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...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | May 7, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
Last week, the New York chapter of the Turnaround Management Association invited me and four other industry professionals to participate in a panel discussion exploring climate change investing opportunities. I came away from the discussion energized and with my eyes...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Apr 26, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC
In a major announcement that earned coverage from such august outlets as the BBC and the New York Times, Carbon Engineering – a firm I highlighted in the article Capitalism vs Climate Change: The Case of Carbon Engineering – revealed it had received a game-changing...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 7, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Industrial Heat
If you ask most people how we will get to a zero-carbon world, they’re likely to talk about electric cars and wind farms. However, climate cognoscenti know that the two largest contributors to climate change are industrial processes and agriculture, whose greenhouse...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jan 25, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
Thanks to a particularly odious little troll of a man and to a writer whose two major works the late, great Christopher Hitchens describes as “transcendently awful”, the word “tax” has a nearly obscene connotation. Nonetheless, it is clear to me that a carbon tax,...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jan 11, 2019 | All Post-Carbon
The Carbon Engineering Squamish plant. Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. Taken on April 20, 2016. Imagine vacuuming CO2 out of the thin air and transforming the carbon into jet fuel or gasoline. While it might seem like a sci-fi fantasy, it is actually the...
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