Welcome to coders4Climate

Inspired by the call to action by Greta Thunberg and the many (1) (2) (3) recent demostrations, we want to help, with action.

If you have some suggestions or want to get involved talk to us via twitter coders4Climate

So, as a developer/programmer/coder, what can we do? Here is some suggestions of things you can change:

An OSS community that converts cars to electric. Part 3: Johannes Huebner

2020-07-26 :: electric cars, community, car conversions, Damien Maguire, Johannes Hüebner, Open Inverter, wosniac, CAN bus :: Andrea Magnorsky

Johannes Huebner on how he wants to democratise car conversions.

A community that converts cars to electric. Part 2: Damien Maguire interview

2020-06-07 :: electric cars, community, car conversions, Damien Maguire, Paul Holmes, fpga, Johannes Hübner, Open Inverter :: Andrea Magnorsky

Damien is an electrical engineer also known as the BMW EV conversion person. He has been converting cars to electric for over 10 years.

A community that converts cars to electric

2020-05-16 :: electric cars, community, car conversions, Kevin Sharpe, New electric Ireland, open inverter, open vehicles :: Andrea Magnorsky

Do you dream of converting a combustion car into electric? It doesn’t have to be a dream. We talk to Kevin Sharpe of New Electric Ireland

Car workshop showing a Jaguar and a Mini

11 at 11 online meetup

2020-04-18 :: 11at11, circular economy, crowdsourcing :: Andrea Magnorsky

You are interested in helping the environment and you don’t know where to start? Why not taking part in an #11at11 event.

Switching to an ethical phone network

2019-11-28 :: ethical phone, networks :: Richard Dallaway

Continuing the theme of voting with your wallet, how about switching to an ethical mobile network? Ecotalk, a UK mobile (cell) network, achieved the highest score in the Nov/Dec 2019 Ethical Consumer ratings.

Voting with your wallet

2019-11-17 :: fairphone, ethical phone, travelling, carbon offset, climate change, coffee, lunch, keepcup :: Otter

Do you want to do something now? A few interesting alternatives:

Buy a phone you can easily repair (a high level on the fairphone)
Offset when you fly
Reduce plastic at home and the office

Running and hosting applications

2019-11-17 :: ethical cloud hosting, aws, gcpclour, azure, carbon :: Otter

What are the best places from a sustainability point of view to host your services and applications? In this article we point you to the info we have. TL;DR: These are carbon neutral places to host @GCPcloud @Azure or @awscloud BUT ONLY Dublin, Frankfurt, Canada or Oregon (these are the sustainable regions as of Nov–2018).

Awesome carbon offseting

2019-11-17 :: carbon offseting, flying, :: Otter

This is a compilation of resources on carbon offseting.Format inspired by other #awesome- It aims to give an overview of what are your carbon offseting options, what are the issues with carbon offseting and anything else that might be useful..