Stripe Climate

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Post by constantinum » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:21 PM UTC

Re: Stripe Climate

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Post by parhamn » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:46 PM UTC

This is really cool! Kudos to the team there for doing this!!

Semi-shameless plug (it's for the environment!!): We're launching something similar next week here [1]. Instead pulling off revenue we're helping teams plant trees when they close an issue or merge a PR. I think the additional visibility to the team members as they work has a great feel-good vibe! We currently connect with Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab & JIRA. We also give badges to show on your repos.

Here is a video to see what it looks like [2]. If you'd like to join the beta please email at parham@cloudsynth.com!

[1] https://cloudsynth.com/social-impact/trees

[2] https://www.loom.com/share/2ad9a30d13aa4cd78ed98308b0d37283

Re: Stripe Climate

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Post by dinkleberg » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:51 PM UTC

It’s always great to see things like this that remove the barrier to doing some good. Stripe has a huge user base, so it’ll be interesting to see how much impact this is able to make.

Re: Stripe Climate

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Post by ericvanular » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:51 PM UTC

parhamn wrote: post #2

This is really cool! Kudos to the team there for doing this!! Semi-shameless plug (it's for the environment!!): We're launching something similar next week here [1]. Instead pulling off revenue we're helping teams plant trees when they close an issue or merge a PR. I think the additional visibility to the team members as they work has a great feel-good vibe! We currently connect with Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab & JIRA.…

Hey parhamn, Cloudsynth looks awesome. If you'd like to connect with a community of climate action oriented people, feel free to post about your work over at https://collective.energy (I'm the founder).

For anyone else who cares about making a positive impact on the planet, come join us as well!

Re: Stripe Climate

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Post by paws » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:52 PM UTC

ICYMI there's a public repo that has more details (and answered several of my questions in one convenient place)

https://github.com/stripe/negative-emissions-source-material...

Nice to see the transparency on this.

Re: Stripe Climate

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Post by CoffeePython » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:58 PM UTC

parhamn wrote: post #2

This is really cool! Kudos to the team there for doing this!! Semi-shameless plug (it's for the environment!!): We're launching something similar next week here [1]. Instead pulling off revenue we're helping teams plant trees when they close an issue or merge a PR. I think the additional visibility to the team members as they work has a great feel-good vibe! We currently connect with Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab & JIRA.…

This is pretty awesome! How does pricing work for this?

Re: Stripe Climate

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Post by makerofspoons » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 3:00 PM UTC

This is excellent and a great option for responsible users!

We should not get distracted from the reality however that to really move the needle we need universal carbon pricing.

Re: Stripe Climate

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Post by corentin88 » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

Kudos to Stripe and the team behind for this proposal. Unfortunately, it's only available for US companies. Hope they will expand it soon.

Re: Stripe Climate

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Post by PaulHoule » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 3:02 PM UTC

I like it that they are attempting at least four different schemes.

There is a lot of risk in some schemes, for instance it is easy to say you left some trees standing but it is not easy to know somebody won't cut them in five years. For instance, it will be hard to prove that the Vesta scheme works.

Putting all the money in the lowest cost strategy would be likely to fail. If you spread it out probably some will succeed and others will fail.,

Re: Stripe Climate

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Post by sritchie » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 3:03 PM UTC

If anyone from Stripe is reading - is it possible yet for me to simply donate money to the portfolio you’ve assembled without running a business? We purchase monthly offsets now and I’d love to switch to funding direct carbon capture (and will happily spend more).