slowed me down, or limited my options. Here are four.

When you work at a climate NGO, you get asked the same question by your ‘non-climate’ friends and family: “So, what can I do to fight climate change?”

Today, let’s just forget the big global financial institutions and their armies of lawyers, accountants, and consultants. Let’s just daydream about how much money is twiddling its thumbs on the sidelines.

Though we’re still far away from transforming global energy systems, three recent game-changing developments should give us hope. These are examples where the “rules” governing a system just went out the window and our assumptions must be re-evaluated.

This is a love letter to those men, whose courage I will never have. The men to whom we owe our comfort. The Knights of late-stage capitalism, who bring us food we are too lazy even to go pick up, let alone cook.

Because we have such little grassy sprawl, so few tree-lined heaths, we are forced to share our little parks with our fellow New Yorkers. And in that necessary communion, we find a little leafy magic amid all the glass and steel.

He was larger than life, at the heart of the action, bringing people together, bursting with expression, full of stories, singing for us all – just like the biryani he served us so merrily.