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What Tech Can Do About Climate Change

Daniel Lew
November 20, 2019

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

Daniel Lew

November 20, 2019
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  1. What Tech Can Do About
    Climate Change
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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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