Tag: climate change

• The Politics of the Anthropocene in a World After Neoliberalism

  March 21, 2021

  Merely “following the science” will not get us anywhere close to a more progressive future. Historian Adam Tooze has argued that COVID-19 is the first economic crisis of the Anthropocene, a… more ›

• The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

  March 14, 2021

  High-profile entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, venture capitalists like Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois, and big companies like Oracle and HP Enterprise are all leaving California. https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-end-of-silicon-valley-as-we-know-it/ more ›

• A sand shortage? The world is running out of a crucial — but under-appreciated — commodity

  March 7, 2021

  LONDON — An insatiable global appetite for sand, one of the world’s most important but least appreciated commodities, is unlikely to let up anytime soon. The problem, however, is that… more ›

• China’s green colonialism : The climate crisis brings out superpower rivalry

  March 5, 2021

  Two new books reflect on how the cartographies of power are being redrafted in the twenty-first century. As Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro demonstrate in China Goes Green, the emergent… more ›

• How one of Google’s massive undersea cables detects earthquakes

  February 27, 2021

  The web of undersea cables that transmit data around the world could one day be used to track earthquakes and tsunamis, according to new research. https://www.theverge.com/22301097/google-undersea-cable-detects-earthquakes more ›

• Gaia 2.0

  February 21, 2021

  According to Lovelock and Margulis’s Gaia hypothesis, living things are part of a planetary-scale self-regulating system that has maintained habitable conditions for the past 3.5 billion years (1, 2). http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6407/1066 more ›

• The Origins Of ‘Planetary Realism’ And ‘Whole Earth Thinking’

  February 21, 2021

  In the introduction to the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, I wrote, “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” More recently, in “Whole Earth Discipline”… more ›

• 8 Sustainable Business Predictions for 2021 – The Triple Bottom

  February 14, 2021

   Here are our 8 predictions of the trends that will drive sustainable Business, Tech and Science in 2021. In today’s edition: Africa cashes in on innovation The rise of super… more ›

• We Have Entered the Climate Decade

  January 31, 2021

  Beyond the legitimate handwringing, there’s one economy that will provide steady, consistent opportunities and growth in the coming decade: The Decarbonization Economy. Call this ClimateTech, Cleantech 2.0, or something new,… more ›

• Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption

  January 22, 2021

  Electric vehicles are close to the “tipping point” of rapid mass adoption thanks to the plummeting cost of batteries, experts say. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/electric-vehicles-close-to-tipping-point-of-mass-adoption more ›