Scouring the web to learn carbon removal?
6-week sprint to rapidly learn carbon removal
All the best learning resources in one place
Fast-paced, “book club” style discussion meetings
Make new carbon removal friends
Find a job, start a company, go suck carbon from the sky!
What is Boot Up?
Meet with your team to discuss all things carbon removal!
Hundreds of people have already graduated from Boot Up and gone on find carbon removal jobs, start new companies, and take action on removing carbon from the atmosphere!
‘Book Club’ Style Discussion Groups
Get confidence talking about carbon removal with others! Discuss what you learn with others in your team of up to 10 participants
11 group meetings total
2 group meetings per week for 6 weeks
Each meeting is 1 hour long
Self-paced study
Before each meeting, there will be an assigned educational module to go through. There’s a lot of content within each module, organized into easy, medium, hard levels depending on what kind of a challenge you’re up for.
Learn with friends
Boot Up participants love meeting other people around the world who are interested in understanding carbon removal too. It’s become a space for people from all over the world to come and learn together, and share diverse perspectives.
Launch your career
Boot Up graduates go on to start careers in carbon removal and even to create new start ups!
Sign up for the next round of Boot Up by January 20th, 2024!
The first meeting kicks off the week of January 27th, 2024!
Topics & Schedule
Calendar of meetings across the six weeks of Boot Up. Depending on your schedule preference, you will meet with either the green or orange groups.
Meeting 1: Carbon Removal Bigger Picture and Scale
Meeting 2: Demand for Carbon Removal
Meeting 3: Soil Organic Carbon and Regenerative Agriculture
Meeting 4: Forest Carbon Removal
Meeting 5: Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS)
Meeting 6: Direct Air Capture
Meeting 7: Carbon Mineralization
Meeting 8: Biotic Ocean CDR
Meeting 9: Abiotic Ocean CDR
Meeting 10: MRV, Market Shaping, and Next Steps
Meeting 11: Reflections
Is Boot Up for Me?
I like “Book Club”-Style Learning.
Boot Up is not a typical “student-teacher” course. There are no experts or instructors to guide group discussions. Its structure is more similar to that of a book club, where participants all prepare by reading material before the meeting, and come together with their own unique experiences and backgrounds. Learning, exploring, and growing happens collectively!
I want to learn about carbon removal with others!
Boot Up is designed with an emphasis on group collaboration and thoughtful discussions. If you appreciate accountability and would like a fun and respectful group setting to share your CDR curiosities, then Boot Up is for you! Everyone is welcome.
If you want to learn without the social component, feel free to use the Boot Up Syllabus as a learning guide (or directly use Carbon Removal Academy, the resources are the same).
I want to gain a comprehensive understanding of CDR.
Boot Up aims to provide the most relevant breadth of CDR material currently available, guiding you through the main CDR sectors. So you can learn just the basics of each sector, or (if you fall in love with any sector in particular) there are plenty of resources to satiate any depth-of-learning needs as well.
If you just want to learn a quick overview of CDR , we recommend you check out Heidi Lim’s “We Need to Talk about Carbon Removal”. If you discover you want to learn more, feel free to come back here and sign up for Boot Up!
If you just want to gain depth in a particular CDR sector, check out our MODULES (see above) and self-study the area(s) you’re most interested in.
What if I’m a busy person?
Boot Up participants review material on their own time, at their own pace. Learning Group meetings facilitate material comprehension & retention via group discussions. So you could (hypothetically) study 1 hour of educational material per meeting and still participate in Boot Up group discussions.
There are 2 Learning Group meetings/week. Each meeting is 1 hour long. The final week is just one meeting, summarizing your Boot Up experience and learnings. That is a total of 11 hours of group discussion over the course of 6 weeks.
If you can’t make this round of Boot Up, we plan to offer a new one around the start of every other month; you’re welcome to sign up at a later date if you’re particularly busy.
Meme Credit: Jason Hochman