The Ecomodernist
Breakthrough Institute, Lauren Teixeira, Ted Nordhaus, Alex Trembath, Alex Smith, Ryan Alimento, Emily Bass, Spencer Toohill, Elizabeth McCarthy, Matthew L. Wald, Marc Levitt, Seaver Wang, Vijaya Ramachandran, Dan Blaustein-Rejto, Matt Hellig, Joy Jiang, Adam SteinBuilding 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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Rewiring Risk
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I’m very excited to share with you the product of many months of research and writing. It’s a report called Rewiring Risk: How to Bring Down Electricity Bills and Increase Wildfire Resilience in California, and it offers a framewor...
Global Shifts in Plant Biotech Regulation
How the US and EU Are Rewriting the Rules of Agricultural Innovation
2026 may well be remembered as the year global agriculture began to untangle itself from decades of precautionary red tape. Earlier this year, the agricultural biotechnol...
A Practical Climate Test: Clean Cooking for the World’s Poor
By Jennifer Hernandez and Vijaya Ramachandran
Climate policy often clashes with the needs of poor households. Nowhere is this clearer than in the debate over clean cooking. For nearly three billion people, daily cooking still depends on wo...
Why I Oppose Solar Geoengineering
It’s easy to forget today, as more and more people have come to take the idea of solar geoengineering seriously, that the idea first really broke through into elite public consciousness as something of a troll. The notion had been discussed...
America’s Nuclear Order Book Is Large and Growing
Thanks to fast-growing electricity demand, especially from AI data centers, demand for new nuclear energy is rapidly growing. In this analysis, we identify 74GW of planned or new nuclear reactor capacity in the United States. While it is un...
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The Breakthrough Institute is a global research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges. Learn more at thebreakthrough.org
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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.
Alex Smith is the Editorial Director of the Breakthrough Institute
Innovation and decarbonization in heavy industry and infrastructure
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
Analyst at The Breakthrough Institute focused on NEPA, permitting reform, and the legal barriers that slow clean energy and infrastructure development.
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.
I am an economist, writing about climate, energy and food security.
I write about industrial technology, capital formation, and the uncomfortable gap between invention and deployment. Factories, materials, infrastructure, financing structures, and policy choices.
Energy Innovation Analyst @ The Breakthrough Institute
I work on Technology, energy systems, institutions, and making hard decisions under uncertainty.
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