Two years ago, the vertical farming company @UpwardFarms raised $134m. Last week, it shut down. It’s the latest casualty in a struggling industry. I covered the challenges in a recent story: fastcompany.com/90824702/verti…

Induction stoves can be better than gas, like Impulse's new stoves that can boil water in 40 seconds and double as energy storage fastcompany.com/90814918/these…

Most of the rain falling on California cities now isn't being captured, despite the ongoing drought. Better urban design can help store more water and alleviate at least some of the flooding. fastcompany.com/90832580/how-s…

After all of the rain, waterfalls around the Bay Area are huge. Saw these just before the roads nearby closed to flooding. Turn on your sound for the bathtub effect. #AtmosphericRiver

I talked to Secretary Pete Buttigieg about new bike/ped projects now underway in the U.S., and what American cities can learn about bike infrastructure from places like Copenhagen
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This startup wants to remake cemeteries as forests—and will bury your body with a blend of mushrooms and soil so that it can literally grow into a tree planted above it. linkedin.com/pulse/new-gree…

We went to Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History's butterfly sanctuary, where there are now 13,000+ monarchs. Last year at this site: zero. Monarchs are still in danger, but this is good news.

I talked to Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates about the Gates Foundation’s COVID fight and how to get vaccines to the entire world, not just the richest countries: fastcompany.com/90579390/insid…

More than 2 million acres have burned in CA so far, an area 138x the size of Manhattan. That's more than any other year on record, and we haven't reached peak fire season. My apartment is bathed in an eerie red light. This is what it's like to live with climate change.

We need to at least triple coronavirus tests before the American economy can safely reopen. This is what needs to happen: fastcompany.com/90494123/what-…

.The Ocean Cleanup just launched new tech to clean up rivers fastcompany.com/90422403/the-o…

Just watched RAD Urban lift an apartment into this Lego-like building in Oakland. More on modular buildings here: fastcompany.com/90274920/can-n…

The world's first land-based coral farm opened today, growing coral that will help rebuild dying reefs. More from our interview with @coralvitareefs last year: fastcompany.com/90234454/the-w…

This really makes me want to move to Oslo: fastcompany.com/90294948/what-…

There are around 500 million parking spaces in the U.S. and 325 million people. How to make better use of that space: fastcompany.com/90291136/these…

Climate change will force millions of people to move, but where will we go? fastcompany.com/90288934/how-s…