Community economic transition planning tools

The climate transition requires millions of new jobs — from solar installers to battery engineers to climate-smart architects. But we're facing a massive skills gap. There aren't enough trained workers to build renewable energy systems, retrofit buildings, or maintain new infrastructure. Meanwhile, fossil fuel workers are losing jobs faster than clean alternatives appear, and most professionals making climate-relevant decisions lack the knowledge to make good ones.

This isn't just about having enough people — it's about having people with the right skills in the right places at the right time. Without solving this, the hardware and software solutions we're building will sit unused, and the transition will stall.

Coal plants are closing, oil rigs are being decommissioned, and entire communities built around fossil fuel industries are facing economic collapse. Many of these workers have valuable skills that could transfer to clean energy, but the transition isn't happening fast enough or fairly enough.

Without deliberate intervention, we risk leaving millions of people behind — creating political resistance to climate action and wasting human capital we desperately need for the clean transition.

Platforms that help fossil fuel-dependent communities plan and manage their economic transformation. These coordinate retraining efforts, attract new clean energy investments, and ensure the transition benefits local workers and businesses.