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Peter Mellgard
@hellopeter.bsky.social
i make books at the berggruen institute.

berggruen.org/library

portland, me
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Our fearless deputy editor @hellopeter.bsky.social is launching a new endeavor!

The Berggruen Press, a new arm of @berggruen.org, will publish noteworthy books that will help seed new ways of thinking.
Announcing The Berggruen Press | NOEMA
Noteworthy books about frontier ideas.
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March 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Among the mythical sites of the first human & the end of all days, travel writer @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social found hints that life always finds a way to carry on, even after an ecological apocalypse.
Signs Of Life In A Desert Of Death | NOEMA
In the dry and fiery deserts of Central Asia, among the mythical sites of both the first human and the end of all days, I found evidence that life restores itself even on the bleakest edge of ecologic...
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January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Last year in Uzbekistan I visited the world's youngest desert, left by the vanishing of the Aral Sea. But this post-apocalyptic landscape also contains new life, as well as a clock counting to the end of days and the mythical tomb of the first human. @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/signs-of-lif...
Signs Of Life In A Desert Of Death | NOEMA
In the dry and fiery deserts of Central Asia, among the mythical sites of both the first human and the end of all days, I found evidence that life restores itself even on the bleakest edge of ecologic...
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January 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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“In an age when energy policy is so often hostage to fierce partisanship, there is hope that geothermal can be politically agnostic — the one clean energy solution that could satisfy climate change campaigners & the ‘drill baby drill’ lobby alike.”

—Henry Wismayer
Searching For Climate Salvation In Deep Hellfire | NOEMA
Geothermal energy has become the renewable that got left behind as solar and wind accelerate. Why then do its most determined advocates still insist it could be the key to the renewable energy transit...
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January 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM