What Tech Can Do About Climate Change

Climate change is here and we need to do something about it. Perhaps you’ve heard of actions you can take to help, but as a person in the tech industry, you want to know how to best apply your unique skills and position to the problem. In this talk, I’ll go over specific steps that people and companies in tech can do to help the climate change cause.

You can watch a recording of the talk here: https://youtu.be/rypzipErlcU?t=1392

Transcript

1. What Tech Can Do About
   Climate Change
   @danlew42
   

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3. Solar radiation
   in the form of lightwaves
   passes through the
   atmosphere
   

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4. Most of this radiation
   is absorbed by the
   Earth and warms it
   

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5. Some energy is radiated
   back into space by the
   earth in the form of
   infrared waves
   

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6. Some of this outgoing
   infrared radiation is
   trapped by the earth’s
   atmosphere and warms it
   

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7. As the CO2 concentration
   increases, more of the
   outgoing infrared radiation
   is trapped.
   

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12. Can You Make A Difference?
    • Every little bit, optimized over billions of people, helps!
    
    • Americans have big potential for improvement
    
    • Tech solutions provide leverage and scale
    

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16. Green Software
    

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18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Data_Center.jpg
    

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25. https://www.deviantart.com/2bgr8stock/art/Money-Cash-113445826
    

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26. Invest or Donate
    

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27. https://davidmytton.blog/the-data-behind-49bn-of-cleantech-investment/
    

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30. https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/4773693893
    

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31. Work Remote
    

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34. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ANA_777-300_Taking_off_from_JFK.jpg
    

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36. Write Climate Software
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Programmer_writing_code_with_Unit_Tests.jpg
    

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44. Get Political
    

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45. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pennstatelive/29567895480
    

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50. https://idlewords.com/2019/05/what_i_learned_trying_to_secure_congressional_campaigns.htm
    

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52. https://twitter.com/algore/status/1159925482969866241
    Connect With Others
    

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53. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwward0/12182919023
    

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54. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greta_Thunberg_4.jpg
    

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58. Thank You
    @danlew42
    

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