🚀 We're launching OpenClimate.Fund, a community-driven initiative to support open source projects that address climate change and biodiversity loss. These are among the most pressing challenges of our time, yet open source efforts in these areas remain alarmingly underfunded. While significant resources are being spent on areas such as artificial intelligence and security, the environmental sector is largely left empty-handed when it comes to open source solutions. It's time to change that. 🌉 OpenClimate.Fund aims to bridge this gap by funding an ecosystem built on transparency, trust, and collaboration to advance climate-friendly technologies and measurable environmental impact. 🤔 What can you do? In our first funding round, we’re introducing a “positive snowball system" to empower the community and drive meaningful change. Here’s what you can do: 1️⃣ Identify a high impact project missing in the OpenSustaintech directory. 2️⃣ Submit it through our review process using the Contributing Guide on opensustaintech, which outlines the steps for nominating impactful open source initiatives. 3️⃣ Nominate another project from the opensustaintech funding directory to receive a 100€ funding. 💰 The first funding round distributes 10,000€ in this manner. 👉 Preparing for Round 2 We believe that investing in the right open source projects creates a cascading effect accelerating sustainable transformation. We can not rely on black-box knowledge, because the decisions we make today are so critical. That’s why this first funding round is just the beginning. Our goal is to evaluate and maximize the impact of individual projects. 🫴 Join Us in Disrupting the Status Quo Visit OpenClimate.Fund today to learn more, nominate projects and spread the word with Hashtag Hashtag#openclimatefund 🙏 Thanks to @teabass from @ecosyste_ms, Benjamin Nickolls from @OpenSourceColl , Tobias Augspurger from @protontypes and @richlitt from @SustainOSS to make this project happen! 🌐 Read the full blog post on OpenSustainTech: opensustain.tech/blog/opencl…