A collection of links and resources for climate tech and the climate crisis, compiled in 2020. Also see New job, hello climate tech, The year is 2040, and Climate tech conversations.

Communities:

• ClimateAction.tech, probably the oldest Bay Area tech community for climate
• My Climate Journey, best climate tech community I’ve found so far, tons of heavy hitters. also a podcast and angel fund
• New Energy Nexus, energy specific, also has an accelerator and fund(s)
• Work on Climate, nascent but pretty good, started by ex Googlers. They have a ton of other irons in the fire, ClimateCTO and Climate Fellows and running the climate track at an ML conference, they may be spread a bit thin.
• Witnesses of Climatology quirky but great people. Ex Googlers Malcolm Blaney and Olya Irzak are here, among others.
• Terra.do, pretty rigorous online class for climate science, policy, tech, etc foundations.
• Climate Draft, individually focused incubator for tech industry veterans looking to jump into climate tech. I’ve participated on a number of its events, eg this one for engineers.

Media, newsletters, podcasts:

• Grist, good broad climate journalism
• Carbon Brief, deeper, hard-headed, research driven analysis. Halfway between journalism and academic papers.
• Bloomberg Green, early but promising.
• Ramez Naan, is great
• The Interchange, energy specific, mostly utility scale but broad
• The Energy Gang, ditto
• How to Save a Planet, fun but very broad
• Climate Tech VC
• ZERO

Reports:

• State of Climate Tech 2020 (PWC), massive recent investment-focused report on the space, long but worth reading
• What can a technologist do about climate change? (Bret Victor), seminal
• CO2 Series
• Climate Tech’s Second Shot (Quartz)
• Good Tech Lab’s reports
• What to Build, Climate Edition (EIP)
• We Need to Take CO2 Out of the Sky (Ryan Orbuch)
• Our World in Data: CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, The world’s energy problem, Energy access

Funds and accelerators, way too many to list! Here are a few:

• EIP w/Shayle Kann et al
• Generate Capital w/Jigar Shah
• Breakthrough Energy, Bill Gates’s, huge footprint, well respected
• Clean Energy Ventures
• Lowercarbon Capital, Clay Dumas (via Chris and Crystal Sacca)
• Moxxie, ex Googlers Katie Stanton and Alex Roetter, on their second fund, partly aimed at climate tech
• TechStars, Cody Simms, Zach Nies, et al (sustainability accelerator and challenge)
• Sequoia, Bryan Schreier, ditto
• Jetstream, Tommy Leap, ditto
• Union Square Ventures, Albert Wenger
• Lionheart, Sierra Peterson
• True Ventures, Priscilla Tyler
• On Deck, a bunch of good climate tech people like it/did it/are doing it
• Version One, Angela Tran
• Congruent, Joshua Posamentier
• YC’s Challenge
• Pale Blue Dot
• Clean Tech Open
• Radicle Impact
• Powerhouse
• First Round, Bill Trenchard
• Climate Capital and Duro, Sundeep Ahuja

Events:

• Green Biz, one of the biggest event producers in the space
• Sustainable Business Global was pretty good, they may do more
• Countdown from TED, mostly activism but big

Notable orgs:

• Drawdown, more or less the Bible of the space, at least for tech and mitigations. Also see their new “Labs” umbrella project.
• IPCC, naturally
• Rocky Mountain, legendary clean energy think tank and R&D group
• World Resources Institute, similar, heavier on policy, lots of concrete projects
• Earth Defense Fund, ditto
• GHG Protocol, standard for emissions measurement and reporting
• Net Zero Framework, same but for investors
• Carbon Accounting Financials, similar
• Stripe Climate, Nan Ransohoff and Ryan Orbuch et al
• (carbon)plan, Jeremy Freeman et al, hard core data science driven research
• Carbon180, well respected clean tech lobby
• Ceres, similar
• Climate TRACE, awesome coalition working on the global emissions stocktake, starting with energy generation

Other:

• US Career Institute’s Guide to Green Careers
  via Ruth Platt, Ellie, Laurel, Samia, and Nathan