Brian Dawson

“The Tale of Two Grids” is a very short one: upstate NY has 3 nuclear power plants & its electricity is 92% zero-emission…whereas downstate NY has no nuclear plants (after shutting them all down) & its electricity is now 89% fossil fuels. What is the moral of this story?

Love this quote from my friend Josh Legere: "We have to find a way to restore the value and dignity of individual human beings." latimes.com/california/sto…

“For those in the second grade…learning behind plexiglass and masks, learning to read without seeing their teachers’ mouths and no physical contact on the playground is all they’ve ever known. This is outrageous, dangerous and fear-based.” nytimes.com/2021/12/20/opi…

Feeding people is an endless series of compromises. There's no one ideology or diet that's correct. We muddle through, improving every aspect of our food system as best we can.

Great to see this - the Nuss family is one of the nicest and most innovative California farming families I know - farmersfootprint.us/2020/10/06/the…

“We’re using one huge problem—the carbon emissions from food waste—to solve another, which is the global plastics problem, and petroleum plastics as a whole,” says Dane Anderson, cofounder and co-CEO of Full Cycle Bioplastics. fastcompany.com/90687372/this-…

Paid Leave Struck Down By People Who Do Combined 4 Hours Of Work Annually bit.ly/3nwHct2

I increasingly believe in the idea of term limits for leaders. Business, church, government. The benefits of fresh eyes and energy outweigh the risks of losing experience.

#StandUp4Nuclear was a success in Washington Square in New York City! Many positive & intelligent conversations were had. Thanks to all who participated. #ZeroCarbonNuclear

Excited to watch this; great panelists & my favorite moderator @iamlbt - but I have yet to see any carbon scheme that tangibly benefits THE FARMER (though some carbon programs benefit other supply chain stakeholders) -

Nitrogen fertilizer is the climate version of double-dipping: producing it is hugely energy-intensive and much of what’s applied volatiles to form a GHG that’s more than 100X the heat-trapping of CO2. 2/2

When people talk about why the pandemic spread so rapidly, no one seems to mention that America is the only advanced country with no guaranteed paid sick days. How many of the 35 million cases were the result of people having to work while sick to avoid poverty?

While 1 in 9 Americans are food insecure, the billionaire head of an entrenched online grocer spends his cash to go to space. What an asshole.

I am human

My brother makes a good point here: "The whole goal that everybody's talking about is to increase zero emission electricity, yet they are shutting down the source of the vast majority of zero emission electricity," said Dawson. "So this drives us insane." cnet.com/features/is-nu…

“The problem also can be addressed by bringing circular design into the bioeconomy, especially around creative ways to avoid the need for new resource extraction” | Our #bioplastic accomplishes this by using #foodwaste rather than competing for resources! greenbiz.com/article/regene…

Well, the CDC's guidance for summer camps is probably the most draconian and insane thing the agency has said during the pandemic: masks, distancing, even for kids, no sports, no contact, no nothing. reason.com/2021/05/04/cdc…

really bummed that soon i will have to stop cancelling plans "due to covid" and start canceling plans with my usual bag of petty lies

'The Problem With Bioplastics - And how ours is different' #EarthWeek #EarthWeek2021 #bioplastics @Full_Cycle_Bio/the-problem-with-bioplastics-83276df12f08" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@Full_Cycle_Bi…

Dude @ShaneAgronomy this is a fantastically useful concise breakdown. I sent it to a bunch of colleagues. Should be required reading, particularly for those with no distribution channel experience: The Bundling and Unbundling in Ag Retail by upstreamaginsights.substack.com/p/the-bundling…