Tag: climate change
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In the same way that monocropping corn creates weaker, less resilient land, monocropping our streets with cars creates cities that aren’t as vibrant as they ought to be. We often… more ›
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A global coalition initiated by the Government of India, Mission Innovation, and RMI announced today the winners of the Global Cooling Prize, an international innovation competition to develop super-efficient and… more ›
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You’re not ready for what’s coming. You’re also not alone in your unreadiness. https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/old-thinking-will-break-your-brain more ›
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Early adopters like Stella McCartney are pitching sustainability and innovation in swapping cowhides for mushroom roots. In a warehouse outside Oakland, California, the air smells like decaying trees. Workers toss… more ›
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Planetary-scale computation — an emergent intelligence that is both machine and human — gave us the perspective to see Earth as an interconnected whole. With it, we must now conceive… more ›
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Politics must be reimagined to include more than mere human affairs. Noema Deputy Editor Nils Gilman recently interviewed Tobias Rees, who is the director of the Berggruen Institute’s Transformations of… more ›
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Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the great living science fiction writers and one of the most astute observers of how planets look, feel and work. We discuss why Robinson… more ›
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USING carrots to create concrete, turning wood into plastic, or even compressing it into a “super wood” that is as light and strong as titanium might sound like a series… more ›
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Five years ago Project Drawdown published a collection of “drawdown solutions,” technologies and practices that, if ambitiously implemented together, can achieve drawdown—the point in the future when levels of greenhouse… more ›