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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

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.

Politics

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.

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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

Effort to curb Southern California rail yard pollution stalls under Trump

It isn’t just the U.S. The whole world has soured on climate politics.

New Mexico’s billion-dollar oilfield orphans

New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

Climate activist Bill McKibben to Houston: It’s solar’s time to shine

New Hampshire snowpack decline reveals hidden impacts on forests and water