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Books I liked in 2014
For my last blog post of the year, I’d like to share with you some of the books that I enjoyed reading in 2014. I made a conscious effort this year to do less work-related reading, which isn’t always...
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Brainstorm Green, RIP
Bill Clinton at Brainstorm Green in 2009 In 2007, Andy Serwer, the managing editor of FORTUNE, where I was then a senior writer, asked me to work with the magazine’s conference division to create a...
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Healthy junk food? Hey, why not?
Let them eat kale is not a recipe for solving America’s obesity crisis. Trust me. I’ve tried kale. I like Indian food, Thai food, Vietnamese food, Mexican food. I like spinach. But kale? It ain’t...
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How “evil” Monsanto aims to protect the planet
Iowa cornfield shows signs of erosion and fertilizer runoff. Climate Corporation aims to help farmers use fertilizer more efficiently. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP Monsanto has been called one of the...
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One hundred low-cost tools for global women
A microfinance circle outside Hyderabad, India In a gorgeous new large-format book called 100 under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women , author and activist Betsy Teutsch spotlights,...
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Edelman’s climate problem
Last summer, the big PR company Edelman faced a problem that no amount of spin could resolve. Kert Davies, the former head of research for Greenpeace who now leads the Climate Investigations Center,...
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We’re losing the climate battle. So we may need to harvest CO2 from the sky.
Carbon Engineering’s new plant in Squamish, BC The Guardian this week published my latest story about direct air capture of CO2, a topic that has fascinated me since the late 2000s. My 2012 Amazon...
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Goodbye to this blog
Nine and a half years ago, I started this blog with a post titled, simply, This blog. One thousand, two hundred and forty-three posts later — roughly two per week — I’m ending it. It has been a great...
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