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If climate tech is dead, what comes next?
Climate tech is about a decade old, and people are itching for a rebrand.
“Climate” hasn’t exactly transformed from a buzzword into a dirty word, but people are actively talking about distancing themselves from the term. The American dynamism platform contains a clean energy plank, but that term is associated with a single VC firm — a16z, whose partner Katherine Boyle coined it and runs a practice under that name — and there’s a lot of other stuff packed into it, including defense, public safety, education, housing, and more. De Chant is also a lecturer in MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing, and he was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT in 2018, during which time he studied climate technologies and explored new business models for journalism.
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