Pay Wall Street to Fight Global Warming
FORTUNE: It’s a radical idea. By most measures, the Paris climate talks last month were a success. In the end, 195 countries agreed to...
Can Bill Gates’ Climate Pledge Make a Real Difference?
FORTUNE: The world’s richest man says he’ll spend $1 billion to fight global warming and has persuaded other billionaires to join him....
Understanding The Future Of Mobility
Originally appeared in TechCrunch, August 8, 2015 We recently had the opportunity to participate in two important conferences focused on...
What clean-energy innovators can learn from Apple
FORTUNE: Bringing cheap, low-carbon energy to the developing world means rethinking how we finance technology. We noted in an earlier...
Why Bill Gates is wrong about clean energy
FORTUNE: The well-intentioned billionaire is investing heavily in Hail Mary technologies to fight climate change. What we really need is...
Divestiture and Fossil Fuels
Divestiture and Fossil Fuels: A total of 436 institutions plus hundreds of family offices, together representing $2.6 trillion in assets...
Fossils on the Beach (Part II)
Continued from part I, previously posted Differing prospects for Rising U.S. Oil Production The world energy organization (IEA) is...
Fossils on the Beach (Part I)
Fossils on the Beach: Risks Relating to Ongoing Investment Reliance on Fossil Fuels We rely heavily on fossil fuels to power today’s...
A bold idea for our time: US sovereign productivity fund
We have a historic opportunity: crumbling US infrastructure, windfall profits, Saudi price cuts undermining our energy security. Pass an...
Car costs you 3x what you think
Most of us see the gas bill at the pump and annual registration/insurance. That bill is slightly lower at the moment due to low oil...