If you Google “Covid and globalization,” you’ll see many articles on how the pandemic will kill globalization, rolling back decades of economic changes. The argument is that the pandemic coupled with recent trade turmoil will cause companies to move their supply chains closer to home. Frequent business travel will now…
The science of climate change is older than you might think.
Here’s a picture of the Martian landscape that descended on my neighborhood earlier this month, courtesy of Clarity co-founder David Lu:
Hint: Make your product awesome
When I talk to entrepreneurs in the sustainability space, especially those building consumer products, I often see the same mistake: Their products and go-to-market strategies are focused on people who are already committed to reducing their environmental impact. They’re targeting the small segment of people who’ll choose a product primarily…
Hopefully, despite the devastating march of COVID-19, you’ve taken some time to walk around your neighborhood. If you have, some things might have caught you off guard — for example, my NYC-based colleague told me this is the first time she’s heard birds chirping outside her apartment. And across the…
When wildfires ravaged California last fall, one university administrator was carefully monitoring the campuses she oversees. In the past, she had relied on a single air monitoring station maintained by the city, which was miles away. But the massive number of fires, each one tossing more and more ash into…
In an effort to provide more sustainable options, the food industry is trying new things. It’s time to get adventurous — again.
Would you eat a fist-full of fried crickets? How about crackers made with cricket flour? A burger made with lab-grown meat cells? Increasingly, more people are saying yes…
As Greta Thunberg has so eloquently stated, the next fifty years will be one of the most challenging times in our history. We must provision food, water, goods and services for roughly an additional two billion people, while improving the wellbeing of the nearly 8 billion people already here. We…
