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Wicked Problems

Richard Delevan, Art Lapinsch, Mic Wright, Royce Kurmelovs, Dana Drugmand, Jenny Chase, Solitaire Townsend, Charles Perry, Cara Maesano, Wim Carton, Steven R Smith, Gaia Vince, Bob Berwyn, Hanna E. Morris, Rishika Pardikar

We cover climate tech: where business, science, politics, tech, and culture meet and shape the future. And whether it's one you'd want to live in.

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Authors

The writers behind this newsletter.

  • Richard Delevan

    Climate tech in the streets. (wickedproblems.earth) Crime fiction in the sheets. (working on it) Solvitur ambulando. Lupus non timet canem latrantem.

  • Art Lapinsch

    Bootstrapped and sold a company in AdTech • Now writing "Waitbutwhy for Climate" \ud83c\udf33

  • Mic Wright

    Journalist and media critic.

  • Royce Kurmelovs

    Royce Kurmelovs is a journalist and author of five books including The Death of Holden (2016) and Slick (2024).

  • Dana Drugmand

    Dana is an environmental journalist covering topics such as climate accountability and climate change lawsuits, greenwashing and false climate solutions, plastics and petrochemicals, and environmental law and justice.

  • Jenny Chase

    Jenny Chase founded BloombergNEF's solar analysis team in 2006. She authors the team's quarterly PV Market Outlook and wrote a book, Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon.

  • Solitaire Townsend

    Climate entrepreneur and author of upcoming climate-fiction novel GODSTORM.

  • Charles Perry

    Green entrepreneur and sustainability pioneer

  • Cara Maesano

    CDR Initiative @RMI

  • Wim Carton

    Climate researcher, co-author of Overshoot (Vero 2024) and The Long Heat (Verso 2025)

  • Steven R Smith
  • Gaia Vince

    Science writer and thinker

  • Bob Berwyn

    climate journalist

  • Hanna E. Morris

    I’m an Assistant Professor at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. My newest book is titled Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power (Oxford University Press, 2025).

  • Rishika Pardikar

    Climate change and wildlife reporter based in India

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