Adele Peters
Senior Writer at Fast Company
Staff writer for @FastCompany focused on sustainability and social impact stories. Send me pitches at apeters at fastcompany dot com.
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fastcompany.com | Adele Peters
President Donald Trump has a long-standing grudge against wind power. So it wasn’t surprising that when he took office in January, he immediately started to fight the wind industry. In an executive order on his first day, Trump paused leases for offshore wind projects in federal waters. He also paused approvals for wind projects on federal land. At a rally the same day, he said, “We’re not going to do the wind thing.
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fastcompany.com | Adele Peters
Near Atlanta, the diverse suburb of Morrow, Georgia, is an EV charging desert. If you live in an apartment in one neighborhood and own an electric car, you might have to drive 20 minutes to get to a public charger. That’s why a local green bank wanted to support a new charging station in the area. It should have been a simple project, beginning with a small group of six chargers. Then came Trump.
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2 weeks ago |
fastcompany.com | Adele Peters
When Anirudh Rao was 4 years old and living in Nashville, his friend’s house was destroyed by a tornado. A year later—yes, as a kindergartner—Rao started sketching a potential solution for better tornado warnings. Now 12 years old and living in Colorado, Rao is pursuing a more advanced version of his concept: a network of drones that could theoretically sense infrasound, a wave phenomenon emitted before and during tornadoes with frequencies below the threshold of human hearing.
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fastcompanybrasil.com | Adele Peters
Alguns anos atrás, se você ligasse o aquecimento em qualquer apartamento da cidade de Helsinque, a energia provavelmente viria do carvão. Mas a empresa de energia da cidade fechou uma planta de carvão em 2023, e a última delas encerrou suas atividades na semana passada – quatro anos antes da meta estabelecida pelo governo da Finlândia. “Em dois anos, conseguimos eliminar completamente o carvão”, comemora Olli Sirkka, CEO da Helen, a empresa de energia, que é uma subsidiária da municipalidade.
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2 weeks ago |
fastcompany.com | Adele Peters
Inside a warehouse in Santa Clara, California, a company called Vintage Electric Bikes builds sleek e-bikes with retro styling, customized for each customer’s order. But like other bike brands, the components it uses come from a global supply chain. “The bicycle industry, there’s just no f***ing way we can survive 100% [made in] America,” says Eddie Johnson, sales director at the company. “It’s not possible.”That means that tariffs, if they stay in place, will hit the industry hard.
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Two years ago, the vertical farming company @UpwardFarms raised $134m. Last week, it shut down. It’s the latest casualty in a struggling industry. I covered the challenges in a recent story: https://t.co/D3JVaVcDXg
Induction stoves can be better than gas, like @ImpulseLabs_'s new stoves that can boil water in 40 seconds and double as energy storage https://t.co/8OJx9TIQDy
Most of the rain falling on California cities now isn't being captured, despite the ongoing drought. Better urban design can help store more water and alleviate at least some of the flooding. https://t.co/lexoxagIbT
