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Previous Newsletters
April 2025
🌐 Simple, Unstoppable: Rondo Energy is Solving Industrial Heat with Bricks
Inside Rondo Energy’s radically simple—and wildly scalable—clean industrial heat platform.
🌐 Apple-ifying Energy: Renew Home Makes Virtual Power Plants Painless & Profitable
Building the energy layer that’s everywhere and nowhere at once.
🌐 Reuse, Rock ‘n’ Roll & the Circular Economy
The genius behind r.World’s ugly cup to replace 4 billion.
March 2025
🌐 Old Giant, New Vision: Johnson Controls Puts Carbon Reduction on Autopilot
Johnson Controls is decarbonizing buildings at scale.
🌐 The E-Bike Boom: How Upway Is Winning the Million-Bike Market
Upway is creating the infrastructure the e-bike industry didn’t know it needed.
🌐 Power Moves: Turning Clean Energy into a Simple, Irresistible Lifestyle
People don’t buy kilowatts. They buy comfort, convenience, and control.
🌐 Telling the Future: Climate, Capital, and the Power of Story
The $2 trillion energy revolution has already begun.
February 2025
🌐 There’s a New Clean Energy Grid in Town—And It’s Your House
More than solar or batteries, GoodLeap gives homeowners tools to manage their energy for life.
🌐 The Architects Who Don’t Wait For Permission
The global firm that makes green building smart, practical, and profitable.
🌐 AI Has Entered the Building: The Future of Energy Management is Here
The moment when buildings got brains, and everything changed.
🌐 Hot Rocks: The Battery That is Changing Industrial Energy
New heat batteries are replacing legacy fossil fuels.
January 2025
🌐 DeepSeek, AI Shockwaves, and Why TeraWulf is Betting Big on Zero-Carbon Bitcoin Mining and HPC Data Centers
At a former coal plant, Terawulf operates a clean-energy hub for digital infrastructure.
🌐 $2 Trillion Invested in Clean Energy in 2024: Where’s the Money Coming From?
Solar, wind, batteries, EVs, and energy efficiency technologies are rapidly scaling.
🌐 Right on Schedule: Zum Brings America’s School Bus System into the 21st Century
Ritu Narayan and her team are deploying EV school buses and other sustainable tech.
🌐 Cutting Carbon with a Side of Fries: Budderfly Lowers Energy Consumption by 40%
Budderfly makes customers an offer they can’t refuse: zero-money down, risk-free energy efficiency upgrades.
🌐 The Hidden Problem Wasting 10% of the World’s Energy—And Its Ingenious Fix
Goodbye, elbow grease and caulking guns. Startups are reimagining energy efficiency with quick, convenient, and cost-effective solutions.
December 2024
🌐 Low-Stress Cities are on the Rise
The decarbonization / de-stress connection is more evidence that solving climate change improves modern life.
🌐 The Underground Climate Economy: Modernizing Cities from Below
Cities have nowhere to go but down to tap new renewable energy, strengthen climate resilience, cut costs, and enhance urban life for their residents above.
🌐 In Iowa, Wind Energy Sees No Red or Blue, Only Green
Iowa generates enough wind power to meet 77% of its energy demand. That’s beneficial for local farmers, towns, and the overall economy.
🌐 Breakthrough Climate Tech Marketing: Rising Above a Sea of Same
Even the best climate tech startups must build great products and excel at communicating them.
November 2024
🌐 No Grid, No Problem: d.light Transforms 180 Million Lives with Solar Power
This solar startup scaled operations across 72 countries.
🌐 Walk This Way: Redesigning Cities with Jeff Speck
What moves people to ditch their cars and use their own feet?
🌐 Climate Meets Crypto: CleanSpark’s Clean Energy Bitcoin Revolution
The company’s renewable energy roots predate its entry into Bitcoin mining.
🌐 Election Special: Deputy Secretary David Turk of the U.S. Department of Energy
900 manufacturing facilities across the U.S. are accelerating the low-carbon economy.
October 2024
🌐 Crime Fighters & Therapists: The Low-cost, High-Value Roles of Urban Trees
Startling research from the U.S. Forest Service reveals that urban trees are more than just climate champions.
🌐 Clean Streets: Piping Out Trash Below Cities
Cities are turning to innovative underground infrastructure to tackle climate challenges.
🌐 He’s The World’s Greenest Home Builder, That Wasn’t The Plan
Defying Hurricanes And Eliminating Energy Bills on Florida’s Coast
🌐 The Global Race to Decarbonize Cities, From Toronto to NYC to Addis Ababa and Beyond
Cities are responsible for 70% of global emissions. The stakes are understandably high; 55% of humans live in cities–projected to grow to 70% by 2050.
🌐 Masterfully Planned: Hurricane-Proof, Zero-Energy Homes on Florida’s Coast
Defying Hurricanes And Eliminating Energy Bills on Florida’s Coast
🌐 Cities on the Move: Safe, Connected Bike Lanes Built 3X Faster
70% of Americans say they support building safe, complete bicycle networks. Here’s how to do it.
September 2024
🌐 Denver Public Schools Cut Carbon, Save Millions, and Inspire Future Leaders
How a leading national school system drives its climate agenda, boosting student engagement and saving millions of dollars annually
🌐 Wind, Water & Solar: 100% Clean Renewable Energy by 2035
Stanford professor Mark Jacobson wasn’t just dreaming of a world powered by 100% renewable energy back in 2009—he was doing the math and architecting the plan.
🌐 Net Zero Energy Schools: Lower Emissions, Higher Standards in Baltimore
Students and teachers thrive in a brand-new school building with extensive daylighting, superior air quality, and non-standard classroom settings.
🌐 Geothermal is having a moment, or in Boise, a century
Wash your clothes in a geothermal-heated laundromat, swim at the YMCA geothermal-heated pool, and stroll snow-free streets on geothermal-heated sidewalks.
🌐 Robots make the cut, the low-carbon future of lawn care
Autonomous, zero-emission mowers are rolling out across the U.S.