IN THE CORNER of IndieBio NY’s open workspace sit four guitars. Well, technically they’re acoustic and electric hollow-body and solid-body guitars — and a keytar. The instruments aren’t there just to keep the startup founders who come through IndieBio’s six-month program entertained. They also represent a culture of progressive thinking. …
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T he climate crisis is many things: a test of whether we can overcome the vast gulfs between the Global North and the Global South, a challenge to a political system geared toward short-term thinking, a lens that magnifies past injustice and future deprivation. But it’s also, at heart, a …
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A T THE EDGE of the Okavango Delta in northern Namibia, the land is so flat that I could see the top of ReconAfrica’s drill rig when we were about a mile away. ReconAfrica is a small Canadian oil-and-gas-exploration company that claimed to have discovered an oil-and-gas basin rivaling anything …
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Decades of willfully moronic Republicans bringing snowballs onto the Senate floor to argue that climate change is a hoax. Decades of debate about carbon taxes and carbon offsets. Decades of rallies in D.C. and hoping that the next hurricane or drought or heat wave will wake up Americans to the …
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