So you say you want a paradigm shift. Women-led start-ups are ready to blow the status quo out of the water. I was super impressed by some of the presentations I watched at this year’s NOAH Zurich conference, especially those given by women. Featured in this article: Lubomila Jorganova, PlanA.earth …

Remember how the whole world mobilized to find a vaccine to COVID-19 just to get the economy running again during a global pandemic? We need to bring that kind of energy to the issue of climate risk, which is potentially a much bigger source of financial turbulence well underway. The…

Excluding companies for social and environmental reasons doesn’t necessarily produce real impact, especially for racial inequality. — As a white, 30-something woman who only recently started to save for retirement, I felt late to investing when I opened my first Etrade.com account in August 2020. I deposited some money and started exploring my options. But apart from a few sectors that I’d decided to rule out —…

The phrase #buildbackbetter is everywhere right now. Joe Biden is using it to describe his proposed stimulus package. A variation on it, #rebuildbetter, has been used by the US solar industry in a joint letter to congress asking for an extension of the Solar Tax Credit. And, of course, it’s…

Language shapes how we think about issues in our world. Choosing the right words to center our discussions matters. This is why The Guardian chose to update its style guide for climate change last year: Instead of “climate change” the preferred terms are “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” and “global…

A new report by the University of California Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy outlines a feasible plan for 90% decarbonization of the energy grid by 2035 in the US. 90% Decarbonization is not unrealistic So, what this means is the entire bulk energy grid would derive from the following sources: renewable energy (primarily wind…

Why your green job search should start on Climatebase. — If you’ve ever searched for a “sustainability” job or a “climate change” job on Indeed or ZipRecruiter, you may have been disappointed. Some of the jobs linked to these keywords are available at companies whose core function serves the fossil fuel economy. For example, I typed in the search terms…

Last week, climate twitter had a heyday sharing this remark: “climate change needs to hire coronavirus’s publicist.” That’s because governments around the world are responding to the coronavirus with sweeping aid packages, bail-outs and awareness-spreading messaging. It has all happened quickly, with the sense of urgency that the climate crisis…

Remember when the milkman would deliver milk to everyone’s doorsteps in the neighborhood? Okay, let’s face it, you’re probably too young to remember that. But maybe your parents or grandparents told you about it. Now that our waste crisis is mounting, many companies are considering ways to go back to…