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I want to shift my career to focus on climate change over the next ten years (though likely remain a developer, if possible).
by jonstewart 8y ago
I want to shift my career to focus on climate change over the next ten years (though likely remain a developer, if possible).
- bjelkeman-again 8y agoI did. The projects I work on now only involve dealing with mitigating the effects/lowering the things that produce climate change. There is a lot to do in this area and most organisations that work with it don’t have good IT teams. This can be good and bad. If they don’t understand IT then they don’t value it, but if they get it then there are very interesting jobs to be done.
- doitLP 8y agoCan you share your company or examples of others like it? Besides some non-profits, I can't seem to find very many and it's something I'd like to do but remain a developer.
- bjelkeman-again 8y agoCheck my profile. There are quite a few companies that specialise in things relate to lowering our emissions. Solar, power networks, electric cars, heat pumps, new types of transport (electric boats, trains, planes), urban agriculture and more. They are all going to need good control systems, machine learning for optimisation and much more. Just some ideas.
- maliker 8y agoIf you have software skills, electric utilities are hungry for good developers, are a key piece of infrastructure for fighting climate change, and are going through an IT revolution (from a host of special purpose systems to well-integrated sensor and control platforms).
- mrfusion 8y agoI tried to do this on a volunteer basis. I wrote to a bunch of professors in the field but they all had zero interest in software engineering help. I had assumed it would be incredibly useful and they jump at getting it for free :-(
- sn9 8y agoIf you needed ideas: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/