Whenever people make a post and say “I’ve read 487 books this year and I feel more complete as a person…blah blah” I always think, “Weird flex, but okay.” I don’t want to be that guy but I do want to share what I read in the past year in…

Two years ago, I walked out of a career fair having spoken to a grand total of fourteen companies who showed zero interest in who I was and what I had to offer. Which is fair because I was a college senior who had contributed little to society and had…

I’m lucky enough to be surrounded by cleantech entrepreneurs on a daily basis. Reimagining the grid, value-stacking energy storage, making solar easier, relocating wind energy, they do it all. These people have been on the front lines of the fight for a cleaner, safer, and more sustainable future longer than…

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? Well if this is a physics questions and not a metaphor for grid modernization, the answer is that neither of those are really possible. …

As if space travel, solar power, and futuristic transportation weren’t enough, Elon Musk has decided to tackle the LA traffic problem. Using the Tunnel Boring Machine, or TBM, Musk wants to dig miles of tunnels underground that can transport cars, goods, and people faster. However, one thing about…

Recently I was watching March Madness and Exxon Mobil had bought a spot to play their new “Energy Lives Here” series. It was to explain the wonders of natural gas; the boost it’s giving to the US economy, the American example of reducing CO2 emissions, the tens of thousands of…

Let’s be honest. I haven’t made it. My list here may be completely wrong. It may lead you to homelessness, bankruptcy, or put you on the FBI’s Most Wanted. I have no idea. But I hate those how-to videos by millionaires talking about how great they are in their mansion…

This past Saturday, I went to the Tufts Energy Conference. TEC was started in 2006 and has tackled energy topics such as international development, security, geopolitical and now clean energy issues. …

When I was a freshman in college, I worked for the recycling department at my school. My first job was to go into dorm halls and see how well the students were recycling. I’m only supposed to look in trash cans in hallways and common rooms and grade based on…