Perfume? Yes. Potatoes? No. Vertical farming tries to grow up
Cleantech is hard. Farming is harder. This week, Akshat Rathi visits entrepreneurs doing both. GroGrace in Singapore and Jungle in Paris are two vertical farming companies taking agriculture indoors,...
14 Sep 202332min
How the world’s biggest green bank is electrifying Australia
Trillions of dollars are needed to fund the climate transition, with both the private sector and governments required to contribute. Australia’s answer is the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), ...
7 Sep 202331min
Your carbon footprint should bring you joy
The concept of a “carbon footprint” began as a distraction from Big Oil: get people to focus on their own actions rather than the impact of large emitters. Oil companies come up with PR campaigns all ...
31 Aug 202334min
Best of: How to build a battery that replaces a coal plant
This week, a visit to the energy startup trying to replace coal with a very cheap battery. Form Energy has attracted nearly $900 million in investments and is building its first manufacturing facility...
24 Aug 202325min
Methane leaks are the low-hanging fruit of the climate crisis
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 25-year period. However, it also degrades much more quickly than CO2, meaning cuts in emissions now can...
21 Aug 202312min
Why Hollywood A-listers are rushing to star in climate shows
How do you turn climate change into compelling TV? What scenarios do you draw on? And how do you make sure a call for climate action isn’t lost to a feeling that a dystopian future is inevitable? Whe...
17 Aug 202332min
Inside the industry that made climate denial work
True crime is one of the most popular genres in every form of storytelling. But can that pull be used to tell stories about the environment? This week, Akshat speaks with Amy Westervelt, a climate rep...
10 Aug 202336min
A sci-fi writer’s guide to a low-carbon future
To tackle climate change, we need good stories and we need good storytellers. Kim Stanley Robinson is a climate fiction author who has written more than 20 novels, including Ministry for the Future, w...
3 Aug 202338min
