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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 18/03/2026

The latest effective environmentalism newsletter is now available on Substack! Not subscribed yet? Leave your email for monthly insights into effective climate action. effectiveenvironmentalism.substack.com/p/low-hangin...

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There's a lot of low-hanging fruit

There are millions of people working on climate, but some of the lowest-effort highest-impact projects still aren't being picked up.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 31/01/2026

🌳 Check out our most recent newsletter: 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐲𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫? 📰 Dive into the climate issues that arise from our food system, as well as what you can do to effectively tackle them! Read more: open.substack.com/pub/effectiv... #FoodSystemChange

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 03/12/2025

⭐ It is Giving Season! ✨ Want to contribute to a better world? @givinggreen.earth and @founderspledge.com curate lists of top #climate #nonprofits that excel in high‑scale, tractable, and under‑addressed problem areas. Donate to these and help deliver the greatest climate benefit per dollar!

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Nine high-performing charities to consider this Giving Season

Your climate donations achieve the biggest impact if you follow the recommendations by charity evaluators.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 28/11/2025

Does the inaction and inertia around climate crises also make you wonder how to create climate progress without mainstream political support? What is there to do when policymakers don't seem to care about the climate..? You may find an answer in our latest newsletter, out now! 🌱

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How to create climate progress without political support

How to make progress when policymakers don't care about the climate

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 12/09/2025

𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆? 🌻 We love for likeminded, action-oriented, and impact-driven people who want to meaningfully build a better world to find each other! More info: www.effectiveenvironmentalism.org/articles/tak... 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘶𝘱: docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/...

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Ruben Dieleman @dieleman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Often @soemanozeijlmans.eu and I receive questions regarding things You yourself can do for the environment in an effective way. We love that question! There's a range of options, with regards to your career, donations, but also for example your lifestyle or consumption - which one(s) do you pick?

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 02/07/2025

Knowing when the monsoon starts is crucial for successful climate adaptation. Find out more in our latest newsletter, which is also chock-full of interesting articles and opportunities. Not subscribed yet? Don't miss the next one: sign up! effectiveenvironmentalism.substack.com/p/why-the-ne...

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Why the next climate adaptation breakthrough might come from AI weather forecasts

Farmer-centred weather services can enable hundreds of millions of farmers to adapt to climate change.

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Ruben Dieleman @dieleman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🌳 The latest @effectiveenvironmentalism.org newsletter edition is packed with content! - A new career guide for building a high-impact career 🧩 - What we’ve been reading and listening to 🗞️ - Some great job openings and opportunities! 🔭 Check it out!👇

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Soemano Zeijlmans @soemanozeijlmans.eu · 21/05/2025

Next Tuesday I'll join the 10% Club in Eindhoven (NL) at their event about how your donations can drive key innovations to reach net-zero emissions. With exciting speakers from Doneer Effectief and Future Cleantech Architects! Tickets via the link below. lu.ma/r2wksqzn

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Accelerate Climate Innovations · Luma

Climate change affects us all and there are many charities to raise the alarm and address it. However, which innovations are needed to close the gap towards…

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Opportunity Green @opportunitygreen.org · 21/05/2025

🚨 We're #hiring a Legal Manager to drive decarbonisation of the medium to heavy-duty vehicles sector🚨 💸 Salary: £50,000, plus 10% employer-contributed pension.   📍 Location: London or remote (UK). 📅 Deadline: 9:00am BST, 9 June 2025.   Apply👇 www.opportunitygreen.org/vacancies-le... #GreenSky

Legal Manager

Salary: £50,000, plus 10% employer-contributed pension, four day full-time work week.

Location: London-based or remote in the UK with two consecutive days per month in London.

Deadline: 9:00am BST, 9 June 2025.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 08/05/2025

Our co-director Ruben Dieleman (@dieleman.bsky.social) hosted a session at #EAGxNordics in Oslo about what the climate movement can learn from effective altruism, and vice versa. Thank you for joining our session, and stay in touch!

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Giving Green @givinggreen.earth · 07/03/2025

🚨 We're #hiring! 🚨 📌 #Research Associate/Senior Researcher to drive evidence-based #climate giving 📌 Experts to support projects in #biodiversity & #PuertoRico climate landscape 🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/46xb2dzk 📩 Questions/interest: givinggreen@idinsight.org Boost & tag!

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Careers | Giving Green

The latest climate career opportunities with Giving Green.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 31/01/2025

500 followers on Bluesky! Let's keep up the growth! 🎉

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 25/01/2025

🗣 "For me, effective environmentalism is a movement committed to making the greatest possible positive impact on the environment during their lifetimes. This involves leveraging their careers, donations, and influence to identify and pursue the most impactful ways to drive meaningful change."

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 25/01/2025

🗣 "It might sound idealistic, but I truly believe the world would benefit from more collaboration and kindness. We already have the resources and knowledge to address some of the biggest challenges we face. Yet, we fall short because we don’t work together effectively."

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 25/01/2025

In an incubation program, Jennifer co-launched @mieuxdonner.org to help others do the same: 🗣 "Our mission is to raise as much money as possible for the world’s most effective charities. We use research by independent evaluators of global health, animal welfare, and climate change charities."

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 25/01/2025

For the last seven years, Jennifer has split her time between guiding hiking trips in the Alps, ski trips in the Arctic, and marketing work for effective giving. "I realized that my altruistic actions could have a far greater impact than I’d ever imagined." She started donating 10% of her income.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 25/01/2025

What drives mountaineer Jennifer Stratton (@mieuxdonner.org) to fundraise for the world's most effective climate charities? "Climate change is an issue close to my heart, particularly as I live in the Alps and witness the glaciers retreating year after year." A thread 🧵👇

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 13/01/2025

This is an excellent take on effective climate action! Please consider making a short write-up of your conclusions on the EA forum and/or the Effective Environmentalism LinkedIn group. Let us know if you have any questions! www.linkedin.com/groups/13002...

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LinkedIn Login, Sign in | LinkedIn

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 13/01/2025

Adaptation is the most effective approach to reduce climate damage in the near term, but emissions abatement is the most effective approach to avoid huge amounts of (heavily discounted) climate damage over the long term. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Near-term benefits from investment in climate adaptation complement long-term economic returns from emissions reduction - Communications Earth & Environment

The near-term economic benefits of adaptation to climate change and the longterm return-on-investment from emissions abatement are complementary and most effective in combination, according to an anal...

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 11/01/2025

Nah we defo hate the fossil fuel industry too Jak

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 11/01/2025

🇺🇸 US: Food Policy Pathways is a newly-launched non-profit helping talented people pursue impactful careers in food policy within city, state, and federal governments. www.foodpolicypathways.org

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Food Policy Pathways

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 11/01/2025

⏰ Two exciting career opportunities for advancing sustainable food systems! 🧵 - 🇪🇺 In Europe: The Impactful Policy Career Accelerator is recruiting talent for sustainable food policy careers. Deadline: Jan 19th. www.impactfulpolicycareers.com - 🇺🇸 US: Food Policy Pathways, see thread below. 🧵

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Impactful Policy Careers

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 11/01/2025

Lesson 4: Invest in state-capacity. Madrid invested in experienced in-house engineers and managers to design and oversee projects. The public construction company paid top experts and prioritized cost-quality balance over low-cost bids to ensure long-term success.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 11/01/2025

Lesson 3: Trade-offs matter. Building the fastest, most innovative or most prestigious design will come at a cost. Stations are standardized using simple designs, rather than unique architectural marvels.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 11/01/2025

Lesson 2: Time is money. The regional government cut through delays by streamlining environmental and planning processes. Meanwhile, construction teams worked around the clock, tunneling 24/7 to expedite delivery.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 11/01/2025

Lesson 1: Reward fast and inexpensive delivery. Madrid concentrated planning, funding, and construction at the right level. This enabled streamlined decision-making and allowed political leaders to make promises tied to infrastructure delivery, linking their electoral success to project outcomes.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 11/01/2025

Madrid has been able to expand its metro system for one key reason: low costs. The costs per mile are many times lower than elsewhere in Europe and North America. What lessons does Madrid's success teach us for building good and cheap mass transit?

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 11/01/2025

Welcome to Bluesky, #climate people! Effective Environmentalism is a community that researches and advocates for evidence-based, ambitious, and cost-effective #climatechange solutions. Give us a follow! (And a special warm welcome to people finding us through @katharinehayhoe.com's starter pack! 🙏)

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Soemano Zeijlmans @soemanozeijlmans.eu · 04/01/2025

I wrote a post on the EA forum about whether a carbon tax will lead to more animals (mostly chickens) being slaughtered. A quantitative model: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/KbREam...

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Will a food carbon tax lead to more animals being slaughtered? A quantitative model — EA Forum

Does a food carbon tax increase animal deaths and/or the total time of suffering of cows, pigs, chickens, and fish? Theoretically, this is possible,…

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

1/ Does climate activism work? The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how Here are some highlights 🧵

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 21/12/2024

Banning sources of lead simply works: "The phase out of leaded gasoline, and regulations on leaded paints and pipes has led to a dramatic reduction in lead poisoning across many countries." - @ourworldindata.org

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 18/12/2024

Juan Garcia on the EA Forum: "Changing flight altitudes by roughly 2,000 feet to dodge high-humidity zones could dramatically reduce contrail-induced warming. [This] could cut the climate impact of aviation in half, at very low cost." forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpnAiW...

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Contrails: an underrated climate mitigation opportunity? — EA Forum

Summary There could be a major, overlooked climate opportunity: avoiding persistent contrails caused by aircraft. These contrails can form cirrus-lik…

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 17/12/2024

"Put differently: US philanthropy is still much, much, much more about rich guys like David Geffen slapping their names on concert halls than it is about donating to help people dying from malaria." - Peter Singer @petersinger.info boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com/p/why-charit...

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Why charity should be optimized.

Dylan Matthews' devastating response to Emma Goldberg's New York Times article

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 13/12/2024

Future Matters is hiring for a Senior Policy Manager in Climate Protection (Brussels) to lead a team of staff to get the most effective but neglected climate policies on the Commission agenda. 🫵 Is that you? Apply now! 👉 Not you? Forward it to someone else! careers.future-matters.org/32325

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Senior Policy Manager in Climate Protection - Future Matters

Future Matters is hiring a Senior Policy Manager in Climate Protection

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 13/12/2024

The Lead Exposure Elimination Project is hiring for Program Managers, Senior Managers, a Program Manager (industry), and a Program Consultant for Indonesia. 🫵 Is that you? Apply now? 👉🏽 Not you? Forward to someone who should apply. leadelimination.org/jobs/ #jobopportunity

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Jobs | Lead Elimination

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 10/12/2024

Also, we need to making new expensive cleantech cheap. There are many crucial technologies, like geothermal, storage, and alternative proteins, that haven't had the same investments as solar and wind yet: effectiveenvironmentalism.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

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The case for working on solutions that don't work (yet)

Solar and wind are growing rapidly, but also have their limits. We need to develop and scale up other clean energy technologies.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 10/12/2024

Hi, we cover the social science of climate change here and in our newsletter! Can we join?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/12/2024

This has always been my worst fear about climate change: the worse it gets, the more geopolitical chaos it causes; the more geopolitical chaos there is, the harder it is to cooperate to fight climate change. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

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A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning

Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 06/12/2024

ALLFED has curated a database of research opportunities in food security during global catastrophes, including climate change. If you're excited about feeding the world in disasters and want to do research, check out the database here: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5Fc6Wj...

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Database of research projects for volunteers in food security during global catastrophes (ALLFED) — EA Forum

Link to Database • In short The Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) is a nonprofit food security organization that aims to help build…

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Effective Environmentalism @effectiveenvironmentalism.org · 06/12/2024

What are the most promising philanthropic strategies to halt biodiversity loss? A report by Effektiv Spenden identifies four opportunities: 🧆 Alternative proteins ⛓ Supply chain transparency ⚖ Legal Action 💧 Wetland conservation Read a summary or the report: effektiv-spenden.org/en/blog/the-...

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The dual climate and biodiversity crisis | Effektiv Spenden

Biodiversity is in crisis. Donations should be geared more towards the highest impact opportunities.

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

What's the deal with vertical farming? *Can* potentially work for a small group of crops: mostly greens and possibly some fruits. But far too expensive for cereals or other staple crops. My latest Substack which digs into the numbers: www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/vertical-f...

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Vertical farming: a local solution for greens, but not feeding the world any time soon

While it has lots of benefits, the economics just don't work.

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University of St.Gallen @unisg.ch · 03/12/2024

In the new episode, Julian Kölbel speaks with Paul Smeets, a professor of philanthropy and sustainable finance at the University of Amsterdam, and Dan Stein, founder of @givinggreen.bsky.social, a research organization that assists donors in maximizing their climate impact. ▶️ lnk.to/innovations-...

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