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The material that built the modern world is due for an upgrade. What if we could transform cement from a climate wrecker
into a carbon sponge?
Almost imperceptibly, we are stepping off the consumption treadmill
How close are we to the Holy Grail of sustainable fashion?
How computerized arugula (aka roquette) farms take over the world
Any climate plan that doesn’t consider this question is bound to fail.
New experiments are pushing artificial intelligence and sensor networks into the grid—and into factories, data centers, and transit systems—in order to pull fossil fuels out.
Geoengineering demands a new way of looking at the world—one that can be troubling.
Here’s a coal retirement plan that doesn’t rely on uninvented technology or science-challenged leaders.
The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.