This Week in MCJ (6/12/21)
This Week in MCJ (6/12/21)
Hi all,
We had two big events happen this week. The first was our all-hands offsite, where I got to meet the other MCJ’ers on the core team in person for the first time (besides Thai, who I met a few times pre-pandemic)! It was so great to meet them, and we covered a lot of ground, as well! We are juggling a lot right now, but we are inching our way towards turning a corner to get more great people on the full-time squad, which will enable us to move a whole lot faster. I can taste it, and just trying to keep our eyes on the prize!
Second, we had our monthly Town Hall on Friday. This was one of the largest Town Hall turnouts to-date, and also one of the most engaged Town Halls we’ve had, as well. I think it is because we ran through the slides from our offsite with (what I think is) radical transparency, including metrics, key strategic questions we are wrestling with, challenges, etc. The MCJ’ers who attended gave us some really great input, and we are excited to put some if it into action in the coming weeks!
This community is super special to me, and while I am proud of what we’ve built so far, there is so much low hanging fruit in terms of improvements we could make that would make the experience a whole lot better. It has been hard to find the resources with our paper-clipped team, but knock on wood, that will be changing very soon! Stay tuned :)
Jason (& Team MCJ)
🎙Episodes
This week's episode is a discussion with Jim Kapsis, Founder & CEO of The Ad Hoc Group. The Ad Hoc Group is a focused consultancy working to help startups succeed in complex regulated markets, such as energy, mobility, and smart cities.
✨Highlights
Climate News this week! This week, President Biden’s Infrastucture negotiations broke down with Senate Republicans on Wednesday. Embedded in the president’s infrastructure proposal were billions of dollars to help pivot the country away from the fossil fuels that are generating the pollution that is heating the planet. On Friday, The UN secretary general , António Guterres, said, ‘we’re coming to the point of no return’. He’s concerned that the richest nations have pumped billions more into fossil fuels than clean energy since the pandemic. The New York City Mayoral race is heating up, learn more about the climate policy of each candidate: How Will NYC’s Next Mayor Tackle Clean Energy And Climate Change? Another country is being taken to court by five of its citizens, the Polish government faces court action over failure to tackle climate crisis.
💼Climate Jobs
Jobs, fellowships, and career opportunities shared by members of the MCJ community. More opportunities can be found in #climatejobs in the MCJ Slack. Check out this google doc!
Field Operation Manager at Extensible Energy (job listing) (careers page)
Analytical Chemistry Scientist and Synthetic Biology Scientist at Compound Foods (job listing) (careers page)
2 Experience Associates and Candidate Associate at OnDeck (job listing) (careers page)
Strategic & operations role at Stripe Climate (SF/NY or Remote) (job listing) (careers page)
Global Operations Associate at Sust Global (US or UK, remote ok) (job listing) (careers page)
Entrepreneur In Residence Fellow at Prime Impact Fund (job listing) (careers page)
Lead Datat Engineer at Climate X (job listing) (careers page)
Program Manager at Terra.do (careers page) (job listing)
👋 Welcome New MCJers!
You can learn more about new members on #introductions, where you can welcome them to the community. Don’t forget to check out the Member Directory, you can learn more about fellow members and find people to connect with.
Connor Russo: Conner is the co-founder of Lifelike Labs, a digital product studio exclusively helping climate tech companies.
Anu Khan: Anu co-manages the Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund and advise philanthropists on how to give effectively.
Sally Graham: Delighted to join the MCJ community, Sally runs an impact investment brokerage called Fern Equity.
Karim Rahmani: Karim is an energy engineer now founding a CDR start-up in France. Glad to be a new member of the community.
Matthew Ciardiello: Excited to join the MCJ community, Matthew is the founder of Poplar Energy Storage.
Dax Denneboom: Currently building an automated vertical farming company; high quality food in a sustainable way based on data.
Paulinna Meskanen: Paulinna is exploring scalable science-based climate solutions and hope to find one that can form the basis for my future climate tech startup.
Chris Kliensener: Chris is the CoFounder & CEO of Workback, a marketplace for mid career internships.
Mark Wong: Mark is the former Head of product for Stripe Connect, ML, and payments experience at FB, MSFT. He is currently creating a start up.
Ken Alston: Ken is an investor & lead innovation partnerships at The Climate Pledge Fund at Amazon.
Eddy Chiang: Eddy is the co-founder and CEO of Moment Energy based out of Vancouver.
Marcus Lima: The co-founder and CEO of Heimdal, Marcus and his team are mkaing carbon neutral plastics.
📌Community Board
News and initiatives from members of our community. MCJers mentioned can be DMed in Slack.
Climate Changemakers is expanding to Europe! For those in the EU who want to get involved with political action + climate, join Climate Changemakers here!
🎟Climate Events
Check out the MCJ Calendar! We encourage members to host community events such as expert Q&As, book clubs, topic discussions, location-based meet-ups, and more! If you want to add your event to the calendar, email us the details at events@myclimatejourney.co. For third-party events, please use the #events channel in the MCJ slack!
Upcoming
MCJ NYC Meet-up (Wednesday, June 16th @ 7pm ET)
Meet fellow MCJers in NYC! For more info on the event, check out the #nyc slack channel. It will be held outside at Veselka (144 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003).
MCJ Book Club (Thursday, June 17th @ 6pm PT)
The MCJ Bookclub kicks of its second book this week. Join MCJers in Discussing The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson you can RSVP here.
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