Author Archives: Harry Katz
Solar power is becoming insanely cheap
The cost of solar power has fallen by a factor of 5 since 2010, and it will keep falling for decades to come. That’s the gist of a May 14, 2020 blog post titled Solar’s Future Is Insanely Cheap (2020) … Continue reading
The Storm Before the Calm
I can’t decide whether George Friedman is a genius or a crackpot. Friedman has made a career of geopolitical forecasting. He’s founded a couple of consulting companies that specialize in the field. He’s the author of several bestselling books including … Continue reading
Strictly Ballroom
We watched Strictly Ballroom last night. Again. Hadn’t seen it in years. I first saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival where it won the People’s Choice Award. A few months later, when it was released in theaters, I … Continue reading
Relationships at Work: Power, Trust and Peek-a-boo!
I’m working from home during the coronavirus shutdown and I’ve got into the habit of taking a long walk around my neighborhood at the end of each day. One of the podcasts I listen to on my daily walks is … Continue reading
The Optimist’s Telescope
Bina Venkataraman thinks we need to get way better at thinking ahead. The decisions we make today will impact ourselves and our planet for generations to come. Her book, The Optimist’s Telescope, is about why we make reckless decisions and how we can develop the foresight to make better ones. Continue reading
Dematerialization in The Cloud
Whenever you log on to Facebook or YouTube or your bank or your favorite online game, you’re connecting to computers in some data center somewhere on the planet. All those servers and all those data centers consume a huge amount … Continue reading
Doughnut Economics
How do we shift our economy from a focus on never-ending GDP growth to living within the “Doughnut?” Continue reading
No growth, slow growth or green growth?
In the February 10, 2020 issue of The New Yorker magazine, journalist John Cassidy has a very interesting article called Can we have prosperity without growth? (In the print version, the article is titled “Steady State.”) Cassidy surveys a wide spectrum of … Continue reading
The Case for Growth: An Interview with Marc Andreessen
In my last few posts I’ve been looking into the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. Can we find a healthy balance between them? Or are they fundamentally at odds? Well a couple of weeks ago I was listening … Continue reading
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