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...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 25, 2020 | All Grids, Big Picture, Grid Modernization
The prominent Cincinnati entrepreneur and investor, Tim Schigel – founder and managing partner of Refinery Ventures – piqued my interest when he told me about an innovative company in which his firm invested at the end of last year – Winston Privacy. Winston Privacy...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 24, 2020 | Big Picture
In the midst of COVID-19-related travel restrictions and market turbulence, I realized there are some important lessons we can extrapolate from the present pandemic to the threat of climate change. Humans don’t handle slow-moving threats well Government action makes a...
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