Climate Changes Everything

Jump Into ClimateSparks Projects

Whatever you do now for work & causes, imagine spending your time on projects advancing our greatest opportunities to create a safe and prosperous world for everyone! Interested in getting involved? We think of these projects as “ClimateSparks”. 

We support a broad range of climate activities. Starting with replacing fossil fuels with clean energy, we focus especially on “missing pieces” projects to build awareness and support to reverse (not slow) global warming and restore our climate. And we develop strategies to support institutions and solutions that advance those goals.

We’re eager to collaborate on projects and on ideas you propose.  We’ll list your proising ClimateSparks here. And you can work with others to bring them to life by applying to become a Climate Projects Manager/Sponsor/Mentor at ClimateSparking or email us. Here’s what  we’re up to and have in the works! 

Already Sparking 

  • ClimateSparking: Our new nonprofit startup enables young adult climate advocates now volunteering to work full-time on climate. We match them as Project Managers with Sponsors who pay them and with Mentors who advise them.  We’ve soft-launched in the San Francisco Bay Area in collaboration with Climate.Careers. Learn more…. And we’re recruiting a ClimateSparking Director. 
  • Climate Restoration Report Card for US Presidential Candidates: In partnership with Build A Movement 2020, we’re ranking leading candidates on their climate goals. By scoring them on more advanced criteria than other rating systems, we’ve begun influencing campaigns to respond more ambitiously to the scope, scale, and timing of our climate emergency. We’re now seeking partners to continue this process in the context of our strategy to Make 2020 a Climate Election. Learn more…
  • The ClimateHope Media Project: With Grist as our media partner, we’ve stated to create a major information source about reversing global warming and restoring our climate. Now we’re recruiting a team to launch Phase 2 and build a crowdfunding/crowdsourcing community at Patreon. Learn more…

Up Next

  • Climate Crowdfunding Projects including the ClimateHope Media Project, Our Stolen Futures, an award-winning filmmaker’s Climate Crisis documentary about the San Francisco Sunrise Movement Hub, and a conference/archive for the successful eight-year campaign for plug-in hybrids. 
  •  Ultrawealth for Climate Health: We’re beginning to network with successful climate-aware entrepreneurs and ultra-high net-wealth individuals looking for new challenges. Speeding recognition and adoption of safe, scalable solutions to reverse global warming and restore a healthy climate can be their most compelling startup ever. (And we hope some of them will be intrigued to work with a Climate Projects Manager!) We have a deck, a pitch, a shorter intro pitch, and an UltraRestorers Pledge. Learn more…
  • SF Bay Area Climate Restoration Initiatives Directory: We built this listing for Bay Area projects getting global attention for innovation to restore our climate. Tthey explore what’s possible, what works, and even what’s profitable. Now it’s hosted by the Bay Area Climate Restoration Circle, which aims to expand it. Learn more…

Has Kindling

  • Plug-in Hybrid Campaign Archive: A leading institution will host an archive of the successful campaign to get automakers to build PHEVs. (Felix Kramer, ClimateChangesEverything founder, started CalCars.org in 2002 and declared initial victory in 2009.) We’re looking for a Sponsor and a Manager to launch a crowdfunding campaign for the archive and conference, commemorating a decade since the Chevy Volt first arrived.
  • Drawdown wiki: We developed a template for a wiki (an independent crowdsourced encyclopedia) to explore and expand the world we can imagine from Drawdown’s solutions. To crowdsource information to speed research, development, and deployment of solutions, we want to develop, moderate, and promote it. The prototype is at the (unofficial) Drawdownwiki
  • ClimatePolitics wiki: For the 2016 elections, our working team assembled info on what candidates and incumbents say and do about climate change as a proof of concept. Bill McKibben called it “a useful resource,” and we got compliments from Mike Brune and Bill Maher. Now we seek partners to refocus our platform on 2020. Learn more….

Spark with Your Enthusiasm

  • Get Connected with Key Resources: The Airminers Carbon Removal Slack Group,with over 450 members, is an unparalleled community for carbontech networking & jobs. Its Slack channel (formerly at Carbon 180 and Manylabs) includes events, funding, and job postings. You can apply to join. And join/come to ClimateLink SanFrancisco Meetups — the group has over 2,300 members!  
  • The Climate Show: a monthly entertaining and thought-provoking variety show. We think it’s time to watch episodes about how people are reacting to living in a world declaring climate, ecological and species emergencies. See our Google Doc.
  • Bring Back the Band: Gatherings of people from other past social and environmental movements, who put their lives on the line when they were young. Anti-Vietnam war and anti-draft organizers, ACT Up activists, andothers . In their conversations about then & now, they’re joined by youth and young adult climate activists. They strategize about how to boost the latest efforts today’s activists are leading so Over Ten Million Americans Can Make 2020 a Climate Election — And Win!. The big Q: can older organizers awaken people from their generations to end business as usual in 2020, stepping far up on climate and election action?
  • California-Distributed Energy for Resilience, Independence and Justice: Help advance California climate innovation by demonstrating and deploying fully integrated solar homes with microgrids and connected electric vehicles in low-income communities at the Wildlife-Urban Interface. See our Google Doc.
  • Recruit Climate Wikimedians: That is, Wikipedia editors for climate articles, especially on reversing global warming, carbon dioxide removal, and restoring our climate. We will connect you with people who will train you! (Wikipedia requires that all editors be volunteers.)
  • Climate Activists’ Cohort at Living Room Conversations: Would you like to build dialogues where small groups can join each other in Living Room Conversations? Use the acclaimed conversational model that connects people despite differences to find common ground and shared understanding. See our Google Doc proposal.
  • SF Bay Area Meets Carbon Removal and Climate Restoration: We want to organize meetings and make connections among San Francisco Bay Area organizations, communities, advocates, and activists working on Climate Restoration. That includes the presenters and groups we proposed in 2019 for a project that didn’t happen to brief the climate advisors of presidential candidates. Learn more..
  • Hey, Catch Today’s ClimateMinute: What if every morning, you got that invitation? You, the climate advocate, activist, educator, scientist, entrepreneur, or the civic, corporate or political leader. And then you and millions could click on and pass along a free, eye-opening quick video climate message: moving, funny, inspiring, alarming, ridiculous, thought-provoking, urgent, galvanizing. We seek a strong evangelist for an idea we proposed some time ago. Learn more…
  • BecauseClimate: A portal building on an increasingly popular meme (Because Internet) to bring together all the projects and people working for Global Warming Reversal/ Climate Restoration. (We own the URL.)