Water is Life: A Blueprint for Humanity in the Age of Carbon Credit Skepticism

The headlines are full of stories about carbon credit scams, empty promises, and greenwashing scandals. And yes, negativity guarantees clicks. The news tends to claim a narrative. What was marketed as a key tool in the fight against climate change has in many cases turned into a shadowy marketplace where companies buy forgiveness for their…

Apple’s Carbon Neutrality: Control, Carbon, and the Clock

Apple has a date with 2030. That’s the year the company has set for carbon neutrality across its entire supply chain—an effort that extends far beyond its pristine glass-encased stores and well-manicured corporate campuses. It means cutting emissions from the mines that extract the lithium for iPhone batteries, the ships and trucks that haul MacBooks across…

Big Tech’s Nuclear Game: Feeding AI & Data Centers

In the late 1970s, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania became synonymous with nuclear mishap. On March 28, 1979, a partial meltdown at the Unit 2 reactor led to the release of radioactive gases, marking the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power history. Fast forward to today, and the narrative is…

Building a Carbon-Neutral Car: The Case of ŠKODA’s ENYAQ iV

A car factory is not a quiet place. There’s the churn of stamping presses, the rhythmic whir of robotic arms, the distant hum of welding machines stitching together metal skeletons. The air smells of lubricants, of steel dust, of something industrial and permanent. This is where cars are born, where tons of raw materials transform…