Denver’s Big Stick for Buildings
Denver and Colorado have enacted tough energy codes for existing buildings, and they're not the only cities and states that have.
WTF Is The Circular Economy?
Circular economics may seem like a secret handshake known only to a few. But it’s everywhere, and it’s growing.
Power to the People, Y’all! - A Company’s Stakeholders
The SEC’s climate-reporting rules are a big bummer because they don’t go far enough. Yet there’s a ring of people and groups encircling every business - stakeholders - and they have the power to lift a company up or create a world of hurt that can shut it down.
One of the World’s Biggest Clean-tech Hubs is in … Arkansas?!
A big clean-tech hub is rising in a part of the country that had 20th-century powerhouse industries like oil exploration and paper mills. Where? Southern Arkansas, and lithium refining and carbon sequestration are two ascendant industries there now.
Losing Winter
I love winter. I mean really, really love winter. Yet the frozen season is getting shorter every year due to climate change. There’s a name for this - solastalgia, a sense that something we love is leaving us. Rather than curl up in a ball and wish it all away, there is action we can take to parry both climate change and the sadness we winter people feel about its vanishing.