ericvanular

Great to see checks getting written for climate projects again! For anyone who may be interested, there's a supportive climate focused community and interesting climate projects over at https://collective.energy (founder here)

Paradoxically, the way to help create solutions to the climate crisis is... the same way we got into this mess - by following the money.

Most people realize that we all need to create impactful solutions to the urgent environmental situation. An obvious reason why this isn’t the case already is because environmental and economic incentives don’t point the same way.

In order to actually get wide-scale change happening quickly, we have to make use of the main driving factor in our society - capitalism. Broad appeals to people’s emotions unfortunately aren’t getting us where we need to be fast enough. Let’s instead use people’s self-interest to solve issues.

Author here. Let me know your thoughts on the post or the approach I'm advocating. Would love to hear contrasting opinions!

Thanks for your support! Feel free to join the community at https://collective.energy as well for more discussion about climate solutions

https://enviro.work is built on Django! It's an environmentally-focused jobs board for those looking to align their career with the climate crisis

Over the quarantine, I shipped https://enviro.work as a complementary jobs board to the community at https://collective.energy

Join the community at https://collective.energy or find a job at https://enviro.work working to help the environment! (disclaimer: I'm the founder)

I used to work for one of the largest independent power producers in Canada. Even in 2014, they were divesting from fossil fuel based generation and pouring everything into renewables. Great ideal, but it takes time!

Small plug for https://enviro.work (project I built that aggregates environmentally positive job opportunities)

Thank you for the feedback! I'll try to prevent newcomers commenting next time

Really appreciate the support. Feel free to join us at collective.energy and share with anyone else who you think would benefit from the community

Good call, I'll add some kind of About component

Thanks for your support. Feel free to share the site around!

Yes, that is on the product road map for sure. Thanks for your feedback and for caring!

We're rapidly adding more sources. I'm based in Canada myself so I'll work on getting some more options for you. We'd love to have your company post their openings on the site as well

Being aware is the first step in changing. I'm certain that your impact is a net positive. Thanks for caring!

Tagging is definitely on the product road map! Great suggestions, we'll see if we can get park and forest service jobs

We did a lot of manual work to vet and curate the sources here. Using our own framework to assess in addition to common sense for what doesn't pass the smell test. Feel free to suggest new sources or provide feedback for any you don't think are a fit!

We do our best based on a few criteria and provide as much information as possible but ultimately this ^

Theres a valid bug report here

Thanks for your feedback! Will start working on those fixes and features

Not intentional or requested on my part. Please feel free to delete those comments mods

These aren't bought upvotes!

Totally understand your feeling. I think the crucial part of doing this right is building a purposeful community, which is what we're doing at https://collective.energy

We do our best to remove expired jobs but if you let us know which one it is, we can address it quickly! Thank you for your support.

Thank you!

Thank you! Would you prefer a dedicated location search bar or radio-button style filters?

Fixed the debug traceback issue. Will work now on passing search params to other pages. Thank you!

Thanks for the feedback! Fixed the Django debug issue. Really appreciate your support, it's a work in progress but if we can even help a few people find meaningful work - it will be worth it

Hi HN!

Most of us want to do more in the battle against climate change - it’s tough when your work life is unrelated. Right now, if you want to find a job that helps the planet, there’s no clear way to go about that. You could look for environmentally focused companies individually and keep checking their site to see if they are hiring. But that’s tedious and it’s easy to miss new postings. Conventional job boards don’t have a good way of filtering for this. A couple of environmental jobs boards exist, but they have low post volume and are dispersed geographically.

https://enviro.work is the place to come find green jobs in one spot. Think of it like a search engine for all Earth-friendly jobs out there. We aggregate eco-positive jobs from different sources and link you back to the source.

We wanted to help empower purposeful individuals to maximize their potential for the planet. Enviro.Work is linked with the community at https://collective.energy, where you can find inspiration, feedback, and an audience for your eco projects. Turn climate ideas into plans into reality - then build your team with Enviro.Work.

I'd love to know what you think and hear your helpful feedback.

Thanks for caring! Eric (Enviro.Work maker)

The last couple of months have been completely life changing. Oddly enough, they were always supposed to be, but in very different ways than I expected. I’m sure most people could say that right now, but being in 6 countries during that period really turned things up to the next level.

I wrote this as somewhat of a self-therapy session but other people have told me that I should share it.

Ultimately, I ended up in the Philippines, Indonesia (Bali), Australia, Mexico, the United States, and Canada within a roughly 6 week period.

Hope you enjoy the crazy story.

Hi everyone, I'm Eric! I help businesses to build technology products and tools. I've been doing software consulting for the last 5 years and a couple of months ago decided to start doing it independently (great timing I know). I also build side projects and am the maker of Collective.Energy - an online community for crowdsourcing and developing climate solutions.

Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes, like most currently

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

    Languages - Python, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, Bash, MATLAB, R

    Data Science Concepts Including - Linear/Logistic Regression, Classification, Bayesian Statistics, Neural Networks, Probability Distributions, Split Testing, Dimensionality Reduction, Error Metrics, Feature Engineering, Regularization, Normalization, NLP, Reinforcement Learning

    Some Frameworks/Libraries/Environments I use regularly - Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Jupyter, Flask, Express, React, Redux, Node.js, Socket.io, Bootstrap, Flexbox

    Data Technologies - SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), GraphQL, JSON, CSV, Tableau, PowerBI, D3.js, and many more

    Machine Learning Software - scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, fast.ai, OpenAI Gym

    DevOps - Unix, Git, Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericvanular/

Email: ericvanular@gmail.com