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How I Got Into Climate Work and Carbon Removal

Apr 02, 20253 min
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Episode description

If only there were a podcast that broke down all of the ways climate professionals broke into their industry...

Michael Gold is a communications expert and consultant at Word Clouds Consulting and the host of the new podcast, Climate Swings. This show traces guests' stories and explains how they landed a job working on one of humanity's most significant problem sets.

Check out the episode of Climate Swings I did with Michael retelling my odyssey into climate work here! Be sure to subscribe to his show, give it a great rating and review, and send it to a friend trying to come join us.

Also, a special thank you to 9Zero for serendipitously facilitating our connection and to Terra.do for helping Michael do what he does!

Resources

⁠⁠⁠⁠Become a paid subscriber of Reversing Climate Change⁠⁠⁠

"From PhD Dropout to Carbon Removal Comedian", the episode of Climate Swings I did with Michael

⁠⁠⁠Follow the Reversing Climate Change podcast on LinkedIn⁠

Transcript

Hey, this is Ross Kenyon. I'm the host of reversing climate Change. But today this little blurb is not about reversing climate change. My friend Michael Gold, we met through the amazing climate Co working space 90. He started a new podcast. It's a really cool focus thesis podcast you should check out.

If you've been wondering how to break into climate change work and don't really know where to go, Michael in collaboration with Tara dot Do has a great show called Climate Swings where he asked people how do they break into the business. That makes it sound like like an LA show business thing. How do you break into climate work? A lot of people want to be here. A lot of people feel vocationally called to this work once they are here.

I feel that way. I really don't want to be somewhere else if I do not have to be to support my family. I am very passionate about this work. If you've been listening for a long time, maybe you already work in the industry or maybe you'd like to. Maybe this is a little bit of a a window into what it's like to be in carbon removal or climate tech broadly. So if you would like some advice, if you want some inspiration, listen to Michael's show.

It's new, it's really fun. I was complimenting him on the show before we agreed to do it and I said the thing that I like about it is I can hear him smiling when you listen. I can hear how much warmth he is bringing to the subject and that makes me smile. I feel cared for listening to Michael speak. I think it's a really cool, focused show in this way, and for the right person, it's pretty much as close to the mark as you're going to get for transitioning into a climate career.

If you're listening to this right now, you want to break in. He and I did a show together. He interviewed me about my experience. If you want to refresher on what it was like for me to break into climate work, which was 100% accidental. It's a fun story, lots of twists and turns and my background's unusual for for the space. The link is in the show notes. Go check it out. Support what Michael's doing. Thanks to Tear dot DU for the

support. Thank you to 90 for existing and and facilitating our serendipitous meeting. And thanks for everyone out there who is trying to produce climate communication work that is impactful, that's helping people in some way, whether that's reducing fear, increasing agency, often those are pretty linked. Things are just making us laugh, making us feel good. And God damn it, I hear that smile coming through.

I just, you know, you're doing good work almost independently if anything else, if you're putting that out there in the universe. So thank you, Michael, Really appreciate what you're doing. Go support him too, if you're listening. And thanks everyone for listening to this brief little blurb. I appreciate you a lot.

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