Ninth-Generation Texan Leads The General Land Office
Before she was a surgeon, she was a volunteer firefighter. Her favorite song is “A Few More Rednecks” by the Charlie Daniels Band. She loves...
Elizabeth Wilder
The Voluntary Market
What is the right to emit carbon worth? One dollar per metric ton? Fifty dollars? One hundred? There are two markets for carbon: The compliance...
Gorudubu!
Joy may not be the first word that springs to mind when Westerners think about electrical power, but gorudubu (“joy” in the Bariba language) describes...
Hydropower in the U.S.: Why We Should Give A Dam
On March 2, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to invest $3.7 million to expand collaboration on the sometimes competing goals of...
Carbon-Free Cooking
Everybody cooks. Whether using World Health Organization-designated “clean fuels” – electricity, biogas, natural gas, liquified petroleum gas (LPG), solar or alcohol – or “dirty fuels,”...
The Pipeline Delivers
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849 Immortal words – and incorrect. When the topic is diversity on...
Let’s Solve For That
Off-grid living may sound like an attractive, natural experience to those who don’t have to experience it every day. The reality of life without access...
Fusion: The Holy Grail of Clean Energy?
Envision a new clean-energy technology that is abundant, safe and produces affordable, non-carbon-based electricity. This process has been studied and developed for decades. Thanks to...
Greentown Labs: Fast Forward Future
When four MIT graduates pooled resources to locate prototyping lab space in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2011, they didn’t realize they were starting a business incubator;...
Every Molecule Counts
It doesn’t matter where carbon dioxide originates or is sequestered. When it comes to reducing greenhouse gasses and slowing climate change, “Every molecule counts,” says...