Ramping up on climate change

As a newcomer to the climate space, it can be daunting to build your own knowledge base and set of mental models - there's so much information out there, and a lot of polarization and editorializing. It can be very challenging to figure out what actually matters and where you can lend your efforts to make the biggest impact, particularly coming from the tech/startup world.

These are some resources that I found useful along the way that can hopefully be useful to you on your own climate journey.

I used to think of climate change as something that could only be solved by governments. That's still mostly true - IMO policy is by far the biggest lever - but there is definitely room for entrepreneurs to move things along. I have Project Drawdown to thank for that insight - they published a book, Drawdown, that details 100 real solutions that could have major impact, many of which have a good ROI story. This was a revalation for me.

MCJ is led by Jason Jacobs, the founder of RunKeeper - so his interviews from the perspective of a tech founder. I find him digging into the same questions I have when he talks to people. This podcast has a good mix of finance/business/science folks. One of my faves. It's worth paying a little bit to join the slack community, which is the best I've found.

Rewiring America is a group that is focused on electrifying everything - in general, a deployment-first approach. I like them. The pdf is worth reading.

My main focus when I was first getting interested in climate was carbon removal. I spent a bunch of time reading from various sources, doing reading/discussion groups, etc. I wish this book existed then - it's an incredible overview of the CDR space.