Will People Only Act When Climate Change Kills the Wine Industry?
A number of years ago, I had the privilege to speak at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global body comprising members of the national parliaments of 178 of the 193 UN Member States. (Their latest assembly took place in October 2022 in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.) At that event, I made friends with a […]
The New York Climate Exchange: A World-first Campus Dedicated to Solutions to the Global Climate Crisis
The New York Climate Exchange, on Governors Island, New York, will be a 400,000-square-foot campus dedicated to research, education, and public programs addressing the global climate crisis. On April 24, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Trust for Governors Island President and CEO Clare Newman, and State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook University […]
U.S. Small Towns Take on Energy-Guzzling Bitcoin Miners
Environmentalists warn carbon emissions from power-intensive bitcoin mining could harm efforts to limit global warming. By Avi Asher-Schapiro In mid-April 2021, nearly 150 local environmentalists marched to the gates of Greenidge Generation, a bitcoin mining facility in upstate New York, in a last-ditch effort to block its expansion. Their objection: that the creation of the […]
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
A book, by Gretchen Bakke, is a revelatory look at our national power grid — how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future. America’s electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present. It’s […]
EarthX Invites Innovators and Investors to 2023 E-Capital Summit
EarthX’s annual E-Capital Summit is an invitation-only, sustainability-focused investment and innovation conference that brings together hundreds of investors, innovators, dealmakers and others who are focused on having substantial, positive impact on investments, businesses, people, and our planet. The E-Capital Summit, held at EarthX in April, offered a unique opportunity to network with industry peers, identify […]