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The election’s just days away: time to get in the fight and make a difference.It’s now or never to stop Trump. What to do: Arizona Trump is counting on Arizona’s 11 electoral votes, but it could be very close. Biden won Arizona by just 10,457 votes in 2020 (.3%), outContinue Reading

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Some Onion-style updates on AI, Tariffs, Waymo, and VPPs. I’ve been waking up at night worrying about stuff recently (the obvious stuff). To relax and get back to sleep, I started writing clean energy parody headlines in my head (a la The Onion) to crack myself up. It was myContinue Reading

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The global fight for clean energy is just getting started. Recently I read a fascinating book, Freedom’s Forge, about U.S. industrial mobilization during WWII. It struck me as similar to what’s needed to meet the climate challenge today: an all-out global mobilization to replace fossil fuels with clean energy. JustContinue Reading

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No need to keep paying the fossil fuel man. I love it when financial self-interest aligns with doing right by the planet, which is happening more and more these days. But it takes more than self-interest and good intentions to make change happen quickly. People need powerful and simple narrativesContinue Reading

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United taps his credibility to pitch sustainable fuels. The perfect green pitch-puppet. This summer, while boarding a flight, I came across one of the weirdest greenwashing campaigns ever: Oscar The Grouch talking sustainability for United Airlines. In a way though, it made sense: people have doubts about flying these days,Continue Reading

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A few climate-related photos from my summer travels Lenox, Massachusetts Here’s an ice cream truck cooled by a heat pump (the condenser’s mounted near the top), something I’d never seen before. Most ice cream trucks use gas generators to power their equipment (soft serve machines, for example, pull multiple kilowatts).Continue Reading

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We recently spent a couple days in Boston’s shiny new ‘Seaport’ district, and it was lots of fun. Walking the piers, eating soft serve and lobster (not together), going to museums and beer gardens, watching the tourists and hipster knowledge workers… it felt like a Mediterranean escape meets The HighContinue Reading

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When are people ever this friendly with strangers? So there we were, in the jungle; I mean, at an Electrify America charging station in New Hampshire earlier today, in our rented Kia EV6. At first, there was nothing; no EVs, no wait, just your typical Walmart parking lot. It wasContinue Reading

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Can Americans run their own distributed power plants? Yes… it’s happened before. Distributed power generation is a hot topic today. Businesses and consumers want to produce their own power, and become less dependent on an increasingly fragile and expensive grid. But can microgrids and distributed generation really scale? Or isContinue Reading

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Working on climate and trying to understand all the business-speak? Here’s collection of fun, simple stories I wrote a couple years ago to explain business to my teenage daughter. Each orange link below goes straight to an easy-to-understand story explaining that topic: Climate tech Artificial Intelligence could help us decarbonizeContinue Reading

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People think business is complicated… but it really isn’t. A couple years ago, I decided to write some simple stories to explain business and money concepts for my teenage daughter. She illustrated them, with help from some other kids (thanks Konani Chinn and Avery Adamson). I’m sharing all 75 storiesContinue Reading

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The world depends on China for most clean energy technologies today. China controls the global solar, battery, and EV supply chains, and they’re leading on innovation and manufacturing as well. They’ve driven costs way down, which is great. But their scale and head start threatens to leave everyone else inContinue Reading

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Thinking about getting involved in climate? Take a look at the inspiring climate work Stanford GSB alums are doing. I’ve been tracking this group of over 400 alums for a while with huge respect and appreciation; and with the GSB’s climate summit happening this week, thought I’d shine a spotlightContinue Reading

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Jigar Shah is probably the biggest influencer in climate tech today. He’s also an optimist, with lots of money to put behind that optimism: he runs the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, with a $400 billion checkbook to spend on the energy transition. So if you want toContinue Reading