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ClimateTech Updates For February 2021

News about some of the most exciting ventures in the world: Xpansiv, PrairieFood, Carbon Engineering, and 1PointFive

News about some of the most exciting ventures in the world: Xpansiv, PrairieFood, Carbon Engineering, and 1PointFive

by | February 12, 2021 | All AgTech, All Post-Carbon, Carbon Credits, DAC, Soil Health | 0 Comments

This article is the first installment of my column’s new feature, ClimateTech Updates. In ClimateTech Update articles, I pass along the latest news about companies I have featured in previous columns. The inaugural update covers: Xpansiv PrairieFood Carbon Engineering...
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Expert: Beware Of Simple Solutions – Tree Planting Won’t Solve Climate Change

by | October 16, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, DAC | 0 Comments

Over the past few weeks, I have written two articles (The Future is Now, License to Print Money) highlighting the new industry of Carbon Sequestration-as-a-Service. CSaaS is helping forward-leaning firms like Shopify achieve carbon neutrality and is made possible by...
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Carbon Engineering’s Licenses To Print Money

by | October 9, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, DAC | 0 Comments

  Carbon Sequestration-as-a-Service (CSaaS) can make “Carbon-free Shopping” as ubiquitous as “Free Shipping” is today, but to do so, a lot of infrastructure needs to get built. The football field-sized plants that pull CO2 out of the air for sequestration or...
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The Future Is Now: This Start-Up Offers Carbon-Free Shopping

by | September 24, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, DAC | 0 Comments

How wonderful it was to live at the turn of the twenty-first century! We had the luxury of considering climate change as a possible negative that might happen in the seemingly unimaginable future of “ten or 20 years from now.”   Back in the good ole’ days, we imagined...
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The Premier Technology For Sequestering Carbon

by | January 22, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, Carbon Credits, DAC | 0 Comments

In my reporting on Carbon Engineering, the innovative Canadian firm leading the market in the Direct Air Capture (DAC) of atmospheric carbon dioxide, I have talked about human civilization’s desperate need to find an effective solution for sequestering atmospheric...
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A Year Of Climate Records And Three Great Climate Change Investments

by | December 30, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC, Industrial Heat | 0 Comments

Congratulations. You just lived through the warmest decade in the last several hundred years and likely the warmest since the beginning of human civilization. This year in particular has been one of records: In January and February, Australia experienced...
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Making The Old Economy More Sustainable

by | November 29, 2019 | All AgTech, All Grids, All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC, Industrial Heat, Regenerative Agriculture | 0 Comments

Most of the companies about which I write in this column are new ventures commercializing cutting-edge technology to reduce or eliminate carbon emissions – companies like GlassPoint Solar, Carbon Engineering, and PrairieFoods. As a society, we desperately need these...
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Capitalism vs Climate Change: The Venture Capitalists’ Perspective

by | June 18, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC | 0 Comments

Earlier this year, Carbon Engineering – the innovative firm that sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide using “Direct Air Capture” technology – raised $68 million from a consortium of investors. In my last article about Carbon Engineering, Capitalism vs Climate Change:...
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A Historic Inflection Point In Capitalism’s Battle Against Climate Change

by | April 26, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC | 0 Comments

In a major announcement that earned coverage from such august outlets as the BBC and the New York Times, Carbon Engineering – a firm I highlighted in the article Capitalism vs Climate Change: The Case of Carbon Engineering  – revealed it had received a game-changing...
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