🌎 CAT Newsletter #113 2022-02-22
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Hey CATs, Did you miss us last week? We forgot to hit send for the newsletter (ð¤¦ââï¸). I guess the good news is that this week we have a bumper crop of news, interesting jobs, and more, (and 2’s in our newsletter email subject, it seems). We’ll resume regular programming again from now on. :speech_balloon: CHANNEL HIGHLIGHTS
green-teams (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CJNLR8J91) - Join for conversations about how to band together at your workplace to drive changes from within!
CAT Community News * CAT is growing up to form a legal entity!Learn more in the thread in the #lobby (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C01A0THTQRW/p1645202466953839) * Weâre looking for an organizer to join our organizing team. Find out more here (https://climate-tech.getoutline.com/doc/cat-organizer-job-description-RE83VhLVqh) .
CALL FOR SPEAKERS * @HeatherB (https://climate-tech.slack.com/team/URD27PJV8) and @Matthew Ferry (https://climate-tech.slack.com/team/U01AHPG1BA9) are looking for speakers for the next CAT Salon event series! See Heatherâs post in #2-lobby (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C01A0THTQRW) and reach out either in the thread of the post (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C01A0THTQRW/p1644597781194209) or in a DM.
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** ð¬ CAT Events
If you’re looking at organising event in your part of the world, you can ask for help in #events. (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CDH9TKPMM) There’s a CAT event support kit, sample deck and so on to help. :doughnut: CAT Roulette - 30mins - whenever you find a time We’re continuing our programme of letting members connect to 1 other CAT member every second week for a nice beverage and chat about climate and tech. It’s a nice way to get to know other CATs, and you can start and stop at any time. Joining the #cat-roulette (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C0202J3UYG7) channel to learn more. ð¬ CAT Submitted Events CAT LDN Meetup - London - Market Hall Victoria - March 2nd - 6pm (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CJPTDEMTQ/p1645295378895969) As winter and scary winds reside, meetups are starting again! Come along and gingerly (carefully) remember how to sociallise with fellow travellers again!
People, Planet, Pint: Sustainability Professionals Meetup - London - March 10th (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/people-planet-pint-sustainability-professionals-meetup-london-tickets-256331232617) Come and meet other business owners and professionals working in the Net Zero, BCorp and Environmental space! No agenda, workshops or webinars. Just chat over some nibbles and beers. Check #events in the CAT slack (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CDH9TKPMM) for more.
ð¤ Podcasts The latest climate-related podcast episodes. Don’t forget, if you’re looking around, there’s a list of podcasts maintained by CATs (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dCxRnSdgJYehTkPlMA9lNVfw7C9m-mTb2FtIxnbH6AI/edit#gid=0) .
Making the Invisible Visible in Noriâs Logo Redesignâw/ Amanda Yee, Nori’s Senior Product Designer (https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/Making-the-Invisible-Visible-in-Noris-Logo-Redesignw-Amanda-Yee–Noris-Senior-Product-Designer-e1ef3kr) The fact that CO2 is invisible makes it challenging to explain the idea of carbon removal to the general public. But one part of a designerâs job is to visually communicate abstract ideas in a way that audiences understand, and thatâs how Amanda Yee approached the task of redesigning the Nori brand logo.
240: CULTURE WARS (http://www.sustainababble.fish/?p=1463)
What is a culture war? Are greenies like us now fighting one? Are we⦠the baddies? All questions we must, regrettably, now grapple with, because a phalanx of Tory MPs â ably assisted by their outriders in the shite-wing media â are labelling ânet zeroâ advocates as woke-ist elites, determined to heap misery on the poor. 139. 2% For 1.5 with Yuval Noah Harari (https://outrageandoptimism.libsyn.com/139-2-for-15-with-yuval-noah-harari) It took 40-50% of GDP to win WWII, 15% to manage COVID in 2020, so what can 2% do? Historian, philosopher, bestselling author (and newly welcomed activist!), Yuval Noah Harari joins us to highlight how investing just 2% of global GDP into developing eco-friendly technologies and infrastructure every year could avert âthe apocalypseâ as he puts it. Atypical Ep 3: Energy Management with Lauren Scott (Acuity Brands) (https://sustainabilitydefined.com/energymanagement)
How are businesses and sustainability professionals managing their energy consumption? During this bonus episode, we dive into a recent report compiled by Atrius (part of Acuity Brands) that provides valuable insights into how sustainability professionals across industries are scrutinizing their energy consumption and incorporating tools to better manage their energy use. OUR GREATEST UNINTENDED EXPERIMENT (https://www.climateone.org/audio/our-greatest-unintended-experiment) Our understanding of atmospheric and climate sciences has evolved significantly over the last century and a half, thanks to the work of many different people. Writer and London-based climate campaigner Alice Bell traces that history in her new book, Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis.
ð° News Highlights Solving Climate change with a Loan (https://medium.com/otherlab-news/solving-climate-change-with-a-loan-d1aac4b8259a) The car loan was invented in the 1920s. The modern home loan was invented in the 1940s. The invention we need for the 2020s is the climate loan. Who pays for cleaner energy on the web? Ratepayers, taxpayers and shareholders (https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/who-pays-for-cleaner-energy-on-the-web/) In this post we provide some background about who tends to pay for a transition to greener, fossil-free energy, and who tends to be credited for it. We cover three sources of funding, and provide examples in the digital sector, to help illustrate how we can get to a fossil free internet by 2030. Can autonomous, seafloor-scanning robots speed up offshore wind development? (https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2022/02/14/can-autonomous-sea-floor-scanning-robots-speed-up-offshore-wind-development) Bedrock, an early-stage startup, wants to shrink the time it takes to map the ocean floorâa key step in rolling out wind turbines. Get Chrome OS Flex for PC or Mac - Chrome Enterprise (https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/) Install Chrome OS Flex now on your existing hardware and experience the benefits of Chrome OS on your organization’s current fleet of PCs or Macs. Google Cloud will now tell customers how to reduce their cloud emissions (https://www.techradar.com/news/google-cloud-will-now-tell-customers-how-to-reduce-their-cloud-emissions) New tools and recommendations make it easier for organizations to reduce their carbon footprint. (As long as you don’t count the hardware). Bitcoin miners revived a dying coal plant â then CO2 emissions soared (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-miners-revive-fossil-fuel-plant-co2-emissions-soared) Critics say the enormous electricity consumption needed to sustain cryptocurrency is fueling the climate crisis and now threatens a partial resurrection of coal in the US Atlassian co-CEO in bid to purchase energy company, close down its coal plants early, and replace them with renewables (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/20/mike-cannon-brookes-and-brookfield-in-bid-to-takeover-agl-and-shut-down-coal-plants-earlier) Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and the Canadian asset management giant Brookfield have launched an extraordinary joint bid to take over AGL Energy, Australiaâs most polluting company, with the goal to shut its coal power plants earlier than planned. The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud (https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/) Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. This covers more than just carbon emissions - it covers noise, water, waste electronics and so on. ð± A cutting from Branch ð± Branch is our own publication, about climate and tech, by CATs and for CATs. Join us in Branch issue 3 as we dive deep into solarpunk, a vision for a fossil-free internet, decolonizing the Green New Deal, tech workers unionizing and saying no to fossil fuels, green software practices, and combating climate disinformation and adtech. Decentralising Digital: Artefacts from Hopeful Futures (https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-3/decentralising-digital-artefacts-from-hopeful-futures/)
Tenets of digital rights affirm our undeniable ability to exploit data, devices, hardware, and software the way we see fit, on our own terms, in the spirit of innovation. What we need is a decolonial approach to innovation that starts with an assumption that we, in fact, have no digital rights. We are not entitled to do what we wish with whatever we are able to learn or know on the Internet. ð¬ CAT videos ð¬ CAT videos, geddit? 10-15 minute videos providing accessible explainers to topics related to climate. The Internet Is Running Out of Water (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo7V4PPHijs) It’s increasingly common to talk about datacentres and their energy usage, and how it contributes to climate change. While a growing number of companies are making progress on how they source cleaner power, the impact on local water supplies is another matter. ð¼ Jobs & Opportunities Also! Don’t forget the super handy “climate careers page” on outline (https://climate-tech.getoutline.com/doc/climate-careers-O56ZGk7fKt) listing a bunch of useful resources and sites to check. Remember only jobs listing salary ranges are listed here - to get your job listed, you need to list a salary range. Folks can still look in the #jobs channel. Full-Stack Software Developer - â¬50k â â¬60k (https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4007520101) Working closely with our Full Stack Developer Angela and Product Designer Mathias you will be part of a small team, building and maintaining web applications and data visualizations that enable non-technical users to leverage the complex models we build. As an example, you might build an interactive map component that visualizes vegetation at risk of wildfires in a way that allows our customers to make business decisions. You will work in an agile manner, learning from our customers, iterating quickly, and deciding when to build for a scalable future and when to hack it together.
Geospatial Data Engineer (http://https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4017245101) -â¬50k â 70k (http://https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4017245101) At Overstory we process gigabytes of geospatial data every day and we are looking for a Geospatial Data Engineer to help us with that. You will help us develop our geospatial products and services, and deliver solutions to our customers. Working closely with our data scientists, data engineers, and the product team, you will develop systems that download, process, store, and analyse geographical data. You will work with our current data sources and explore new ones; youâll build prototypes to try things out quickly, and robust data pipelines when itâs time to deploy to production.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - â¬60k â â¬85k (https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4013313101) We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer who is a creative, but pragmatic, problem-solver. Youâll spend most of your time working autonomously or within a small team, building and improving our models. This work will involve exploring satellite imagery sets, training and validating models, and rolling them out as a scalable service. The other part of the job is playing the role of coach, raising the bar for all of our machine learning work. You will have responsibility for your own projects, and weâll expect you to take initiative to help us improve overall. Whether the work is about forest damage detection, tree species identification or biodiversity monitoring, you are up for the challenge! Tech Lead (https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4017255101) (https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4017255101) - â¬60k â â¬85k (https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4013313101) As a Tech lead in Overstory you will be responsible for defining the technical direction and delivering the results of our vegetation analyses to our customers. Your focus will be to understand the needs of the customer and plan the technical work to deliver successfully and in the timeline proposed, flagging any challenges early on. To execute on your plan you will lead a small team of Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers, and Full-Stack Developers to implement the technical part of the project. You will be in sync with the Business team to make sure the tech team is delivering value to the customers, as well as communicating any struggles and challenges. You will work in an agile manner, learning from our customers, iterating quickly, and deciding when to build for a scalable future and when to hack it together. Engineering Manager (https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4019272101) - â¬70k â â¬100k (https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4019272101) Working to solve our climate crisis is the most important mission of our time, and the most exciting problem to be working on in tech. If you want to have a real impact, come join our talented, passionate team. Our company is based in Amsterdam but we work remotely, with people living all over Western Europe and in the U.S. Senior Data Engineer (http://https://www.transitionzero.org/careers/senior-data-engineer-consultant) - £75k-£80k (http://https://www.transitionzero.org/careers/senior-data-engineer-consultant) TransitionZero supports investors, governments, companies and civil society seeking to manage the risks and opportunities associated with the transition to a zero-carbon economy. TranstionZero combines data science with economic analysis and financial modelling to increase information flows that inform business and policy decisions. Data Analyst - Heavy Industry (http://https://www.transitionzero.org/careers/data-analyst-heavy-industry) - £35k-£38k (http://https://www.transitionzero.org/careers/data-analyst-heavy-industry) TransitionZero supports investors, governments, companies and civil society to manage the risks and opportunities associated with the transition to a zero-carbon economy. Finance Manager (https://www.transitionzero.org/careers/finance-manager) - £45k-£50k (http://https://www.transitionzero.org/careers/data-analyst-heavy-industry) TransitionZero is looking for a Finance Manager to take responsibility for the maintenance of all finance, accounting, and reporting activities, reporting directly to one of the co-CEOs of the organization. Marketing and Communications Manager - SecondMuse (https://apply.workable.com/secondmuse/j/9506DE7366/) - $85-100k annually + benefits. (https://apply.workable.com/secondmuse/j/9506DE7366/) SecondMuse champions and supports the growth of future economies by designing and leading programs that involve workshops, events, mentorship networks, curriculum, and other efforts to build and grow community ecosystems. At the core of our community-s… Head of Environmental Sustainability (http://https://jobs.jisc.ac.uk/Jisc/JobDescription/xZdXu6RMi34) - £45,000 (http://https://jobs.jisc.ac.uk/Jisc/JobDescription/xZdXu6RMi34) This is a new role, designed to ensure that we prioritise the delivery of our CSR strategy. Our CSR strategy is built around three strands of activity â business ethics, community and environment. A significant focus is on our environmental ambitions, including meeting the Net Zero targets we have in place for Scope 1 and 2 emissions, establishing a baseline for scope 3 emissions and driving the reduction of all our emissions. User needs researcher (electric vehicles) (http://https://icebreakerone.org/) - £350-400 per day (http://https://icebreakerone.org/) Help us identify the data requirements for the energy sector to support the role out of public EV chargepoints. Executive Assistant (http://https://icebreakerone.org/) - £26.25k / yr (http://https://icebreakerone.org/) Working to the Chief Executive and working closely with other members of the core IB1 team. Liaise and collaborate with other team members, supporters, associates and external contacts to help ensure the successful delivery of projects. Senior Staff Writer (http://https://carbonswitch.co/) - $70-90k per year (http://https://icebreakerone.org/) Carbon Switch uses a salary band compensation method that accounts for work experience. So if youâre just getting started in your career youâll end up on the lower end of the range above. If youâve been doing this stuff for a long time, youâll end up on the upper end. Ultimately the goal is an equitable pay structure that will scale as we do. Climate Technical Adviser (http://https://galleryclimatecoalition.org) - 450 - 500⬠per day (http://https://galleryclimatecoalition.org) Ongoing technical support for campaign organisation supporting art galleries, artists and others in art sector to reduce their carbon impact You made it to the end! ðPlease share & forward this newsletter to a friend Feedback (https://app.slack.com/client/T4HLEQA3F/CLRPE39NX/thread/C4J8RQ2J3-1568299902.131900) ⢠Subscribe (https://tech.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=08b8a799dd414ce9163cf3474&id=97c1d5f785) ⢠Join CAT (https://climateaction.tech/#join)
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