Innovations in Carbon Pricing: Latin America's Carbon Markets
Latin America is emerging as a global leader in carbon pricing, from carbon taxes to emissions trading systems to voluntary markets.
Written at Neutral
Writing
Professional work produced for clients and employers, and personal essays written under my own name.
Measuring What Matters: The Role of Scope 1, 2, and 3 Emissions in Climate Action
The GHG Protocol's emissions reporting framework shapes how companies account for and offset carbon. What that means for Scope 1, 2, and 3, and the growing market for climate software.
Written at Neutral
The Role of Insurance in Ensuring Trust and Stability in Carbon Markets
Insurance has long been absent from carbon markets. That's changing. As climate investment risk grows, insurers are building products specifically for the VCM.
Written at Neutral
Permanence, Verifiability, and Scale: Emerging CDR Technologies
Direct Air Capture, ocean-based techniques, and other CDR technologies are attracting surging investment. What separates the approaches: permanence, verifiability, and scale.
Written at Neutral
The Convergence of Voluntary and Compliance Carbon Markets
The voluntary carbon market and compliance markets are distinct but deeply intertwined. How they overlap, and where they don't.
Written at Neutral
Joining a Startup Is Like Early Stage Investing
Except you invest time, not money. And that raises the stakes.
Written at Centrifuge
Finding a Mission to Drive the Vision
Explaining why it matters what a startup is building is harder than the building itself.
Written at Centrifuge
The Sound of Silence
Ten days of Vipassana meditation in silence. On confronting boredom, back pain, and a burping neighbor while searching for enlightenment.
Ticket to Hell
A night at Time Warp Buenos Aires. Five people didn't make it home.
Skilled Leadership
Leading a youth expedition across Nicaragua is a crash course in parenting teenagers.
Meeting the Gap
A meeting in Isiquí where community politics and NGO funding circle each other, creating a stalemate.
In Need of Need
Arriving in Isiquí, Nicaragua to build a water system, our team runs into aid dependency and misplaced assumptions about who actually needs help.
A Sidewalk Episode
A woman uses the sidewalk as a toilet outside a luxury apartment block in San Francisco. Silicon Valley's ambitions and its human cost, on the same block.
Burn Your Heart Out!
Seven days in the Nevada desert at Burning Man, and what I keep coming back to.
Trains and Trekking
Three days on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Irkutsk, then a trek along Lake Baikal with babushkas, the Dragon Lady, and a dog who wouldn't leave.
Leaving Google
After 4.5 years in golden handcuffs, I hand in my Google badge to go travelling and figure out what comes next.