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Seven Megatrends that could Beat Global Warming
The tide is finally turning, thanks to innovations ranging from cheap renewables to lab-grown meat and electric airplanes. Read the entire article at The Guardian. It is becoming increasingly clear that it does not need to be all bad news: a series of fast-moving global megatrends, spurred by trillion-dollar investments, indicates that humanity […]
Energy Storage is Economically Attractive for Commercial Sector
While energy storage is generally cost-prohibitive for the residential sector, it can be economically attractive for the commercial sector because it is subject to a different billing structure. Read the entire article at GreenBiz. A study published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in partnership with Clean Energy Group (CEG) found that […]
A Broke, and Broken, Flood Insurance Program
An unusual coalition of insurers, environmentalists and fiscal conservatives is seeking major changes in the National Flood Insurance Program. Read the entire article at the New York Times. Congress must decide by Dec. 8 whether to keep the program going. An unusual coalition of insurers, environmentalists and fiscal conservatives has joined the Trump administration in calling […]
Oil and Gas Industry Launches Climate Initiative
Ten CEOs of some of the world’s largest and most profitable companies (including Shell, Saudi Aramco, Statoil and BP) are moving quickly to embrace the low-carbon transition. Read the entire article at GreenBiz. “Looking back over the past three years, I’m struck by just how far we’ve come with the OGCI, and how […]
Insuring the Future
Insurers forecast risk by extrapolating from the past. How can they continue to do so in an era of rapid volatility? Read the entire article at HuffPost. Insurance is the economic tool we use to manage many of the key risks we face – to health, to property and to a range of […]
A World Without Plastic Waste: generating sustainable packaging ideas from nature
Read the entire article at Synapse. It’s estimated that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. That’s one of many haunting statistics that makes it clear that plastic and packaging waste is a pressing global challenge that won’t be solved without sustainable innovation and collaboration across industries. That’s […]
Tesla Tiny House Integrates Solar with Powerwall
Read the entire article at TreeHugger. Automotive and energy storage company Tesla’s innovations and concepts have been capturing the popular imagination for some time now, making electric cars aspirational and sexy, making waves with its solar roof shingles and disrupting the fossil fuel status quo with its massive, grid-scale batteries. The company is now making […]
Devastation in Puerto Rico could produce a revolutionary power grid
Read the entire article at Brookings. Disasters often lead to unexpected and swift technology innovation. The calamitous collapse of Puerto Rico’s electricity system might be the next example of that phenomenon. As we know, Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Restoring its existing power grid of big diesel burning plants and long transmission lines […]
World’s First Negative Emissions Plant Turns CO2 into Stone
Read the entire article and view the video at Quartz. We produce 40 trillion kg of carbon dioxide each year, and we’re on track to cross a crucial emissions threshold that will cause global temperature to pass the dangerous 2°C limit set by the Paris climate agreement. Climate scientists are talking about a technology […]
This Tiny Country Feeds the World
Read the entire article at The National Geographic. In a potato field near the Netherlands’ border with Belgium, Dutch farmer Jacob van den Borne is seated in the cabin of an immense harvester before an instrument panel worthy of the Starship Enterprise. From his perch 10 feet above the ground, he’s monitoring two drones—a driverless […]
