To Anyone Wondering… Where to Begin

Some things live just beyond the spectrum we are used to seeing.
Happening all around us, whether we are watching or not.

But every so often, we are offered a glimpse.
And once we see it, everything else shifts into view just a little differently.

That is what this series we are calling To Anyone Wondering hopes to offer.

It is a way of looking and listening for what is already blooming beneath the noise.
A collection of glimpses through a trusted lens we return to daily, a way of noticing what is working beautifully in the world of climate innovation and why it matters.

We are not here to add to your worry.
You already know the feeling.
And we also know that for many, worry is not a place they can linger.
There is too much at stake, and too many who do not have the luxury of giving up.

As Ophelia Dahl, co-founder of Partners In Health, once said:
“To not be optimistic is just about the most privileged thing you can be. If you can be pessimistic, you are basically deciding that there’s no hope for a whole group of people who can’t afford to think that way.”

Amber Matters is here because we each believe in the power of wonder.
The kind that comes from the edges of our awareness, where we begin to reshape what we believe is possible.
It moves, the way water finds its way through stone.
It inspires the way someone chooses care when they could choose convenience.
It blossoms, the way a solution grows quietly until it becomes the abundant path forward.

Our work is to help people notice.
Because when you notice, you wonder.
And when you wonder, you begin to care.

This is a shift.
From worry to wonder.
From waiting to shaping.
From asking what if, to moving as if it already is because when it comes to climate solutions, it often is.

So to anyone wondering along for glimpses of what wonders catch our eye and if please send any that catch yours our way too.