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Every person in every country on every continent is affected by climate change. We are all humans reliant on this planet and feeling these environmental effects.  At the Alumni Network, we believe alumni can make our homes, workplaces and cities greener and more sustainable. Alumni can reduce their carbon footprint and support innovations and policies that help create a more sustainable future. Microsoft alumni also have a unique set of expertise, networks and resources to help combat climate change and its devastating effects. Alumni act as advocates on the boards of environmental nonprofits, develop AI technology to identify species, run clean energy companies and more. Our goal is to amplify what alumni are doing, support alumni initiatives and help create a more sustainable world.

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Alumni Stories

Gogoro
Charging ahead
Microsoft alum Horace Luke is revolutionizing the way many people across the planet think about transportation. He hopes to move the global warming needle by offering a new energy source for two-wheel vehicles with his company Gogoro Inc.
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Ridwell
Recycling revolution
Microsoft alum Ryan Metzger started a company to offer a unique, sustainable way to recycle and reuse your everyday waste. Now, Seattle-based Ridwell has 60,000 subscribers in five states, and it’s growing.
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Racquel
Creating a climate-smart Caribbean
Former Microsoft Country Manager for Trinidad and Tobago Racquel Moses is leading the charge to make climate action an economic engine and help stem climate change in 28 Caribbean countries.
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Stan
Vertical Business Growth
Microsoft alum Stan Kaplita has put his global supply chain expertise to work at his new Paso Robles, Calif.-startup, Zeste Farms. He aims to cut the “green premium” with vertical, indoor farming.
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Andrew Himes
Act with Alumni: Andrew Himes
Microsoft alum Andrew Himes is director of collective impact at the Carbon Leadership Forum. There he’s bringing together constituents to change the way we build buildings and reduce carbon emissions.
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Priscilla in a field, arms spread wide
Protecting the planet
Priscilla Johnson, who was Microsoft’s former director of water strategy for Cloud, wants to protect the environment with her entrepreneurial endeavor. She invented an eco-friendly cleaning product company called EcoDaisy.
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Act with Alumni: Jim Dobbin
Microsoft alumnus Jim Dobbin works with Friends of Sabino Canyon in Tucson, Arizona to help preserve and protect the U.S. Forest Service area in his back yard.
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Nadja in a garden.
Act with Alumni: Nadja Wilson
Nadja Wilson puts a new spin on farm-to-table, bringing her Microsoft experience to bare at nonprofit Carnation Farms.
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Al Bergstein
Voice of the Sound
Microsoft alumnus Al Bergstein is a champion for the environment and puts his myriad of talents to work to help save the Puget Sound — one shoreline at a time.
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Steve Wells
Act with Alumni: Steven Wells
For Steve Wells, every day is Earth Day. Discover why he dedicates his time to environmental causes, his specific affection for Forterra, and the exciting projects he’s working on.
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Beyond the Blue Badge

How to start saving the planet for generations to come

Better Together with Susan Koehler

Environment + Activism with Jabe Blumenthal

Sustainable finance with Richard Peers

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Alumni All Access: Mark Kroese

In our first Microsoft Alumni All Access live-stream event, Microsoft Alumni Network Strategic Advisor and Trustee Rich Kaplan sits down with Microsoft General Manager for Sustainability Solutions Mark Kroese to discuss how we can — and must — build a more sustainable world.

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  • Green Earth Initiative
    • Green Earth Initiative is fighting for environmental change through political endeavors, educational outreach programs and technological solutions.
  • Forterra
    • Forterra innovates and scales land-based solutions to address the climate crisis and support equitable, green and prosperous communities.
  • Trust for the Public Land
    • Trust for the Public Land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come.
  • Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund (Accepting applications)
    • The Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund is a $1 billion investment to accelerate technology development and deployment of new climate innovations through equity and debt capital.
  • Microsoft AI for Earth Grants
    • AI for Earth awards grants to support projects that use AI to change the way people and organizations monitor, model, and manage Earth’s natural systems.
  • Microsoft Alumni Network Community Collection Project
    • Join the Microsoft Alumni Network for this world-wide Earth Month volunteer project with iNaturalist to protect biodiversity around the world.
  • Earthjustice
    • Earthjustice is a nonprofit public interest environmental law organization, using the power of law and strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy and to combat climate change.
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency
    • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an agency of the United States federal government whose mission is to protect human and environmental health
  • Zooniverse
    • Zooniverse gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to participate in real research with over 50 active online citizen science projects. Work with 1.6 million registered users around the world to contribute to research projects led by hundreds of researchers.
  • iNaturalist
    • iNaturalist helps you identify the plants and animals around you. Get connected with a community of over a million scientists and naturalists who can help you learn more about nature and collect valuable data for understand and protect nature. You can also join our Microsoft Alumni Network Community Collection Project here.
  • EARTHDAY.ORG
    • EARTHDAY.ORG mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, EARTHDAY.ORG is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement.

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