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Purpose: Animal agriculture produces 5.8% of global emissions. Most of these emissions originate at a CAFO, or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation. CAFO is the practice of dkeeping a large number of livestock or poultry in some manner of confinement for more than 45 days out of a year. “Confinement” generally means indoors, or in a pen in the case of feedlots. We know how to locate all of the CAFOs globally from satellite and remote sensing data, but we don't know how to estimate the number of animals in each CAFO nor relatedly the total emissions from a facility. We believe there are groups out there doing that type of research using satellite images. We just need to find them. That's where you come in.
Work: We need your help finding the research experts who have done or could do this work. Once we find the right group, we'll connect them with the Climate TRACE engineers to model and measure and ultimately report that data on a global scale. For example, we had a similar question for emissions from rice paddies. We found researchers at the University Malaysia Terengganu who helped create a mobile monitoring app Paddy Watch, their research was mainly focused in Malaysia. We looped them into the work of Climate TRACE where they will expand their work to not only Malaysia but to the rest of the world and estimate methane emissions from rice cultivation sites. We think these folks are most likely at a research university, so you'll read through research papers and then get in contact with anyone you think can help. We are looking for non-profits, for-profits or single individuals from anywhere in the world who can lend a hand.
Skills: Curiosity, Communication, Resilience
Time: Flexible. Estimated at 3-5 hours / week for up to 8 weeks. Attend optional weekly synchs with the broader agriculture team to learn and share.
Outcome: Global impact information that hasn’t been possible until now. Get data into the hands of policy-makers, NGOs, governments and advocates to help them make better decisions and find new solutions for this high-emitting industry sector. Come away understanding the nuances of this sector at a global scale.

For clarity: this work is to support Climate TRACE. WattTime is a member of Climate TRACE and organizing this volunteer opportunity.

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Join us for our mid-summer community cleanup at Grandview Park in partnership with the City of St. Petersburg on Saturday, July 10 from 9 AM - Noon. This event is an effort to clean up after the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The address of Grandview Park is 6th St. South & 39th Ave. South.

Our cleanup efforts will focus along the shorelines, so please wear water shoes or boots you don't mind wading in. Long sleeves and long pants are recommended. Bring a refillable water bottle to stay hydrated. Wear a hat, sunscreen, bug spray, and bring garden gloves.

We’re very excited to open our projects back up to the community! Our team will do our best to implement social distancing practices to keep all volunteers safe and comfortable throughout the event. We do request for all participants who have not been vaccinated to please wear a mask and take all social distancing precautions for the safety of our staff and other volunteers.

Thank you to the Ocean Conservancy for supporting us in our marine debris efforts!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Mid-Summer Cleanup at Booker Creek Cleanup	20	n/a	n/a

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Routinely walk a designated section of the trail, as assigned and agreed upon with the Trail Maintenance Chairperson, ensuring that fallen trees are sawed to be cleared from the width of the trail, grass is mowed, brush is cut back, and so forth.

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Data Visualization / Business Intelligence Analyst Volunteer Wildfire Prevention
General geographic and demographic characteristics: total area, perimeter, climate zone, seasonal weather conditions (temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, number of sunny days, wind conditions, etc.), topography descriptors, regional population statistics, crime rate, etc.
Size of developed area, size of a grassland, length of the common border between the developed area and the grassland, grass type.
Fire history in the region: fire occurrences in the past, dates of occurrences, duration, intensity of fires.
Fire susceptible region (for example, live or dead forest) that is connected to the region of interest is the threat to the region. Its fire characteristics are particularly important ones. Among them are size, perimeter and factors that affect spread of fire such as fuel type (trees, debris, etc.) and terrain features.
Exposure variables include number of properties in a region, residential households and businesses, values’ statistics (minimum, maximum, mean and median costs), income statistics for businesses and residents, other financial information that affects loss evaluation.
Insurance variables: how many properties are insured, premium policy statistics (minimum, maximum, average, and medium prices), insurance values statistics, major insurers in a region, etc.
History of losses due-to wildfires. These records describe quantities which can be associated with our model’s outcomes.

-Prevention derivatives is driven by the thesis that there is an under-valuation of passive risk (or the cost of inaction) and an under-prioritization of positive risk. Correspondingly for wildfires as an example, there is an under-recognition of the potential shared value upside of preventative action through social innovation and social interventions (such as goats & sheep that prevent wildfires). CrowdDoing.world's aim is to guarantee positive risk through leveraging existing liabilities to allow for the implications of prescriptive analytics to be financed. The under-pricing of passive risk means that liabilities are treated as either costs of doing business or un-predictable risks even for entirely preventable risks. Risk management offices have been too biased towards avoiding taking the wrong risks rather than ensuring that institutions make their own luck by seizing the abundant positive risk opportunities in social innovation. Meanwhile, the bias against positive risk leaves social innovations not to get adopted even if there would be remarkable benefits to all stakeholders if they were adopted
Tools - Tableau, Power BI, Excel BI, R, Python, PowerPoint
Knowledge or Interest in any one or more:
Dashboard Development
Descriptive Analytics
Charting / Graphing
Exploratory Analysis
GIS Data visualization (Mapping)
Insight generation
Expectations:
Identify/Collect data relevant to wildfire Impact
Generate Insights from currently available data
Present your work
Work cross-functionally
Traits:
Visually inclined, analytical, creative, curious, can conduct analyses independently or with minimal supervision.

If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

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About Us: -

CrowdDoing.world is a joint initiative of Match4Action Foundation and Reframe It. CrowdDoing is focused on addressing the social, economic, and environmental challenges our world faces by collaborating with professionals and volunteers from many different industries. We offer a platform for individuals to connect and collaborate toward creating systemic change. What makes us different? CrowdDoing aims to support social innovations with transformative impact potential through global multi-disciplinary volunteering, micro-leadership and service learning. We work through operating leverage for systems change to achieve collective agency. We orient to ikigai and self-determination theory in order to help each person have the perfect role. We would love for you to join the team!

Project Outline: -

Wildfire Prevention Derivatives is a framework/approach to align stakeholder (e.g., homeowners, landowners, utilities, local authorities, insurance and reinsurance companies, and others) interests and incentives in a way that leads to investment in Nature-based preventive solutions such as targeted grazing (by goats, sheep, etc.) as well as advanced technological solutions (e.g., IoT) in areas predicted by data driven models as highly vulnerable to wildfires. Prevention Derivative aims to mitigate preventable risks arising from wildfires instead of transferring them.
See more detailed background on CrowdDoing's Wildfire prevention derivatives
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Role Description: -

We are looking for a qualified Talent Acquisition recruiter who will be responsible for developing and executing a recruiting strategy, while partnering with program leads, HR partners, and the Talent Acquisition. You will be recruiting for a wide portfolio of job profiles spanning a variety of disciplines. You will play a key role in forecasting and planning conversations, lead recruitment-related projects and apply a strong layer of influence and expertise to your partnerships.

Key Responsibilities: -

Lead full-cycle recruitment within a broad and complex portfolio as a talent advisor.
Help the team achieve results by developing, influencing, and driving accountability among recruiters and business for talent acquisition strategies and initiatives.
Apply a high level of strategic thought-partnership and influence relationships with key stakeholders across the organization.
Champion inclusion and diversity in the recruitment process to drive team results.
Deliver brand-worthy candidate experiences.
Ensure a smooth recruiting process by using communication skills to manage expectations and provide process updates.

Skills and Competencies: -

Two or more years recruiting experience in a high growth, fast-paced environment.
Experience in both traditional and advanced sourcing strategies.
The ability to apply a high level of strategic thought-partnership and influence; develop and execute strategies and gain buy-in from key stakeholders and clients
Aptitude leveraging and leading with data to make the case for change and generate insights that lead to an elevated level of support to the business.
A solutions-oriented, ""what’s possible"" mindset and approach that contributes to a culture of curiosity.
Demonstrated agility and an ability to balance multiple/competing priorities.

Apply here:
httpspublic://volop_imgs/volop_397696_feature.pngerp.crowddoing.world/jobs/apply/wildfire-prevention-derivatives-talent-acquisition-specialist-for-crowddoing-3

If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

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Wildfire Prevention Financial Product Design Development & Architecture Analysis


Knowledge or Interest in any one or more:

 

Detection and Attribution of Wildfire Pollution

PM2.5 Wildfire Pollution Exposure

Wildfire Pollution Grossly Underestimated

Wildfire Pollution Puts specific populations at risk (for example, see Kidney Patients at Risk)

Wildfire Pollution can make People more Susceptible

Fire in an Area of Combustible Vegetation

Power-lines and wildfire risk

Houses are Destroyed by Wildfires

Spatial Patterns analysis

Climate Change as a factor in wildfire risk acceleration -climate change as a Common Causes of Wildfire

Lightning

Wildland-urban Interface Raises Wildfire Risk

Wildfire Modeling Assessment

Wildfire Smoke Simulator

Wildfires and Drinking Water Simulation

Wildfires and Vegetation Simulation

Dissolved Organic Matter Simulation

Hydrologic Responses and wildfire simulation

Increasing Drought and wildfire simulation

Weather Conditions and wildfire simulation



Economics

Insurance

Cost - Benefit Analysis

Technical research

Environmental research

Market research

Business research

Insight generation

Expectations:

Identify/Collect data/papers/literature relevant to wildfire Impact

Quantify costs incurred by different stakeholders as a result of Wildfire

Generate Insights from currently available research papers

Present your work

Work cross-functionally

Traits:
Wildfire Prevention Financial Product Design Development & Architecture Analysis-
High curiosity, creative, critical thinking, can conduct analyses independently or with minimal supervision.

Develop core analytical capabilities or model libraries, using advanced statistical, quantitative, or econometric techniques.

Provide application or analytical support to wildfire prevention and insurance researchers or traders on issues such as valuations or data.

Research or develop analytical tools to address issues such as wildfire prevention portfolio construction or optimization, performance measurement, attribution, profit and loss measurement, or pricing models.

Maintain or modify all financial analytic models in use.

Apply mathematical or statistical techniques to address practical issues in finance, such as derivative valuation, risk management, or financial market regulation.

Devise or apply independent models or tools to help verify results of analytical systems.

Define or recommend model specifications or data collection methods.

Confer with other financial engineers or analysts on financial product structure in light of market dynamics, informed by the development of quantitative techniques.

Collaborate with product development teams to research, model, validate, or implement quantitative structured solutions for new or expanded wildfire prevention markets.

Consult team members to determine the need for new or improved analytical applications.

Collect, synthesize, analyze, manage, and report environmental data, such as pollution emission measurements, atmospheric monitoring measurements, meteorological or mineralogical information, or soil or water samples.

Communicate scientific or technical information to the public, organizations, or internal audiences through oral briefings, written documents, workshops, conferences, training sessions, or public hearings.

Provide advice on proper standards and regulations or the development of policies, strategies, or codes of practice for environmental management.

Prepare charts or graphs from data samples, providing summary information on the environmental relevance of the data.

Analyze data to determine validity, quality, and scientific significance and to interpret correlations between human activities and environmental effects.

Determine data collection methods to be employed in research projects or surveys.

Process and review environmental permits, licenses, or related materials.

Plan or develop research models, using knowledge of mathematical and statistical concepts.

Conduct applied research on environmental topics in wildfire prevention

Research sources of wildfire air pollution to determine their effects on the environment and to develop theories or methods of wildfire pollution prevention

If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

Opportunity Details

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If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

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Data Visualization / Business Intelligence Analyst Volunteer Wildfire Prevention
-Prevention derivatives is driven by the thesis that there is an under-valuation of passive risk (or the cost of inaction) and an under-prioritization of positive risk. Correspondingly for wildfires as an example, there is an under-recognition of the potential shared value upside of preventative action through social innovation and social interventions (such as goats & sheep that prevent wildfires). CrowdDoing.world's aim is to guarantee positive risk through leveraging existing liabilities to allow for the implications of prescriptive analytics to be financed. The under-pricing of passive risk means that liabilities are treated as either costs of doing business or un-predictable risks even for entirely preventable risks. Risk management offices have been too biased towards avoiding taking the wrong risks rather than ensuring that institutions make their own luck by seizing the abundant positive risk opportunities in social innovation. Meanwhile, the bias against positive risk leaves social innovations not to get adopted even if there would be remarkable benefits to all stakeholders if they were adopted
Tools - Tableau, Power BI, Excel BI, R, Python, PowerPoint
Knowledge or Interest in any one or more:
Dashboard Development
Descriptive Analytics
Charting / Graphing
Exploratory Analysis
GIS Data visualization (Mapping)
Insight generation
Expectations:
Identify/Collect data relevant to wildfire Impact
Generate Insights from currently available data
Present your work
Work cross-functionally
Traits:
Visually inclined, analytical, creative, curious, can conduct analyses independently or with minimal supervision.

If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

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Are you part of a group looking for a service project? Whether you’re a youth group, corporation or a group of friends, we’d love to integrate you into some of our projects that require many hands. We host groups on Friday mornings, May through October, from 9:30-11:30. Email Katharine to book your spot.

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Volunteering at Plainsong Farm is about connecting to the earth, your neighbors and God. Though we need extra hands to care for this place and grow healthy food for our neighbors, the volunteer opportunities are holistic experiences.

People of all ages and backgrounds are welcome. No previous experience or knowledge is expected! Supervised children are welcome. No dogs, please (working dogs accepted).

If you plan to come, please register so we know when to expect you! Sign up here:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d4eaca92aaaffc70-plainsong#/

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a