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Experts say that climate change can be fixed by making it profitable for companies to fight it. robinson meyer also says we can already see some results. this green vortex is, quote, what drove down the cost of wind and solar, what overturned exxon's board, and what the biden administration is banking on in its infrastructure plan, unquote. activist investors just won a number of seats on exxon's board, forcing the company to work harder on climate change. this green vortex suggests we can impact climate change whether washington takes the lead or not. this week, the supreme court ruled on s...

Also, an increase in greenhouse gases emitted by humans is trapping more heat in the earth. how well or poorly is the government fighting climate change? over the last dead, congress has failed to pass any major climate legislation. yet, in that same time, emissions in the u.s. actually fell. they're much lower than the proposed climate bills would have required. this week "the atlantic's" robinson meyer coined a new term to describe how we accomplished this, the green vortex. the u.s. has failed to act on real meaningful climate policy, but we are decarbonizing anyway. a bottom-up approach is...

In cloud cover and sea ice. normally they reflect solar energy back into space. also, an increase in greenhouse gases emitted by humans is trapping more heat in the earth. how well or poorly is the government fighting climate change? over the last decade, congress has failed to pass any major climate legislation. yet, in that same time, emissions in the u.s. actually fell. they're much lower than the proposed climate bills would have required. this week "the atlantic's" robinson meyer coined a new term to describe how we accomplished this, the green vortex. the u.s. has failed to act on real m...

American researchers experimented with unconventional solar-energy designs, such as this thermoelectric panel. (Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group / Getty) You wouldn’t know it today, but the silicon photovoltaic solar cell—the standard, black-and-copper solar panel you can find on suburban rooftops and solar farms—was born and raised in America. The technology was invented here. In 1954, three American engineers at Bell Labs discovered that electrons flow freely through silicon wafers when they are exposed to sunlight. It was deployed here. In 1958, the U.S. Navy bol...

Millennials are finally ready to buy homes. Too bad today’s real-estate market is a record-breaking mess.