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We’ve published a new career guide with nine helpful tips for building a high-impact career
Give your input on effective biodiversity interventions
What we’ve been reading and listening to
Job openings and opportunities
We’ve published a career guide to help you navigate your decisions for finding a high-impact climate career.
You’ll spend about 80,000 hours at work. Finding a career that allows you to meaningfully contribute to tackling global challenges is the most important action you can take to leave behind a better world.
We invite you to take some time to think critically about how you can use your skills and time to make a difference in the world. This does not only help you to achieve a far greater positive impact—it could leave you feeling more motivated, energized, and inspired at work. Doing meaningful work can be a rewarding experience.
But don’t decide on your career to quickly. “Follow your passion” can be bad career advice. It’s good to take your time to think about solutions that work at scale and are neglected by other people.
Rethink Wellbeing is offering an exciting, fully-funded opportunity that could make a real difference for your community’s collective impact: the CBT Lab - at no cost to EA community members.
In 2024, participants in the CBT Lab reported significant improvements in productivity and mental health as large as those found in effectiveness studies on 1:1 psychotherapy. On average, participants gained 6–8 additional working hours per week. Organizations like Rethink Priorities, Charity Entrepreneurship, and 80,000 Hours have already benefited from our program.
Apply as soon as you can, as the final groups launch in mid-June. Luckily, the application form takes just 10 minutes to complete! Learn more about the program here.
The EcoResilience Initiative is looking for domain experts to inform their assessment method of which biodiversity interventions are most effective. Specifically, they are looking to talk to biodiversity experts, program coordinators, implementation experts, and systems thinkers. They’re hosting a workshop to understand what factors most often lead to success or failure of biodiversity interventions. By the end of this workshop, participants will have identified and prioritized what program factors and knowledge gaps are required to create a biodiversity assessment framework.
📅 Online 11am - 2pm UTC on Sunday 29th of June.
To join this workshop, send an email to EcoResilienceInitiative@gmail.com with your contact information and optionally a sentence about your background. The deadline for sign-ups is June 22nd.
New resources
Effective Environmentalism’s updated career guide
How To Get A Job, a great resource with practical advice by Probably Good
Systems Change Lab is now tracking the shifts and indicators for transforming food and agriculture by 2050.
Interesting articles
“Cool” years are now hotter than the “warm” years of the past: tracking global temperatures through El Niño and La Niña, by Hannah Ritchie from Our World in Data
Better air purifiers, by Jeff Kaufman on the EA Forum
The promise of an Advance Market Commitment to tackle methane from livestock, Market Shaping Blog, University of Chicago
When does charity effectiveness matter to donors? The role of ratings and expectations about cost-effectiveness, by Janek Kretschmer et al. (working paper)
The bad science behind expensive nuclear by Alex Chalmers for Works in Progress
Giving Green’s impact report and 2025 plans are here!
The Good, the Bad, and the Effectual, Olav Bjerke Soldal. The theory and systems thinking that take us from cost-efficient to cause-effective measures for long-term risks, such as the spread of malaria.
How to make heat pumps a financial no-brainer (Ravi Gurumurthy)
And lastly, this video about the meatless meat of the future on SciShow.
News
The Philanthropy Stepping in to Fund Center-Right Climate Groups, on the work of the Founders Pledge Climate Team over the past five years, reported by Heatmap
DOE cancels $3.7B in carbon capture, decarbonization awards, as reported by Utility Dive
Renaissance Philanthropy has launched a program on Advanced Research for Climate Emergencies
Microsoft and Sublime Systems sign deal to scale clean cement, Carbon Herald
Allseas will power their vessels with nuclear energy, Offshore Energy
We are highlighting some outstanding opportunities to make a positive difference with your careers. These positions are vetted by Effective Environmentalism and 80,000 Hours and are not sponsored.
📤 Even if your dream job is not on this list, consider sharing these opportunities in your network or forward the job description to someone who would be interested.
Worldwide
Register your interest for the High Impact Professionals Impact Accelerator Program, which helps experienced professionals achieve real-world impact through evidence-based tools and community support.
AIM is looking for participants in its Founding to Give program. Launch a high-growth company to donate to high-impact charities.
Europe
Climate View is looking for a Climate Strategy Advisor
CATF is hiring a Junior Consultant Carbon Capture
Future Cleantech Architects is hiring for a Cleantech Policy Officer and a Student Assistant Data Management and Operations
Good Food Institute Europe is hiring a Research Analyst
Upcoming events
6-8 June: EA Global: London 2025, UK (Come find us!)
11 June: Profit For Good Conference, hosted by School for Moral Ambition, NL
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