🌎 CAT Newsletter #38 - 2020-09-15 🌏
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Hey CATs!
With these Monday messages becoming quite long every week, Iâm rethinking what content makes sense in this format and Iâd love to get your feedback on them. Please share your thoughts in this 4 question feedback form (https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSdyXJ3oaI5DhUA7yGf9wmxK5-zZAueWCfhtU_9iciiiR9BqIw%2Fviewform) .
Greenconf (http://greenconf.io/) is happening on the 30th of September - an online conference dedicated to the field of Sustainable Software Engineering (http://principles.green/) with talks in English and French, tickets free.
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ð¬ CAT Events
CAT Salon East: Can agile ways of working help us save the wold? (https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGVoMW1xa21qNWxtaHU4N2Jyb2FmcTJsNGhfMjAyMDA5MTVUMDgwMDAwWiBjbGltYXRlYWN0aW9uLnRlY2hfcmp1N2ZsNjNnYjc4N2lrazd2YjR1ZjFjaTRAZw&tmsrc=climateaction.tech_rju7fl63gb787ikk7vb4uf1ci4%40group.calendar.google.com&scp=ALL) (1h) ð Tue, Sep 15th ð³ð¿ NZST (Aotearoa) 8-9pm ⢠ð¦ðºAEST (Sydney) 6-7pm ⢠ð®ð³ IST 1:30-2:30pm ⢠ðªðºð¿ð¦CEST/SAST 10-11am ⢠ð¬ð§ BST 9-10am Join live on Jitsi (https://meet.jit.si/CATSalonEastern) and join #d-cat-salon (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C0144BR1CSX) for more
Check out more events on our events calendar (https://bit.ly/CATcal) .
Want to start a CAT meet-up yourself? Maybe about a specific topic? Or connecting with people locally? A networking session? A live interview series? Let us know in #d-cat-volunteering (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C017V9MDW6Q)
ð¤ Podcasts The latest climate-related podcast episodes.
Agri-tech can turn Africa into the world’s food basket (https://www.terra.do/post/agri-tech-can-turn-africa-into-the-worlds-food-basket) Terra.do
Jonathan Safran Foer on meat, & his book We Are the Weather (https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/S2E29-Jonathan-Safran-Foer-on-meat—his-book-We-Are-the-Weather-ej9883) The Reversing Climate Change Podcast with NORI
NEOLIBERALISM, WITH CHRISTINE BERRY (http://www.sustainababble.fish/?p=1137) Sustainababble
Climate Action is a Team Sport with Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi (https://outrageandoptimism.libsyn.com/69-climate-action-is-a-team-sport-with-ubers-dara-khosrowshahi) Outrage! + Optimism
The New Age Of Sustainable Air Travel (https://2ser.com/thinksustainability/) Think: Sustainability
LIVING WITH FIRE (https://climateone.org/audio/living-fire) Climate One
ð° News Highlights
Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn (https://www.sciencealert.com/ice-sheet-melting-is-perfectly-in-line-with-our-worst-case-scenario-scientists-warn) The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN’s worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers said Monday, highlighting flaws in current climate change models.
Big Oilâs hopes are pinned on plastics. It wonât end well. (https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21419505/oil-gas-price-plastics-peak-climate-change) The industryâs only real source of growth probably wonât grow much.
Interactive: The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond (https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/impacts-climate-change-one-point-five-degrees-two-degrees/?ct=t(Carbon_Brief_Weekly_19_10_2018)&goal=0_b6e0a2d2ef-6cec2741ea-303550585) Carbon Brief has extracted data from around 70 peer-reviewed climate studies to show how global warming is projected to affect the world and its regions.
Sunsetting North - Tomorrow Blog (https://www.tmrow.com/blog/sunsetting-north/) Almost 5 years ago, I left my job to focus on finding scalable solutions for climate change. Without knowing what exactly I would build, I read through all the literature available to understand the situation and assess what could be done. Aside from electricityMap, one of the key ideas I had at that time came inspired from my experience working on algorithms that infer your transportation history from phone sensors without leaking your privacy. What if we could generalise such an approach to automatically infer your personal carbon footprint, using the myriad of data and sensors already available? People want to act on climate change, but lack the tools to understand their impact. As they donât want to spend time manually entering data, could this be a solution?
Shorter lifespan of faster-growing trees will add to climate crisis, study finds (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/08/shorter-lifespan-of-faster-growing-trees-will-add-to-climate-crisis-study-finds) Rise in carbon capture as global warming speeds growth of forests would be negated by earlier deaths, say scientists
Petrol and diesel cars could cost up to £1,500 more under proposals (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/09/petrol-and-diesel-cars-could-cost-up-to-1500-more-under-proposals) Report suggests buyers of polluting vehicles should subsidise electric cars
Ex-Wall Street âquantâ wields data to replant charred Madagascar rainforests (https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/ex-wall-street-quant-wields-data-to-replant-charred-madagascar-rainforests/) In his previous life, Matt Hill worked on Wall Street as a quantitative analyst (a.k.a. a âquantâ) for stock portfolios worth billions of dollars. Now, at the helm of a forest conservation nonprofit in Madagascar, he finds himself applying the same data-driven approach he used in his former career to restore the islandâs imperiled forests.
The path to net zero (https://www.climateassembly.uk/report/read/executive-summary.html#executive-summary) We come from all walks of life and all across the UK. We have, between us, many different values, views and experiences. But we have worked together in an atmosphere of respect, co-operation, tolerance and humour to arrive at the considered recommendations in this report.
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled (https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled) An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.
ð¼ Jobs & Opportunities
Mid-level Developer (Javascript/Python) (https://isgood.ai/get-involved/) isgood.ai is the technology platform enabling a future where people, planet and prosperity can thrive in balance. We empower those who want to do good to maximise their outcomes, impact and efforts by leveraging emerging technology and big data. ð¬ Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1599455356078600) to this conversation on Slack
Backend Engineer at Good Club (Elixir) (https://www.goodclub.co.uk/) Backend developer keen to build a totally sustainable supermarket: sustainable production, accessible for all, reusable delivery boxes and product containers, new dynamic supply integrations. ð¬ Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1599762788094900) to this conversation on Slack
Senior Full-Stack Engineer (https://techjobsforgood.com/jobs/3920/) Hi! We’re Forerunner. We believe that adaptation is a necessity, not a luxury, and communities deserve access to powerful software that helps them plan for the future. ð¬ Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1599849375097800) to this conversation on Slack 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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