Finally, There’s a Roadmap to Tackle the Climate Crisis
With the climate in crisis, the world has to halve greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade. A new science-based blueprint shows how.
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My Trump-Era Davos Takeaways: Optimism on UN & Climate
The reports may have made it sound grim, but my takeaway from Davos was optimism about beating back climate change. And the idea that business can make money while doing good for the planet and...
Today’s Top Technologies Are Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
Machine learning, predictive analytics, big data, and IoT are quietly making a massive impact toward a more sustainable planet.
EDF to Launch Satellite to Track Methane
Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, told the audience at Techonomy NYC that EDF is launching a purpose-built satellite to locate and measure methane emissions from human-made sources worldwide. "This is our chance...
T+E NYC Preview: Environmentalism’s Fourth Wave
Technological breakthroughs will transform the way we solve environmental problems. In this piece, a preview of a session to be held at Techonomy NYC, a senior leader of the Environmental Defense Fund shows how technology...
Techonomy at Davos: Geospatial Technology Unleashed
Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore introduced a panel at Davos on geospatial technology — a range of tools for the geographic mapping and analysis of the Earth and human societies. See...
The Short-Term Triumph of Short-Termism
Technology is rapidly changing every sector of the economy, as well as the nature of warfare. President-elect Donald Trump doesn't seem to get it. But if you lack a sense of the role of tech,...
TE16: Climate Change Calls for “Taboo Techs”
Speakers on climate change at TE16 aimed to dispel the stigma associated with nuclear power and geo-engineering–controversial technologies that might help address the climate change caused by humankind’s use of fossil fuels. One said that...
How The Internet of Things Will Fight Climate Change
The Internet of Things may shift how our energy system works as much as the steam engine reconfigured Western economies at the start of the industrial revolution. As the world focuses on its climate crisis,...
