How To Fight Climate Change: Get A Green Job Ocean-saving robots, renewable energy and converting plastic waste: Three Canadian women on how they made tackling the climate crisis their 9-to-5 gigs. Flannery Dean Updated April 29, 2021 Renewable energy, ocean-saving robots and converting plastic waste: Here, three Canadian women on the careers they’ve built around helping to mitigate the climate crisis. Julie Angus, Founder, Open Ocean Robotics, Victoria “Much of my career has been spent exploring the ocean in small boats. One of my adventures was rowing across the Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Costa Rica, and I started thinking about how we can better understand our oceans in a sustainable way. Open Ocean Robotics produces boats that have a bunch of environmental sensors and cameras to collect data and send it back in real time. They’re solar-powered, so there’s no greenhouse gas emissions, no risk of oil spills, no noise pollution. Our boats have been used in illegal-fishing enforcement; 30 percent of fish are caught illegally. We’re also helping with marine mammal detection. There are a number of endangered marine mammal species—like killer whales on the West Coast, and North Atlantic right whales on the East Coast—and it’s really important to ensure that no ships hit them or loud noises from construction impact their well-being.”