Building 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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Physician and molecular biologist. 15-year veteran of the FDA, founding director of its Office of Biotechnology.
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.
Lifelong journalist. Network TV news producer. Founder of the Science Literacy Project (aka Genetic Literacy Project).
Emily Bass is the Director of Federal Policy for Food & Agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute.
Geologist, Researcher, Critical Mineral Policy Adviser
Analyst at The Breakthrough Institute focused on NEPA, permitting reform, and the legal barriers that slow clean energy and infrastructure development.
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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