Work on Climate

We're honored to share that we've received the support of the Cisco Foundation to advance our mission of bringing professionals together to build a regenerative economy. Cisco and the Cisco Foundation invest in innovations that businesses and communities need to thrive into the future – including those that build resilience to a changing climate and foster energy security. In their words: "Work On Climate is blazing the trail on a powerful lever: millions of workers and professionals in many industries are passionate about climate action, but lack the support to fully participate in their industry's transformation. We are excited to support Work On Climate in filling this gap by building a distributed movement of changemakers." Big thank you to the Cisco Foundation for believing in our vision! #WorkonClimate #CiscoFoundation

After seeing firsthand how plastic waste was handled in Sweden, Dale Martin came home to Melbourne and couldn't stop noticing plastic bags tangled in a nearby fence. So he did something about it. He gathered a few people. Started a campaign. Faced some setbacks. Kept going. That grassroots effort eventually helped build momentum toward Victoria's 2019 ban on single-use plastic bags. When Dale co-founded Plastic Bag Free Victoria, he wasn't working in sustainability. But he saw a problem, rallied a community around it and used his agency to create change. The campaign didn't begin with a polished strategy. Dale didn't have everything figured out before committing to the change he wanted to see. In his words, "There's always a temptation to wait until something is perfect, but the opportunity cost of inaction is far greater." Read more about Dale's success starting Plastic Bag Free Victoria in the link in comments >>> 💡 What's one change you've started before you felt completely ready? #WorkonClimate #PlasticBagFreeVictoria

Join us July 9 at 9 am PST for the third event of our 8-part series, Inside the Bay Area Food System: Why Sustainable Packaging Isn't Moving Faster (and what you can do about it). Sustainable packaging options exist. The pressure to use them is real from consumers, from regulators, and now from California's EPR legislation. So why aren't more companies actually making the switch? We're bringing together Bay Area professionals who work on this from inside food companies, CPG brands, and supply chains, people who are running into the same walls and have something to say about it. Come if you're dealing with this as a: ✅ packaging engineer ✅procurement manager ✅ product developer ✅supply chain lead ✅ brand manager A peer speaker will open with a specific challenge they've navigated including tradeoffs and then we open the floor together. Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/eFTDKnGV

📣 New virtual series announcement! 📣 We're running a series of peer conversations focused on the San Francisco Bay Area called "Inside the Bay Area Food System: eight sessions with practitioners who are working on food systems challenges from the inside." We believe that the people closest to these problems — the ones navigating the supplier relationships, the composting infrastructure gaps, the internal buy-in battles, the policy constraints — have a lot to learn from each other. But they rarely end up in the same room. This series will run in small groups, with conversations pulling on people’s personal experience about what's working, what isn't, and why things keep moving slower than they should. Join us for the next two upcoming sessions: 🗓 July 2 — Food waste and recovery Food service, grocery, procurement, farming, food tech, waste management. 🗓 July 9 — Sustainable packaging Food, CPG, retail, food service, e-commerce. Links to register in the comments! #WorkonClimate #BayArea #FoodSystems

Six months ago, we announced a new direction for Work on Climate. Instead of focusing primarily on helping people find climate jobs, we're pivoting to helping people create change from wherever they are. In six months, we've learned a lot by asking questions: ➡️ What does it actually take to help someone become an effective change agent? ➡️How do you identify the people who are ready to lead? ➡️How do you build a movement around thousands of professionals driving change inside their own industries? There aren't playbooks for this. So we're building them as we go. In our latest blog, the Work on Climate team shares what we've learned so far — from our experiments, successes, failures, and the questions we're still working through. If you're thinking about leadership development, community building, or helping people create change from within their organizations, we'd love to hear what's worked for you. Read the blog below and join the conversation. 👇https://lnkd.in/emMJP-EU

We're looking for our next batch of volunteers to help us continue building and working toward our mission of building a regenerative green economy! We have open volunteer roles in the following areas: 💻 Team lead/lead researcher, Impact Research 🔦 Marketing team lead ✍ Strategic communications specialist 🤝 Program manager, mentorship 👋 Program manager, organizer support You don’t need to have a climate background to volunteer with us! Join us in building a climate-positive, harmonious, and equitable future 🌎 https://lnkd.in/g68s9FMa

When Alyah K. noticed thousands of pounds of perfectly edible food being thrown away at the Chase Center where they worked as a sustainability manager, they could have accepted it as "just the way things work." Instead, Alyah launched into nearly two years of conversations, stakeholder buy-ins, grant funding, policy research and problem solving to create a working food recovery program. Today, Pass the Plate directs surplus food to community organizations instead of compost after events and games at the Chase Center in San Francisco. Two years of persistence helped turn a simple idea into a program that changed how one of the country's busiest sports and entertainment venues thinks about food waste. 📺 Listen to Alyah's full story on how they built Pass the Plate: https://lnkd.in/exag4TS6 🗨️ What's the biggest barrier you've had to overcome to create change inside your organization? #WorkonClimate #FoodRecovery

Matthew Karmel, an environmental and sustainability lawyer who built his own practice, often talks about the concept of "Borrowing Credibility." It's this idea that you might not have all the experience, but you'll get there by getting involved in things that are bigger than you and taking actions as if you're already in the role — to make you credible. He now leads the environmental and sustainability practice at Offit Kurman, sits on the boards of two industry associations, and runs a newsletter specifically to help other lawyers do what he did — develop a climate-aligned practice without leaving the profession they're already in. What are some of the ways you can borrow credibility in your field to move towards your #climate goals? #WorkonClimate

A lot of people think change starts when you get buy-in from the most senior person in the room. But that's rarely how it works. Neil Yeoh, CEO and Founder at OnePointFive (opf.degree), a global climate advisory and training firm, recently spoke with Work on Climate about the power of the small yes — rather than trying to get approval from the top (where a "yes" is rarely heard), find allies close to you that can get you a meeting, an introduction, a conversation, or access. Those small yesses add up to big wins over time. And THAT'S how coalitions form, how momentum builds, and how lasting change happens. ➡️ What's a small yes you got this week? #WorkonClimate

Unsure of how you can get involved in growing your impact, wherever you are in your climate journey? On a recent Work on Climate webinar, Matthew Karmel shared his path into #climate work, starting with volunteering. Why is this a way in? He thinks of it as: 🔵 A networking exercise (stretch those muscles 💪) 🔵A skill-building exercise 🏗️ 🔵A resume builder 📜 Work on Climate is always looking for volunteers! Check out our open positions ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g68s9FMa #WorkonClimate