May 15, 2022

🌎 CAT Newsletter #124 2022-05-15

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Hey CATs,

Welcome to issue 124 of the climateAction.tech (CAT) Newsletter, your weekly summary of what’s happening inside the CAT community, and in the wider world of climate and tech.

CAT Community News * New to climateAction.tech? Have a quick skim of our community guidelines (https://climate-tech.getoutline.com/share/43230e9e-d9b7-4d38-8e72-7f5df46e5fc1) to get the most out of your experience here. * We’re looking for an organizer to join our organizing team. Find out more with our role description here (https://climate-tech.getoutline.com/share/34101a7e-775e-45ed-819e-f57de042e25e) . * Even if you’re a techie, civic engagement is a really important lever for climate Action and in many cases, it can be the most impactful one you have available. There’s now a channel for using tech to help with engagement on climate, moderated by a couple of volunteers at democracy nerd house MySociety. Go check it out in #civic-tech (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C03C0KZV933) , read and contribute to the #civic-tech outline page (https://climate-tech.getoutline.com/doc/civic-tech-MxzYTuoaIH) , and say hi!

CALL FOR SPEAKERS * We are looking for speakers for the next CAT Salon event series starting in June! See Heather’s 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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** 💬 CAT Events

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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.

☕️ CAT Coffee (western friendly)- 19th May - PT 10am | ET 1pm | GMT 6pm | CET 7pm | IST 10:30pm Join for a facilitated conversation, a special #greener-webdev (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CQW898TDZ) pop-up (where you can chat about software engineering, careers, struggles and delights).

Sign up via Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/cat-global/events/rstqssydchbzb/) | Join Via Wonder (https://www.wonder.me/r?id=cdde4ad0-4d3a-4a4d-851d-b58846a95767)

CAT Salon West Panel - Back to Basics in the Push for Systemic Change (https://www.meetup.com/cat-global/events/285843525/) - 19th May - PT 10am | ET 1pm | GMT 6pm | CET 7pm | IST 10:30pm Suitable for beginners and experts, this discussion aims to re-derive the need for societal and economic changes from the climate crisis’s first principles. With Diego Saez Gil, CEO of Pachama, and Paul Gambill, CEO of Nori.

💬 CAT Submitted Events Want an event listed here? Use this event listing form to submit the details so we can add it in the newsletter. (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCcJz0jkn8huv1yLkuAlyDviccOwVSejwDwcLDDVKmwYPcQQ/viewform) June 15th - Hybrid event with tech.x.climate speakers from Greener and Ecologi - (https://www.meetup.com/GreenTech-South-West/events/285057163/) 6pm BST Green Tech South West presents a hybrid event with insightful talks combining tech and sustainability with brilliants speakers Mehrnaz Tajmir from Greener and Elliot Coad from Ecologi. Join in person or online in Bristol, UK. June 6th - 17th - (https://summit.greensoftware.foundation/) The Green Software Foundation Summit (https://summit.greensoftware.foundation/) - global hybrid and remote (https://summit.greensoftware.foundation/) The Green Software Foundation Global Summit 2022 is a series of free events organized by Green Software Foundation members all around the globe that are passionate about sustainable software development, maintenance, and improvement.

Check #events in the CAT slack (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CDH9TKPMM) for more.

🎤 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)

The Reversing Climate Change Podcast S3E12: The bleeding edge of regenerative agriculture—w/ Jesse Smith of White Buffalo Land Trust (https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/S3E12-The-bleeding-edge-of-regenerative-agriculturew-Jesse-Smith-of-White-Buffalo-Land-Trust-e1i01h9) What is the gap between what farmers know now and what they need to know to farm more regeneratively? How do we close that gap?

Sustainababble #248: BEING DEAD (http://www.sustainababble.fish/?p=1507) You might think being dead is when you can finally stop worrying about your impact on the planet. You’d be wrong.

Outrage and Optimism #152. Putin, Producer Logic and Peak Demand with Kingsmill Bond (https://outrageandoptimism.libsyn.com/152-putin-producer-logic-and-peak-demand-with-kingsmill-bond) Does Putin’s invasion mark the end of the Fossil Fuel Era? In this week’s episode we look at how the Russian invasion in Ukraine and subsequent energy crises are impacting energy deals between developed and developing countries ahead of COP27.

TIL CLIMATE Season 4 Preview (https://climate.mit.edu/podcasts/season-4-preview) At MIT, we have a commitment to sharing what we know about climate change. That’s why, this summer, we’ll be back soon with a fourth season of TILclimate, bringing you new episodes that dive into even more climate topics, like the role the ocean plays in our climate, solutions for reducing transportation emissions, the future of hydrogen energy, and a whole lot more. All around 10-15 minutes, with real scientists and experts.

CLIMATE ONE: BIG MONEY: INVESTMENT MANAGERS DRIVING CORPORATE ACTION (https://www.climateone.org/audio/big-money-investment-managers-driving-corporate-action) “The financial risks posed by the climate crisis continued to be front and center of investors’ minds,” says Cynthia McHale, senior director at Ceres, where she leads the Climate Action 100+ initiative. She says the 700 investor signatories to that initiative continue to actively engage with companies in their portfolios, “leveraging their ownership stakes to ensure that the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change.”

📰 News Highlights

Brand Watch: U.N. panel seeks to ensure businesses ‘walk the talk’ on climate pledges (https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/brand-watch-un-panel-seeks-ensure-businesses-walk-talk-climate-pledges-2022-05-04/) The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was another frank warning of pending disaster. Headline writers had no shortage of material to choose from, amid dire predictions of a 3.2 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures by 2100, and a “now or never” warning from the report’s chairperson.

How much energy does cryptocurrency use (https://davidmytton.blog/how-much-energy-does-cryptocurrency-use/) David Mytton provides an accessible, yet thorough review of the literature in the ongoing debate around the environmental impact of cryptocurrencies.

Filipino inquiry finds big polluters ‘morally and legally liable’ for climate damage (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/filipino-inquiry-finds-big-polluters-morally-and-legally-liable-for-climate-damage) A seven year inquiry by the Philippines Commission on Human Rights has just concluded that fossil fuel companies are “morally and legally liable” for the impacts of the climate crisis because of their attempts to obstruct the global renewable transition. The report on effects of Typhoon Haiyan says fossil and cement firms engaged in ‘wilful obfuscation’ of science.

Boavista release an API for automated evaluation of environmental impacts of ICT services and equipment (https://boavizta.org/en/blog/boavizta-api-automated-evaluation-of-ict-impacts-on-the-environment) This release from French group Boavista is the first API to expose information for multiple criteria beyond carbon - like abiotic resource depletion (i.e. minerals and metals), and uses entirely open data.

Debunking Demand (IPCC Mitigation Report, Part 1) (https://www.drilledpodcast.com/debunking-demand-ipcc-mitigation-report-part-1/) What I’m reading in this (report) is eye-opening in a lot of ways. So to all my reply guys who are like “well don’t you already know what’s in the report, things are still bad,” I say actually what’s in this report are the seeds for revolution, so let’s take it all in shall we? - more from Amy Westervelts careful combing through the surprisingly radical ideas in the IPCC Mitigration report released in April.

🎬 CAT videos 🎬 CAT videos, geddit? 10-15 minute videos providing accessible explainers to topics related to climate.

Kurzgesagt: We (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw) WILL fix climate change (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw) Constructing buildings is awful for the environment, but with 60% of the world population set to live in cities by 2030, how can we make buildings…not suck?

💼 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. Supercritical -http://https://info.openapparel.org/work-with-us/data-architectEngineering Manager -£60,000 - £80,000 per annum + equity (https://gosupercritical.com/) Our platform makes it easy to measure, reduce, and offset your climate impact. We exclusively sell high-quality carbon removal because it’s the only legitimate route to net zero. The planet doesn’t have time for anything less.

Treecard -https://www.treecard.org/careers?ashby_jid=ea9bb244-0970-4f9e-9c4c-f11b1e247e3fProduct Analyst - 90,000-130,000 (https://www.treecard.org/careers?ashby_jid=ea9bb244-0970-4f9e-9c4c-f11b1e247e3f) Our team is looking for our first Product Analyst to support our product and operations teams with their data needs. We just raised a $24M Series A and are growing like crazy! Our first product is a wooden debit card that plans trees on users behalf.

The Recycling Partnership - IT Manager - $90k - $100,000 (https://recyclingpartnership.org/careers/it-manager/) The Recycling Partnership is looking for an IT Manager to deliver subject matter expertise around our IT infrastructure and cyber security requirements. The IT Manager will manage the day-to-day technology operations and security needs of the organization to ensure they are properly designed, maintained, supported and secure.

Ada Lovelace Institute- Visiting Senior Researcher (Climate and AI) - £43,000 – £47,000 (https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/visiting-senior-researcher-climate-ai/) We’re hiring a Visiting Senior Researcher (wide range of experiences welcome!) to lead a research project exploring the climate impacts of AI. Scope to really shape the project together, exploring how regulators, engineering and research teams can evaluate and assess the climate impact of AI systems. We’re a small (~22, but growing!), friendly, independent, non-profit research institute made up of lots of different skills and experience (from ex-software engineers like me, to policy, sociology, law, philosophy, anthropology, science and medicine).

Provenance- Product Manager -£40,000 - 55,000 (https://www.provenance.org/) Provenance is a UK based start-up focused on solving the problem of supply chain transparency. Their platform allows retailers to make evidence backed claims about the social and environmental impact of their products, helping shoppers make more conscious and better informed decisions.

The Green Web Foundation - Technical Writer - part time, 400-500 EUR per day, for a 10k total budget (https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/help-wanted-technical-writer/) We are looking for a freelance technical writer to join a small, but ambitious team on a part time basis, and help us improve the quality of the documentation for open source software projects we run, as well as document an emerging spec, carbon.txt, for disclosing the environmental impact of digital services and their organisations.

MySociety - Python Developer - fixed term contract (https://apply.workable.com/mysociety/j/9B7FC563C8/) - £38-41k (https://apply.workable.com/mysociety/j/9B7FC563C8/) mySociety, the civic technology charity behind well loved services such as WhatDoTheyKnow, TheyWorkForYou and WriteToThem, is looking for a data-focused developer with Python experience to join us as part of a nimble, digital-first, UK team. You’ll be working across our Climate and Transparency programmes and your focus will be maintaining and further developing our open source services and datasets and measuring their impact - we reach millions of people each month.

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