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Supporting the Other Decriminalization: Sex Work
Albert Wenger – Apr 5, 2021
New York State finally passed a bill that legalizes marijuana and justly releases people serving time for the kind of drug crimes that now are no more. The enforcement of the drug bans were always super racially skewed, primarily targeting [...] Read more
Fighting the Climate Crisis with Oil, Gas, and Coal Assets
Albert Wenger – Apr 1, 2021
One of the objections to a green energy policy are the potential jobs lost in the oil, gas, and coal industries . It doesn’t suffice to point out that there will be new jobs created installing solar roofs or building [...] Read more
Preparing Communities for the Climate Crisis
Albert Wenger – Mar 22, 2021
The more you know about the climate crisis, the harder it is to not be depressed at least some of the time. The challenges ahead are vast and the will to action still small by comparison. So we already know [...] Read more
Climate and Crypto
Albert Wenger – Mar 20, 2021
I have been asked how I can reconcile my support for crypto/blockchain with my concerns about the climate crisis. So here is a blog post laying this out. Crypto/blockchain is a fundamental innovation that addresses an important problems facing us [...] Read more
Mitigating the Climate Crisis: An Overview
Albert Wenger – Mar 15, 2021
Late last year, we announced the USV Climate Fund. At the time, we wrote that “[m]itigation is working on the causes of the climate crisis through either emissions reduction or drawdown of existing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.” In today’s [...] Read more
SilviaTerra
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2021
Key to addressing the climate crisis is changing the balance in the so-called carbon cycle. At present, every year we are adding roughly 5 gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere*. Since atmospheric carbon acts as a greenhouse gas this increases [...] Read more
USV Climate Fund
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2021
At USV we describe ourselves as a “thesis-driven venture capital firm.” For our core fund, we have been investing against Thesis 3.0 for some time. Over the last couple of years, we have been developing a separate Climate Thesis, including [...] Read more
Stacks 2.0
Albert Wenger – Dec 16, 2020
The Bitcoin whitepaper is now over a decade old and Bitcoin as a system has been up and running continuously since January 3, 2009. Much has happened in the crypto world since then, including of course the launch of Ethereum [...] Read more
We Must Strengthen Our Democratic Institutions
Albert Wenger – Nov 8, 2020
A peaceful transition of power between elected governments is one of the crucial aspects of representative democracies. Let’s hope that is what the coming weeks and months bring here in the US. As regular readers of Continuations know, I have [...] Read more