🌎 CAT Newsletter #7 - 2020-02-11 - Earth Week 🌏
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Hi CATs!
Weâre planning ðEarth Week (https://www.earthday.org/) activities right now. The focus will be on sustainable work activities like starting green teams, reducing energy use, and communicating the business value of sustainability.
Please sign up here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdOOXNLMvwXh5rCkOxFuFCzpt2_yK0oa7hbV2ZLZ7yFeehPg/viewform) to get notified or to volunteer.
Have a great week!
ð Actions These are actions which support the CAT community or broader climate action initiatives. If you have an action you would like to add to a future newsletter, please submit it here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2HJxHXNdD-mhX8qT-DW3SjimEsk6rt9r8FVIq7eidd_6X0g/viewform) .
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USA: The Trump administration is still pushing its disastrous proposal to auction off huge swaths of Americaâs oceans for oil and gas drilling. Email (https://act.nrdc.org/letter/ocs-5-yr-zinke) Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and President Donald Trump to keep our coasts off-limits to oil and gas drilling. [via NRDC, email template is provided]
EU: The Right to Repair project, are a coalition of European organizations active around the cause of repair at the legislation level. Sign their petition (https://repair.eu/smartphones/) demanding the right to repair smartphones.
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If you are interested in participating in public actions or providing technical support to climate groups, now is the time! Other organizations are planning for Earth Week as well. Reach out to a local environmental group or nonprofit to see if they need help. If you donât know of one, see if one of the larger organizations has a local chapter near you: Sierra Club (http://sierraclub.org) , 350 (http://350.org/) , Sunrise Movement (https://www.sunrisemovement.org/) , Climate Reality Project (https://www.climaterealityproject.org/) , Extinction Rebellion (https://rebellion.earth/) .
ð° News Highlights
ð»Tech & Climate
Complaining about climate change on Twitter might actually help scientists (https://qz.com/1797415/scientists-are-studying-your-climate-change-complaints-on-twitter/) A new study of half a million tweets finds that sea level rise may be a bigger problem than official data suggest. [QZ]
Cut Back on Email If You Want to Fight Global Warming (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-25/cutting-back-on-sending-emails-could-help-fight-global-warming) Data storage could balloon to 8% of planetary energy use by 2030. [Bloomberg]
Getting the bottom of that asinine article about the CO2 footprint of email (https://blog.chrisadams.me.uk/2020/02/08/getting-the-bottom-of-that-asinine-article-about-the-co2-footprint-of-email/) âIf you care about the environmental impact of tech, worrying about email is not the place to spend your time and energy. Worry instead about the big tech companies accelerating the extraction of fossil fuels, when we need to keep them in the ground.â [Chris Adams, CAT organizer]
ðClimate Solutions
British cities to get buses that suck pollution from the air (https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/24/uk/pollution-sucking-buses-scli-gbr-intl-scn/index.html) Using public transport is often a greener alternative to driving a car, and now one company is taking its green ambitions a step further – by developing a pollution-sucking fleet of buses. [CNN]
Can the aviation industry really go carbon neutral by 2050? (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/07/can-the-aviation-industry-really-go-carbon-neutral-by-2050) Critics have dubbed the sectorâs Net Zero pledge to become fully sustainable as greenwash. [The Guardian]
Why some cities are targeting gas stoves to fight climate change (https://www.curbed.com/2020/2/4/21112234/home-power-range-stove-electrification-natural-gas) Why building electrification, and removing gas from new and retrofitted homes, has become a movement. [Curbed]
ðClimate Science
Weather shows evidence of climate change every single day since 2012 (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/01/weather-shows-evidence-of-climate-change-every-single-day-since-2012/) Children born in 2012 havenât lived a single day unaffected by climate change. [National Geographic]
Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming (https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-clouds-are-the-key-to-new-troubling-projections-on-warming?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) Recent climate models project that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 above pre-industrial levels could cause temperatures to soar far above previous estimates. A warming earth, researchers now say, will lead to a loss of clouds, allowing more solar energy to strike the planet. [Yale]
Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Donât Know Why (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-03/climate-models-are-running-red-hot-and-scientists-don-t-know-why) The simulators used to forecast warming have suddenly started giving us less time. [Bloomberg]
ð¼ Jobs & Opportunities
Third Sector Design is currently recruiting for a Senior Developer. (https://thirdsectordesign.org/careers) We are looking for an experienced developer that shares our passion for making tools for people that are changing the world. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1580808494035300) to this conversation on Slack
UNIT9 is presently recruiting for 2 positions, a UX Designer and a Data Architect, on a smart energy project funded by a public grant in UK (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1580811852038700) A smart energy project funded by a public grant in UK. London based would be easier, but weâre open to discuss remote, possibly in the UK. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1580811852038700) to this conversation on Slack
Looking for potential founding team for an ambitious climate project - any data scientists/AI/ML folks (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1581090448040200) Who might also be climate scientists? Interested in working on text/NLP/search/scraping ? Preferably in the San Francisco Bay Area ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1581090448040200) 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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