🌎 CAT Newsletter #12 - 2020-03-17 🌏
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Hi CATs!
Many of you may be working from home right now and I think today I just want to remind us to think about privilege in the light of COVID-19.
A lot of us can work from home and donât have to go on unpaid or paid leave, a lot of us have enough financial resources to withstand this time of panic shopping, a lot of us have digital tools that bring us closer together when weâre forced to keep at a distance.
Letâs all breathe in and out for a sec and letâs stay aware about our own privileges both in this crisis and in the climate crisis. We need solidarity and we need to be intersectional when we think about both. ððð Stay healthy and keep creating positive change everyone! ð±ðð
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Download (https://www.beamproject.co/beamapp) and sign up for Beam Project’s round-up extension. Beam Project is a non-profit that crowdsources grants for cleantech startups fighting climate change, and this extension lets you round-up and donate your purchases on Amazon to help fund their next grant.
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Create (https://github.com/philsturgeon/awesome-earth/issues/107) a pull-request to recategorise Food (https://github.com/philsturgeon/awesome-earth/issues/130) and Finance (https://github.com/philsturgeon/awesome-earth/issues/107) tags to categories on protect.earth
ð¼ Jobs & Opportunities
Campaign DigiDem (Political Technology Specialist) (https://apply.workable.com/digidems-electoral/j/0EF2F146EE/) The Campaign DigiDem will act as an on-site technology liaison and administrator for a political campaign or state party program. You will be assigned to one campaign or state party for the duration of the 2020 election cycle where you will serve as a campaign staff member. You will assist on all aspects of your campaign, but your primary focus will be to provide expertise and guidance on technology implementation and execution. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1583933773100700) to this conversation on Slack
Full-stack Software Engineer (https://projectwren.com/careers/software-engineer) We’re hiring our first employee! We’re looking for an experienced full stack engineer to help us in our mission to end the climate crisis. This position can be in-person in our San Francisco office, or remote. Remote applicants must be in a timezone with at least a 2 hour overlap with normal San Francisco hours (9 AM - 5 PM). ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1583947453104100) to this conversation on Slack
PHP Developer Greenpeace International (https://at.linkedin.com/jobs/view/php-developer-greenpeace-international-deadline-3rd-april-2020-at-greenpeace-1755266855) Greenpeace International Global IT unit is seeking a talented PHP Developer to join its growing web development team. The Global IT unit provides Global IT services to national and regional offices across Europe, the Americas, Asia & the Pacific and Africa. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1584018616106200) to this conversation on Slack
ð° News Highlights
British Airways cuts European flights by 18% (https://www.headforpoints.com/2020/03/09/british-airways-cuts-european-flights-by-18/) British Airways has filed a substantial number of short-haul cancellations. This will see the European flying programme cut by 18%. Because of the requirement to pay EC261 compensation if flights are cancelled less than 14 days in advance, the bulk of these cancellations are for late March. There are also cancellations for dates before 22nd March but these are not as extreme as the numbers shown below.
Analysis: UKâs CO2 emissions fell for record sixth consecutive year in 2018 (https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks-co2-emissions-fell-for-record-sixth-consecutive-year-in-2018) Carbon Brief analysis shows the UKâs CO2 emissions fell for the sixth consecutive year in 2018, the longest series of continuous reductions on record.
Amazon Nixed âGreenâ Shipping Proposal to Avoid Alienating Shoppers (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-05/amazon-nixed-green-shipping-proposal-to-avoid-alienating-shoppers) The companyâs climate pledge is colliding with its core mission of giving customers what they want, when they want it.
Decrease in Economic Activity Due to COVID-19 Reduced Air Pollution and Saved Lives (https://kottke.org/20/03/covid-19-reduced-air-pollution) Stanford professor Marshall Burke, who does research on the social and economic impacts of environmental change, wrote a post about how the decrease in economic activity in China due to COVID-19 quarantine and other countermeasures resulted in a significant drop in air pollution, which Burke estimates will save more lives than deaths caused by COVID-19.
Budget 2020: ‘Boiler tax’ to curb carbon emissions will make gas bills more expensive (https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/budget/budget-2020-boiler-tax-carbon-emission-environment-gas-heating-bills-2447525) A new âboiler taxâ will make gas heating more expensive in an effort to curb carbon emissions. The Chancellor Rishi Sunak said that from April 2022, he would be freezing the levy on electricity and raising it on gas as part of a plan to make the UK carbon neutral, or net zero, by 2050.
Food waste reduction app Kitche receives investment (https://www.uktech.news/news/press-release%3A-qventures-leads-round-in-kitche-the-home-food-waste-reduction-and-cost-saving-app-20200310) QVentures has announced their latest investment into start-up Kitche, a free app to reduce food waste and save money. Kitche joins a list of several exciting UK-based start-ups, such as Rosecut Technologies, Ocyan, and Smartia, who have already received investment from QVentures.
6 Experts On Why We Panic About The Coronavirus But Not About The Climate Crisis (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-climate-change-action-panic_n_5e6a27b4c5b6747ef117ff0d) Both are urgent global crises, both are taking lives â but our reactions are very different. Climate experts explain why.
Coronavirus: airlines face meltdown as global travel bans multiply (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/coronavirus-airlines-face-meltdown-as-global-travel-bans-multiply) American Airlines to scrap most long-haul flights while Australia orders all arrivals to self-isolate and Spain goes into lockdown
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