My Personal favorite is the photo Gallery& the Zen moment video. I will follow up to see if change really happens. Jamie Forbes, Publisher of the FineArtMagazineblog.blogspot.com, and SunStormFineartmagazine.com
At New York Climate Week, co-existing with multiple realities
Plus: Photo gallery from the big 🍎 and a moment of zen
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What’s in here ⤵️
🍎 Recap of New York Climate Week
📸 Photo gallery!
🧘♀️ A moment of NYC zen
At New York Climate Week, co-existing with multiple realities
Our minds like a clear hierarchy. Life rarely provides one.
That was especially true at New York Climate Week this year.
Yes, the overriding conversation has increasingly evolved away from climate and net-zero and toward affordability, the AI boom and energy security.
But it’s ALSO true that within and beneath that topline debate, hundreds of conversations took place on topics near and dear to people’s passions and livelihoods — including climate itself, biodiversity, conservation, sustainable food and much more.
My week was similarly all over the Manhattan and topic map:
At Axios House:
Josh Parker of Nvidia, Varun Sivaram of EmeraldAI and energy expert Jigar Shah all agreed that connecting data centers to the grid — and making them flexible — will be best for everyone. Meanwhile, Kara Hurstdefended Amazon’s plan for a massive natural-gas plant initially disconnected from the grid (read more about that here.)
Democratic lawmakers Mike Levin and Brian Schatz said a permitting deal requires the Trump administration to change course on wind and solar. Jarrod Agen of Trump’s White House was cool to that idea. I also pressed him on high oil prices and the media outlets then banned from the White House.
Jason Grumet of the American Clean Power Association described the sector’s “best of times and the worst of times.”
Ryan Gellert of Patagonia told me he was more worried about unbridled AI than unbridled capitalism.
And Sylvia Earle, the legendary marine biologist, warned that we have five years left to salvage our oceans.
🎥 That’s just a snippet. See all our interviews on the Axios YouTube page:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM2Saptl1n7k
Elsewhere in New York:
At Dynamo Energy Hub, Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson compared our power grid to an airline flying too many empty planes: We should get more out of the infrastructure we already have.
At The Nest Campus, Fervo’s Tim Latimer reflected on lessons from becoming a publicly traded company, while investor Joshua Posamentier of Congruent Ventures wished he’d put even more money into it.
With Carter Roberts of WWF, Jennifer Morris of TNC and Hank Paulson, we confronted a staggering imbalance: For every $1 that goes toward protecting nature, $30 goes toward destroying it.
And with Hannan Happi of Exowatt, we posited a future based on abundance rather than scarcity — while wrestling with AI’s impact on both humans and the environment.
Shhhhh…some off-the-record conversations covered everything from China to salmon (though not simultaneously, to be clear).
🙏 There was another kind of co-existence for me this week, too.
I was grieving the very recent death of a loved family member.
I kept most of my speaking commitments, but declined many evening events and bowed out of a breakfast briefing so I could fit in a run instead. The professional commitments mattered to me. But grief mattered more.
I don’t usually share much of my personal life publicly. But leaving this out of a post about my biggest professional week of the year would leave out something more fundamental about what the week actually was for me.
Whether professional or personal, life rarely gives us the luxury of experiencing one thing at a time.
Your moment of Manhattan zen: Paley Park
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