This Week in MCJ (6/26/21)

Hi all,

As we mentioned in a post on Friday, we are hiring for an MCJ Community & Platform Lead. This is a super important role for us, and for the future of this community. Any help spreading the world on it would be appreciated!

Jason Jacobs 🇺🇸 @jjacobs22

Super important role at a super important time for our little company, and for addressing the problem of climate change. If this sounds like you, drop me a line!

My Climate Journey @mcjpod

We are hiring a Community & Platform Lead at MCJ. Please share far and wide! https://t.co/sDst5OPaFB

People ask if we are a media company, a member community, or a venture capital firm, or said another way, which piece of what we do is most important. The truth is we are none of those things, we are a new kind of org that has 3 equal legs of the stool, that each stand on their own while helping to reinforce the others. Breaking new ground this way means there aren’t a lot of corollaries. Makes it harder to explain what we do in the near-term, adds complexity when structuring the org, etc. But I have never felt more conviction than I do about our longterm direction with MCJ. You can think of us like a music mashup, with artists/genres blended together that don’t typically collaborate. Whether we are ultimately successful or not, I suspect we will see a lot more of these hybrid orgs popping up in different categories going forward, especially where they are wrapped around complex, systems-level challenges that take many stakeholders working across disciplines to properly address.

Thanks for being part of this community. We are working very hard to help it reach its fullest form.

Jason (& Team MCJ)

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🎙Episodes

This week's episode is a great discussion with Mary Powell, Clean Energy Leader & Former CEO of Green Mountain Power. Green Mountain Power is an energy transformation company providing power and innovative products and services to three-quarters of Vermont and the first utility in the world to become a B-Corp.

Duncan S. Campbell @duncan__c

Just listened to @MaryGPowell with @jjacobs22 and wow, what a great interview. The culture she built at GMP — one of creativity and optimism, but also getting things done today — seems incredible. Her articulation of the opportunity for DERs was really exciting as well.

✨Highlights

🤝Our friends at Nori, a startup creating a way for anyone in the world to buy carbon removals, are hiring for two roles: Project Manager and Methodology Analyst/Environmental Scientist. Both roles are based in Seattle, WA. Woodwell Climate Research Center, a leading source of climate science that drives the urgent action needed to solve the climate crisis in Falmouth, MA, is hiring a COO. 

💸Calling all early-stage women-led climatetech startups! Chloe Capital with Cornell University and NYSERDA announced a Diversity In ClimateTech initiative. Apply for funding today!

📚The MCJ Book Club is having its second meeting next Tuesday, June 29th at 6 pm PT. MCJers are reading The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. MCJ members can RSVP here. 

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💼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. 

📚Startup Resources

• The Clean Fight is a cleantech accelerator for growth-stage companies looking to scale in New York. Cohort 2 will focus on Clean Buildings: high-growth, scalable solutions decarbonizing the mass-market of buildings. Applications due July 18th, Apply Now!

• The Sustainable Ocean Alliance is excited to announce the Ocean Solutions Accelerator’s 4th Wave Cohort:  B'ZEOS, Blue Innov {Finsulate BV}, Hohonu, Seawater Solutions, tēnaka, Whale Seeker, and Plantish. Meet the founders, tune in to live panels, network with other ocean leaders and entrepreneurs on July 8th at Demo Day. Register here!

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👋 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.

• Alison Zabik: Currently working in oil and gas, Alison is a civil engineer looking to shift her career towards decision science and technology.

• Paul Lightfoot: Paul is the President & Founder of BrightFarms & writer of Negatives Foods Newsletter. He is passionate about food, particularly food that makes people healthier and that is better for the environment.

• McGee Young: McGee most recently was the CTO at Recurve. He is excited about decarbonization and making our energy systems more inclusive and just.

• Lena Backe: Lena is a San Francisco-based Business Designer at IDEO. She is fascinated by how design, innovation, and new business models can positively affect the environment.

• Tim Wolters: Tim has spent the past year starting up 1000gretas.org intent on finding early-stage climate-focused ideas/projects who could benefit from access to grants, mentoring, and network. 

• Jake Klamka: Jake is the founder of Insight Data Science and is excited to learn about developments in climate technology.

• Cheryl Sansonetti: Cheryl is the Marketing Director at NCX. Looking forward to connecting to like-minded folks charting new frontiers in climate.

• Adam King: Operations & Growth specialist, looking to learn more about the worlds of Climate Tech and AgTech.

• Marc O’Brien: Marc is a climate designer, strategist, and educator. He co-founded The Determined and Climate Designers.

• Katharine Wolf: Katharine is in asset and wealth management, most recently leading business development for BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth technology in the US.

• Todd Budin: Todd works for FIS, a fortune 200 Fintech, currently leading insurtech strategy and also contribute to corporate sustainability strategy.

• Andrew Kvaal: Andrew is COO of Ampion, which is a platform that manages the revenue side of community solar farms.

• Matt Senesky: Matt is in the early stages of building a platform called Iterant to accelerate the scale-up of the circular economy.

• Andrew Krulewitz: Andrew works at Flux Auto, a company serving high mileage drivers who want to go electric but may not be a good fit for a lease or a loan.

📌Community Board

News and initiatives from members of our community. MCJers mentioned can be DMed in Slack.

• ☀️Founder & MCJer Lassor Feasley seeking a technical co-founder and a finance & securities-oriented co-founder to build Legends! He has lined up financing for a healthy seed round to build an initial product. Reach Lassor on the MCJ slack or at Lassor@LetsBeLegends.com to learn more.

  Legends is a digital platform that allows individual retail investors to buy & sell fractions of operational solar panels and benefit from their financial return.

• 🙋🏻‍♂️Help with Testing Discord. Thai is testing new community tools on Discord. If you’re interested in participating or hosting a climate group on the MCJ Discord, feel free to DM him on Slack or better yet on Discord

🎟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 Happy Hour hosted on Discord (Wednesday, June 30th @5pm ET)

  Thai is organizing a casual MCJ happy hour for members to meet others in the community. We’ll be testing out Discord and its new “Stages” audio room feature — RSVP here!

• MCJ Ice Breaker (Thursday, July 1st @ 12pm ET)

  Come meet a fellow MCJer from the comfort of your computer. Enjoy several 1:1 & group conversations with fellow community members, RSVP here!

• DEI-Climate Justice Meet-up (Thursday, July 1st @ 12pm ET)

  This month’s theme is DEI and Climate Justice Education: How 2020/2021 Has Changed the Conversation Around Educating Yourself and Others. All are welcome to share and brainstorm on this and other subjects. Please RSVP here.

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