Tag: climate justice

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change with Cory Doctorow

  December 24, 2020

  https://open.spotify.com/episode/46f5jsoJPmkwH41fO6s9RH more ›

• Climate tech’s second shot

  November 15, 2020

  It isn’t the first time. A decade ago, enthusiasm swelled for the renewable energy boom known as clean tech. That led to billions of dollars in losses as startups furiously spent venture capital… more ›

• Renewable energy defies Covid-19 to hit record growth in 2020

  November 10, 2020

  Global renewable electricity installation will hit a record level in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency, in sharp contrast with the declines caused by the coronavirus pandemic in the fossil… more ›

• Venture capital floods into food-tech

  September 27, 2020

  “I was getting laughed out of town when I said I was going to invest in a plant-based burger in 2011,” Mr Kaul said. “I think people really thought I… more ›