If you’re anything like me, you care. And sometimes caring means stress, especially when the things you care about don’t go as you hoped. A few years ago, I hit a wall. I’d been working in the environmental space for 25+ years, and been a solo entrepreneur 4 times. I … [continued]
I really enjoyed sitting down with Fredrik Malmfors, CEO of Lignin Industries, to talk about how his company and its patented technology are taking on fossil based plastics, leveraging good old fashioned horse sense, supply chains, waste materials, and … carbon sequestration technologies? As it turns out, Sweden-based Lignin Industries … [continued]
Jennifer wrote a great piece about the fragmentation of the EV scene on social media a few weeks ago, pointing out all the challenges associated with getting the right messaging out in a universe of often purposefully biased media. The mass “X-odus” from Elon Musk’s social media platform continues, with … [continued]
Lectric Ebikes, one the industry’s mainstays and foremost leaders in e-micromobility, is having a massive Black Friday sale today and Cyberweek sale, with some of their most popular models up to 40% off. Accessories are also up to 40% off, and batteries up to 30% off. It’s a limited time … [continued]
CleanTechnica is hosting a webinar tomorrow that will be a workshop for climate activists and professionals to help build personal resilience, effectiveness, and, well, joy! After all, we’re doing good work and our work is fulfilling and worthwhile, and should be a source of hope, joy and inspiration to ourselves … [continued]
Tom Steyer, billionaire investor and philanthropist, is a good guy. I’ve met him and chatted with him briefly. He even said nice things about CleanTechnica, so … he won some points in my book. Tom ran for president and got up to 11% of the vote in the Democratic primary … [continued]
I am old enough to remember a day when talking politics with people who didn’t agree with you did not mean the end of a friendship quite as often as it does now. I have a lot of theories on how things got this way, but as someone who works … [continued]
What’s done is done, and we can’t change the past, so we’ll just move on to the question of the day. What now? Perhaps a story first. In 2004, Adam Werbach, the former Sierra Club president, went all in on defeating a Texas oilman US president who had started an … [continued]
If you are not living under a rock, odds are, you’re aware that climate change is real and has pretty bad repercussions for everyone and everything on this beautiful little planet we call home. There are a lot of folks who are working on solving this — more than we … [continued]
3% of the world’s electricity is used by data centers. That’s up from, well, zero, not too long ago. It’s everything from iCloud to websites to cat videos to Instagram reels to Facetime calls. A blog post uses a lot less data than a podcast, which uses less than a … [continued]
