The Gist

Building codes are a key weapon in the climate fight.

We need to improve EV charger uptime if we want people to trade in their gas guzzlers for electron eaters.

We can’t solve climate change without carbon dioxide removal, and we need to scale policy.

The Ad Hoc Gist: Stoves and Steel January 2023 This month’s Gist is going to be a bit different. Our team just returned from a one week pilgrimage to San Francisco. And it was invigorating. Yes, the city has a lot of problems from a lack of affordable housing to extreme weather. But it’s still…

The Ad Hoc Gist: Are We Ready to Electrify Homes? December 2022 Winter is descending. Heating bills are going up. And Americans await the new IRA home electrification tax credits that go live in January. In this month’s Gist, penned by our own Elaine Reddy, we ask if the market is ready for this flood…

A special edition Gist on the midterms. This Gist breakdowns why we think Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland and Massachusetts will go BIG on climate in January.

This month’s Gist covers how the Inflation Reduction Act should accelerate the decarbonization of industrial heat and create new technology winners like hydrogen and thermal storage, but warns that the IRS and wholesale energy markets could trip things up.

This month’s Gist cautions that the new Inflation Reduction Act could accelerate a distributed electric time bomb putting further strain on our fragile grid if regulators don’t reform our antiquated energy markets with more urgency.

The Ad Hoc Gist: Fear of a Chinese Battery Planet May/June 2022 This month’s Gist takes on battery manufacturing, supply chain, and tech. In short, China is kicking our butt and we need to get our act together fast or we’ll concede our battery future. AHG is hiring a Senior Comms Manager. Interested? Apply here. Enjoying…

This month’s Gist is about concrete and its chief component – cement – one of the truly hard matters of decarbonization, and an emerging focus of new tech and policy innovation.