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Tech to climate career changes: Why these workers left jobs like Google

Tech workers are walking away from high-paying jobs with great perks to help fight what they believe is the greatest existential problem of our lifetimes: climate change.

Solutions

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How Opower, sold to Oracle, has helped save $3 billion in energy bills

Alex Laskey and Dan Yates started energy efficiency company Opower, took it public, and later sold it to Oracle. They also saved consumers a lot of money.

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Climeworks, carbon dioxide removal company, building Iceland plant

Climeworks is building a plant in Iceland that will capture 36,000 tons of CO2 per year. It's a drop in the bucket, but the startup has huge ambitions.

Causes

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Dorsey, Saylor, Fidelity write to EPA to defend bitcoin mining

Some of the biggest names in bitcoin — including Jack Dorsey, Tom Lee, and Michael Saylor — have co-authored a letter to the EPA to refute claims made by House Democrats calling on the agency to investigate the environmental effects of crypto mining.

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Climate change will dominate Biden's agenda when he heads to Europe in two weeks

President Joe Biden will travel to Europe in two weeks, White House said on Thursday, with the global climate crisis on the forefront of the president's agenda.

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Google CEO: 'Bar none' climate is young people's top concern

Google's dedicated "sustainability" landing page is where the tech giant outlines its goals to combat climate change — like being carbon free by 2030 — and shows status reports on its environmental efforts, such as making a "hyperlocal" air quality map.

ORIGINAL REPORTING

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Tech to climate career changes: Why these workers left jobs like Google

How Opower, sold to Oracle, has helped save $3 billion in energy bills

Climeworks, carbon dioxide removal company, building Iceland plant

Dorsey, Saylor, Fidelity write to EPA to defend bitcoin mining

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Climate change is world's biggest problem

Climate change will dominate Biden's agenda when he heads to Europe in two weeks

Google CEO: 'Bar none' climate is young people's top concern

Insurers leave Maui wildfire survivors in unsafe homes, families say

Seafood testing project aims to safeguard Indigenous food traditions

Texas debates over new oil and gas waste rule heat up

Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley

Op-ed: We mobilized to defend the EPA in Trump's first term. This time the stakes are even higher.

Scientists warn that 2023's extreme ocean heat may signal a major climate shift

Trump plans to dismantle climate funding from key law if elected

Australia weighs delay on 2035 climate goals amid US election uncertainty