When Stripe, our payments provider, asked if we’d be interested in being a launch partner for a climate initiative that funds the removal of carbon from the atmosphere, it was a pretty easy “yes.”
Stripe has been a vital partner to Substack in making it simple for writers to start paid newsletters. Now, we’re working together to make it simple for writers to contribute to an effort to protect our habitat.
This new initiative, Stripe Climate, removes all barriers to positive action. As of today, Substack writers can choose to dedicate a percentage of their revenue to a pool of money that Stripe will invest in carbon removal efforts. We’ll match each writer's contribution with the same percentage of our fee, up to 10%.
Writers can manage these contributions with just a few clicks from the dashboards of the Stripe accounts they have connected to their publications. (Currently, Stripe Climate contributions are available only for writers with US-based Stripe accounts, but they plan to expand beyond the US soon.)
We built Substack because, even though it’s easy to be depressed about the current state of media, we think there’s tremendous opportunity for writers daring enough to be optimistic. We feel the same way about climate change. We’re done with defaulting to depression. We want to help show the way to a better future – and we want to give all Substack writers the opportunity to join us.
We hope you do.
In the meantime, check out these writers covering climate change:
Callaway Climate Insights, by David Callaway: “News, critical analysis and original perspectives at the intersection of global finance and climate change”
Climate Matters, by Neelima Vallangi: “A newsletter to help you make sense of this planetary crisis, covering the science, the social and all other aspects of climate change in between.”
Heated, by Emily Atkin: “A newsletter for people pissed off about the climate crisis”
Hothouse Solutions, by Jemima Kiss and Michael J. Coren: “Simple climate action at home”
Hot Take, by Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt: “An intersectional look at the climate crisis and the climate conversation”
My Climate Journey, by Jason Jacobs: “Weekly happenings in the My Climate Journey community and broader climate world”
The Phoenix, by Eric Holthaus: “Our world is burning, what comes next?”
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This is supercool and very timely. I recently started a series of posts for Climate Pioneers oasis.substack.com and remove emissions resulting from publishing via soil carbon sequestration.
Looks like the usual horseshit "progressive" virtue signaling to me. Vegan too?
I really don't want to seem like an ornery bastard, BUT:
Although I realize that climate change, the despoiling of the arctic, carcinogenic chemicals etc. are horrible and must be held in check, I tire of what I call carbon absolutists who seem to think that all carbon is sin or deadly or beyond the pale. Didn't anyone ever hear of organic chemistry.
Carbon is integral to our world and to life itself:
a) All chemicals related to life contains carbon
b) carbon dioxide, who some people seem to mix up with carbon monoxide, is necessary to produce sugar
c) carbohydrates, fats and protein all contain carbon
d) if you murder all things that inhale oxygen, or all people, dogs, cows etc., you can reduce carbon in the air.
The preceding is very elementary. But sometimes people speak of carbon as if it were more than a problem but rather one of the seven deadly sins.
Now I will read your article and see what I can do to help.
Love It!!
Instead of dreaming about carbon removal technologies we should promoting the principles and ideas of degrowth. Carbon removal is not a viable solution but just a major form of greenwashing. Any responsible person should be able to understand this.
Talk is cheap. What then is your solution? Are you degrowth-ing your life or just virtue signaling?
There are solutions to the unfolding climate crisis and I see my job in promoting, spreading and supporting them.
So you have decided not to consume anything that's been mined, mechanically cultivated, manufactured, cooked, refrigerated, shipped, or stored? You have given up your car, and you don't use any form of public transportation. You've done all those things because, quite laudably, you don't want to be the usual smug "progressive" hypocrite, signaling your virtue while living the way you tell others not to live.
So far, so good, but I have a question: What about your computer, assembled by happy Chinese slaves and sent here on a diesel-powered cargo ship? Oh, not the computer! How else can you inform the world of your Goodness? LOL
I'm not living the way I tell others not to live so please stop making stuff up just to satisfy your ego.
In my professional life, I work as an environmentalist and I use Substack to pursue my hobby of writing. So, this is very exciting to see both my worlds collide. (substack link- anwesha.substack.com for personal stories and fun ideas)
Also check out Climate Tech VC (https://climatetechvc.substack.com/). We write a weekly newsletter bringing perspective on the evolving world of climate tech by interviewing top investors & operators and covering recent venture deals, news, and jobs.
Thanks for the update. It looks like a good initiative.
It is a shame though that you did not mention our Surviving newsletter (https://surviving.substack.com/) which has a high level readership - business leaders and investors.
Much of our content is about climate change and the business and economic implications.
Can you please mention it. We think you could be more comprehensive about the substack sources you mention.
Great initiative. I look forward to this expanding to Canada.
I love these newsletters, please will you have a peek at ours, The Pelican Beak, our favourite articles, films and conversations from the sharpest minds in impact: https://pelicanfounders.substack.com/p/the-pelican-beak-1ad
Way to go Substack. I am encouraged by your leadership position to help mitigate climate change. Since June, I've been writing the Substack publication, The Understory, that "inspires leaders to act on the courage of their convictions in defense of the living planet and those who inhabit it" https://theunderstory.substack.com/