🌎 CAT Newsletter #41 - 2020-10-06 🌏
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Hey CATs!
We have our 10th CAT Salon West (#d-cat-salon (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C0144BR1CSX) ) tomorrow! :tada: This time weâll use the time to share actions weâve taken or are planning to take. You can sign up here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezd7_b5_yKfBIo7TqrTl0y44ay6JeoYx2jv_M7JowUJInPrg/viewform) !
If youâve missed a Salon â we have a bunch of recordings of our lead discussants presentations on our YouTube channel :point_right: https://bit.ly/CATtube.
ð TEDx Event: Everyday Choices (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/everyday-choices-31287565525) On Sunday, October 11 at 11 am and 4 pm BST, Climate Reality Leader @marketa_ben (https://www.instagram.com/marketa_ben/) , and an amazing group of climate activists and professionals from different industries will explain how our individual actions can make a big difference on a global scale. Tickets free and are available here (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/everyday-choices-31287565525) .
It’s part of a larger event 24 Hours of Reality: Countdown to the Future (https://countdown.ted.com/) , a partnership between @climatereality (https://www.instagram.com/climatereality/) and @tedcountdown (https://www.instagram.com/tedcountdown/) which kicks off at 4 pm BST on October 10.
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ð¬ CAT Events
CAT Salon West: Climate Action Show-and-Tell (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezd7_b5_yKfBIo7TqrTl0y44ay6JeoYx2jv_M7JowUJInPrg/viewform) Tuesday, October 6th ðºð¸ð¨ð¦PDT 10-11am ⢠ðºð¸ð¨ð¦EST 1-2pm ⢠ð¬ð§BST 6-7pm ⢠ðªðºð¿ð¦CEST/SAST 7-8pm ⢠ð®ð³IST 10:30-11:30pm
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.
ð #32: S2E32: Chasing a Job with Purpose (in carbon removal)âw/ Heidi Lim, Chief of Staff at Opus 12 (https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/S2E32-Chasing-a-Job-with-Purpose-in-carbon-removalw-Heidi-Lim–Chief-of-Staff-at-Opus-12-eka7fe) The Reversing Climate Change Podcast with NORI (https://nori.com/reversing-climate-change)
ð #186: TALKING CLIMATE (http://www.sustainababble.fish/?p=1128) Sustainababble (http://www.sustainababble.fish/)
ð 72. No Room for Being Cynical with Ted Danson (https://outrageandoptimism.libsyn.com/72-no-room-for-being-cynical-with-ted-danson) Outrage! + Optimism (https://outrageandoptimism.libsyn.com/)
ð Racism and the Modern Environmental Movement with Faith Briggs (Global Works Community Fund) (https://sustainabilitydefined.com/racism-and-the-modern-environmental-movement) Sustainability Defined (https://sustainabilitydefined.com/)
ð TECH TO THE RESCUE? (https://climateone.org/audio/tech-rescue) Climate One (https://climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts)
ð The world should aim to reach net-zero emissions by 2040 (https://www.terra.do/post/the-world-should-aim-to-reach-net-zero-emissions-by-2040) Terra.do (https://www.terra.do/blog)
ð° News Highlights
Boris Johnson commits to ‘restoring to nature’ 30 per cent of Britain by 2030 (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/27/boris-johnson-commits-restoring-nature-30-per-cent-britain-2030/) The Prime Minister warned of a 68 per cent decline in global wildlife populations since 1970 alone
Three-year initiative at Brown will study, seek to eliminate roadblocks to climate action (https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-09-29/climate) The Climate Solutions Initiative will focus on overcoming barriers to confronting climate change, through scholarship, learning and research-informed infrastructure changes on campus, in Providence and beyond.
Video games industry levels up in fight against climate change (https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/video-games-industry-levels-fight-against-climate-change) Some of the biggest names in the video games industry, with a combined audience of 970 million players, have today formally committed to harness the power of their platforms to take action in response to the climate crisis. Combined, these commitments from 21 companies will result in a 30 million tonne reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030, will see millions of trees planted, new âgreen nudgesâ in game design and improvements to energy management, packaging, and device recycling.
ð¼ Jobs & Opportunities
Geospatial Data Engineer (https://angel.co/company/overstoryai/jobs/753187-geospatial-data-engineer) As a Geospatial Data Engineer you will maintain and continue develop our entire data pipeline, help your devops engineers colleagues to run a cloud based high performance architecture, and make the work of your data-scientist colleagues easier to create new AI models for detecting and help preventing deforestation, forest fires, various land changes, etc. ð¬ Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1601315163021100) to this conversation on Slack
Software Engineer - FT (https://www.techjobsforgood.com/jobs/4036/) The Center for Biological Diversity is hiring a full-time Software Engineer in their Information Technology Program - which provides a wide range of technical operational support for communications and development staff, attorneys, digital campaigners, scientists, activists, organizers and program directors. ð¬https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1600763395011500Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1601394717023600) to this conversation on Slack
Lead Front End Engineer - FT (https://techjobsforgood.com/jobs/4002/) As a Lead Front End Engineer at Trove, youâll play a critical role in leading the front-end development of e-commerce websites of world renowned brands. You will be spearheading new development for several new clients, while contributing to feature enhancements for the existing ones. Youâll thrive in this role, if you are open to fast pace development and willing to learn and work with cutting edge technologies. ð¬ Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1601396692024900) to this conversation on Slack
Product Designer (Digital) (https://www.tmrow.com/jobs/product-designer) We are looking for the first designer on our team. Our job is to make it simple to take climate action, so clear, engaging design is critical for our success. Youâll be working with the rest of the team to make Bloom the go-to-solution for organisations that want to take climate action, making it a super smooth and good-looking experience from end-to-end. Secondarily, youâll be responsible for creating brand and marketing assets. ð¬https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1600763576013800Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1601403595030900) to this conversation on Slack
Full stack developer FT (https://www.opensystemslab.io/Full-stack-developer) Open Systems Lab is a small, non-profit R&D lab working to prototype, build, and deploy technology that can genuinely transform society and the economy for the better. ð¬https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1600774048014400Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1601403943035000) to this conversation on Slack
Data Engineer (https://www.climatetrace.org/open-position-data-engineer/) We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our project for the estimation of global industrial CO 2 emissions, in order to transform our models and research into a scalable application with real- world impact. ð¬https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1600810081018100Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1601543847038700) to this conversation on Slack
Data Scientist (https://www.climatetrace.org/open-position-data-scientist/) We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our project for the estimation of CO2 emissions from global power generation, researching and building models that combine multiple data sources to understand power plant behaviour. ð¬https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1600810081018100Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1601543847038700) to this conversation on Slack
Senior Software Engineers and a UX designer (https://nori.com/careers) Nori is a company on a mission to reverse climate change by removing enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to lower the overall concentration of CO2 below 300 parts per million. ð¬https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1600810081018100Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1601573300039900) to this conversation on Slack
B2C marketer (https://getoptiwatt.com/) We offer a free app that automatically schedules electric vehicles to charge during off-peak rates in order to save money and reduce grid load. Our goal is to reduce our reliance on dirty coal plants that get fired up during high demand by helping users track their consumption and automatically charge during off-peak hours. ð¬https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1600810081018100Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1601582769042500) to this conversation on Slack
Computer Vision Engineers (https://omdena.com/projects/ai-malnutrition/) In this AI Challenge 50 technology changemakers build a machine learning solution for identifying malnutrition of children. ð¬https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1600810081018100Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1601604115043700) 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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