🌎 CAT Newsletter #91 2021-09-21
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Hey CATs!
COMMUNITY UPDATES
:microscope: :scientist: :clipboard: - #climate-science has been combined with a channel previously known as #academia-research and now wears the proud name #science-and-research (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CJHG890C8) . Head over there to get involved in the IPCC reading group CAT volunteer @Christina Unger is hosting or to share interesting bits and bobs about science & research.
:car: :bike: :walking: - Our #alternative-energy-vehicles has been renamed by channel host & CAT volunteer @roundcrisis and is now called #mobility (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C012B2S7ZFE) ! Join the channel for discussions about getting from A to B and how all fo that relates to climate, tech, society & tech workers.
:mega: :iphone: :sparkles: NEW CHANNEL! To help each other out with amplifying climate-related social media posts, @Marianne Lehnis and @Rob Chan set up #social-media-booster (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C02FPHZMPGQ) . Join the channel to learn more about Robâs #climate-strike project where he aims to open up social media echo chambers.
ððð¥ð¢ Climate Stike - if you’re taking part in the Friday Climate Strike to show up for the kids, or you’re simply curious about what it’s all about check the #climate-strike channel (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CMX0SBESK) , or ask in the #local channel for where you are in the world. And if you can’t make the whole strike, remember there’s #proj-11at11 (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CNVL4T555) to dip your toe in.
If you want to help out others, check out a task on our âNeeds volunteersâ column on our volunteering Trello board (https://trello.com/b/C8vPpwJD/cat-volunteering) .
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** ð¬ CAT Events
CAT Coffee
CAT Coffee events are regular, open opportunities to mingle, share ideas, discuss things or just meet other CAT members. The topics weâll discuss will vary at every event depending on who shows up! Any CAT member can join - you don’t need to be new to drop in!
At the beginning of the event thereâll be an optional 10m presentation where you can learn more about the CAT community and weâll end with and an optional 15m chat where you can learn more about volunteering in the CAT community.
Weâll use our #cat-coffee channel (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CN459CBN3) to share resources & links during and after the CAT coffee event
Sign up via meetup (https://www.meetup.com/cat-global/events/)
CAT Salon ⢠1h Our “CAT Salons” are regular, thematic community discussions. We start with an 8-10 minute presentation from a lead discussant to level-set our conversation. This is then followed by 45 minutes of facilitated community interaction on the topic. We run our Salons in western-friendly and eastern-friendly timezones.
Join our Meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/cat-global/events/) to get notified for the next CAT Salon
Catch up on our past Salons on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbGj6AM6oTSxqBlhMQlaplw/videos)
:doughnut: CAT Roulette - 30mins - whenever you find a time
We’re continuing our programme of letting members connect to 1 other CAT member every second week for a nice beverage and chat about climate and tech. It’s a nice way to get to know other CATs, and you can start and stop at any time. Joining the #cat-roulette (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C0202J3UYG7) channel to learn more.
ð CATs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London - Branch Magazine
If you’re in London this coming weekend, as part of Digital Design Week at the Victoria and Albert Museum, there’s a dedicated reading room for ClimateAction.tech’s very own Branch magazine, along with the Museum of the Fossilized Internet. If you’re thinking of dropping by, check out the link at the museum website (https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/6AaRom9Y/the-museum-of-the-fossilized-internet-september-2021) , and ask in the #branchmag channel in slac (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/C01DT7YH3A9) k.
ð¬ CAT Submitted Events
If you have an event you’d like listed here, use this google form to suggest your event (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCcJz0jkn8huv1yLkuAlyDviccOwVSejwDwcLDDVKmwYPcQQ/viewform) . Also, if you can turn a spreadsheet into a calendar feed, get in touch.
Check #events in the CAT slack (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CDH9TKPMM) for more. And if you’re up for helping make manage this to add a listing each week, we’d love to hear from you, doubly so if you know your way around Google Appscript. Reply to this email if you can help.
28th Sept - Branch: an online magazine by and for people who dream of a sustainable internet (https://www.meetup.com/GreenTech-South-West/events/279197352/) Green Tech South West welcomes Michelle Thorne, Managing Editor of Branch magazine to tell us all about the website, by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet. Branch is a space for personal reflection, critical engagement with technology, and experimentation
ð¤ Podcasts The latest climate-related podcast episodes.
ð§ (https://www.myclimatejourney.co/cc-episodes/bill-weihl-climatevoice) 114. 30x30: Nature Needs More with Rita El Zaghloul (https://outrageandoptimism.libsyn.com/114-30x30-nature-needs-more-with-rita-el-zaghloul) This week weâre joined by Rita El Zaghloul, Coordinator of the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature & People on behalf of Costa Rica. She is the driving force behind ambition at The HACâs 30x30 campaign, slamming the pedal to the metal on their aim to agree to this plan at the COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October. The best part about it? It centers indigenous leadership and indigenous rights, while mobilizing financial resources both publicly and privately to ensure protected areas are properly managed, all the while protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030;
ð§ (https://www.myclimatejourney.co/cc-episodes/bill-weihl-climatevoice) (https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/S2E74-Sanitation-and-EJ-concerns-grow-with-climate-changew-Catherine-Coleman-Flowers–MacArthur-Genius-e155l7p) E147 - Not-So-Digital Workforce (https://player.whooshkaa.com/player/playlist/show/1284/?sharing=true&visual=true&episode=904756) Digital labour and remote working trends have seen incredible uptake due to the pandemic. Though we may think these changes to our lives exist only in the ephemeral online world, in this episode we explore whether the digital workforce could help us build more sustainable cities.
ð§ Diet For A Threatened Planet (https://www.climateone.org/audio/diet-threatened-planet) Diet for a Small Planet is celebrating 50 years this fall. Itâs been a hugely influential book in the environmental movement and has inspired countless people to adopt vegetarian diets.
Don’t forget, if you’re looking around, there’s a list of podcasts maintained by CATs (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dCxRnSdgJYehTkPlMA9lNVfw7C9m-mTb2FtIxnbH6AI/edit#gid=0) .
ð° News Highlights
Guest post: How artificial intelligence is fast becoming a key tool for climate science | Carbon Brief (https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-artificial-intelligence-is-fast-becoming-a-key-tool-for-climate-science) Climate scientists have another tool available to them thanks to rapid advances in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and, particularly, machine learning.
Climate change concern growing: Rpt | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/climate-change-concern-growing-rpt-5553978/) Over three- quarters of both Canadians and Americans say they are willing to make changes to reduce the effects of climate change, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
London-based refurbished electronics startup Reboxed raises £1M to rehome 100M devices by 2030 - UKTN (UK Tech News) (https://www.uktech.news/news/london-reboxed-raises-1m-to-rehome-100m-devices-by-2030-20210915) Consumer electronics is one of the worldâs most polluting industries generating around 50 million tonnes of e-waste every year. Around millions of mobile phones goes to waste every year, eventually ending up in a landfill. And every single one of those devices has taken precious earthly materials to create, at a cost to the environment and local communities.
Dezeen makes “massive” reduction to its website carbon emissions (https://www.dezeen.com/2021/09/14/dezeen-website-massive-carbon-emissions-reduction/) Dezeen has slashed the carbon emissions of its website by two-thirds thanks to a series of code improvements.
The Unconventional Weapon Against Future Wildfires: Goats (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/business/wildfires-goats-prevention.html?searchResultPosition=1) Lani Malmberg travels with a few hundred goats, which eat the tall brush and grasses that power Western wildfires.
The Sustainable Ecommerce Handbook The Rise of Ethical Shopping and How to Build a Green & Lean Online Brand (https://theecommmanager.com/sustainable-ecommerce-handbook/) The Sustainable Ecommerce Handbook comprises six practical and thought-provoking articles from professionals in sustainable ecommerce.
ð± A cutting from Branch Branch is our own publication, about climate and tech, by CATs and for CATs. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing a link to pieces earlier issues of Branch, as we gear up for creating Branch 3 in Q3/4, and open the call for contributions (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScabPxx_L9Dcd98XceloAL_bgSeEvUrtyaaDE_DPRgzzk7CCQ/viewform) .
Swirling Sulas: A Future vignette (https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-2/swirling-sulas/) Glimpse of a solarpunky speculative fiction from the award winning Anglo Indian Studio, Superflux. Notes from a post-internet future city.
ð¼ Jobs & Opportunities
Also! Don’t forget the super handy “climate careers page” on outline (https://climate-tech.getoutline.com/doc/climate-careers-O56ZGk7fKt) listing a bunch of useful resources and sites to check:
Senior Software/Data Engineer (https://www.watttime.org/) Weâre looking for a candidate to join and lead our data team who can think critically about building new data architectures, write robust, well ordered Python3 code to retrieve and coordinate data from our data stores, download satellite imagery from new sources, and automate data pipelines in our current Kubernetes infrastructure. ð¬Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1631548599048500) to this conversation on Slack
Research intern (https://www.dashboard.earth/) Dashboard.earth is working to drive citizen engagement in climate change adaptation. Weâre a small distributed team working on building our first fully fledged product for Los Angeles. Our mission is to connect everyone to the solutions necessary to balance the climate. We deliver localized, personalized, and incentivized climate actions through a mobile app. ð¬ (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1620740493252600) https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1621311841007400Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1631557608050900) to this conversation on Slack
Videographer/Motion designer (https://seedtrace.org/) We’re looking for a motion designer/videographer to help us with a promotional video. We’re hoping to get this done asap, so please get in touch if you are interested ð¬ (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1620721893247200) https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1628696007037400Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1631605384052300) to this conversation on Slack
Careers @ Build a Climate Startup (https://careers.buildaclimatestartup.com/) We are a climate tech venture studio and investor based in Europe, on a mission to eliminate at least one gigaton of CO2eq from annual emissions. ð¬ (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1620721014246700) https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1621311841007400Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1631633880056900) to this conversation on Slack
Technical Program Manager at SINAI Technologies Inc. (https://sinai.breezy.hr/p/4c7032ea5030-technical-program-manager) Want to work on climate change together? SINAI is a San Francisco-based technology startup focused on transforming the way companies price, analyze, and reduce carbon emissions around the world. We are passionate about technology and the environment, and our mission is to enable companies to meet their carbon reduction targets in the most efficient way possible, transforming the way they interact with their own business, their value chain, and the environment. Our first product to market is a multi-module decarbonization SaaS platform. ð¬ (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1620721014246700) https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1621311841007400Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1631674932057700) to this conversation on Slack
Senior Product Designer - Climate Change at SINAI Technologies Inc. (https://sinai.breezy.hr/p/9c850f613f71-senior-product-designer-climate-change) Our mission is to engage companies to include carbon analysis in their entire operations. We do not simply talk about climate change. We help to build a carbon strategy based on understanding current and projected footprint, modeling projects to mitigate emissions, and finally helping customers to define a price on carbon. ð¬ (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1620721014246700) https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1621311841007400Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1631674932057700) to this conversation on Slack
Business Operations Manager - on site at SINAI Technologies Inc. (https://sinai.breezy.hr/p/9d1530068301-business-operations-manager-on-site) SINAI’s MissionOur mission is to engage companies to include carbon analysis in their entire operations. We do not simply talk about climate change. We help to build a carbon strategy based on understanding current and projected footprint, modeling projects to mitigate emissions, and finally helpin ð¬ (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1620721014246700) https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1621311841007400Reply (https://climate-tech.slack.com/archives/CD5NYP079/p1631674932057700) to this conversation on Slack
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