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Apr 29, 2024 | 
mastercard.com | Christine Gibson
Here’s how sustainable financial tools and digital finance could help the more than 80% of unbanked people who live in climate vulnerable regions.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
ge.com | Christine Gibson
“GE’s a 130-year-old company founded by Thomas Edison. And it’s changed a lot over 130 years. But we’ve always had one thing in common: using innovation and technology to lift up the quality of life for people everywhere. That’s never been more important than it is today.” These remarks from Roger Martella, GE and GE Vernova chief sustainability officer, at last year’s COP27 conference still ring true.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
ge.com | Christine Gibson
Ohio doesn’t get many sandstorms. But an hour east of Cincinnati, on an otherwise sunny day, a dust devil is brewing. Atop a towering scaffold, a row of hoses pumps out dense clouds of powder and grit. They are instantly sucked, like a horizontal volcano, into the spinning fan blades of a jet engine a few feet away. This is GE Aerospace’s test site in Peebles, Ohio, where the company unleashes havoc on prototype engines to make sure they can stand up to the rigors of flight.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
ge.com | Christine Gibson
By mid-2020, normal routines around the world had ground to a halt. Early-stage quarantine plans to make the best of the spare time — to get in shape or learn a new skill — were giving way to languor and endless doomscrolling. But at GE Aerospace’s plant in Greenville, South Carolina, engineers were seizing a rare opportunity. When the pandemic brought aviation to a standstill, they used the downtime to overhaul both the facility’s physical layout and their daily routines.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
ge.com | Christine Gibson
The dawn of the jet age gave birth to the concept of the global village. Once jet engines made the jump from military fighters to civilian planes in the 1950s, commercial passenger service could carry people farther and faster than ever before. Fares dropped, ticket sales quadrupled, and by 1972 almost half of all Americans had traveled by air.
But more people flying also meant more complications.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
ge.com | Christine Gibson
For nearly two weeks this summer, a usually quiet street in Lynn, Massachusetts, was a hive of round-the-clock activity. Contractors and locals wielding torque wrenches spilled out of the doors of a two-story Cape Cod as trucks, dumpsters, and brand-new appliances crowded the curb in front. From the outside it looked like the site of a typical home renovation — until you noticed the interview tent and roving camera crew.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
ge.com | Christine Gibson
The Air Force’s chief of staff called it “a computer that happens to fly.” An Air Force squadron commander called its pilots “quarterbacks in the sky.” The F-35 Lightning II, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, can reach supersonic speeds and may be the world’s stealthiest fighter plane. For pilots, its advanced electronic systems are what really set it apart.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
ge.com | Christine Gibson
The Air Force’s chief of staff called it “a computer that happens to fly.” An Air Force squadron commander called its pilots “quarterbacks in the sky.” The F-35 Lightning II, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, can reach supersonic speeds and may be the world’s stealthiest fighter plane. For pilots, its advanced electronic systems are what really set it apart.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
ge.com | Christine Gibson
If you’re a regular user of electricity, you’re familiar with this scenario: A thunderstorm booms, lightning streaks across the sky, and the room suddenly goes dark. Usually, the electricity whirs back on within a couple of seconds. But if the storm downed a utility pole, it could be hours; if it took out a substation, you’d better stock up on candles and shelf-stable provisions.
As climate change breeds harder rains and stronger winds, we can expect more frequent, and longer, power outages.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
ge.com | Christine Gibson
They help build helicopter engines for a living, but on this warm June day Madeline Stanton and Grace Hamel were being asked to tackle one of the modern world’s trickiest tasks: assembling furniture from a flat-pack kit. Sitting on the floor of a young boy’s bedroom while sorting through Allen wrenches and bolts of varying tininess, the engineers drew on their mechanical skills to put together a brand-new bed.
