We have written previously about the growing scrutiny over technology companies, and how the industry has been long overdue for a review over the power it holds in our everyday lives. Indeed, big tech has proven on multiple occasions its inability to rein in its own worst impulses and its capacity to abuse the trust…
Next week, Berlin and myriad cities around the world will engage in a mass climate strike: students and employees will abandon their posts in classrooms and offices to march in demand for action on an issue of increasing urgent — climate change. To say that climate change is an urgent issue is really an understatement.…
It’s not news that climate change is the biggest threat to the globe. Rising average temperature, extreme weather events, shifting wildfires, rising seas, and migration are impacts we all face. While all these changes are moving to an extreme, the progress on tackling these threats hasn’t showed sufficient gains. Climate change not only needs action,…
Seeing how the 48th anniversary of Earth Day is coming up, we are devoting today’s post to the role of startups in driving forward environmental sustainability, with a specific focus on Germany. The world has come a long way since 1970, when the first Earth Day was organized in the US in response to a…