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 | Nov 29, 2019 | All AgTech, All Grids, All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC, Industrial Heat, Regenerative Agriculture
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...
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 | 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...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | May 31, 2019 | All AgTech, Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Health
When I wrote about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) a few months ago (Here’s The Real Reason Why GMOs Are Bad, And Why They May Save Humanity, GMOs And The Dangers Of Politicizing Science), I had no idea that the reader response would be so swift and...
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