> Failure to pick problems that are relevant for both will result in increased decision making complexity at all levels of the organisation: do we optimise for impact (the environmental problem) or for revenue (the customer’s problem)?
I've been an climate tech entrepreneur for the past 7+ years, and the most reliable way I've found to accomplish the combo viable-business + climate-impact:
1. Get a job at a revenue generating climate-change-fighting company (solar, EVs, policy/regulatory consulting, etc.).
2. Keep your eyes open for pain points that your company (or especially you in your position) would pay money to solve.
3. Quit and start a company solving that pain point (or if you're not the founder-type, go work for a company trying to solve that pain point).
I suppose this kind of strategy would work in many other industries, but it's especially effective in climate tech, because:
(a) As OP mentions, the pain points are very hidden to the general public, so you really need to be actually working inside the industry to find and understand them (since energy often has very complex business models and regulatory constructs).
(b) By focusing on finding pain points for already climate-change-fighting companies and solving them, your impact goals are already built-in, since you're enabling more impact by default. So you don't have to worry as much about finding the magical combo of viable-business + impact.
(c) The climate-change-fighting sector is so young that many of the pain points are still major issues and don't have many viable solutions yet. In other more mature industries, many pain points already have established companies solving them, so there's less of green field for new companies.
Anyway, for people looking to fight climate change, by far the biggest thing you can do is join the industry and make a career out of it. There's so much ceiling here!
I think thread parents point is that the problems are obtuse and plentiful enough that in order to understand them you need to be involved in point 1, which is arguably the hard part.
Of these, do any have a funnel tracking feature that shows what visitors went through a specific series of pages/events? Seeing how users moved about the site and seeing how many converted is a deal breaker for me.
https://volument.com might be a good pick since it focuses strictly on conversion optimization. It attempts to measure the more general conversion flow, known as the AIDA funnel (awareness, interest, desire, and action).
You sign the envelope containing your ballot. Then, when they receive it, they verify the outer envelope is proper (signature, etc.). If accepted, they open the envelope and dump your ballot into the box of accepted ballots. Finally, later, they open the box and count the ballots.
While it may not be a good idea for an individual to do this type of job, it can be quite lucrative for a business.
If you're a business that can get its products embedded into the "default procedure" of your customers and only get noticed if you don't work (e.g. Stripe, Twilio, AWS, etc.), customer churn is minimized and continued revenue is the default.
In many states, the statute of limitations clock stops running when you leave the state, so you could find the expiry date still hasn't arrived if you come back.
Is there a setting in Firefox that allows you to whitelist specific cookies and ignore all others?
That combined with Firefox Containers would make for a very powerful combination since you could have different containers that would be your logged-in interface to a specific site, without then having to allow other sites be able to set cookies.
Firefox also has a "always use private browsing" option that I've been using for about ~6 months with great success—with a password manager the only annoying thing to do is get through sms "2fa" gated auth—mostly banks, health insurance, etc.
Always private browsing as a default is a very good idea. I set Safari for auto-privacy. The overhead of manually opening a non-private browser when that is what I want is really a very small hassle.
Setting up Safari this way and using FireFox only with containers for each major web platform works really well for me and I have been able to talk non tech friends into trying it.
It's been a while since I went the whitelist approach on cookies, but I think you can do this in the "manage permissions" section of the cookie area in settings.
Whitelist a site and set default behavior to block will still allow that whitelisted site... I think so at least, maybe you need wildcards or something...
This used to be a feature of Firefox. You could get a pop-up asking if you wanted to allow, allow for session, or disallow cookies from a domain the first time it tried to create a cookie. This was removed for some reason.
"The process results in a client ID and, in some cases, a client secret, which you embed in the source code of your application. (In this context, the client secret is obviously not treated as a secret.)"[0]
I haven't tried it myself but according to the FAQ:
"Jitsi offers a telephony interface that allows users to dial into a conference or for placing dial-out reminder calls. You can try this for free on meet.jit.si. Self-installed Jitsi Meet deployments will need to setup and configure Jigasi with a SIP provider to connect to the phone network. "
if you go to the jitsi.org site and start a meeting, there is a share box that can be popped up and it shows a dial-in number for your conf. So it must have sip integration.
I've been an climate tech entrepreneur for the past 7+ years, and the most reliable way I've found to accomplish the combo viable-business + climate-impact:
1. Get a job at a revenue generating climate-change-fighting company (solar, EVs, policy/regulatory consulting, etc.).
2. Keep your eyes open for pain points that your company (or especially you in your position) would pay money to solve.
3. Quit and start a company solving that pain point (or if you're not the founder-type, go work for a company trying to solve that pain point).
I suppose this kind of strategy would work in many other industries, but it's especially effective in climate tech, because:
(a) As OP mentions, the pain points are very hidden to the general public, so you really need to be actually working inside the industry to find and understand them (since energy often has very complex business models and regulatory constructs).
(b) By focusing on finding pain points for already climate-change-fighting companies and solving them, your impact goals are already built-in, since you're enabling more impact by default. So you don't have to worry as much about finding the magical combo of viable-business + impact.
(c) The climate-change-fighting sector is so young that many of the pain points are still major issues and don't have many viable solutions yet. In other more mature industries, many pain points already have established companies solving them, so there's less of green field for new companies.
Anyway, for people looking to fight climate change, by far the biggest thing you can do is join the industry and make a career out of it. There's so much ceiling here!