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For the last few months I’ve been working on something exciting. And today I can finally tell you all about it. Carbon Switch is being acquired* by Rewiring America. Now a little backstory and context. Saul Griffith, Alex Laskey and Ari Matusiak started Rewiring America in 2020, around the same time I started Carbon Switch. […]
It’s induction month at Carbon Switch and I’m excited to share our first two stories. This week we published two guides comparing the different options homeowners have when it comes to getting a new stove: one on induction vs. gas stoves and another on induction vs. traditional electric stoves. Friends don’t let friends install gas stoves Readers of this newsletter
This week, 235 million Americans will experience temperatures hotter than 90 degrees. 60 million people will experience temperatures hotter than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. For many of these people, it will feel even worse than the number reads, as humidity makes it feel 10-15 degrees hotter. As the latest heat wave smashes temperature records across the
To Stop Record Heat Waves, We Have to Fix Air Conditioning Read More »
A few weeks ago, we asked you what topics you want to read about next. The most common answer was induction cooking. So June is going to be induction month at Carbon Switch. As some of you know, we’ve already written a bit about induction in our Induction Cooktop and Stove Buyer’s Guide. We’ve also
On Monday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at increasing clean energy production and manufacturing in the United States. The big story here is that the Biden administration will give the solar industry a two-year break from tariffs that were threatening to grind the entire industry to a halt. According to Rystad Energy,
Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to boost clean energy. Here’s why. Read More »
The U.S. solar industry was booming, until a very strange and unexpected Commerce Department investigation ground everything to a halt. Despite the slowdown, we expect rooftop solar is here to stay. There’s just one kinda big problem: most people can’t get their own panels. That’s one of the surprising things I learned in doing research
It’s been a bad six months for our planet. Just before Christmas of last year, Senator Joe Manchin went on Fox News to say that he wouldn’t vote for Build Back Better and its historic climate policies. In February, the Supreme Court heard West Virginia v. EPA, suggesting that many executive actions aimed at curbing
A List of the Climate Progress We’ve Made in 2022 Read More »
Heat pumps are home appliances that can both heat and cool a home. Just like a furnace or a boiler, they warm up your home on a cold day. And just like an air conditioner, they keep your home cool in the summer. As we’ve written before, installing a heat pump is one of the
There are few things that Americans hate more than high energy prices. We’ve built everything in our country, from our sprawling suburbs to our oversized pickup trucks, under the assumption that commodities like oil and gas will always be cheap. But low energy prices aren’t an entitlement. When a petrostate like Russia goes to war
A month ago, climate scientists and activists were obsessed with director Adam McKay’s latest climate-inspired movie, Don’t Look Up. With few exceptions, folks in the climate community loved the film. This past weekend, those same people fell out of love with McKay when he tweeted this. Immediately climate scientists and researchers like Chris Colose and
