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Benji Backer

Benji Backer

@BenjiBacker

acc.eco

Conservative environmentalist working for a brighter future. President & founder @ACC_National/@TCC_National. @UW alum. WI sports fan. Iced tea enthusiast.

28846 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#358 0.000397 Moderate Conservatism
#1926 0.000051 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3612 0.000021 Persuasion Community
#4299 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4345 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4442 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4480 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4520 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4525 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4536 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4591 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4790 0.000024 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4822 0.000001 350.org
#4998 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5011 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#5494 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5981 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#6051 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#6123 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#6237 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#6427 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6586 0.000001 Works in Progress
#7047 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#7079 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7698 0.000001 EFF
#8761 0.000001 Anarachists
#8879 0.000004 Ecomodernists
#9600 0.000003 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Think Tanks

#749 0.000196 American Enterprise Institute
#749 0.000196 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1024 0.000112 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#2893 0.000011 Niskanen Center
#3026 0.000042 Mercatus Center
#3114 0.000012 Hudson Institute
#4394 0.000005 Adam Smith Institute
#4701 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4759 0.000001 Belfer Center
#4944 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5160 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5553 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6104 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6439 0.000007 Hoover Institution
#6508 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6773 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7829 0.000001 Earth Institute

Journalism

#791 0.000174 The Dispatch
#1162 0.000113 Bloomberg Opinion
#2893 0.000011 Foreign Policy
#4500 0.000001 OANN
#4521 0.000001 Newsmax
#4597 0.000010 The New York Post
#4623 0.000001 The Information
#5130 0.000001 Stat News
#5423 0.000001 The Verge
#6026 0.000001 The Economist
#6559 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#6616 0.000001 CNBC
#6881 0.000001 The Intercept
#7317 0.000001 Wired
#7854 0.000001 Financial Times
#7999 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#8287 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8362 0.000013 The Atlantic
#8917 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#9761 0.000001 VICE

Informal Community

#1642 0.000082 Founders

system

#5224 0.000025 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#2543 0.000023 Benchmark Capital
#4317 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4354 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4765 0.000001 Accel
#5132 0.000001 Sequioa
#5179 0.000001 Bessemer
#5476 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5551 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5692 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5712 0.000001 Index Ventures
#6226 0.000001 Homebrew
#7119 0.000001 Village Global
#7408 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#8161 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Crypto

#4342 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4434 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4507 0.000001 Polkadot
#4771 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5689 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5697 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5739 0.000001 Cosmos
#6675 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6948 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8768 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#8789 0.000001 Ethereum
#9325 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Science

#4844 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5254 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#6839 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7650 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#4433 0.000001 Rust
#4659 0.000001 Zig

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