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Climatescape.org – Mapping the global landscape of climate-saving organizations

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Re: Climatescape.org – Mapping the global landscape of climate-saving organizations

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Is this project intentionally leaving out political organizations? Fighting the politics of austerity and capitalist oligarchy is more important than evaluating photovoltaic efficiency/viability.

We have a “Government & Policy” category that was a little light to launch with. Would be happy for you to help us fill it out!

Re: Climatescape.org – Mapping the global landscape of climate-saving organizations

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We don't have to convice everyone to stop flying. We can start with to convincing everyone to fly less . Decarbonise in the meantime, if you can, of course.

I don't think this is a very practical approach. People both need and want to fly places. We need to accept that and find ways to make flight greener.

But the richest 10% of people are the ones who make far more than half of all flights [1]. They could certainly fly less.

[1] https://www.inequalityintransport.org.uk/book-author/news-bl...

Re: Climatescape.org – Mapping the global landscape of climate-saving organizations

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Cool resource! I just started down this path as a strict requirement for my next career move. It would be awesome to include job listings and requirements for people that want to find a job at a climate focused company.

Thanks so much and congrats on your new career trajectory! We'd love to integrate with some job boards in the future. In the meantime I can point you to a blog post with some great advice on this topic: https://medium.com/@leventov/how-to-find-a-job-in-a-tech-com...

Thank you for the info! Good luck with everything!

Re: Climatescape.org – Mapping the global landscape of climate-saving organizations

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> How about O&G companies with big green tech budgets This troubles me endlessly. My gut says no, as I can't imagine some of the largest companies in the world reorienting sufficiently, and I feel that they should quickly become sidelined as relics of a different time. But it seems unreasonable to think they don't have some value to add with the large budgets and pressure they are under. Gladly be informed on this to…

I argue that it does, as someone doing a search for competitors or alternatives might be caught unaware if this is a blind spot for them. For example, you have Drivy (bought by GetAround... a while back?) and yet you're missing a large portion of the CarShare landscape. Do you count Zipcar? (Avis-Budget group, but the largest player and running EVs in London). Maven? (GM) DriveNow/car2go? (BMW, and EV-centric in Euro…

I second the point that it's helpful to know the actual landscape, so the division within GE should definitely be listed. After all, if they end up contributing something positive it deserves visibility.

And your mention of Zipcar, Maven, etc makes me think it'd be great to include the entities that own or fund each organization. Definitely means there's more information to hunt down, but crowd-sourcing can lessen that pain.

Re: Climatescape.org – Mapping the global landscape of climate-saving organizations

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Hi all, creator here–so cool to see this on HN. I made Climatescape after seeing dozens of people go through a similar process of cataloging interesting climate-focused companies in spreadsheets, notes, and elsewhere. The goal is to unify these efforts and provide the content free to anyone who might find it useful. The website is open source[1] and content is Creative Commons licensed. This is really just the beginn…

Cool resource! I just started down this path as a strict requirement for my next career move. It would be awesome to include job listings and requirements for people that want to find a job at a climate focused company.

Evan here from ClimateCareers (https://climate.careers). Sounds like you might get some value from our site! Check us out and please let us know what we can do to improve!

:)

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Cool resource! I just started down this path as a strict requirement for my next career move. It would be awesome to include job listings and requirements for people that want to find a job at a climate focused company.

Thanks so much and congrats on your new career trajectory! We'd love to integrate with some job boards in the future. In the meantime I can point you to a blog post with some great advice on this topic: https://medium.com/@leventov/how-to-find-a-job-in-a-tech-com...

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Re: Climatescape.org – Mapping the global landscape of climate-saving organizations

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Hi Brendan! Evan here from ClimateCareers! Https://climate.careers

My team and I are already working on the next iteration of our product, which will be going far beyond jobs. I'd love to find time to chat and explore opportunities to collaborate!

Sending you an email now :)

Re: Climatescape.org – Mapping the global landscape of climate-saving organizations

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It is interesting to see a list of organizations compiled in one place, to get a sense of what is going on in the world. But I read the headline wrong. I saw the words "Mapping" and "landscape", and was expecting actual maps. I thought I'd be looking at visualizations of where in the world each organization is having an impact.

We used to maintain an actual map of climate-impactful orgs on https://Climate.Careers. Very few people used it, so we took it down — but we still have all the data of course!

Re: Climatescape.org – Mapping the global landscape of climate-saving organizations

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Cool resource! I just started down this path as a strict requirement for my next career move. It would be awesome to include job listings and requirements for people that want to find a job at a climate focused company.

Evan here from ClimateCareers ( https://climate.careers ). Sounds like you might get some value from our site! Check us out and please let us know what we can do to improve! :)

Just wanted to get back to you and say thanks for the comment. This is a great site, I all ready found a potential job near where I'm looking!
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