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From Big Tech to Food Waste: Vineet Shahani on Finding Your Way Into Climate Law (opens the original)
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What makes someone a climate lawyer?For Vineet Shahani, former General Counsel of Mill, the answer has less to do with a particular legal specialty than with what you choose to put your skills toward.Before joining Mill, Vineet built a career in technology working at Apple, Nest, and Google. He did not arrive at climate work with a background in environmental law, waste policy, or sustainability. He arrived with experience in products, contracts, corporate transactions, regulation, and the thous
A whole lot of labor for climate... (opens the original)
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As we look forward to Labor Day in the US, we’ve been thinking about work, including the work that often goes unseen.So much of the climate space depends on labor that is difficult to measure or easy to overlook: the time people spend building communities, mentoring others, sharing opportunities, translating complex ideas, organizing, researching, connecting people, and doing the behind-the-scenes work that helps movements and institutions function.That’s true for us, too.Over the past year, we’
Would you move to Hawaii to work on climate? (opens the original)
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Hawaiian Electric is a NYSE-listed electric utility with a long history of investing in clean energy.It also happens to be hiring for several new legal roles.Not all of these positions will directly handle clean energy projects. But each has some connection to the company’s broader energy transition and climate goals.And they are all based in Hawaii.The land of stunning tropical beaches, emerald forests, mighty volcanoes, and the aloha spirit.It’s an easy place to daydream about, even for someon
Are you still comparing your climate journey to others? (opens the original)
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I am.Sometimes comparison inspires me.Sometimes it makes me question everything.I’m still biking to work. I love it. As I pedal along—especially when I pass the gas station on my route—I feel like I’m making a small but meaningful difference.Then, one morning, I came downstairs and found a Lamborghini parked next to my bicycle.For a moment, I felt silly.Was I less professional? Less serious? Less successful?Was riding my bike to work somehow childish?Looking back, those thoughts seem like the si
When you don't know what to do (opens the original)
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We had a meeting this week of our monthly virtual networking group, where we get together and help each other do more climate pro bono. (You can sign up for it here.)During the meeting, an enthusiastic lawyer explained a problem she was having getting started.The problem itself was simple.What stayed with me was that she did not know how to solve it, but the group did.She could have spent hours trying to work it out on her own. She could have become discouraged and decided that get
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