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The Opportunity Cost of Climate Tech
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Opportunity cost refers to the loss of potential received value by choosing to not do something or by choosing a different route. One opportunity cost of sleeping late, for example,…
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The Only Two Climate Investment Criteria that Matter
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Whether you’re investing your time or your money (or someone else’s money) in impact work designed to address, mitigate, or reverse climate change there are really only two criteria that…
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Climate Tech’s New Monsantos: Upgrading Nature and Downgrading Humans
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A growing sector of climate tech and green investments is concerned with what can best be described as “upgrading nature”. Things like ‘better’ insects, ‘improved’ trees, ‘enhanced’ wood, ‘supercharged’ vegetables,…
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The Subversion of the Climate Performance Potential Thesis
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Climate Performance Potential, or variants thereof, is the “in” term for measuring the investability of a climate startup. Although there is no standard or agreed upon way of measuring this…
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Composting Capital
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We need to invest less and compost more to start harvesting meaningful climate outcomes. Financial investments into startups, including climate tech startups, expect a one-to-one return. Of course in terms…
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Bullshit Climate Jobs
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I am not using the term “bullshit” for shock value. I am referencing David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs Theory where he asserts that “roughly two out of every five people are…