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2030 Movement: EcoTech: How to Save the World by 2030
Meet the startups making a positive global impact on the environment.
Lily Dempster
Founder & CEO, The Neighbourhood Effect
Sydney
Lily Dempster is a 29-year old climate activist from Canberra and the CEO and Founder of The Neighbourhood Effect. The Neighbourhood Effect combines behavioural science and tech to help Australians cut their carbon footprints and make local, green living easy.
Lily was formerly GetUp’s Market Impact Director, where she ran clean energy consumer campaigns, helping 4000 Australians purchase GreenPower and 13,000 people switch to a carbon neutral electricity retailer. These campaigns had an emissions impact equivalent to taking 50,000 cars off the road for a year and adding 2MW of additional renewable power to the grid.
Lily has a law degree from ANU and is completing a Masters in sustainability and renewable energy technology engineering at ANU. She is a 2017 Foundation for Young Australians Young Social Pioneer and a participant in SheStarts, Blue Chilli's accelerator for female founders of tech startups.
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