Ted Power

If the SEC does pass a Scope 1+2 reporting requirement — hey, that's better than nothing. But without Scope 3, it would be easy to get emissions 'off your books.' You could shift those high-carbon activities to 3rd-party private companies.

Today the @SECGov rules on their climate disclosure policy. Sounds like Scope 3 won't be included (too bad!). I'm sympathetic to the idea that downstream Scope 3 should be treated differently, as forecasts != performance. But IMHO Scope 3 upstream should be included.

Is this video of Chat GPT, or Google's Gemini? youtube.com/watch?v=umJsIT…

@Haje One of the best (and free!) things large companies can do here is to require / encourage their suppliers to set a science based target / track emissions. That would massively expand engagement amongst startups.

🍃Come on, founders. You can do better.

@Haje Although to be fair to startup founders — there's not yet a good business case here. The founders' mentality is "climate is a champagne problem, we'll tackle that after we have product-market-fit." This won't change until sustainability is like SOC 2 — a cost of business.

@Haje Amen! We're pivoting because of this — we created Bend (corporate cards with embedded free carbon accounting) to make it easier for startups to engage here, but there's ~no market pull amongst startups and SMBs. We're pushing up-market for this reason (bend.green)

We're going to be launching a new free tool tomorrow, Bend Scorecard (usebend.com/scorecard) Answer three questions, and we'll estimate your company's emissions, leveraging a leading economic climate model with 4m+ data points. See how your company stacks up 🚀 #NYClimateWeek

@mattsornson I think we have a pretty cool Clearbit API use case for helping companies measure their emissions / climate impact using NAICs code, but we're not an easy fit with your enterprise API tiers. Would you be up for a quick chat? We're a YC-backed startup.

Hey, fun article in @TechCrunch on @usebend —techcrunch.com/2023/05/03/ben…

We're happy to share that Bend is launching on Product Hunt today! 🚀 Please take a minute to support our launch: producthunt.com/posts/bend-4 (it really helps!)

I'm hoping that Bard / LLM / ChatGPT quality is coming to @madebygoogle smart speakers. We use smart speakers at home, but Assistant is brittle, frequently misinterprets requests, and has latency issues. I'd happily pay for something more expressive and reliable.

This is a great opportunity for pre-seed founders; no better people than @CharacterVC jazer.medium.com/announcing-cha…

Yesssss @USPS glad you came to your senses, those EV mail trucks are going to be hot nyti.ms/3WCCwln

Behind the Music, Bend Edition — our methodology advisor, Marion, deep dives on on how we're building an automated, actionable carbon accounting pipeline bend.green/blog/our-carbo…

@NYCSanitation Thanks

@tedp Hi, please use a liner for your compost bin, then put your scraps side.

@NYCSanitation we're Queens residents – with the new compost bins should we put compost in a plastic bag in the bin, or just straight in the bin?

Really excited that @harmonic_ai is measuring and reducing their emissions, and now fully net-zero, powered by @usebend — harmonic.ai/green

Great to join @james_mcwalter on the Carbotnic podcast to chat about carbon accounting for startups carbotnic.com/bend

Let's gooo Inflation Reduction Act

@tdechant great post @tdechant — Bend (YC S22) is aimed at holding companies and organizations accountable to credible, no bs decarbonization

You know what the climate needs? An asshole company that’ll throw its weight around, forcing sclerotic governments and industries to hew to a zero-carbon world. Utilities would probably be its first target.techcrunch.com/2022/08/04/the…