CAT Skills

This is an informal study group among tech professionals in the Climate Action Tech community who want to learn and discuss what they can do to mitigate the climate crisis.

Documentation from this project will contribute to Micro Climate's 1000 Ideas.

December 6, 2019

• Location: Mozilla Office, Community Space. Schlesische Straße 27. 10997 Berlin, Germany
• Time: 09:30 - 15:00. Flexible. Drop-ins ok.
• Hosts: Chris Adams and Michelle Thorne

• • 10 bold ideas to Projects/Micro_Climates**

Notes

• Possible: Our ten bold ideas for climate action in the 2020s: https://www.wearepossible.org/latest-news/ten-bold-ideas
• Possible also advocated for a Climate Debate in the UK. With ice statues of the politicians who didn't show up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6bJhKvFVw4
• Khazzoom–Brookes postulate: In the 1980s, the economists Daniel Khazzoom and Leonard Brookes independently put forward ideas about energy consumption and behavior that argue that increased energy efficiency paradoxically tends to lead to increased energy consumption. In 1992, the US economist Harry Saunders dubbed this hypothesis the Khazzoom–Brookes postulate, and showed that it was true under neo-classical growth theory over a wide range of assumptions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazzoom%E2%80%93Brookes_postulate
• 1856: Eunice Foote presented carbon dioxide
• William Stanley Jevons first observed that increasing efficiency of coal power plants, then more coal is used. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Jevons
• Sustainability Engineer career path. Responsible CS tie-in.
  • References: How to build an engineering competency matrix: https://circleci.com/blog/7-steps-to-building-an-engineering-competency-matrix/
• Museum of fossil-fuels opens in Sweden: https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/news--press-releases/pressreleases/2019/the-museum-of-fossil-fuels-opens-in-sweden--a-fossil-free-life-is-soon-a-reality
• Platform, Packets, Process: tools to quantify emissions in digital orgs.

December 13, 2019

• Location: Mozilla Office, Community Space. Schlesische Straße 27. 10997 Berlin, Germany
• Time: 09:30 - 15:00. Flexible. Drop-ins ok.
• Hosts: Chris Adams and Michelle Thorne