by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Apr 21, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
On this, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we should all be celebrating that the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for alternative generation sources is dependably lower than that of carbon emitting sources. (My co-contributor at Forbes, Silvio Marcacci, wrote an...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Apr 17, 2020 | All AgTech, Aquaculture
The present COVID-19 crisis has underscored how reliant we are on long, complex supply chains to supply us with basic necessities. A sobering reminder of our system’s brittleness is the warning from Smithfield Foods’ CEO that COVID-19 “…is pushing our country...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Apr 10, 2020 | Big Picture
As loyal readers of this column will know, your correspondent views capitalism as the economic expression of our species’ most powerful advantage – Adaptation – and believes that capitalism is one tool that has the potential to allow our species to thrive in a...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Apr 1, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
On Tuesday, March 31, the Trump Administration announced it was rolling back Obama-era auto emission targets. Unfortunately, this is not an April Fools’ Day joke – it is official government policy, policy that makes a mockery of the name of one of the sponsoring...
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