The hottest Clean Tech Substack posts right now

Design your capital formation to make the business bankable before you try to scale, so financing choices shape product and milestones rather than the reverse.
Use capital stacking—mix equity, grants, and debt—and plan exactly who enters the stack, when they join, and which milestones unlock their participation.
Be capital efficient and operationally disciplined. Focus on predictable revenue, cashflow, and clear uses of funds, and avoid financing too many large initiatives at once so investors and lenders can trust your plan.

Green-tech startups are building the innovations we need to tackle the environmental crisis.
Entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders from areas like green housing, climate finance, and carbon capture are sharing practical solutions and working together.
A fast-paced panel of short expert talks followed by audience Q&A is designed to spark ideas, learning, and action.

3D printing enables new types of designs by removing geometric constraints.
3D-printed metamaterials are used in clean tech for process intensification.
Challenges in 3D printing software need to be addressed to fully realize the potential of 3D printing in climate tech.

EV charging often fails not because of hardware but because many vendors interpret standards differently, creating software fragmentation and frequent charging breakdowns.
EVerest turns complex charging standards into shared, working code so chargers and backends can interoperate, letting a global community find and fix bugs faster and making charging more reliable.
Placing the core under open governance built trust and a sustainable model: the foundation stays free while companies buy enterprise tools like ChargeBridge and Pionix Cloud to deploy and scale.

Chamath Palihapitiya provides deep dives into important sectors like Energy Transition.
The Global Energy Transition deep dive includes an overview of climate issues and solutions.
The Inflation Reduction Act is discussed with implications for energy transition sectors in the U.S.

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Governments and communities are turning large parking lots into solar farms, making local renewable power more common and cheaper, and inspiring grassroots projects to build shared solar spaces.
Algorithms and AI are increasingly shaping real lives—clearing records, enabling face-scanning for police, changing jobs and hiring—and that raises big ethical and accountability questions.
Rapid tech and political shifts (from electric aircraft to crypto pardons) are creating strange, mixed realities, so neighborhood-level cooperation and everyday friendships become important ways people adapt and make useful change.