Common Grounding - by Allison Tielking - Reboot

Bringing climate tech back down to earth

This piece started as a five-minute-long voice memo Allison sent me about a conversation with an Uber driver, the difficulty of finding an electric vehicle charger in Brooklyn, and the exploitative systems often underwriting lofty visions of technological solutions to climate change. In its final form, Allison has taken in the complexities and paradoxes of the renewable energy transition and written a sort of mission statement for workers in climate tech, one grounded in the material realities of our planet and the people on it. — Jacob Kuppermann, Reboot Editorial Board By Allison…

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