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📺 News Corp Comes Around
Executives at News Corp, the parent company of Fox News, said on Monday that they would begin publishing editorial content promoting carbon neutrality. Describing the effort in general terms, News Corp officials told the Sydney Morning Herald that its Australian Sky News channel would advocate for Australia achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
The announcement comes on the same day the conservative-led Australian government said it would continue to export coal “well beyond 2030,” in stark defiance of demands made by climate scientists for decades. The timing of News Corp’s announcement has led critics to suggest the focus on 2050 emissions goals could be a ploy to give the Australian government long-term cover for their decision on coal exports.
Climate researchers who have found themselves the focus of News Corp’s decades-long disinformation campaign on climate science are skeptical. Climatologist and IPCC co-author Michael Mann put it this way: “Until Rupert Murdoch and News Corp call off their attack dogs at Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, who continue to promote climate change disinformation on a daily basis, these are hollow promises that should be viewed as a desperate ploy to rehabilitate the public image of a leading climate villain.”
⛓ Blockchain Keeps Us Together
An international collaboration operating under the name Project Edge announced this week that it has launched a first-of-its kind blockchain network to increase the scale and efficiency of solar power in Australia.
The project’s aim is to use blockchain to securely share generation and storage data from Australia’s solar panel-clad roofs to the power grids and utilities that will purchase and distribute their outputs. While similar projects have previously been launched elsewhere, Project Edge leaders point out that their project is the first to create an ecosystem between power producers at the local level and distributors of large and small-scale grids.
Australia is uniquely well-positioned to deploy the suite of technologies put to use by the project. Roughly a quarter of Australian households are equipped with solar panels, and in some areas that number rises to two-fifths. Project Edge’s system will issue “passports” to users who can securely sell their electricity to utilities. The utilities can in turn use contributors’ data to optimize their operations and order batteries and appliances to avoid overused substations, allowing for savings on maintenance costs.
💊 Call A Doctor
Last Sunday, researchers from more than 230 medical journals sounded a clarion call for world leaders to pay attention to the looming health effects of climate change that have so far gone overlooked. Heat-related deaths have leapt by 50% for people over 65 in the past 20 years, but higher temperatures are linked to a litany of other complications. Increased rates of skin cancer, kidney malfunction, tropical disease and mental issues, just to name a few, have all been linked to climate change.
But the report does offer a sliver lining: the daunting health care costs associated a hotter planet make the business case for transitioning to renewable energy all the more obvious. The editorial cites one figure that puts the savings for air quality improvements alone in the trillions for countries such as India and China. Beyond the funding, research and coordination the authors stress is necessary, the world must realize that “No temperature rise is ‘safe.”
🐣 Evolution Hits Fast Forward
Data gathered from all corners of the globe suggests that warm-blooded animals are “shapeshifting” to adapt to a rapidly warming planet. The research published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution focused on changes to appendages in birds, such as larger beaks and legs, from North America to Australia. The uninsulated body parts of many animals serve as outlets for excess bodily heat, and their growth correlates with rising temperatures over recent decades.
But as the authors point out, “adapting” is a tricky term to ascribe to the changes. Just because birds are developing bigger beaks to deal with more heat, this “does not mean that animals are coping with climate change and that all is fine,” according Sara Ryding, the study’s author. Whether or not the shapeshifting will continue as time goes on is unclear, but the findings are yet another data point that humans are far from the only species struggling to get by in the Anthropocene.
👩🎤 Music Festival Footprint
The music festival industry, like so many others around the world, had its first public reckoning with climate change this week. English electronic band Massive Attack partnered with researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in England to share data from their most recent tour in the hopes of bringing attention to the carbon footprint of the music industry.
The result was a list of recommendations that included forgoing private jets for trains, increasing renewable energy generation at festival sites, and using more energy efficient equipment. But other measures such as including public transport in ticket prices and choosing more central venues could appeal to spectators as much as the planet.
New Climate Jobs
Inspire - Inspire is a clean energy technology company on a mission to transform the way people access clean energy and accelerate the world toward a net-zero carbon future. Through a subscription model, Inspire allows customers to access 100% clean energy for one flat monthly price. Customers enjoy a seamless billing experience while supporting a more sustainable future. They are hiring for dozens of roles in the following departments in multiple U.S. cities:
- Commercial Operations
- Finance & Accounting
- Growth & Analytics
- Legal
- Marketing
- Communications
- Finance & Accounting
- Operations
- People
- Sales
- Technology (Software Engineering)
Forerunner - Forerunner builds intelligent tools that help communities adapt to the impacts of climate change. We empower government agencies to access, understand, and mobilize local-level flood risk data at scale. This data, in turn, allows them to better communicate potential futures to residents and plan for a dynamically changing world.
- Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer (Remote)
ActionECO - ActionECO will educate Atlantans on sustainable practices through conversations, tours, and turning supporters into environmental advocates. Organizations across all different sectors -- fashion, food, and transit, to name a few -- are working to reshape the sustainability practices in their industries, and ActionECO will connect individuals with these nonprofits, so each person can find their passion in the work.
- Executive Director (Remote / Atlanta, GA, USA)
Clarity - At Clarity, we strive to empower the world in their mission to fight air pollution. We do it by making it accessible for cities and industries to measure and understand and take effective action against air pollution.
- Environmental Project Manager - Air Quality (Remote)
Station A - Station A is the first AI-powered clean energy marketplace that aims to make clean energy cheaper and faster to deploy, build a cleaner and more resilient grid, and ultimately create an ecosystem that brings more equitable access to clean energy. Our mission is to transition the world to 100% clean energy.
- Provider Success (Remote)
- Marketplace Success (Remote)
Powerhouse - Powerhouse is an innovation firm and venture fund. Our firm partners with corporations, utilities, and investors to help them find and engage with cutting-edge startups, tap into proprietary market insights, and lead the next century of clean technology innovation. Our fund, Powerhouse Ventures, identifies and supports founding teams building innovative software to rapidly transform our global energy and mobility systems.
- Innovation Analyst (Oakland, CA, USA)
- Vice President (Oakland, CA, USA)
Project Drawdown - Project Drawdown presents 100 solutions for humanity to reach climate drawdown, the point at which greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere begin to decline on a year-to-year basis. Project Drawdown's research and analysis includes the work of a broad coalition of researchers, scientists, graduate students, PhDs, post-docs, policy makers, business leaders and activists to assemble and present the best available information on existing climate solutions in order to describe their beneficial financial, social and environmental impact.
- Climate Finance Senior Research Fellow, Drawdown Labs (Remote)
- Climate Philanthropy Senior Research Fellow, Drawdown Labs (Remote)
Noya - Noya is accelerating the world's transition to a carbon negative existence. We're doing this by radically reducing both the upfront capital cost and the time required to build direct air capture processes. We retrofit existing pieces of industrial equipment like cooling towers and turn them into direct air capture machines.
- Founding Mechanical Engineer (San Francisco, CA, USA)
- Founding Chemical Engineer (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Farm - Farm is a platform for restoring undervalued land. Our mission is to increase the number of healthy acres & productive investments that benefit America's natural ecosystem.
Ecosia - Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, is one of the world's largest social businesses and the first B Corporation in Germany. As part of our mission to cultivate a more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable world, we are planting and protecting forests by enabling people to channel their everyday actions into environmental good. So far our 15 million users have planted over 100 million trees. Our reach is expanding as we continue to grow and plant native and biodiverse trees worldwide!
- Design System Lead Frontend Engineer (Berlin, Germany)
- IT Administrator (Berlin, Germany)
- Accountant (Berlin, Germany)
- UX Copywriter (Berlin, Germany)
- Senior Frontend Engineer-Design System (Berlin, Germany)
- Tech Lead SRE (Berlin, Germany)
- Data Engineer (Berlin, Germany)
Tomorrow.io - Tomorrow.io is the world's only Weather Intelligence Platform that is customizable to any industry impacted by the weather. They are hiring for dozens of roles in the following departments:
- Business Development
- Customer Success
- Operations
- R&D
- Sales
- Engineering
Tradewater - Tradewater’s mission is to improve our environment and create economic opportunity through the collection, control, and destruction of potent, high impact greenhouse gases. We believe that a company committed to cleaning up the environment can be just as successful – if not more so – than a company that achieves its goals without regard to environmental impact.
- Data & Analytics Developer (Remote)
- Tradewater Courier (Remote / Baltimore, MD, USA / Cleveland, OH, USA)
- Program Manager Latin America and the Caribbean (Remote / San Jose, Costa Rica)
Rocky Mountain Institute - RMI is an independent nonprofit founded in 1982 that transforms global energy systems through market-driven solutions to align with a 1.5°C future and secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all. We work in the world’s most critical geographies and engage businesses, policymakers, communities, and NGOs to identify and scale energy system interventions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50 percent by 2030.
- Community Builder - Third Derivative (Remote)
Mission Control Communications - Mission Control Communications is an award-winning global climate-tech agency founded to evangelize the impact of scientific and technological breakthroughs that will sustain our world. We support pioneers at the intersection of clean energy, advanced mobility, renewable resources, sustainable infrastructure and deeptech discoveries.
- Account Director (Remote)
Altus Thermal - Altus Thermal is a Boston-based startup rethinking home energy use. We’re developing a smart hardware product that will drive higher efficiency, provide greater comfort, deliver a more modern user experience, and increase benefits to the electrical grid.
- Vice President of Software Engineering (Boston, MA, USA)
Octopus Energy - We’re a leading energy technology company providing a better experience for our customers through transparency, automation and simplicity. Better for the planet, through real long-term investment in renewable generation and a low CO2 future. We make energy green and flexible for consumers, with fair and transparent pricing. Through our home developed platform, cloud-based billing, and sophisticated use of data science, modelling and AI, we’re redefining what is possible in energy.
- Designer (New York, NY, USA)
- Energy Risk Professional (Houston, TX, USA)
- Platform Engineer (Houston, TX, USA)
- Regional Sales Leader – Texas (Houston, TX, USA)
- Energy Specialist (Bilingual) (Houston, TX, USA)
- Backend Developer (Houston, TX, USA)
- Designer (New York, NY, USA)
- Legal Counsel (Houston, TX, USA)
BrightAction - BrightAction is on a mission to help people learn about the solutions to climate change and take action in their home and beyond. Most people are concerned about climate change and want to help, but don’t know what to do. 40% of U.S. emissions come from 5 basic household activities we do every day and we now have affordable and accessible alternatives to all these activities that also save money, improve our health and create local jobs.
- Account Executive - City Sales (Remote / SF Bay Area, CA, USA)
MUGO - MUGO creates platforms that estimate the carbon footprint of any consumer product, service or lifestyle to create climate-impact reducing experiences in-store or online.
- Senior Full Stack Developer (Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy)
Verne - Verne is a cleantech startup formed out of Stanford & Berkeley. We are accelerating the transition to zero-emission heavy transportation by developing high-density hydrogen storage systems to double the range of fuel cell trucks and other heavy transport vehicles.
- Hydrogen Storage Engineer (San Francisco, CA, USA)
- Head of Hydrogen Storage (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Yard Stick - Yard Stick measures soil carbon. Scientists and farmers alike know that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at gigaton/year scale. When these practices are adopted, more carbon is stored in soils, improving soil health and fighting climate change. But significant measurement challenges have held soil carbon efforts back - until now. By reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement by 90%+, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer income, and combat climate change.
- Senior Software Engineer (Remote)
- Soil Carbon Field Manager (Remote)
- Soil Carbon Field Specialist (Remote)
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