big ideas

The most hopeful chart in the world.

Solar power is great and I’ve shared before that every year the deployment of new solar blows estimates out of the water. “But here’s the thing. This chart has what you might call an “evil twin”, a cousin that gets […]

fun facts

No, kerosene did not save the sperm whale.

Here’s a fun fact: inside a sperm whale’s head there’s somewhere between 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of spermaceti oil. “How we carried on exploiting sperm whales long after the conventional wisdom said we’d stopped.” ~ learn more