Climatebase Fellowship - Week 1
Learnings
Climate
- Climate change discovered all the way back in the 1850s, by an american woman - Eunice Foote
- Emission cuts should make up about 96% of the distance to net 0, and the bulk of the cuts are needed in the next decade
- Carbon removal isn't making a difference yet - all removal that has been done to date is equivalent to around 30 seconds worth of worldwide emissions
- The best climate solutions are:
- Evidence based
- Cheap
- Ready to go
- Targeted (geographically)
- Granular (IE. not huge projects that need too much funding and red tape)
- Nature doesn't have a design problem, people do
- In general people are aware that climate change exists and is a problem, but the messaging can be scary.
- Net 0 is about measuring how poorly we're doing, why not switch it to measure the good we are doing?
- When building products, don't just think of the now, think about what happens after
- Time to stop taking from the earth and instead reusing what we've already taken
Work & Projects
- Energy, transport, food and agriculture make up over 75% of current climate jobs
- Work should not be an obligation, you should be able to find a sense of purpose and fulfillment in it
- All the fellows are new here, don't worry about being inexperienced
- Just ask if you want help. The worst they can say is no.
- When coming up with project ideas:
- Notice problems in your day-to-day
- Become an expert on your passions / something valuable
- Pay attention to changes in the world around you (covid, AI etc.)
- Talk to people and organizations about their problems
- Launch fast, get evidence to see if it will work
- Competitions isn't necessarily bad, but if there is none why so?
- Never do the "same as x but cheaper". Do things different, not cheaper
- Most ideas don't work out, but it's a learning process
People
Fellows
- Corey Pudhorodsky
- Karina van Schaardenburg
- Isaiah Garcia
- Noopur Sharma
- Candelaria Primero NarvΓ‘ez
- Jared Naveed Malakouti
Speakers
- Evan Hynes - CEO & Co-Founder @ Climatebase
- Dr. Jonathan Foley - Executive Director @ Project Drawdown
- William McDonough - Chief Executive @ McDonough Innovation
- Anne Downing - Sr. Recruiter & Talent Acquisition Consultant
- Dr. David Pervan - Senior Lecturer @ Climatebase
- Carol Viana - Certification Partner Support Associate @ Rainforest Alliance
- Anushka Makhija - Senior Product Manager @ Form Energy
- Nicola Phillips - Growth Marketing Manager @ Latitude Media
- Jen Johnson - Director of Marketing & Communications @ Skoll Foundation
- Lauryn Morris - Founder @ Nice
- Nicole Yershov - Cofounder @ Dropseed
Links
- https://www.techtarget.com/sustainability/definition/green-collar-job
- https://www.techcarbonstandard.org
- https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1235694992/a-new-satellite-will-track-climate-warming-pollution-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal
- https://www.climateu.earth
- https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions
- https://80000hours.org
- https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-climate-jobs
- https://high5test.com
- https://www.nice.car/
- https://www.dropseedmarket.com/
- https://online.fliphtml5.com/xpweq/xugb/
- https://www.futurecrunch.com
- https://www.desmog.com
- https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/issues/climate-change-and-environment/
- https://esal.us
- https://drawdown.org/solutions
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote
- https://www.forestspeopleclimate.org/
- https://cleancreatives.org/
- https://www.techtarget.com/sustainability/definition/green-collar-job
Eventually got around to finishing GTA V in 2024. Still a great game.
I'm fully on board the web component train now π
My little personal UI library is coming along quite nicely using Lit, now to see I get on exporting them for use in other projects...
Could 2024 be the year I get back to posting to my own website? I've got a bad track record, but maybe this is the year...
Reposted https://twitter.com/momodraws/status/1570028351112318978
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— Momo (@momodraws) September 14, 2022
Go have a look at https://t.co/kYmCdOBVxl ππ₯° pic.twitter.com/Mc5JpJExZv
So there I am walking along an empty street, not really paying much attention to where I'm going, and I kid you not I step directly on a banana peel, slip and fall on my arse. I thought it was a myth or a nonsense joke. But now I know it's a real life danger.
After 5+ years of messing around with it, I think I'm finally approaching an actual launch for https://todomap.xyz Please feel free to try it out and let me know what you think π