Working in environment education in Germany.
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Felix Wolf 🔸
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In google podcast it has a working link too.
Hi Ulrik,
I think I understand what you mean. :)
In Germany, we have a diversity group with meetings every two weeks, but I think it is limited to folks living in the region. If you are interested in joining, I’ll ask them.
If they are happening elsewhere too, why is it unique to EA?
Hey, really nice website. :)
Podcast to concider: How I Learned to Love Shrimp by Amy Odene & James Ozden https://www.buzzsprout.com/2122817
Edit: Also this list could be worth checking out: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/aSBcRu4h2qH5sRypQ/effective-animal-advocacy-resources (2019)
Hi Adebayo,
impressive participation list. Welcome to the forum, nice to have you here. :)
What books are you currently reading in your reading group? Maybe you have some recommendations.
As a freelance writer, this could be interesting (if you have not heard about it before):
Announcing the African EA Forum Competition – $4500 in prizes for excellent EA Forum Posts
Hi Angela,
welcome to the forum. :)
I think it is really nice that you want to improve the world and do something good, like helping those which are forgotten by the system. But I see some problems with your fundraising.
If I wanted to support your cause, I would need to trust you that you are capable to achieve the goals you set. So far you are presenting the idea and state that you don’t have social network to promote it too. Who are you and why can you achieve your goal?
There is also the challenge that you have to convince me, that your NGO is more efficient in improving the lives of your participants than a charity evaluated by GiveWell. How would the life of your partitioners change with your program? Is there a roadmap or a theory of change?
In short, you want to give prisoners and ex-felons the opportunity to work in your catering, for them to get a foot on the ground after they’re released. Why is your program better than others, can you give us more evidence?
With kind regards
Felix
Hey there. :)
Nice to see some other forestry people here. 🌳🌲
Do you have a favourite sustainability framework? I like the triple bottom line to introduce pupils into thinking about how to integrate different demands in an ecosystem. Maybe you have another one that you can recommend. :)
Mit forstmännischem Gruße (with forester greetings)
Felix
Hi,
I don’t know this half-marathon in London, so I try to give a picture for everyone else.
The London Landmarks Half Marathon is a closed road, central London run and raised over £37.5 million for charity since its start in 2018.
They have 367 different charities listed for which you can run for, with those ten in a prominent place, see all here:Costs:
”Each charity place costs: £142.50
Charities must purchase a minimum of 5 places.
Places are non-refundable, and cannot be rolled over or transferred.”
If you want to buy less, then each cost £152.50.
Benefit:
I was not able to get numbers on how much money this was able to raise for the charities in comparison with the time and money you have to spend for the event.
Conclusion:
I doubt it’s the best event to spend resources on, but maybe I am mistaken and high impact orgs recommended by Give Well can implement something like this in their fundraising.
Thank you for bringing something up that’s important for you. Maybe add more explanation, so that others have a better understanding about why the llhm would be a good opportunity for fundraising compared to the other alternatives.
Hi Quinn,
this seems like a hurdle to prevent the use of sock puppets to prevent mass voting on your own logo idea. It is common that online voting gets attention of trolls, and they vote for something funny or extreme instead of good. This would partly also be the reason they use voting + the jury.
Voting gets the community engaged, they want to help their favourite creator and can also be part of the jury themselves.
Note: I am not a part of the organizer team and had no influence in the decision to use a threshold or on its height.
Could you please link the study mentioned which proved that red street lights severely increases violent crime?
Hello Jan,
you did a speed giving game? It’s about giving people the opportunity to choose for themselves, and there may also be some rebels in your target group. ;)
So with 1 € per person, this would make 29 players. How much time and people did you invest in the uni forum? How was the ratio with people getting a flyer / speaking with you and not participating in the giving game to those who did (had you more impressions on people than 29)?
Have fun with your intro meeting in six days. :)
Hi Xor,
welcome to the EA Forum. :)
Nice to see that you are challenging your biases, learn more about rationality and try to put it into practice. Please note that there is some risk to fall from one tightly stitched community into the next, and there could be some pitfalls with the thinking patterns which were already developed. If you accept my advice also focus on finding friends in your college and don’t limit yourself to the LW/EA community & your old peer group.
Personal contacts go a long way, I was kinda shy at your age, but your commitment to finish high school and going to college impresses me. Have you thought about doing the Intro Fellowship? It’s a virtual course and I really liked to discuss these topics in a small group. Have you thought about joining the spring meetups from AstralCodexTen (ACX)? Join a EA Slack group or work/discuss/socialize at Gather Town? Or the rationality workshops from the guild of the rose (has a membership fee and I have no direct experience)? Just anything with a lower bar for interaction that the forum. x)
The healthy gamer community has some nice tool on mental health and finding friends. You don’t have to pay to use the discord. Yesterday was a lecture about beeing vulnerable, charisma, making friends and gaining influence (putting yourself out there). You did really well with expressing yourself in this post. You can be proud of yourself for beeing open and sharing your inner thoughts.
See ya in the comments.
“Execution is hard.”– Lex Fridman
Maybe we can use the Debate tool from LessWrong when it is released.
Thank you for sharing your experience with volunteering, it’s written lovely. I can practically see a smile through the lines. :)
Hi Liz,
welcome to the EA Forum. *wave*If you need help with anything, feel free to reach out via PN or just ask the community.
I am leading a university group in Germany and thought about getting in touch with the local Rotary and Rotaract chapter but never found the time. So I am really curious about how well EA matches with your interests and what we can learn from each other respectively.
Would be cool if we could talk sometime in the future about different outreach strategies and community health, if you would like. Maybe a group discussion on Gather Town? :)
This site could be helpful for you:
https://ea-internships.pory.app/board
Have a nice day and enjoy your virtual course. :)
Hi Jon,
have you updated the website? I get reconnected to Jesus, Son of God and not the Antichrist.
Welcome you both to the Forum. :)
Hope you have a nice stay, if you have a question feel free to ask them or maybe answer some by yourself here. You can also send me a PN if you wanna talk or think it is too embarrassing to ask in public (it’s not). :D
Maybe add a forum bio? It’s always nice to know with whom you are discussing and the needs & gives can be helpful. ;)
Have a nice day and let’s make the world a better place together!
Hi Velikovsky,
thank you for the positive feedback and good job with the bio. Really means a lot (sending love from the whole forum team). <3
If you ever found something on how we can improve the clarity of our guidelines, please let us know. ;)
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/contact
Hi O Carciente. :)
I am currently working in environment education (education for sustainable development) and do community building for EA as a part-time job. There are plenty of opportunities on where you could find your niche. The most important part is wanting to do good, think about where you want to do it and actually get to work. EA gives you a toolkit in hand, but I have already seen that your unique perspective also adds to this toolkit. Get the tools you need, twist them for your use case and give back to the community, so they can learn from it too.From my own experience as someone who studies forestry, there is no clear-cut way after university to a high impact job. The 80k job board is limited in its design, and that’s okay. It’s not a perfect representation of EA, and it’s not working with a big tent approach with the job board, but with the articles and the career group plan you can find your own niche.
I can only recommend finding a local EA group and engage with people, makes it much easier to find someone to cowork on what’s important for you atm. There are other places too besides 80k where you can get 1o1 advice, and I think you have the potential to achieve much if you put your mind into it (don’t know if this sentence works in English).
Small steps were made into teaching rationality and EA topics for children or teenager. There are more projects, but this is the one that came to my mind. Maybe someone can add to that list:
https://www.sparc-camp.com/
I think that if you want to make allegations and point noses into a certain direction, it is really important to make your point clear and argue in good faith. This post fails both boxes in my book.