How to green any job with Project Drawdown's Jamie Beck Alexander

05/31/23 • 18 min

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Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers

Jamie Beck Alexander is the director of Drawdown Labs, a division of the climate nonprofit Project Drawdown. In 202, Alexander developed and launched Drawdown Labs, which works with the private sector to accelerate their adoption of climate solutions. She’s been heralded for her TEDx Talk about empowering workers to be the driving change for the climate crisis within companies. Prior to Project Drawdown, Alexander worked for Ceres, which also encourages companies to establish ambitious climate goals and reduce emissions.

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Resources from this episode:

Check out the Drawdown Labs Job Function Action Guides:
Learn about The Drawdown Roadmap: Using Science to Guide Climate Action
Follow the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group and read Amazon’s Climate Pledge.
If you don’t see your profession in Drawdown Labs’ Job Function Action Guides, try other resources on how to green your job, like the Climate Action Resource Library.
Join climate-specific communities:
Browse other climate-related job boards:
To find people to follow on LinkedIn, visit LinkedIn’s Top Voices in the Green Economy list.
Search the hashtag #OpenDoorClimate on LinkedIn to find climate professionals who are willing to chat with you. This is the movement founded by Daniel Hill, Year of the Climate Job host and director of Environmental Defense Fund’s Innovation Fund.
Sign up for the Degrees newsletter.
Here are some articles we love:
- protocol: “The Inflation Reduction Act is testing Big Tech’s climate resolve”
- Greenbiz: “

Read the transcript of this episode.

Resources from this episode:

Check out the Drawdown Labs Job Function Action Guides:
Learn about The Drawdown Roadmap: Using Science to Guide Climate Action
Follow the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group and read Amazon’s Climate Pledge.
If you don’t see your profession in Drawdown Labs’ Job Function Action Guides, try other resources on how to green your job, like the Climate Action Resource Library.
Join climate-specific communities:
Browse other climate-related job boards:
To find people to follow on LinkedIn, visit LinkedIn’s Top Voices in the Green Economy list.
Search the hashtag #OpenDoorClimate on LinkedIn to find climate professionals who are willing to chat with you. This is the movement founded by Daniel Hill, Year of the Climate Job host and director of Environmental Defense Fund’s Innovation Fund.
Sign up for the Degrees newsletter.
Here are some articles we love:
- protocol: “The Inflation Reduction Act is testing Big Tech’s climate resolve”
- Greenbiz: “

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Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers is presented by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Yesh Pavlik Slenk is our host. Amy Morse is EDF’s producer. Podcast Allies is our production company. The Degrees production team includes story editor Mia Lobel; producers Tressa Versteeg, Stephanie Wolf, and Ayo Oti; audio engineers Kevin Kline, Matthew Simonson, and Daniel Chavez Crook; production manager Andrew Parrella; podcast manager Tina Bassir, and executive producer Elaine Appleton Grant. Our music is Shame, Shame, Shame from Yesh’s favorite band, Lake Street Dive.