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 12, 2019 | Big Picture
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure speak with Amy Francetic, founder and managing director of a Chicago-based clean energy investing venture capital firm called Energize Ventures, and the co-founder of the Clean Energy Trust, a Midwestern-focused non-profit clean...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jun 20, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
Earlier this year, Carbon Engineering – the innovative firm that sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide using “Direct Air Capture” technology – raised $68 million from a consortium of investors. In a prior article, I related my conversation with a family office manager...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jun 18, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC
Earlier this year, Carbon Engineering – the innovative firm that sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide using “Direct Air Capture” technology – raised $68 million from a consortium of investors. In my last article about Carbon Engineering, Capitalism vs Climate Change:...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | May 21, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
After publishing my last article about Carbon Engineering – the Canadian firm founded by brilliant Harvard scientist, David Keith – I spent some time talking with three investors on the front line of climate change investing; they all recently became partial owners of...
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