CLIMATE & ENERGY
- It’s time to start wasting solar energy
- GM just sped up the depreciation of everything it owns
- Scientists have finally added world politics to their climate models
- Silicon Valley is investing in climate tech again (part of a series)
- The American West’s economy has a lot in common with Saudi Arabia
- Q&A: We’re the last generation to see the Great Barrier Reef as humans have known it
- Geothermal energy, the forgotten renewable, has finally arrived
- Trump is opening Alaska’s wilderness to the oil business, but no one is buying
- The coronavirus may get America to pass its biggest climate bill yet
TRANSPORTATION & TECHNOLOGY
- Detroit’s auto show has reached the end of the road
- There’s precedent for Amazon competing with so many companies. It doesn’t end well.
- Simple math is why Elon Musk’s companies keep doing what others don’t even consider possible
- The economics of driving seven Teslas for 2.5 million miles
- San Francisco is using “tactical urbanism” to dethrone cars
- Quartz membership email: Tesla’s bump in the road
- Tesla going private is the ultimate Silicon Valley move
- How Florida became the most important US state in the race to legalize self-driving cars
- The VHS-Betamax war of electric cars is about to be decided
- Q&A: The Amish understand a life-changing truth about technology the rest of us don’t
- Trump’s meeting with Silicon Valley’s elite was a naked power play, and they lost
- James Damore is proving the alt-right playbook can work in Silicon Valley
SCIENCE & HEALTH
- This chart of the 1918 Spanish flu shows why social distancing works
- Every expert opinion you’ve heard about wearing masks is right
- Q&A: The Amish understand a life-changing truth about technology the rest of us don’t
- Roar of the crowd (The Economist, print)
- We may have answered the Fermi Paradox: We are alone in the universe
- Q&A: Thi s likely the last generation to see the Great Barrier Reef as humans have known it
- Make Them Pay: How to calculate what BP owes America
DATA REPORTING
- Where NOx is being emitted revealing how humans are transforming their environment
- Tesla is not cool. Just ask Hip Hop and R&B
- We’ve tracked all of Musk’s tweets since 2015. It’s never been like this.
- Global fuel standards are pushing the dirtiest oil out of the market
- Silicon Valley is awash with Saudi Arabian money. Here’s what they’re investing in.
- The Founders Index: A rising generation of female entrepreneurs in the US
- Quartz analyzed the top female founders to understand why their companies are worth just 20% of men’s