President Trump’s State of the Union speech committing U.S. support to the Trillion Tree Campaign drew a lot of attention to topic of forestry- and land use-related carbon sequestration schemes. 2019 State of the Union...
Read MoreThe string of bad climate news detailed in a previous article reinforced my belief that we must use the power of capitalism to prepare civilization for climate adaptation. Knowing how hard I and other VCs work to try to raise...
Read MoreAn out-of-control bushfire in southwest Sydney, Australia.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Congratulations. You just lived through the warmest decade in the last several hundred years and likely the warmest since the beginning of human...
Read MoreThe past few weeks have supplied a consistent string of negative news on the climate change front. NOAA released its annual Arctic Report Card, warning that the globe has likely reached an important “tipping point” – namely,...
Read MoreMost of the companies about which I write in this column are new ventures commercializing cutting-edge technology to reduce or eliminate carbon emissions – companies like GlassPoint Solar, Carbon Engineering, and PrairieFoods....
Read MoreEconomists are hard people to love. Cerebral and seemingly disinterested in the people living in the world they are trying to describe, they make the third worst party guests in the world. Mediocre economists clothe prejudice in...
Read MoreRiddle me this, Batman… What country saw electric vehicle sales increase by 62% in 2018 while sales of fossil fuel cars sank by 3%?What country added the most solar photovoltaic generation capacity in 2018 – more than the U.S.,...
Read MoreMs. Amy Francetic, , Founder and Managing Director of Energize VenturesAMY FRANCETIC A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure speak with Amy Francetic, founder and managing director of a Chicago-based clean energy investing venture...
Read MoreCarbon Engineering’s Squamish British Columbia test plant. Source: Carbon EngineeringCARBONENGINEERING.COM Earlier this year, Carbon Engineering – the innovative firm that sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide using...
Read MoreCarbon Engineering’s Squamish British Columbia test plant. Source: Carbon EngineeringCARBONENGINEERING.COM Earlier this year, Carbon Engineering – the innovative firm that sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide using...
Read MoreAfter publishing my last article about Carbon Engineering – the Canadian firm founded by brilliant Harvard scientist, David Keith – I spent some time talking with three investors on the front line of climate change investing;...
Read MoreThe earth as seen from Apollo 17. Source: NASA via WikipediaWIKIPEDIA.COM Over the last few months, I have been talking and writing about the paradigm shift in the investing world brought about by climate change. “Paradigm...
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