🌎 CAT Newsletter #22 - 2020-05-26 🌏
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ð¤ Podcasts The latest climate-related podcast episodes.
Reforesting the planet /w Elliot Coad from Offset Earth (https://theclimatefix.com/episodes/reforesting-the-planet-w-elliot-coed-from-offset-earth) ð May 21, 2020 Offset Earth gives you a simple way to fund the world’s best climate crisis solutions and reforest the planet and they do this at a much-reduced cost than by using technology. TheClimateFix.com (https://theclimatefix.com/)
13: How Koen van Seijen invests in regenerative agriculture (https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/s2e13-how-koen-van-seijen-invests-in-regenerative-agriculture)
ð May 19, 2020 Koen van Seijen is the host of the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, where he talks to pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space about putting money to work to regenerate the soil. Today, Koen joins Ross and Christophe to discuss the many different flavors of financing for regenerative agriculture and explain the distinction between investing in regenerative agriculture and what is sometimes called “regenerative financing” which innovates in terms of deal structure and beyond. The Reversing Climate Change Podcast with NORI (https://nori.com/reversing-climate-change)
173: PANGOLINS (http://www.sustainababble.fish/?p=1046)
ð May 17, 2020 What the world needs in these troubled times is someone to blame. A scapegoat or, in this instance, a scapepangolin. Sustainababble (http://www.sustainababble.fish/)
- The Power of Nature with Tom Crowther (https://outrageandoptimism.libsyn.com/53-the-power-of-nature-with-tom-crowther) ð May 22, 2020 It’s International Biodiversity Day and we’re celebrating in style! We talk with Prof. Dr. Tom Crowther of Crowther Lab, ETH Zürich, who captured the imagination of the world with the idea that our world could support another trillion trees, and how that could restore a new world through carbon drawdown, create a better world with more biodiversity, provide the roadmap to a regenerated world which right now we can only dream of. His research has galvanized many to begin restoration efforts, including the least likely of suspects, Donald J. Trump. What do you do when a climate denier supports your work on climate change? Tom Crowther answers in this episode. Outrage! + Optimism (https://outrageandoptimism.libsyn.com/)
COVID-19 AND CLIMATE: THE FUTURE OF ENERGY (https://climateone.org/audio/covid-19-and-climate-future-energy) ð May 22, 2020 If you lived through the oil crisis of the 1970âs, you remember lines of cars at the gas stations, waiting to fill up on âalternate days.â Now, after decades of relying on imported oil, the U.S. achieved the unthinkable and became the worldâs largest producer. Production has doubled over the past decade, and in February reached its highest level ever - thirteen million barrels a day. Climate One (https://climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts)
ð° News Highlights
Stripeâs first negative emissions purchases (https://stripe.com/blog/first-negative-emissions-purchases) Announcing our first four recipients, and expanding our commitment to support the negative emissions ecosystem.
Google Backs Off on AI for Oil and Gas Extraction (https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/05/19/business/bc-us-google-oil-extraction.html) Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon.
A Young Farmer Confronts Climate Changeâand a Pandemic (https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13052020/agriculture-small-farming-coronavirus-california) Scott Chang-Fleeman became a farmer to take on the challenge of global warming. Now heâs doing it while battling the economic devastation of the coronavirus.
Companies Worth $2 Trillion Are Calling for a Green Recovery (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-18/companies-worth-2-trillion-are-calling-for-a-green-recovery) The choices governments make on how to spend their rescue packages will affect the environment for decades to come
ð¼ Jobs & Opportunities
Front End Engineer (https://www.techjobsforgood.com/jobs/2732/) ISeeChange is a unique global social media platform dedicated to connecting communities to their changing environment. ISeeChange combines this real-time data with sensor networks to illustrate community-scale climate trends. Cities, engineers, insurers, and researchers use this data to inform planning, public safety, and infrastructure designâenabling them to build solutions that work best for communities by putting their voices and vision front and center. ISeeChange has been recognized by MIT Solve, Echoing Green,Grist 50 Fixers, and the UNâs Global Innovation Coalition for Change. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1589900787209500) to this conversation on Slack
Technical Co-Founder (https://angel.co/company/cascadia-carbon/jobs/743487-codex-app-technical-co-founder-position) We are looking for a Co-Founder at Cascadia Carbon Inc. You will be in charge of CODEX App’s technical development. iOS and Cross-platform Mobile app architecture and development experience are essential. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1590296584221700) to this conversation on Slack
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