New to climate tech? Our favorite intro resources & communities

Plus, fill out the talent collective form and book a time to chat with me about your climate tech job search!

Announcement: if you’re a job seeker looking for a climate tech job, consider joining the talent collective here: https://climatetechlist.com/talent-collective - I (Steven Zhang) am trying to do intro chats with members who join, to try to understand ClimateTechList’s audience more- I’ll be happy to offer you job searching tips based on talking to other job seekers and hiring managers in climate tech and my extensive software job search/interview experience.

New to climate tech?

New to climate tech? Here are some of the go-to resources I send to friends interested in the space. Check out the full blog post here: https://www.climatetechlist.com/blog/new-to-climate-tech.

In particular I’d like to call out a few communities/resources:

• Work on Climate Newsletter
  (full website here) &
  MCJ Collective
  - both excellent slack groups with a few thousand participants looking for climate tech jobs or looking to start companies

• Geographic-specific newsletters that compile events

  • NY Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani
    - weekly grassroots/crowdsourced newsletter compilation of climate tech events in Greater NYC. Started during pandemic as a few dozen folks and has now grown to thousands!

  • SF Bay Climate Tech by Alec Turnbull & Sonam Velani

  • Boston Climate Tech
    - started by me after I moved to Boston in Fall 2022- I was inspired by
    Alec Turnbull
    and
    Sonam Velani
    ‘s newsletter in Boston and so wrote one here

• seattleclimate.tech - Monthly meetups for folks interested in or already working in climate, run by a rotating cast of community hosts!

Check out the full blog post here: https://www.climatetechlist.com/blog/new-to-climate-tech

2 links

I’ll end this newsletter with two links to share, one on job searching and one on climate tech

• Job searching: I went on the Kadima Careers podcast with my friend

  Chris Talley
  to talk about WARN notices and how we can use them to measure the impact of the current layoff environment. Chris and I worked on a project (independent of ClimateTechList) the last few weeks to collate and aggregate government layoff records (see https://www.warntracker.com/)

• Climate tech: Matt Yao of

  Build in Climate
  had an excellent deep dive on heat pumps.

Cheers,

Steven Zhang