Editor’s note: Back by popular demand, smart cities consultant Sue Lebeck provides GreenBiz highlights from the past year in verse. You’ll find her haiku from 2019 here.
Rise before the Surprise 
 Leaders gather for
 the first and last time in year
 of shelter-in-place.
Learning on the Job
 Could ways to flatten
 coronavirus’ curve help
 bend climate’s curve too?
From Farms to Front Lines
 Essential workers
 carry the day, unclear that
 anybody CARES.
BLM joins COVID-19
 In this raw moment,
 we are dually confronted.
 Here’s how to respond.
Climate and Justice make a Great Pair 
 Not mere Facebook friends,
 these two spawn recovery,
 lift communities.
Corporates Gain via E, S and G
 Weave people, purpose
 and commitment to climate —
 then watch value rise.
At Circularity, Plastics gets Serious
 Pacts and moonshots are
 aiming to contain plastics’
 value forever.
Proof, Imagination and a Kick
 Great transit — public,
 active and electric — drives
 all toward equity.
Food Focus Feeds a Flurry
 Regeneration-
 revealed opportunity
 cost: meat’s great land grab!
Electrifying
 Path of “least regret”
 as wildfire climate destroys
 forests and sparks fears.
The Forests AND the Trees
 Climate’s urgent need
 is restored forests! Also
 those one trillion trees.
Carbontech is on the VERGE
 Carbontech hits the
 market; removal joins the
 carbon agenda.
New Year’s Resolutions
 Watch GreenFin grow, help
 Big Oil shrink and build racial
 justice for all. Cheers!
