Earth Catalyst Spring 2025 Zoom Party & Knowledge Exchange
Join me to kick off the new quarter and season with a green tech, sustainability, and AI impact-building conversation. See what my new team and I have built so far (it's pretty cool!), hear what we're doing in Q2 2025, share what you're doing, and let's see what inspiring things we can make happen!
Marshall Kirkpatrick (that's me) and team have begun a new project called Earth Catalyst (earthcatalyst.co). We're helping organizations make a bigger impact in their work for sustainability.
For startups, that means we help grow revenue, for non-profits, we help grow impact.
If you're reading this, you may already be familiar with my work, because this event is going to be like a sneak preview of what we're up to and I'm mostly going to invite people I already know. (See below for my background, context, and relevant credentials, if need be.)
Session Agenda
We want to bring friends together to show you what we're working on, and hear what you're up to. On our previous, first call, we shared the following. The agenda for this Q2 call will be updated soon, but in this case will probably be similar. Q3 and beyond will be very different.
The Earth Catalyst thesis, differentiation, and team (including Andrea and Rose!)
About the projects we did in Q4 2024: Corporate GHG accounting, an AI system to support thought leadership, and content promotion assistance regarding the ecological impact of Israel's war on Gaza
Demo of the Earth Catalyst **AI Prism.** If you're interested in ways to make use of AI, you will probably be amazed by this ideation and risk exploration tool we're using in our work with organizations. Almost everyone we've showed it to has said "wow."
Tell us about you! There will be an interesting group of people from around the world on this call. For those who would like to introduce yourselves, we want to hear a little about what you do - and maybe make some valuable new connections.
Next steps: We'll show you our hyper-personalized email newsletter you can subscribe to, hear about our Startup Sessions and Activist Hours casual office hour calls we're kicking off in Q1, and show you our big detailed map of deployable knowledge we're building.
Come join us for this first call and let's compare notes.
Who is doing this??
Quick catch up for anyone I'm just now meeting. I come from two worlds: tech startups and environmental activism.
Over the past 20 years, in tech, I've been
the first writer hired at TechCrunch
co-editor of NYT syndicated ReadWriteWeb
co-founder of Mark Cuban backed expert-finding search engine Little Bird
VP at Sprinklr from $100M ARR through $400M and IPO
I built an AI on AI news tracking and startup discovery system as part of VC firm Headline.com
And in climate and sustainability, I have
Written the climate news section of Exponential View for 2022
Spent time doing media work and local chapter leadership with Extinction Rebellion
Collaborated with and supported the 50 year old indigenous organization Cultural Survival
Partnered with and attended the fellowship program of Climatebase, the leading site for finding climate jobs
Contributed extensively to the UNFCC's climate adaptation program Resilience Frontiers
Now I'm building Earth Catalyst with an awesome new team, with help from my network of friends, and with a great sense of urgency.
Come join us on this call and check it out!