How one solar company is succeeding in coal country

Published on November 2, 2023

This story was first published by Grist . When Matt McFadden came of age in southwestern Virginia in the early 2000s, he wasn’t planning on working for a clean energy outfit. He grew up playing in a high school garage band, part of his increasingly Republican county’s small punk scene. But staring out at the…

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Lessons from the 'white gold' rush in Latin America’s lithium triangle

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It is quiet and lonely on the mountainous range of Argentina’s Catamarca Province, where llama-like vicuña graze and stocky shrubs steel themselves against the windswept altitude of the grassland known as the puna.But do not be fooled: geopolitical tectonic shifts are happening here, on the axis of the so-called lithium triangle, where roughly 60% of the green energy transition’s most coveted reso

At UK’s AI Summit, Guterres says risks outweigh rewards without global oversight

November 2, 2023
The UN Secretary-General on Thursday stressed that global oversight of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology should be based on the UN Charter’s core principles and ensure full respect for human rights.