European politicians, CEOs, lawmakers urge green coronavirus recovery
European politicians, companies, lawmakers and activists called for green investment to restart growth after the coronavirus pandemic, saying fighting climate change and promoting biodiversity would rebuild stronger economies.
Addressing climate change in a post-pandemic world
The coronavirus crisis holds profound lessons that can help us address climate change - if we make greater economic and environmental resiliency core to our planning for the recovery ahead.
Benevolent AI (Dictator) Cloud
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the rest.” These words from Churchill, coupled with today’s monumental challenges, triggered me to think different. Why do we not create a new form of government? Can we honestly say that the current political system is the best system available? Can we create a new system that is fairer, more robust to crisis and populism, and arguably even more democratic?
The Energy Transition Principles
This article describes the fundamental incentives to create a sustainable world by self-organizing behavior: Electrification, Energy Mortgage and the Turntoo Model.
The Future(s) of Fossil Fuels - 2018
This article takes a deep-dive into the technical, economic and social trends that are transforming the energy market. In particular, how do human population growth and the rise of renewables play into the fossil fuel market, and what can we expect from exotic new technologies that have just entered the scene?
Building Enduring Businesses
Growth is often accompanied with crippling complexity for a company. How can you ensure your organization is effective, responsive and flexible enough to whether any storm? This article is a how-to-guide on how to start or transform a company in the light of disruptive change.
Elon Musk’s Killer Breakdown on Climate Change
Elon Musk breaks down climate change for students at The Sorbonne in Paris (France's Harvard) right before the historic COP21 climate change conference in which *all* nations signed the now historic Paris Agreement in 2015 to reduce carbon emissions below 2C, and preferably under 1.5C.
Technological Disruption for Oil and Gas
Captain Hindsight is at it again; the rate of change and the technological disruptions that the Fossils faced was already undeniable in 2016. It has only gotten worse for the Fossils.
Underestimation of Fossil Decline
Even with examples abound from history, we underestimate the rate of change that can happen. The decline of the Fossils has a striking resemblance with the decline of the whaling industry.
Turntoo Model
In response to the increasing scarcity of raw materials, and inspired by Cradle to Cradle, Thomas Rau founded Turntoo, a company which, by means of a new business model, acts as a driver for the circular economy.