Stop Giving Out Tents, Start Giving Out Wood This is Part 2 of a series. Part 1: Why I Had […]

Why I Had to Learn About Homelessness I’m a climate person. I write about energy policy, building performance standards, carbon

AI Will Save Us All (Not How You Think) AI might be the only force we’ve ever wanted badly enough

Pessimistic Climate Outcomes Are Hard to Reconcile My youngest daughter wants to be a starship captain when she grows up.

We Do a Headcount When women in this industry walk into a room, we do a headcount. How many other

The First Line of Defense I have a favorite chart. It’s from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and it shows the

The Only Technology That Works at Scale Everyone wants to talk about carbon capture. Startups raising hundreds of millions of

Boots on the Ground In 1990, wind and solar were less than 1% of electricity generation in the United States.

The Transportation Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About Here’s something that surprised me when I started researching the climate workforce:

The People Who Risk Their Necks Communication is called a “soft skill” and I hate that. I’ve had employees make