SF Climate Week 2024: Are Businesses and Governments Measuring What Matters?

May 1, 2024

Many businesses and governments have a goal of reaching net zero emissions. Sounds good. But what does “net zero” even mean? And how do we get...

SF Climate Week 2024: Leading San Francisco in a Hot and Volatile World

April 30, 2024

In 2021, Mayor London Breed released the San Francisco Action Plan, which aims to achieve net zero emissions for the city by 2040. The plan not...

What More Can I Do?

March 1, 2024

As climate change impacts our lives more and more, many of us want to know: what can I do to make a difference? If the scale of the crisis feels...

Geothermal: So Hot Right Now

February 23, 2024

When most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source is...

Let’s Talk Dirty to Clean Energy

February 16, 2024

After more than a century, the U.S. is moving away from coal, the dirtiest and most dangerous form of power generation. 
“We are now at a point...

Wardrobe Malfunction: The Climate Impact of Clothing

January 19, 2024

Clothing may not be one of the top things you think about in terms of climate solutions, but the way we source, make and churn through clothes has...

The Nuclear Option

September 15, 2023

Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. And they ended up...

Rethinking Economic Growth, Wealth, and Health

September 8, 2023

Since the industrial revolution, the global north has seen massive economic growth. And today, many believe continued growth to be the engine of a...

Two Voices on Climate That Will Surprise You

April 7, 2023

It’s easy to write off people outside our own ideological bubbles, even when we may have things in common. But as the effects of the climate...

Has Hydrogen’s Moment Finally Arrived?

March 3, 2023

For decades, hydrogen has been considered the fuel of the future. Now, with a slew of new U.S. tax incentives, research and funding, its moment...