The Ecomodernist
Breakthrough Institute, Lauren Teixeira, Ted Nordhaus, Alex Trembath, Ryan Alimento, Emily Bass, Spencer Toohill, Matthew L. Wald, Marc Levitt, Adam Stein, Seaver Wang, Isaiah Menning, Vijaya Ramachandran, Dan Blaustein-RejtoBuilding a new environmental paradigm through analyses and essays on politics, nuclear energy, agriculture, critical minerals, permitting reform, and much more. The Ecomodernist is a publication of the Breakthrough Institute.
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Ted Nordhaus is the founder and executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and a co-author of the Ecomodernist Manifesto.
Executive Director at the Breakthrough Institute. Ecomodernist. Promethean Hamiltonian Schumpeterian meliorist.
Emily Bass is the Director of Federal Policy for Food & Agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute.
Chief of Staff for Nuclear Energy Innovation @ The Breakthrough Institute
I ♥️ clean energy, especially nuclear energy. Analyst at the Breakthrough Institute and freelance writer.
Dr. Seaver Wang is Co-Director of the Climate and Energy program at the Breakthrough Institute, a global research center that promotes technological solutions to environmental and human-development challenges.
External affairs director at the American Conservation Coalition.
I am an economist, writing about climate, energy and food security.
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