Building Bridges to A Sustainable Future How This Founder Merges Climate Tech and Social Equity

How the Climate Movement Is Changing Tactics After Trump’s Win

Faced with a president-elect who has called global warming a “scam,” activists are changing their strategies and pushing a message of hope.

The New York Times - Dec. 11

China pushes M&A to build 10 hi-tech listed firms that can compete globally by 2027

Yahoo News - Dec. 11

How Europe is bending the rules to spare carmakers from climate fines

Also in this newsletter: a dispatch from the political mess in Romania

Financial Times - Dec. 11

How the Olympics helped transform Salt Lake City into a tech hub

Salt Lake City has grown from a winter sports venue to a vibrant technology hub in just two decades, leveraging the legacy of the 2002 Winter Olympics to transform into one of America’s ...

NBC News - Dec. 10

How tech's right-wing elite made 'debanking' claims into a political rallying point

The allegation is that banks, under pressure from the Biden administration, have unfairly “debanked” people who work with cryptocurrency.

NBC News - Dec. 10

How the Olympics helped transform Salt Lake City into a tech hub

With Salt Lake City set to host the Winter Olympics again in 2034, Utah will invest $31 million in upgrades and expects billions in economic benefit.

CNBC - Dec. 10

How Utah's 'Silicon Slopes' tech sector is making a run at Silicon Valley

Technology companies, from giants like Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle to startups are transforming Utah into an economic and jobs rival to Silicon Valley.

CNBC - Dec. 10

How This Four-Time Founder Advises Entrepreneurs to Approach Exits

Marc Lore advises to focus on building a partnership with investors.

Inc. - Dec. 10

How This AI Language Learning Platform Translated Their Tech Into Unicorn Status

Speak raised $78 million in a Series C round of funding that values the app at $1 billion.

Inc. - Dec. 10

How does Phillies bullpen look after reportedly adding Jordan Romano? Relief corps builds on high upside

Romano has agreed to a one-year deal worth $8.5 million

CBS Sports - Dec. 9

Democratic governors could be the party's future — and how they react to Trump could set the tone

Democratic governors warned their party not to focus "too much on Trump" and Washington during his second term instead of outlining the party's proactive agenda.

NBC News - Dec. 9

Omnicom and Interpublic to Merge, Creating Ad Agency Giant

If successful, Omnicom and Interpublic would become the largest advertising company in the world, with more than $25 billion in combined revenue.

The New York Times - Dec. 9

Bill Gates: How Entrepreneurs Can Benefit From Climate Change

The business veteran identified several market opportunities within the Clean Industrial Revolution.

Inc. - Dec. 9

China Auto Sales Sustain Momentum on Subsidies, Campaigns

The Chinese auto market extended its strong momentum, helped by the government’s trade-in policy.

The Wall Street Journal - Dec. 9

What's next for Mets after Juan Soto agrees to $765 million deal? How New York needs to build around superstar

The Mets got their slugger, but their winter can't be done yet

CBS Sports - Dec. 9

Female footballers have shown us how – let’s build a sport free of fossil fuel deals | David Wheeler

Male players must step up and add their voice to the campaign to stop our sport being sold out to the big polluters causing climate change. At the Cop29 climate conference last month Sofie Junge ...

The Guardian - Dec. 8

How A Princeton Professor’s Home Renovation Project Is Fighting Climate Change

Forrest Meggers, a professor at Princeton University, has turned his home into a live-in laboratory that pushes the boundaries of sustainability.

The New York Times - Dec. 8

A vulnerable assassin and a tech bro target: how I put a modern spin on cult 1970s thriller to make The Jackal

Screenwriter Ronan Bennett tells of his mission to adapt Frederick Forsyth’s novel for the hit TV show starring Eddie Redmayne. It started the way so many things do for screenwriters: with a call ...

The Guardian - Dec. 7

The aging U.S. power grid is slowing Big Tech’s data centers and AI’s future

The Trump administration and state policymakers should ease regulations on utilities.

MarketWatch - Dec. 7

Revealed: the tech bosses who poured $394.1m into US election - and how they compared to Elon Musk

FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government. Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1m into the US presidential election this ...

The Guardian - Dec. 7

How climate change could make snowfall worse in parts of the U.S.

Experts predict climate change could actually make snow worse in some areas of the U.S. Meanwhile, nearly two-thirds of the U.S. is seeing less snowfall than in the 1970s. CBS News national climate ...

CBS News - Dec. 6

How to get a low home equity loan rate for 2025

Ready to borrow from your home equity? Here are three ways to get a low home equity loan rate for 2025.

CBS News - Dec. 6

How effects meld past and present as 'Apes' sequel 'Kingdom' steps into the future

For director Wes Ball, setting 'Kingdom' in lush jungles and harsh beaches was a chance to imagine a fresh new take on the long-running 'Planet of the Apes' franchise.

Los Angeles Times - Dec. 6

How Bluesky CEO Jay Graber May Adapt Ads to Monetize the Anti-X Social Platform

The Jack Dorsey-launched social media company increased its user base eightfold this year, but must find profitable revenue streams that won’t ruin its user experience.

Inc. - Dec. 6

How Social Media Users Expose Black Friday Sales Deceptions

Shoppers’ videos debunking purported Black Friday discounts and showing retailers charging the same or higher prices than usual are getting millions of views on social media.

Inc. - Dec. 6

Despite 2024’s ‘greenlash’, the fight against climate breakdown can still be won. Here’s how | Björn Bremer, Jane Gingrich and Hanna Schwander

The overwhelming majority of Europeans support climate action, but they must be compensated for its costs in tangible ways. This year was not an easy time to be Green. Green parties took a beating ...

The Guardian - Dec. 6

How a 63-year-old math teacher became a social media fashion influencer

After a photo went viral in 2016, Irvin Randle wanted to show off his style. The math teacher by day now has 1.1 million followers on Instagram and 1.7 million on TikTok.

CBS News - Dec. 5

As U.K. clamps down on North Sea production, Shell and Equinor to merge operations there

With the U.K. government clamping down on production from the North Sea, Shell and Equinor on Thursday said they would merge their oil and gas operations.

MarketWatch - Dec. 5

6 voices who can bridge the divide between MAGA and Ukraine

KYIV — The abrupt, temporary closure of the U.S. embassy here late last month has served little purpose beyond feeding Russian fearmongering. It seems an appropriate coda to the Biden ...

The Hill - Dec. 5

How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized

‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say. Concern over the climate crisis may evaporate in the White House from January, but its ...

The Guardian - Dec. 5

Behind the scenes of the Baltimore bridge collapse

A new BBC documentary reveals new details of the probe into the Dali's collision with the Key Bridge.

BBC News - Dec. 5

Investors signal a return to UK equities

November was the first month for over three years that money came back into British stocks

Financial Times - Dec. 4

Nobody wants to be short this market: “equity repo” edition

Cozzie livs? More like cozzie levs

Financial Times - Dec. 4

What drives home equity loan interest rates?

Wonder what impacts home equity borrowing rates? Here are the factors borrowers should be aware of.

CBS News - Dec. 3

Cop29 gave us a Putin-friendly deal – and a glimpse of the dark future of climate talks | Fiona Harvey

The Baku Cop29 talks were marked by division and self-interest, with rancorous meddling right until the end. Fiona Harvey is an environment editor at the Guardian When I first visited Azerbaijan ...

The Guardian - Dec. 3

‘Progressive except for Palestine’: how a tech charity imploded over a statement on Gaza

The board of the non-profit Code for Science & Society blocked a statement against genocide. The fallout tore the high-profile organization apart. Miliaku Nwabueze, a senior program manager at Code ...

The Guardian - Dec. 3

$Evenepoel sustains several fractures in crash$

Building Bridges to A Sustainable Future How This Founder Merges Climate Tech and Social Equity

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