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Reasons to hope: 16 companies, people, and ideas that might save the planet [Source images: ligora/iStock; tcharts/iStock] Original article: https://www.fastcompany.com/90676363/reasons-to-hope-16-companies-people-and-ideas-that-might-save-the-planet Burgess COMMENTARY A lot is now being written about the climate situation. The academic writing has been going on for several decades. but now more popular writing is happening. Neither of these writing modelaities is making the needed impact. Neither addresses the management dimension and how key actors make decisions to that change actually happens. Maybe this is changing ... but my guess is that it is chaning far too slowly. My dream is for something like TVM to be the foundation for the sort of management metrics that will move the needle at scale and in time. Peter Burgess | ||
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Reasons to hope: 16 companies, people, and ideas that might save the planet
BY FAST COMPANY STAFF 0-14-21 No single solution is likely to rescue us from the climate crisis, but four decades of intensive research and development have yielded innovation that could lead us to a cleaner and less volatile future. This story is part of Fast Company’s Climate Change Survival Plan package. As time runs out to prevent climate catastrophe, we’re looking at what we need to do now to safeguard our future. Click here to read the whole series. Without much effort, you can find news every day that confirms—over and over—that we are in a climate emergency. Droughts, fires, floods, hurricanes, and heat waves are now happening with such frequency, it can be hard to remember which tragedy happened last, while the political reaction is, at best, muted—entirely incommensurate to the challenge at hand. In the absence of a grand political solution, we are forced to nibble around the edges and hope that science and technology can make enough advances to mitigate the problem, to give more time for world governments to act on broad de-carbonization. There is no cause for techno-optimism: We will not invent a perpetual motion machine that can somehow eliminate all the carbon in a way that allows life to continue as is, all without pushing political and business leaders. At the same time, you don’t need to surrender to complete techno-pessimism because scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs are making slow but steady advances in ways to replace the vital carbon in our economy with clean alternatives. Forty years ago, solar and wind power were considered by some to be expensive boondoggles, only for the wealthy hobbyists, that would never make a difference at scale. Now—after decades of research and development—they’re the cheapest source of power we have. This list contains just a few of the recent advances that could be the next technology that can grow into part of a future, clean economy. Some of the items on this list will turn out to be too expensive, too hard to scale, too small in impact to matter. But others could become part of the solution. No one piece of technology will save us, but together many of them can be the building blocks that undergird the political solution we need. —Morgan Clendaniel MOVING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY
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