Career Pivot into Climate Tech

Adriana Penuela-Useche

September 4, 2024

In collaboration with:

Sneha Solanki

This blog contains significant resources that could support your thoughts about transitioning into Climate Tech. You will find links to communities, job portals, podcast, books, fellowships and much much more. Take a deep dive and get engaged in this transition economy.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Communities & job portals

My Climate Journey - MCJ Collective’s core mission is to break down knowledge siloes and unleash problem solving capacity, to support the development of climate solutions.
Climate Draft - For Tech workers specifically
Terra.do - Climate education, climate jobs and community
‍Air Miners - Climate education bootcamp, accelerator and business model structuring for carbon removal
OnePointFive - Climate education and community

Climatebase Fellowship - Climate tech jobs for tech backgrounds

Climate Change Academy- Climate change and domain education (free)
Sightline Climate (Climate tech VC) - newsletter, job portal, list of VC funds, curated insights, reports and more.
Work on Climate- slack channel, events, community, jobs
Climate Tech Cocktails - Happy Hours, podcast, substack
Ecotopian careers - Webinars
New Energy Network - Slack community by New Energy nexus
Volta Foundation - Non profit community over 100,000+ members in Battery space
Intercalation station - Newsletter, Substack in the Battery space by Nic Yiu
VC Familia - Latine specific support for VC

💼 Job portals of Climate focused VC funds

Breakthrough Energy jobs - BEV founded by Bill Gates focus on hard tech
Lower Carbon Capital job board - Chris Sacca’s fund
Energy Impact Partners portfolio companies - Top climate fund that focuses on energy and hard tech
The Production Board job portal - David Friedberg’s incubator - not climate specific but really good hard tech companies
Energize ventures job board of portfolio companies
ArcTern Ventures job board
Climate50 - List of top 50 Climate investors ranker annually split into early stage, growth, corporate VC, emerging managers and public's favorite. Check out their website for opportunities.

🎤 Podcasts

Catalyst by Shayle Kann from Energy Impact Partners - Technical, geeky, deep technologies
Obvious ideas by Andrew Beebee from Obvious Ventures - short form insights on technologies and ideas
My Climate Journey by Jason Jacobs - focus on startups, policy and workforce development
Watt it takes by Emily Kirsch of Powerhouse ventures
Climate tech Cocktails by Matt Myers - long form podcast with climate tech founders about tech and their journey
Zero by Akshat Rathi - One of the best Climate news reporters, Bloomberg
Energy Gang by Ed Crooks
Switched On - by Dana Perkins, Bloomberg

Sustainability at Haas - by Adriana Penuela and Olivia Wasteneys describing how UC Berkeley Haas is incorporating sustainability in their curriculum

📖 Books

Speed & Scale by John Doerr and Ryan Panchadsaram
How to avoid a climate disaster by Bill Gates
Project Drawdown , also website here
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson - Fiction/Novel
The Land of Milk and Honey - Fiction/Novel

Overstory - Fiction/Novel

🎓 Fellowships

CELI Fellowship - Clean Energy Leadership Institute - great networking opportunity for those in the Energy Space
EDF Climate Corps fellowship - Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) - fellowships in US, China & India
Climatebase Fellowship

💨 Accelerators, Incubators & EIR roles

Plug & Play
Activate
Greentown Labs
Third Derivative
Elemental Excelertor
https://heartland-climate.org/
Marble - Entrepreneur-in-residence roles, France based

Deep Science Ventures - Entrepreneur-in-residence roles, UK based
Department of Energy LEEP Program
The Greenhouse - A collaborative innovation program for women starting new ventures in climate