The Gist

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.

This month’s Gist explains how a war on methane can ensure that we are replacing Russian gas with the cleanest American made alternative to protect both the climate and democracy.

This month’s Gist is about the necessity of carbon removal to achieve our climate goals – and what’s required at the federal, state and market level to accelerate its uptake.

This month we explore the challenge of meeting aggressive fleet electrification goals; hint – it’s not just about charging stations and EVs.

In this quarter’s Gist, we focus on the spike in home heating costs this winter, and how the so-called “Build Back Better” bill moving through Congress could accelerate the electrification of winter.

In this quarter’s Gist, we focus on climate resilience and whether our pandemic weary cities and states are ready for the impending season of wildfires and hurricanes. The short answer – we’re not. We’ll provide insight on how tech and policy need to converge to make sure we’re ready in the future.

In this quarter’s Gist, we focus on the flawed approaches of our country’s two largest states – Texas and California. We review why each has failed to keep the power on and what changes are needed — in policy and attitude — to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

In this quarter’s Gist, we focus on natural gas, which has found a prominent place in the presidential campaign in the battleground state and home of fracking—Pennsylvania. But the current debate misses the point.

Welcome to the Ad Hoc Gist, a newsletter on the business, politics and people of climate tech from me, Jim Kapsis, and the Ad Hoc Group team. Why did we decide to launch this newsletter and why are you receiving it?