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One interesting idea that I don't see talked about enough is the idea of a "Publicly Owned" search engine. Search engines are utilities with strong "successful to the successful" f…

Good analysis on how to reduce the carbon emissions of cows: https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/making-cattle-more-sustain... Basically feed them seaweed and try to manage the land …

One thing to keep in mind is people struggling to make ends meet don't have time to learn and will struggle to find motivation to dedicate themselves to something. For me it was qu…

One cool company working on this in the UK: https://projectwren.com/projects/regenerative-agroforestry

most companies in YC have technical founders who build the products still.

Ask the ones who didn't make it big too. All my friends and batch mates who have done it have good things to say!

[not a lawyer but] Also you don't legally need a ToS—It's fine to go without it for a while (especially while you have 0-100 customers)

Working for FAANG might be lame, but you can find some interesting company to work at without a doubt. I just graduated, and my friends from CS are doing everything from engineerin…

Treating this more as investing is very promising and maybe something we'd consider. Currently most of these solutions do not generate a profit that could be an ROI for investors o…

Yeah this is pretty interesting. There's some set of activities (getting everyone on renewables, making clean construction/ag/transportation cost effective, political action, etc) …

That's really interesting. We haven't seriously considered what it would take to be able to live guilt free without changing lifestyle dramatically. It certainly means doing way mo…

This is very clever, we might try that. Thanks for sharing!

Wow, I hadn't heard that story before. One thing that might help is if we publish all of our spending online in a transparent way. There are probably legal/accounting consideration…

This is a great point, you're right. Thank you for that feedback, we can edit that soon.

Happy to hear it. One thing to mention though: We don't think offsetting is a license to live guilt free. We still have to do more! Hopefully the carbon footprint calculator will g…

Project Vesta is super exciting! We've seen them on HN a couple times, they're still pretty early but it'd be cool to figure out how we could work together. Thanks for mentioning t…

Oh that's a great point. You can absolutely use our carbon calculator and then find another project to support. We want to make a really good carbon calculator that's useful to eve…

No you're spot on, historically this has been a huge problem. You can make it illegal to log an area, but people will log anyway. What's different about the project we listed is th…

You're right, we have to be critical of what we're doing because this is such an important challenge for humanity. This is why we're doing it: People who sign up for Wren usually w…

Great questions. Monoculture ecosystems are fairly easy to avoid, you just have to plant different types of trees that will thrive. This is easy for the Community Tree Planting pro…

2 big reasons: 1) There are a lot of solutions to climate change that we could enact today if they had funding. Project Drawdown ( https://www.drawdown.org/ ) may be of interest—it…

Ah, sorry "hire talented engineers, invest in marketing, and raise capital." was actually more in reference to the 20% fee. Although we think impact investors and potentially even …

This sort of investment is very cool! I hope to see it becoming more common. We're focusing on direct offsets because we think long term we'll need a great market for carbon offset…

This is a great question. To be completely transparent, we are considering a flat fee because of the reason you stated. We originally chose a percent fee because it was an industry…

For carbon offsets, it is pretty different depending on the type of project. We do not invent these methodologies, we use methodologies from groups like Verra Carbon Standard ( htt…