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Cool Clean Tech

May 14 2018 - 12:00pm

Decoupling economic growth from carbon emissions will require new technologies to get the job done. Some of that innovation will come from established corporations, but much of it will come from creative entrepreneurs building new products and fresh ways to power our economy. Some of those inventions are cool. Others have less sex appeal but could put a big dent in carbon emissions that are driving global weirding. Can clean-tech startups get funding in an era of fossil fuel revival? How do US clean-tech startups stack up against new ventures in China and other countries?

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Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé: Plate to Planet

May 16 2018 - 6:30pm

Authors Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé are two of the country’s most prolific and influential authors writing about feeding a crowded planet with a destabilized climate.  Lappé’s work ranges from her Diet For a Hot Planet to work on factory farms and innovation in the food industry. Kurlansky has written best-selling histories of cod and salt and a new one on milk. His upcoming book is the story of salmon.

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Winners and Losers

May 29 2018 - 6:30pm

The new climate reality means that even those living on a hill will be affected by flooding in the valley, and those living in Northern states will be affected by droughts in the South. But as the corn belt moves to higher latitudes and new industries emerge, there will be, among the many losers, some climate winners. UC Berkeley researcher Solomon Hsiang wrote a paper in Science looking at state and regional economies that will be winners and losers as climate disruption impacts agriculture, employment, crime, storms and human mortality. What does that picture look like?

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