The climate crisis is the biggest challenge of our generation, yet we are doing too little too slow. PhDs and engineers are pulling their weight but we need all hands on deck.
I believe that climate tech has a unique proposition:
🦾 Technology: Solutions that are indistinguishable from magic.
🍋 Opportunity: A market that makes amazon.com look like a lemonade stand.
🙌 Community: Smart and well-intentioned people trying to unf*ck the planet.
Many people want to play their part but common literature reads like this:
“The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels.” - IPCC Report 2022
Feeling inspired?
Yup, me neither 🙄
What’s missing is an easy on-ramp for the curious but non-scientific crowd.
That’s why Delphi Zero was born: To inspire more people to participate in the boldest odyssey of our time: Our Journey to Net Zero
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“one of the reasons that I'm most drawn to your content / that it stands out in a sea of pretty narrowly-focused stuff - that you approach it from such a broad/creative/human place” - Ben
“Reading your article, this brought a huge smile to my face 😁” - Leone
“I read your piece on storytelling for climate tech and loved it” - Javi
“Just read your article about energy trilemma with Nick and came here to say that it was brilliantly written. Simple, easy to digest and elegant!” - Namratha
“Read this one! I love how much nuance you’re able to capture while still being really accessible, disgestible and most importantly interesting!” - Joshua
Hi, my name is Art 👋
Many moons ago, I bootstrapped a programmatic adtech platform from idea to exit. Our learnings were summarized in my first book “The Async Unlock.”
After going all-in on Net Zero, I got a degree in Energy Law.
These days, I spend most of my time learning, thinking, and writing about climate 🌳
You can find a few more bullets about me here. Or you can watch this podcast interview, which should give you a basic idea of who I am.
Don’t be a stranger and say hi 👇
Delphi Zero explores climate, energy, and everything in between.
Here’s a list of the most popular essays sorted by topics 👇
Prologue: The House of Day Zero - Why hope was the answer to the climate crisis.
Carbon Taxi Time Machine - If we can't fix the present, let's fix the past.
Running from Climate - Where is home if you don’t remember how home feels?
The Big Halt - From Grunt to God and the Beginning of the End 🌑
In Screens We Trust - How can we tell what's real and what's not?
A Cultured Mind - Why Organization Might Be the Actual Frontier Technology.
White Sky - A dying man, a fleet of planes, and the world’s most dangerous proof of concept.
Delphi Zero: One Year In - Reflections, Learnings, and Cake 🎂
Leveling Up for the Planet - From Business Generalist to Climate Professional in Three Steps.
How I Write - A candid look at ideas, frameworks, and tools that made me a better writer.
Two Years In - Numbers, highlights, and reflections of year two at Delphi Zero.
How the CIA Would Evaluate Climate Tech - A 4+1 Framework for Rapid Evaluation of Climate Technologies.
How to Learn Anything (in Climate) - A Practical Guide to Learning Frontier Knowledge Like a Nobel Laureate
Climate Tech: The Greatest Game - The greatest entrepreneurial game of our time.
Emergence of Climate Scenius - The conditions are right for massive progress.
The Gordian Knot of Climate - Everyone should start untangling the climate knot.
Gen Zero - We have 25 years, 11 months, and a couple of days until Net Zero.
An Ode to the Climate Artist - The unintuitive reason why climate art will get us to Net Zero.
My Antarctic Dispatch - What it feels like to arrive in Antarctica.
The Ocean Is Everything - Marine biologist Anya Astafurova takes us into the depths of our mysterious oceans.
Sound of Antarctica: What the Quietest Continent Teaches Us About Paying Attention
The Loudest Silence on Earth - Why We Tend to Miss the Most Important Information Around Us
The Singing Ice Shelf - How Scientists Accidentally Tapped Into an Ice Shelf’s Real-Time Health Updates
Emergence of the Electricity Bazaar - Entrepreneurial similarities between adtech and electricity markets.
A Curious Kid’s Guide to Energy Regulation - The non-boring intersection of law x economics x energy.
Mapping Energy - Fundamental framework to grasp energy transformation.
Understanding Electricity Markets - Deep-dive into European energy markets.
Picks and Shovels for Battery Storage - Entrepreneurial opportunities in energy storage.
Keeping the Climate Tech Promise - Blueprint for consistent communication.
The “Story Telling for Climate” Series
Climate Tech’s Story Problem - Emotion trumps knowledge. Every time.
Climate Tech's Resonant Frequencies - Understanding the secret sauce of successful communication.
Climate Tech’s Story Opportunity (Pt. 1): Story Quadrants - How to Solve Climate Tech's Top-of-Funnel Problem.
Climate Tech’s Story Opportunity (Pt. 2): Awesome Non-Fiction - How to inspire audiences with everyday climate tech.
From K-Wave to Net Zero - What Korean entertainment teaches us about climate storytelling.
The “Branding for Tech Companies” Series
Branding for Tech Companies 101: Future Mythology - How Tech Companies Can Start Fixing Their Messaging Problem.
Branding for Tech Companies 102: Clarity and Consistency - How to assess and optimize your brand's messaging.
Brand Audit in Climate Tech: Lilac Solutions - A Step-by-Step Workflow from Problem Statement to Brand Narrative Update
Brand Audit in Climate Tech: Commonwealth Fusion Systems - How do you explain that your company recreates a star on earth?
A Lawyer’s Guide to Climate Tech with Rickard Vernet (General Counsel, Pale Blue Dot VC)
The Wild World of Energy Trading with Emma Konet (Founder & CTO, Tierra Climate)
Carbon Management Rocks with Jack Andreasen (U.S. Policy & Carbon Management, Breakthrough Energy)
Climate Writing as Capital Allocation with Nick van Osdol (Founder/Writer, Keep Cool)
Clean Hustle with Gniewomir Flis (Hydrogen and Industrial Decarbonization Expert)
The Opposite of Doom Scrolling with Kip Pastor (Hollywood producer with a climate agenda)
Human-Centric Climate Action with Ben Eidelson (Start-up founder and Climate Tech VC)
Clarity, Compassion, and Courage with Gyri Reiersen (Founder & CPO at Tanso)
Global Problem. Local Solutions. with Noaa Cohn (VP Product at InRange)
Spotlight on Infrastructure with Jarek Khoilian (Infrastructure Investor w/ Hollywood Past)
The Currency of Decarbonization with Peter Sainsbury (Founder at Carbon Risk)
Making the Climate Revolution Irresistible with Nicole Kelner (Climate Artist & Entrepreneur)
The Epic of the American Grid with Julie A. Cohn (Historian at Rice University)
Accelerating Climate Careers with Skander Garroum (Co-Founder at Climate Drift)
The Ocean Is Everything with Anya Astafurova (Marine Biologist & Polar Researcher)
Looking at the Future with Ramez Naam (Futurist, author, and investor)
Letting the Ice Speak with Zack Labe (climate scientist and meteorologist)
Democratic Dominoes - How crises tip the political agenda.
The Energy Security Diet - What does energy security mean?
When Rivers Run Dry - A primer on upstream risk.
Energy and War - Energy as an offensive weapon of war.
5-Minute MBA in Energy Policy - An intro to policy objectives, the energy trilemma, and energy security.
Regulatory Red-Teaming - How to anticipate the market response and plug your regulatory loop holes.
Transatlantic Rift - What you can do in times of crisis.
The War for Observable Information - How (exactly) dirty information destroys our shared reality and what we can do to fix it.
Fermentation Is Eating the World - The world is our feedstock and fermentation is our alchemy.
All of us have a role to play. But getting started ain’t easy.
Delphi Zero is the missing onboarding manual for the non-scientific crowd.
Are you struggling with your narrative? I might be able to help.