Climate
Our climate philosophy
We believe that climate change is the next great challenge for humankind. As such, we’ve thought long and deep about our role and how we can help influence change.
As a digital media platform, we hope to use our outsized voice to help document one startup’s path to engaging the climate challenge.
After all, true climate action needs to be widespread, endemic, and taken up by every company. Here is a summary of what we’re doing, and don’t be shy to reach out if you have more ideas or partnerships for our climate journey.
Steps that we’re taking
- Decreasing our own emissions and offsetting what we can’t. We’re working with our partners at Zuno and Unravel Carbon to track our emissions.
- Making conscious decisions in our events (by far our largest source of emissions) to bring down our footprint year over year. So far, we’ve focused on reusable materials and minimizing one-time builds in our production, reducing single-use items, and working with waste and recycling partners
- Publicizing and supporting climate tech startups in the region. Sign up for The Offset, our green tech newsletter, today
- Simplifying environmental checks through our CDP partnership
- Documenting our own climate journey, to hopefully serve as a guide and resource for other startups navigating the process
Our numbers to date
- We are currently carbon neutral for the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2019, 2020, and 2021
- We are working to offset our emissions from 2014-2018, 2022, and 2023
- In 2022, we emitted 272 tons of CO2, as measured by our partners at Unravel Carbon
- We are in the midst of calculating our 2023 emissions now with our partners at Zuno Carbon