by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Sep 13, 2019 | All AgTech, Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Health
The modern system of farming, supported by the innovations of the Green Revolution, is a wonder. Since the end of World War II, the innovations brought forth by new hybrid crop species and agricultural chemicals has allowed the earth’s finite resource base to support...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Sep 6, 2019 | Big Picture
Economists are hard people to love. Cerebral and seemingly disinterested in the people living in the world they are trying to describe, they make the third worst party guests in the world. Mediocre economists clothe prejudice in the abstract language of mathematics to...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Aug 22, 2019 | All Grids, All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
Riddle me this, Batman… What country saw electric vehicle sales increase by 62% in 2018 while sales of fossil fuel cars sank by 3%? What country added the most solar photovoltaic generation capacity in 2018 – more than the U.S., Japan, and Germany combined? What...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 29, 2019 | All AgTech, Soil Health
In my search to find good companies whose focus is on helping civilization adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change, a few months ago, I got very interested in the application of genetic engineering to agriculture. The world population is inexorably...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 19, 2019 | All AgTech, Regenerative Agriculture
Erik the Red brought his fellow Vikings to the southwestern shore of Greenland in the late 900s CE. His optimistic naming of the island may not have been entirely inappropriate as natural fluctuations in climate meant that he had stumbled upon Greenland when it was...
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