🌏 Amplifying opportunities for collaboration, connection, resource-sharing, jobs, & mentorship. 👩🏿🎤 Co-Founders @chante_harris & @urbanonsite
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Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
We need REAL FORESTS, not tree plantations, to avoid climate catastrophe.
Tree planting is NOT a free pass for unchecked carbon pollution.
🎨: @sepponet
#ClimateCrisis #Greenwashing
ALT Man giving huge pile of CO2 to baby tree. Cartoon by Seppo Leinonen (@sepponet), shared on his account to warn of the ravages of industrial logging in Finland.
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
Good climate news this week
1 China fossil fuel peak in 2024
2 Australia court halts pipeline to $5.8b gas site
3 London tops 10,000 EV charging points
4 J-Power to shut 2 500MW coal plants
5 Calpers ups climate investments to $100b
6 US postpones Gulf of Mexico oil & gas auction
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
What kind of future do we want?
#WorldCitiesDay
ALT Meme - Adults: Why don't kids play outside anymore? Outside: picture of endless urban sprawl, building, no green spaces
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
Suffocating cities that crush ecosystems and people alike, especially the most vulnerable?
Or safe, resilient and sustainable cities that protect all forms of life?
go to greenpeace.org/urban-justice to see more 🗺️🏙️🏞️
#WorldCitiesDay
ALT To commemorate #WorldCitiesDay on 31st October, Greenpeace International together with Clima e Mobilidade and the UMI Fund have launched an interactive, crowdsourced map providing information and resources for grassroots groups, organisations, and movements working on #UrbanJustice related issues across the world.
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
We must move away from the burning of dirty fossil fuels! Emissions are a public health crisis. Taking #climateaction will improve your health.
Air pollution may be to blame for thousands of dementia cases each year, researchers say cbsnews.com/news/air-polluti… #climatecrisis
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
Wondering if a masters, mid-career, or PhD is what's next for you?
Upcoming small group chats about degrees focused on:
May 25: Global Communications & #PublicDiplomacy
May 31: #HumanRights, #SocialJustice, Law
June 6: Energy, #Sustainability, Climate
bit.ly/springvoh23
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
We're excited to introduce our latest Gravity Exclusive Speaker, @chante__harris! A champion of social & finance innovation, Chante is an ACEEE Champion of Energy Efficiency & co-founded @WOC__CS. To learn more or to book Chante for your next event, visit bit.ly/426P3QX.
ALT Gravity Exclusive Speaker: Chante Harris
ALT Gravity Exclusive Speaker: Chante Harris
ALT Gravity Exclusive Speaker: Chante Harris
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
Happy Earth Day 🌎! It felt like the perfect time to announce my new role as CEO & cofounder of Matereal, a company tackling toxic plastics in fashion! Thank you @lizgiorgi for making my launch video dreams come true. Check it out bit.ly/3mWlK4p & Matereal.co
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
This #EarthDay2023, I’ll say it for the people in the back:
By signing the #EnvironmentalJustice Executive Order, @POTUS has directed that Environmental Justice be embedded into the DNA of the entire federal government. This is a win for Land, Water, Air & People everywhere
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
Per the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, solar and wind could account for as much as 62% of the U.S.'s total electricity generation by 2030. We're in the era of renewables now! bit.ly/3M7HmFk
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
So ecstatic about this #BlackEnvironRollCall!
I’m Chante, Dir. of Climate Investment & Partnerships @forclimatetech @secondmuse sourcing, funding & scaling global #climatetech solutions.
I’m also the cofounder of @WOC__CS amplifying & elevating BIWOC in Sustainability.
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
A MASSIVE congratulations to my good friend & Black girl environmentalist ICON @mikaelaloach on the release of her first book, “It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World”
@mikaelaloach is one of the most powerful climate communicators I know. Get a copy!!!!
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
Deadline Extended to April 7!
@RAYFellowship facilitates career pathways for emerging leaders of color in conservation, energy efficiency, #renewableenergy via 2-year paid fellowship. Recent college grads w/o previous experience or a grad degree.
rayfellowship.org/program-ov…
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
NEW: @chante__harris of @SchmidtFutures on the needed skill sets for the range of #climatetechnologies.
"The challenge for startups is what happens after they leave the sweet spot of where venture dollars invest,” she writes.
impactalpha.com/skill-sets-f…
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
NEW: “The current #climate moment hinges on the exploration and piloting by funders of new tools and mechanisms that can bridge the valleys of death that companies face at the early deployment stage,” @chante__harris
writes on @ImpactAlpha.
impactalpha.com/skill-sets-f…
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
We can’t give up on our planet; we can’t give up on each other.
#ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow via Just Comics.
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
Released today, the U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan lays out a vision for:
🌊Achieving a climate neutral future without harmful greenhouse gas emissions
🌊Accelerating nature-based solutions to climate change
🌊Enhancing climate coastal resilience
whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upd…
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
.@Meta, @ProcterGamble, and more are getting into water restoration projects to meet new water targets and cut risk. But it hasn't quite been smooth sailing. buff.ly/40q1iqO
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
Since its inception, Kapor Capital has invested in more than 170 startups — 62 percent of the founders identify as people of color and/or women, far higher than is typical. Read our interview with their founders. buff.ly/42iGJhz
Women of Color Collective in Sustainability WOC/CS retweeted
#IPCC Synthesis Report is now available via the report microsite at
ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
#ClimateChange #AR6