Love this idea. I'm going to create a thread for suggested new categories

@Eric-Chaves good suggestion

Toronto Based Meetup

• https://www.meetup.com/CLIMATE-CHANGE-Toronto/

@patrickmaynard cool concept you've generated here. You've obviously put a lot of thought into this.

While the overarching vision is inspiring, my suggestion would be to start with a much smaller kernel of a problem that a small group can reasonably complete in a small amount of time. Kind of following the "Lean Startup" approach where you validate the idea early and often without going off and building in the darkness for a long time.

What do you think could be the first step?

Hey guys, the great thing about this site is that it is what we make it. The founders have shown a commitment to let the community define its own direction. The only req. is that we try to have an action bias. So with that in mind, I'm starting a thread to discuss potential new categories that could make this site more useful to more people. If you have ideas, please comment and help make a small impact!

@Eric-Chaves welcome! awesome to have climate entrepreneurs as part of our group.

@isknapp Thanks for sharing. What is driving private capital in India/Africa? Is it just much cheaper to build there? I understand that the infrastructure required for just getting lights and cell charging is much less than a modern microgrid would demand

@cny the reality is that our current economic system is too deeply entrenched to change in time to avert climate catastrophe. You're talking about trying to change the underlying system that every person on the planet is already a part of.

We have to find a way to work within the constraints of capitalism. The suggestions you're providing would work within that context. It's just a matter of properly pricing things like the cost of environmental destruction through carbon taxes, disposal charges, and the like. What do you think?

@patrickmaynard cool concept you've generated here. You've obviously put a lot of thought into this.

While the overarching vision is inspiring, my suggestion would be to start with a much smaller kernel of a problem that a small group can reasonably complete in a small amount of time. Kind of following the "Lean Startup" approach where you validate the idea early and often without going off and building in the darkness for a long time.

What do you think could be the first step?

@Eric-Chaves welcome! awesome to have climate entrepreneurs as part of our group.

@Eric-Chaves good suggestion

Toronto Based Meetup

• https://www.meetup.com/CLIMATE-CHANGE-Toronto/

General Fusion is trying to create a commercially viable nuclear fusion product

@ericvanular nice article. One thought I had is that distributed energy resources don't seem like they would be able to get the same economies of scale that large centralized generation projects can?

@briparks understood, thanks!

@ericvanular this is a great idea which could work hand in hand with indigenous empowerment efforts! I don't know about the technical or financial aspects but the benefits go beyond just emission reduction

@briparks on that link it says "Earth Overshoot Day 2019 is July 29". What does that mean?