How does one go from teaching in Namibia to founding one of the most audacious climate change programs in the world? Well, in Gavin McCormick's case he was convinced to attend a hackathon which led him to discover automated emissions reductions (AER) and in relatively short order to work with Al Gore to measure all of the world's emissions in real time through Climate TRACE.
In the first episode of season three, Gavin shares his story of how he become the co-founder and Executive Director of WattTime and the lessons he learned along the way.
Gavin McCormick is cofounder and Executive Director of WattTime, the not-for-profit tech startup that invented Automated Emissions Reduction (AER) technology. AER is software that causes IoT devices He is also cofounder and Electricity Co-Lead of Climate TRACE, an open collaboration between over 50 collaborating nonprofits, tech companies, and universities.
Climate TRACE teams are applying computer vision and machine learning to satellite imagery and big data to monitor all major sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Gavin dropped out of a PhD program in environmental economics at UC Berkeley to found WattTime. In 2021, Climate TRACE was named a TIME Magazine invention of the year.
You can learn more about WattTime on their website, https://www.watttime.org/. If you’d like to get in touch with Gavin you can follow him on LinkedIn. His TED talk on "Tracking the whole world's carbon emissions — with satellites and AI" from the TED Countdown conference in November 2021.
Season three of The Net Zero Life is powered by Climate People. If you are a software developer or recruiter looking to get into climate tech, Climate People is the best place to start. You can reach Brendan Anderson, CEO of Climate People, at brendan@climatepeople.com.
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Introducing: The Net Zero Life Season 3
#22 Building a Net Zero Future Through Information with Nat Bullard, Chief Content Officer of BloombergNEF
#21 Global Citizenship with Andrea Johnson, Executive Director of Green Empowerment
#20 Making Informed Consumers Purchases with Lizzie Horvitz, Founder and CEO of Finch
#19 Eliminating Single-Use Plastics in Foodservice with Linda Pouliot, Co-founder and CEO of Dishcraft Robotics
#18 Healthy and Energy Efficient Buildings with James Dean, Founder and CEO of Oxygen8
#17 Why We Need Carbon Removal (and How We Can Get There) with Nan Ransohoff, Head of Climate at Stripe
#16 Building a Net Zero Climate Tech Community with Candice Ammori, Director of On Deck’s Climate Tech Fellowship
#15 Zero-Carbon Wave Energy with Inna Braverman, Founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power
#14 Measuring Carbon and Then Doing Something About It with Taylor Francis, Co-Founder of Watershed
#13 Effective Climate Policy with Naomi Baum, COO of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
Introducing: The Net Zero Life Season 2
#12 Sustainability Podcasting with Peter Levin, Founder and Host of In Good Hands
#11 Nature Based Solutions with Diego Saez Gil, Founder and CEO of Pachama
#10 Geothermal Heating and Cooling with Kathy Hannun, Co-Founder of Dandelion Energy
#9 Engineering Our Way Out of Climate Change with Shashank Samala and Max Scholten of Heirloom Carbon
#8 Sustainable Optimism with Grant Brown of Happy Eco News
#7 Sustainable Snacking with Corey Nobile, CEO and Founder of Impact Snacks
#6 Sustainable Fishing with Dan Watson, CEO of SafetyNet
#5 Lightbulbs and Making an Impact Through Imperfect Solutions with Quintin Barnes, Co-founder of Allumia
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