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First, a curated list of opportunities to get involved with effective climate action:
The Kickstarting for Good incubation program is looking for people with bold ideas to change the food system, or ambitious entrepreneurs willing to take on vetted ideas! Selected applications will join a 15-week funded incubation program in Berlin. A total of $200,000 in seed funding is available.
(Deadline: 23 May)Rutger Bregman’s School for Moral Ambition is hiring for their Moral Ambition Fellowships. In small groups of talented individuals, you’ll take on sizable, solvable, and sorely overlooked problems, such as the food transition.
(⏰ Deadline approaching: 12 May. EU and USA)Join a tournament on climate tipping points with Metaculus and the Federation of American Scientists.
The New Roots Institute is hiring for several roles.
More opportunities on the 80,000 Hours job board, the Probably Good job board, the EA opportunity board, and maybe in this massive list of (not per se effective) resources.
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📰 News
Rutger Bregman’s newly released book Moral Ambition urges people to leave their pointless or even harmful jobs and build a career dedicated to the best solutions to the world’s biggest problems. As seen on The Daily Show. (Deadline for fellowships on May 12th!)
Our co-director Ruben Dieleman hosted a session at EAGx Nordics about what the climate movement can learn from effective altruism, and vice versa.
The European Commission is running a public consultation on industrial decarbonisation.
Ruben at EAGx Nordics
📚 What we’ve been reading and listening to
Why you can justify almost anything using historical social movements. There’s always a casy study to justify your beliefs about how social change happens. (James Özden)
Cultivating doubt: why I no longer believe cultivated meat is the answer. Will cultivated meat replace conventional meat, or instead compete with plant-based meat? (Tom Bry-Chevalier)
Why household name NGOs are unlikely to offer the best value for money. (Happier Lives Institute)
“Cool” years are now hotter than the “warm” years of the past: tracking global temperatures through El Niño and La Niña. (Veronika Samborska & Hannah Ritchie, Our World in Data)
📆 Upcoming events
10% Club Eindhoven: Accelerate Climate Innovations. How can you best help accelerate the innovations we need? (27 May, Eindhoven NL)
EA conferences
EA Global: London (6-8 June)
If you’ll be in London around that time, reach out to our team to have a coffee!
EAGx Nigeria (11-13 July)
EA Summit: Paris (13 September)
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