Here are the highlights of the effective environmentalism community of this month:
Join us on Slack: We’ve launched a Slack community for the effective environmentalism community to network and exchange ideas. You’re invited to join us!
Start a charity: Ambitious Impact is still recruiting for their Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. They’re looking for people who want to launch a charity for climate change co-benefits or to increase the impact of philanthropy.
We’ve created a Slack workspace for the effective environmentalism community. This is mean as a place to find and help each other, to discuss climate action strategies, and to exchange viewpoints, news, updates, and opportunities. We welcome anyone to join regardless of their experience with the ideas of effective environmentalism. We’re 60 members and counting. Join us!
It only takes a minute to sign up. Feel free to forward the link to your connections interested in effective altruism, climate change, and the environment.
Ambitious Impact is still recruiting people for their Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. This is a two-month, cost-covered training program that gives a small cohort of talented people from all over the world everything they need to launch a field-leading charity: training, an intervention idea, co-founder matching, seed funding, and a collaborative community.
In our previous newsletter, we explained why starting a charity is one of the most impactful career paths that you can take. Importantly, you don’t need to have prior experience with working for a charity to start one. That’s what this program is for.
You can apply for these rounds:
Climate, Animals, Health, and Development. Ideas include supermarket commitments for plant-based food, scale-up funding for alternative proteins, air pollution data and policy, and coal-fired brick kiln improvements.
Impactful Philanthropy. A special edition of the incubation program focusing on opportunities for new charities to make impactful changes within the philanthropic sector. This could include areas like funder education, grantmaking training, advisory services, new funds, or innovative events and networks.
Global Health & Well-being. Ideas relate to disability and family planning, details TBA.
PS. Ambitious Impact is also hiring for a Recruitment Manager and two Research Managers.
Here are some upcoming events you might be interested in attending:
Upcoming effective altruism conferences in New York City (applications close 28 September), Cape Town, Istanbul, Bogotá, Singapore, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Amsterdam, and New Delhi. (Our team will be at the Amsterdam conference; see you there?)
We’re hosting an effective environmentalism co-working session on 16 October in Amsterdam. Feel free to join if you’re working for high-impact climate charities, are improving the effectiveness of environmental NGOs, or are otherwise working on high-impact systems change.
For the climate, little things don’t add up: We need to think seriously about collective action. Tiny things on an individual level don’t add up to huge things on a global level, they stay the same tiny proportion globally as they are individually. We need to start thinking about the big things that do add up. (Andy Masley)
Three simple reasons why Founders Pledge thinks pro-nuclear climate philanthropy should (at least) triple.
1. Nuclear power is—despite its potential—neglected by climate donors.
2. There are more opportunities to work on now that there is some momentum for nuclear.
3. Supporting nuclear is a promising hedge against traditional climate progress stalling.
Animal products and commodities grown in the tropics have the largest impacts on species extinction, with most total impacts from high-income countries driven by beef consumption. (Ball et al., Nature Food)
Which countries are scaling solar and wind the fastest? The leaderboard is quite different depending on what metric you look at. China is—by far—adding the most capacity in absolute numbers, but countries in Western Europe and the Baltics are increasing the share of electricity generation coming from solar and wind the fastest.
Funding opportunity: Rodent fertility control as solution for both animal welfare and conservation. (Nitin Sekar on the EA Forum)
Hannah Ritchie’s book Clearing the Air is now out in the United Kingdom. It answers 50 common questions about climate using by taking a look at the data, from the author of Not the End of the World.
Giving Green has announced its priorities for research and grantmaking for climate change mitigation in 2025.
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