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Adele Peters @adele_peters

Staff writer for @FastCompany focused on sustainability and social impact stories. Send me pitches at apeters at fastcompany dot com.

Joined June 2009
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Adele Peters@adele_peters
1 Sep 2015
If you're anywhere near @MontereyAq and haven't been, go now. This place is mesmerizing. Thx @thuddwhirr
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Two years ago, the vertical farming company @UpwardFarms raised $134m. Last week, it shut down. It’s the latest casualty in a struggling industry. I covered the challenges in a recent story: fastcompany.com/90824702/ver…

The vertical farming bubble is finally popping

Climate change might make growing produce indoors a necessity But despite taking in more than a billion dollars in venture capital investment, most companies in the industry seem to be withering,...

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Induction stoves can be better than gas, like @ImpulseLabs_'s new stoves that can boil water in 40 seconds and double as energy storage fastcompany.com/90814918/the…

These new induction stoves want to convince you to ditch gas

Induction stoves are better for both the environment and indoor air. And now, they can deliver a superior cooking product as well.

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Most of the rain falling on California cities now isn't being captured, despite the ongoing drought. Better urban design can help store more water and alleviate at least some of the flooding. fastcompany.com/90832580/how…

How 'sponge cities' are redesigning themselves for extreme rain

In California, and around the world, climate change is making extreme rain more likely. Here's how some cities are adapting.

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After all of the rain, waterfalls around the Bay Area are huge. Saw these just before the roads nearby closed to flooding. Turn on your sound for the bathtub effect. #AtmosphericRiver
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I talked to @SecretaryPete about new bike/ped projects now underway in the U.S., and what American cities can learn about bike infrastructure from places like Copenhagen fastcompany.com/90809280/if-…

'If you were starting from scratch, cars wouldn't make sense': Pete Buttigieg on redesigning cities

The Transportation Secretary talked about new infrastructure projects that are making cities safer for bikers and pedestrians.

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This startup wants to remake cemeteries as forests—and will bury your body with a blend of mushrooms and soil so that it can literally grow into a tree planted above it. linkedin.com/pulse/new-green…

At these new green cemeteries, your body will turn into a tree

BY Adele Peters Your environmental footprint doesn’t end when you die: Traditional burial uses toxic chemicals like formaldehyde along with steel and concrete, and the acres of grass in cemeteries...

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The storm surge from #Ian is terrifying. I talked to @EDF climate scientist @Tianyi_Sun_ about how climate change is making hurricanes worse. First, heat in the ocean is fueling stronger winds. "Wind is physically pushing water inland," Sun says. /thread x.com/i/status/1575180210219…

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Even if emissions drop, global warming will still fuel more storms like #Ian. But “there’s a difference in every fraction of a degree,” says Sun. “It’s incredibly important to rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions.”
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Sea levels are also rising. The sea level near St. Petersburg, FL is nearly 9 inches higher than it was when record-keeping started in 1947. “The higher your sea level is, the more likely the maximum height of the storm surge will be higher,” says Sun. x.com/i/status/1575196052315…

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#BREAKING: Several houses destroyed as storm surge wrecks #FortMyersBeach, #Florida, after #HurricaneIan makes landfall
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Next, climate change is making rainfall heavier in storms like #Ian. “Because we have a warmer atmosphere, there’s more moisture in the atmosphere, and when it rains, it rains more,” Sun says. x.com/i/status/1575147640991…

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28 Sep 2022
Powerful storm surge southern tip Pine Island FL eye wall Hurricane Ian @accuweather @ChrisFLTornado
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We went to @PGMuseum's butterfly sanctuary, where there are now 13,000 monarchs. Last year at this site: zero. Monarchs are still in danger, but this is good news.
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I talked to @BillGates and @melindagates about the Gates Foundation’s COVID fight and how to get vaccines to the entire world, not just the richest countries: fastcompany.com/90579390/ins…

Inside the Gates Foundation's epic fight against COVID-19

Without the efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the COVID-19 crisis would almost certainly be worse. But is it worth what we may have lost?

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More than 2 million acres have burned in CA so far, an area 138x the size of Manhattan. That's more than any other year on record, and we haven't reached peak fire season. My apartment is bathed in an eerie red light. This is what it's like to live with climate change.
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I took these pictures in Yosemite this weekend - this is the middle of the day, no filter. It was so eerie and felt like a glimpse of our future.
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We need to at least triple coronavirus tests before the American economy can safely reopen. This is what needs to happen: fastcompany.com/90494123/wha…

What will it take to massively scale up COVID-19 testing to the level we need?

If there's any hope of life returning to something resembling normal, we need to be performing many times more tests per day than we are doing now.

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.@TheOceanCleanup just launched new tech to clean up rivers fastcompany.com/90422403/the…
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Just watched @rad_urban lift an apartment into this Lego-like building in Oakland. More on modular buildings here: fastcompany.com/90274920/can…
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The world's first land-based coral farm opened today, growing coral that will help rebuild dying reefs. More from our interview with @coralvitareefs last year: fastcompany.com/90234454/the…
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This really makes me want to move to Oslo: fastcompany.com/90294948/wha…

What happened when Oslo decided to make its downtown basically car-free?

It was a huge success: Parking spots are now bike lanes, transit is fast and easy, and the streets (and local businesses) are full of people.

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There are around 500 million parking spaces in the U.S. and 325 million people. How to make better use of that space: fastcompany.com/90291136/the…
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Climate change will force millions of people to move, but where will we go? fastcompany.com/90288934/how…

How soon will climate change force you to move?

Across the country, far more people are in danger of becoming climate refugees than you might think.

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