by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Feb 10, 2021 | Big Picture, In Theory
You can listen to this article at my SoundCloud station: Climate Catalysts: The Pairs Trade of the Century (2/9/2021) by Climate Solutions with Erik | Free Listening on SoundCloud This article is the first installment of my column’s new feature, Climate Catalysts....
On Tap For 2021: Nanobubbles, Thermal Batteries, And More
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jan 29, 2021 | Big Picture, In Theory
The year has started out very busy for your loyal correspondent, who has been interviewing experts on grid modernization, energy storage, and agricultural technology. In the coming months, I’m looking forward to bringing you stories about some incredible organizations...
A Year-End Message To Intelligent Investors And Conscious Consumers
The same supply chain that is saving our lives with vaccine is a main driver in the destruction of our ecosystem The same supply chain that is saving our lives with vaccine is a main driver in the destruction of our ecosystem
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Dec 18, 2020 | Big Picture, In Practice
Watching video footage of vials of Covid-19 vaccines encased in dry ice and arriving at hospitals and retirement homes offers me a glimmer of hope for 2021. But having a vaccine does not mean an end to the pandemic — vaccines must be distributed to hospitals and...
Using Big Data And The Power Of Markets To Solve Climate Change
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Aug 6, 2020 | All AgTech, All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
An academic paper published last month by Australian climate scientist, Steven Sherwood and a team of global colleagues, made for sobering reading. The paper showed that a doubling of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations – which at our present do-nothing...
Climate Change: The Ball Is In Our Court
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 24, 2020 | Big Picture, In Theory
Public attitudes regarding the scientific certainty of climate change have undergone an enormous shift since the mid-aughts, when former Vice President Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth first hit the theaters. The increasingly hard to ignore climate-related crises...
Ex-Economic Hit Man John Perkins Believes We Have Reached A Tipping Point
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 16, 2020 | Big Picture, In Practice
One of the topics your correspondent keeps banging on about is that complex adaptive systems (like the world we live on) can sometimes experience jumps from one state to another when the they reach a tipping point. Unfortunately, most of the ecological tipping points...
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