Earth Day Power Hour
The problems you see every day in climate and energy are worth solving.
The grid gaps nobody's organized around. The permitting bottleneck everyone complains about in meetings and nobody's tackled. The coordination failure you've watched slow down good work for years. The thing you keep saying someone should build.
That's a problem statement. And we're collecting them right now.
Submit yours today — through this form — or bring it in person on April 22 at our Earth Day Power Hour in DC, where we'll be generating as many real climate and energy problems as we can.
The Upskilling Labs runs peer-led Build Cycles where upskilling professionals work on real problems, build real skills, and ship real portfolio projects—together. It is coordinated action on problems that matter, guided by mentors who've already navigated the terrain.
Our current cycle is focused on Climate & Energy. Problem submission is open right now and will be closing at this event. The problems the you and our community rally around become Learning Pods. Pods become Upskilling Projects. Projects become the kind of portfolio work that changes what's possible for your career.
In May, we are hosting a hackathon—built around the problems you and the community choose. Make sure you get hands shaping what we build by submitting a problem statement of your own!
We'll be celebrating the mentors and organizers who carried our last cycle, closing out problem submissions for Climate & Energy, and opening community voting on what we tackle next in this critical industry and sector.
Not sure how to frame your problem statement? Come early and bring what you're working on. Our community is happy to help you turn a hunch into a submission.
Hosted at Beltway Bits
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