Climate Workers Anonymous, introducing a new collective art project + podcast I am curating
PostSecret for those who work in climate
You can listen to this Reversing Climate Change bonus podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or the entire thing in full right below this paragraph.
Working in climate is hard. We all have things we wish we could say. What if we could actually say them?
If you love the Reversing Climate Change podcast, you should check out the new show I’m working on, Climate Workers Anonymous.
It came about as my work has become more emotional in nature. Working with so many founders has led me to see that many business problems are less about GTM motions or product-market fit. They’re often about identity, attachment, and shame. Being able to speak openly about those feelings, even if anonymously, can be an enormous relief.
Moreover, many people in climate have strong feelings about who they do business with, how their companies are structured and make decisions, and maybe think the entire space has deeply lost its way. Can they say that in public? Sure, but that could have career repercussions beyond what many are able and willing to tolerate. It reminds me of the old joke, “all mushrooms are edible. Some are only edible once.”
And yet, are those feelings any less true? No. They are not. And thus, Climate Workers Anonymous was born. People fill out a Tally survey with their unattributed takes and send it to me to publish in written form on Substack and as audio in your podcast feed—it’s the old Carbon Removal Newsroom feed if you’re still subscribed to that.
Please go check out Climate Workers Anonymous, give it a great rating and review in your podcast apps, subscribe on Substack, become a paying supporter of the show if you believe in what it’s doing, and thanks so much for supporting creative media in climate and carbon dioxide removal!
If you’d like submit your anonymous (and unverified) hopes, fears, or experiences to Climate Workers Anonymous, you can use this Tally survey or email climateworkersanonymous[at]protonmail.com, though I believe the Tally survey is more secure. Do not communicate anything you wouldn’t want a hacker to have access to, including an email address that could be linked to you if you email the account on Protonmail.
And thank you to the legendary PostSecret, which I suspect all elder millennials reading this will know, for showing us the way.
Sincerely,
Ross Kenyon
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An amazing rating and review on the podcast apps does a world of good. Would you please do that for Climate Workers Anonymous now? Here’s Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe as well while you’re there!