Last spring, a group of Amazonians — collectively known as Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) — earned national headlines with their very vocal and very public advocacy for meaningful climate action. Their employer, they argued, had a responsibility to be more agressive about reducing…
Over the past six months, my long-time friend Christopher Lochhead — the same guy who convinced me I COULD write a book, resulting in the July 2018 release of our book about entrepreneurship, Niche Down — has become a totally-on-fire host of not one but…
Whenever I need a crash course in keeping a message succinct, Ray Wang (with Constellation Research) and Vala Afshar (avec Salesforce) drop in to give me a lesson — and to remind me that I tend to run off at the mouth sometimes! Here’s our…
This article is drawn from the Energy Weekly newsletter, running Thursdays. Subscribe here. The co-founders of SolarCity, Lyndon Rive and Peter Rive, are back on the grid. The brothers, who left their former solar energy services company in mid-2017 after it became part of the Tesla…
This article is drawn from the Energy Weekly newsletter, running Thursdays. Subscribe here. Tech giant Google has disclosed so many solar and wind projects over the past decade that I’ve personally lost count. For you statisticians out there, the estimate is more than 30. The deal…
Want to know what makes me tick? Why I write my fingers off, even on weekends when I could be reading trashy, mindless novels instead? I was privileged to be an early guest on legendary marketer Christopher Lochhead’s insanely irreverent podcast, “Follow Your Different.” During the…
In my mind, year-ahead predictions by journalists like me are somewhat akin to corporate sustainability commitments — the best are aspirational, yet grounded in some practical reality. Some are hopeful, others resigned. With that, here are some thoughts crowding my brain on the precipice of…
Species identification schemes. Early warning systems informed by sensors and big data. Predictive population modeling. Looks like a job for artificial intelligence! It felt appropriate to weigh in with a year-end riff about a topic that’s guaranteed to spark debate at holiday parties — when and…
Is the world’s largest provider of cloud computing services falling down on its 2014 pledge to one day power all of its data centers entirely with renewable energy? That’s the question posed recently by an investigative report in The Information (subscription required, but you can…
When rocket scientist K.R. Sridhar founded the technology startup that would become Bloom Energy in 2001 — and famously introduced its electricity-generating “box” to the world in 2010 during a “60 Minutes” segment — his inspiration was a photograph snapped from outer space illustrating the…