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Bernhard Palsson, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego, has overseen the construction of a model of E. coli’s metabolism.

cities should be designed for people,

also following some companies that are developing synthetic alternatives to palm oil so we don’t have to cut down so many forests to make room for palm plantations.

solutions.

As power stations go, geothermal plants are “clean.” Instead of burning fossil fuels, they rely on steam or superheated water pumped from underground, which is why they tend to be sited in volcanically active areas. Still, as Aradóttir explained to me, they, too, produce emissions. With the superheated water inevitably come unwanted gases, like hyd

Allan Savory developed one particularly promising methodology of regenerative agriculture that could be a game-changer for climate change mitigation.

By redirecting water from farm areas to cities, California could easily provide enough water to sustain much higher density levels, which would reduce America’s carbon footprint.

It has since triggered a positive feedback loop. A significant part of the venture capital community has adopted Carlota’s system as the bedrock of their investment theses. In turn, investors echoing Carlota’s ideas in their day-to-day practices have had the effect of getting her even more interested in technology. As of now, Carlota has become one