🌎 CAT Newsletter #63- 2021-03-09 🌏
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Hey CATs,
This week, I want to bring your attention to Hack The Climate (https://hacktheclimate.devpost.com) , a hackathon starting March 22nd and lasting till March 26th. What’s exciting is that nonprofits set the challenges. You’ll be working on real problems with a clear and immediate benefit to the world. For example, MapBiomas (https://mapbiomas.org/en?cama_set_language=en) track deforestation alerts for the Amazon rainforest. Of the 150,000 alerts that got reported last year, the government only investigated 1000. They are looking for solutions that help the public apply pressure on companies and the government to act. Another example is Climate Policy Radar (https://climatepolicyradar.org/) , laws and policies that will make or break our ability to overcome climate change; their challenge is about querying full-text documents in the global climate legislation database.
If you are interested in participating, I invite you to register on the Hack The Climate (https://hacktheclimate.devpost.com) website. If you don’t have the time to participate, they would love any help you can provide in promoting the event to other tech communities or internally in your organisations ð.
:bulb: CAT KNOWLEDGE BASE If you see any interesting conversations or resources in any of our channels, please add them to our easily searchable community brain Outline (https://climate-tech.getoutline.com/doc/what-is-outline-j4COjYKVwu) . You can log in with your CAT Slack details. Reach out to me if you have any questions or would like to get involved as a volunteer for this.
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** ð¬ CAT Events
CAT Salon West (#d-cat-salon (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C0144BR1CSX) ): Greening AI and ML! (https://www.meetup.com/cat-global/events/276777999/) ð Tues 16th March - PDT 11am ⢠EST 2pm ⢠GMT 6pm ⢠CEST/SAST 7pm ⢠IST 10:30pm Training a single NLP model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetime. Is there such a thing as green Machine Learning? With accuracy hungry algorithms ML software is consuming more and more computational resources, largely benefiting from the increasingly better hardware. Are the results worth the environmental cost? This conversation will ground some of the latest research in the area, showing options to estimate the carbon footprint and discuss ideas on how to make Machine Learning more green. Join Here (https://zoom.us/j/97396332558?pwd=RUVMOWd4TlFjUW1HRExlMkRIa0kzZz09) - Register on Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/cat-global/events/276777999/)
CAT Welcome Call ⢠45min Our regular welcome call, aimed at new CATs joining for the first time, but also open to existing CATs up for helping cultivate a supportive and friendly community. You’ll learn about the community, how you can get involved and then set aside time for community discussion, projects to join, and like-minded souls to hang out with online. ð For western friendly times sign up here (http://bit.ly/CATWelcomeWestern) ð For eastern friendly times sign up here (http://bit.ly/CATWelcomeEastern)
CAT Volunteering chat ⢠15min If you want to know about CAT volunteering, join us right after the welcome call with the same Zoom link.
ð¬ CAT Supported Events
Bristolâs City Leap: A new hope for city-scale decarbonisation ð Tues 16th March, 12.30pm - 1.30pm (GMT) Green Tech South West welcomes James Sterling, Communications, Engagement and Partnerships Manager from Bristol City Council, to explain all about City Leap - an exciting new approach to accelerating green energy investment in Bristol and helping the city achieve its net zero carbon ambitions. Event Details (https://www.meetup.com/GreenTech-South-West/events/275941814/)
ð¤ Podcasts The latest climate-related podcast episodes.
ð§ The Texas snowstorms: what really happened and why? (https://theclimatefix.com/episodes/the-texas-snowstorms-what-really-happened-and-why) The Climate Fix
ð§A jaunt to the climate crises of deep timeâw/ Peter Brannen, author of The Ends of the World (https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/A-jaunt-to-the-climate-crises-of-deep-timew-Peter-Brannen–author-of-The-Ends-of-the-World-erjkvl) The Reversing Climate Change Podcast with NORI
ð§ (http://www.sustainababble.fish/?p=1212) #206: JOBS (http://www.sustainababble.fish/?p=1247) Sustainababble
ð§ (https://outrageandoptimism.libsyn.com/85-the-future-of-shipping) The Race to Zero! Road to COP26 (https://outrageandoptimism.libsyn.com/91-the-race-to-zero-road-to-cop26) Outrage! + Optimism
ð§ (https://climateone.org/audio/biden%E2%80%99s-climate-opportunity-part-2) TEMPERATURE CHECK: SCIENCE, TEXAS, AND CLIMATE CHAOS (https://climateone.org/audio/temperature-check-science-texas-and-climate-chaos) Climate One
ð° News Highlights
Stripeâs first carbon removal purchases (https://stripe.com/blog/first-negative-emissions-purchases) Announcing our first four recipients and expanding our commitment to support the negative emissions ecosystem.
ð¼ Jobs & Opportunities
We’re considering having a single paid sponsor slot each week for this newsletter, for organisations that are hiring. If you’re interested in learning more, shoot an email to hello@climateAction.tech (mailto:hello@climateAction.tech?subject=I’m%20interested%20in%20sponsoring%20the%20newsletter)
Senior Full Stack Engineer, Senior Product Designer (https://only.one/jobs?gh_jid=4295675003) The Only One Collective was first established in 2019, and today the organization has twenty full-time employees, across product, design, content, engagement. By partnering with other changemakers in the space, we aim to support innovative solutions that strengthen marine ecosystems and the communities that depend on them most. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1614629402032200) to this conversation on Slack.
Careers - Citrine Informatics: The AI Platform for Materials Development (https://citrine.io/careers/) The Citrine Platform empowers your teams to develop new high-performance materials and chemicals faster than ever before. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1614644456032900) https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1613399879149000to this conversation on Slack
Assistant editor, branch magazine (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxYujC40yUUaHOB0jZR8nwq9a8S3tgvGEtXqO0Z8Y3_b4Cbw/viewform?gxids=7628) Youâd be helping get a new issue of Branch produced - youâd be working with WordPress, Trello, Google docs. This includes subediting articles, working with contributors, and more. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1614673898038700) https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1613399879149000to this conversation on Slack
Graduate Data/ Computer Scientist (https://www.olwg.co.uk/work-with-us) This role is intended to help our startup â still in its first year of operation â build a suite of data-driven âdemonstratorâ energy technology / system model tools. These models will be designed to assist project developers & investors to draw clear comparisons between competing projects that have complex + uncertain features. The ideas / algorithms to be used in the models will be supplied by our Chemical / Energy Engineer(s), so collaborating with different types of engineers on data source + end use will be a feature of this role. Our starting point is a set of spreadsheets (with Monte-Carlo plug-in) + Power BI analytic reports- and our goal is to convert all this into hard-coded cloud software.. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1614674328039000) to this conversation on Slack
Lead developer (https://350.org/jobs/?gh_jid=2799259) The role of the Lead Developer will be to oversee and optimize our web architecture and to make sure that it serves the evolving needs of our campaigners and organizers as well as the movement, and is doing so in a cost-and space-efficient way. Most importantly, weâre looking for a visionary technologist who knows how to inspire and innovate while dealing with healthy constraints. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1614768160045400) to this conversation on Slack
Lead Designer (https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/24258) Looking for an individual contributor designer, the only designer in the company, to develop web-based app designs, marketing website designs, social media ad visuals. Develop the visual and style guide. Make the product and website look cool, vibrant, trustworthy, easy, accessible! ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1614812862046600) https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1612868077122400to this conversation on Slack
Advanced Research Team Leader and Product Manager (https://jobs.lever.co/streetlightdata/62f66f8f-3e5d-44fa-ba9c-e84ee1771d86) treetLight Data, the pioneer in Big Data for mobility, is revolutionizing transportation and urban planning to help the world better deploy infrastructure and adapt to new forms of mobility. From legacy systems to ride sharing and bike sharing to autonomous vehicles, our platform powers 6,000+ mobility projects every month for government and private clients, and we’re just getting started. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1614834297047800) to this conversation on Slack
Senior Product Manager (https://jobs.deere.com/job/Digital-Product-Owner-Iowa/707019900/) build the automated insights product for farmer using John Deere hardware and software. Agricultural sustainability is a hot and growing space. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1615065747051200) 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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