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This is my free and infrequent newsletter where I’m going to share updates on what I’m writing, what I’m thinking about, and what I’m doing next.
If you’ve enjoyed my work as a staff writer at The Atlantic, or my newsletter The Weekly Planet, you should subscribe to this newsletter:
A little about me: I covered climate change, energy, and technology as a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2013 to 2022. Over the years, I’ve written about how the climate economy is about to explode; why I hate that I care about power lines; and what happens when the president sits next to you in a café.
I also cofounded The COVID Tracking Project, which collected and published coronavirus data for every U.S. state and territory when the federal government failed to do so. Our data was used by two presidential administrations, cited in more than 1,000 academic papers, and used by The New York Times and Johns Hopkins University. Along with the other cofounders, I was named to the Bloomberg 50, Bloomberg Businessweek’s list of the people who most shaped global business in 2020.
A few things to read:
If you want a sense of my work, I’d recommend reading the following stories:
How the U.S. Made Progress on Climate Change Without Ever Passing a Bill
Why did America’s carbon pollution decline from 2009 to 2020—even though the country had (at the time) never passed a climate law? I wrote about the green vortex, a virtuous cycle across policy, technology, business, and politics that made decarbonization possible.
Why America Doesn’t Really Make Solar Panels Anymore
America invented silicon solar cells in the 1950s. It spent more on solar R&D than any other country in the 1980s. It lost its technological advantage anyway. Why?
Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47
It reshaped how the world thought about climate change. But its prized trait—bloodless economic efficiency—won it few friends on the right or left.
Or if you want something completely different, you could read my work on Jeff Bezos As Blogger or the importance of AOL Instant Messenger, or the Forrest Gump of the internet.
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