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Interface is Going Carbon-Negative (No Offsets Necessary)
Interface is a public company proving that carbon-negative is possible at scale. The billion-dollar flooring brand has more than 400 carbon-negative products on the ma...
Amazon: Faster Delivery, Lower Emissions
At Amazon, speed isn’t a carbon cost—it’s a carbon advantage. The company now runs 30,000 electric delivery vehicles, delivered 1.5 billion packages on battery power l...
Freedom From Ordinary: Brompton Folding Bikes Take on America
For fifty years, Brompton has been the most iconic name in urban cycling. Engineered and made in London, beloved by city riders, and still unrivaled in how fast it fol...
Clean Energy Is As American As Football in the Fall—If You Tell It Right
To scale climate solutions, you have to know how to talk about them. The companies driving climate adoption don’t just offer better solutions—they tell better stories....
Hemp Grows Up: A Long-Awaited Crop Now Insulates U.S. Homes
Industrial hemp always had believers. What it lacked was a supply chain. Hempitecture is changing that—starting with the first commercial-scale factory in the U.S. mak...
Electrify Everything: Span’s Big Bet on the Dumbest Box in the House
Consumers want the upgrades. The climate does too. But the electrical panel in the garage stands in the way.EVs, heat pumps, induction stoves—electrification is becomi...
Clean Energy Is Dead. Long Live Clean Energy.
America invented the clean energy future. Now it may be dismantling it, just as the rest of the world hits the accelerator.The U.S. was first. The first silicon solar ...
Profits at Recycling's Edge: TerraCycle Finds ROI in Trash No One Wants
TerraCycle takes on waste the rest of the world ignores—cigarette butts, diapers, pharmaceutical blister packs.But what makes the model work isn’t what they recycle. I...
Built for the EV Generation: Formula E Energizes 500 Million Global Race Fans
When Roger Griffiths first heard about Formula E in 2014, he was intrigued but skeptical. A veteran of IndyCar, Le Mans, and Formula 1—and a self-described petrol head...
Cleaning the Grid: Wärtsilä Tackles the Toughest Battery Storage Projects on Earth
Grid battery storage has gone from niche to necessary. Fast. Projects that were once 300 megawatt-hours are now hitting 9 gigawatt-hours. And companies like Wärtsilä a...
The ROI on Climate Capital: A Mayor’s Blueprint for Citywide Renewal
Jaime Pumarejo helped lead Barranquilla, Colombia, through a stunning transition. When he first joined the city’s government in his twenties, Barranquilla was under ba...
Solar, Semiconductors, and the American Dream: Enphase Is a $5.5B Climate Tech Powerhouse
The energy grid we know today was built for a different era—centralized generation, one-way power flow, no rooftop solar, no EVs, no AI-driven demand. If Thomas Edison...
Racing the Clock: Wasteless Turns Expiring Food into Profit for Grocers Worldwide
If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter, right behind the United States and China, accounting for 8-10% of global carbon emissions. It’s a ...
Cities Have The Climate Ambition—Now Mayors Are Rewriting Global Finance to Match
Before becoming the youngest elected mayor in Quito’s history, Mauricio Rodas had already founded a political party, launched a think tank in Mexico City, and run for ...
Trove Turns Recommerce into a Profit Driver for Patagonia, Levi’s and On
Circularity isn’t just about keeping t-shirts and jeans out of landfills. Done right, it’s a growth engine for brands. That’s exactly what Trove is building: the recom...
The Mayor Who Cut Carbon, Cut Bills, and Cut a Billion-Pound Deal
As mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees helped launch a billion-pound public-private partnership to decarbonize his city, one of the most ambitious deals of its kind anywhere...
Rare Earths, Recycled: Cyclic Materials Cuts Into China's 90% Head Start
Rare earth magnets power the modern world and the clean energy transition. They’re inside every electric vehicle motor, wind turbine, MRI machine, and computer hard dr...
3x the Grid: Siemens Energy and the Race to Rewire the Future
It took over a century to build today’s power grid. Now we need to triple its capacity by 2050. Why? Because demand is surging, and a net-zero future depends on a bigg...