For decades, many conservatives in the U.S. have asserted that we can either have jobs or save the environment, but not both. But the green…...
I first encountered the “green economy” as a strategy consultant at Bain’s early stage technology incubation arm, Bainlab, back in 2000. What back then was…...
The demand for freshwater is rising rapidly due to resource-intensive farming and a growing global population with expectations of higher living standards. Our freshwater is…...
Back in August 2012, when negative interest rates were still merely viewed as sheer monetary lunacy instead of pervasive global monetary reality that has pushed…...
While the “developed world” is only now starting its aggressive push to slowly at first, then very fast ban the use of physical cash as…...
Here’s another use for the smartphone as it invades daily life: in place of your debit card at your bank cash machine. The “cardless” automatic…...
While momentum for carbon pricing was building well before COP21, the Paris Agreement undoubtedly marked a tipping point in global support for using a price…...
Cash had a pretty good run for 4,000 years or so. These days, though, notes and coins increasingly seem declasse: They’re dirty and dangerous, unwieldy…...
They bounce back after terrorist attacks, pick themselves up after earthquakes and cope with pandemics such as Zika. They can even handle years of economic…...
At the very moment of its ultimate triumph, capitalism will experience the most exquisite of deaths. This is the belief of political adviser and author…...