Open Source Strategies provides commercial open source solutions for climate finance and climate investing.
Climate Finance
We’re building an open source, decentralized directory of voluntary carbon offsets to bring transparency and trust to the market. Read more about this project and see the prototype.
Climate Investing
We’re creating open source tools to help investors, consultants, and plan sponsors prepare their portfolios for the risks and opportunities of climate change. Contact us for more details.
Open Source
As their developers, we provide commercial services and support for these open source projects:
- opentaps SEAS – Building energy data and M&V with IOT devices integration
- Hyperledger Labs Blockchain Carbon Accounting – emissions auditing, trading, and offsets issuance
- Hyperledger Labs Voluntary Carbon Offsets Directory – blockchain directory for voluntary carbon offsets
Latest Posts
Improving Transparency of Voluntary Carbon Offsets with Open Source and Blockchain
Voluntary carbon offsets is something we should all be very, very proud of. Without government oversight, businesses, banks, and even private individuals have come together to support climate programs around the world. Projects from renewable energy to forests to sustainable agriculture to cooking stoves and clean water, in far away places like Bolivia, Nepal, and […]
Why Finance Professors Think Sustainable Green Investing is a Fad–and Why It’s Dangerous
While sustainable investing continues to gain momentum, some deeply ingrained but also deeply flawed views of risk and return in academic finance still make it look like a fad. Research like this may seem arcane and its assumptions innocuous, but the implications are not. When peer reviewed, award-winning research from top-ranking business schools say that […]
Why I Chose Open Source to Fight Climate Change
Earth Day. Time to think about what we’re each doing about climate change. For me, it’s to create open source software, as part of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Climate SIG: So why open source software?
Upcoming Linux Foundation OSS Summit talk on Blockchain, Open Source, and Climate Change
I will be giving a talk for the Linux Foundation OSS Summit on “Fighting Climate Change with Blockchain and Open Source” on Monday October 26 at 12 PM GMT/8 AM EST/5 AM PST. This will be a virtual event that you can attend from anywhere in the world. Here’s the synopsis of my talk: If climate change […]