Factor This This Week in Cleantech (06/27/2025) - Can we meet climate goals without fixing our food?
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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate in 15 minutes or less featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey.
This week’s episode features special guest Michael Grunwald from the Atlantic, who wrote aobut how we won’t meet climate goals without fixing our food system.
This week's "Cleantecher of the Week" is Kakani Katija, creator of the gaming app FathomVerse. This summer, Katija’s team plans to test an AI underwater robot that will search for specific marine species and collect data. The goal is to deploy a fleet of underwater AI-enabled drones constantly monitoring marine animals to gain insight into the ocean’s impact on global climate.
This Week in Cleantech — June 27, 2025
- The U.S. Gave Up Its Lead in Clean Energy Sectors Before. It Might Be Doing It Again. — The Wall Street Journal
- Blackouts, Brownouts, and Freaked-Out Grid Operators: The Summer of Load Has Arrived — Heatmap News
- ‘Throwing us off a cliff’: Megabill could derail hundreds of planned clean energy projects — POLITICO
- New York to Build One of First U.S. Nuclear-Power Plants in Generation — The Wall Street Journal
- Humanity Can Quit Fossil Fuels—But Not Food — The Atlantic
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