An insider’s look at the Glasgow climate summit – talks intensify, amid grandstanding and anger outside Home News An insider’s look at the Glasgow climate summit – talks intensify, amid… No posts to display
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Alexander I. Platt Contributor Alexander I. Platt is an associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Law. Once upon a time, a successful startup that reached a certain maturity would “go public” — selling securities to ordinary investors, perhaps listing on a national stock exchange and taking on the privileges and obligations of…
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Mayors have the toughest job in the world, and leading a city is only getting harder. Even as populations swell in urban cores across the world, climate change is constraining the geographies where that growth can happen. Coastal communities which are popular with residents are also taking a gamble when it comes to rising sea…
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One of the consequences of rising CO2 levels in our atmosphere is that levels also rise proportionately in the ocean, harming wildlife and changing ecosystems. Heimdal is a startup working to pull that CO2 back out at scale using renewable energy and producing carbon-negative industrial materials, including limestone for making concrete, in the process, and…
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Space may be the endless frontier, but here on Earth, we define space in the modern sense as something enclosed. Walls, fences and barriers enclose space, define it and make it legible. In fact, the sense of limits is so strong these days with place that we often have to add qualifiers like “open space”…
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When did indoor air become cold and clean? Air conditioning is one of those inventions that have become so ubiquitous, that many in the developed world don’t even realize that less than a century ago, it didn’t exist. Indeed, it wasn’t so long ago that the air inside our buildings and the air outside of…
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The concept of “sustainable capitalism” does NOT mean the latest CleanTech unicorn ie growth at all costs to make a few shareholders vastly wealthy. That may produce solutions to help mitigate the Climate Crisis, but “sustainable capitalism” is a more radical concept that is about enabling billions to earn a good living – within a…
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Imagine these two pitches to investors: A. We will get to $10m annual revenue with $7m costs and $3m Free Cash Flow. After that growth will be nominal. At best investors will value that $3m Free Cash Flow at some discount to the US Treasury 30 year return. B. We will get to $100m annual…
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The Google founders famously put “don’t be evil” into their corporate code of conduct, softening it to “do the right thing” in 2015 and de-emphasized it again in 2018. The reality is that tech companies have only one mandate which is profit for shareholders. Keeping customers and talent happy is aligned to that mandate. That…
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