Author: Alex Tabibi

Dr. Alexander Tabibi is an entrepreneur, investor, and advocate for sustainable innovation with a deep commitment to leveraging technology for environmental and social good. As a thought leader at the intersection of business and sustainability, Dr. Tabibi brings a strategic vision to Green.org, helping guide its mission to inspire global climate awareness and actionable change. With a background in both medicine and business, Dr. Tabibi combines analytical rigor with entrepreneurial insight.

The world is vast, and for all its maps and charts, for all its highways and airways, it remains an untamed thing. A man can walk a thousand miles and never see all there is to see, never breathe all the air there is to breathe. Here, in the spirit of adventure, I give you The Ten Most Unexplored Places on Earth, where the maps fade, and the wild begins. 1. The Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean The sea is cruel and deep. The Mariana Trench plunges farther than light can follow, where the pressure crushes bone and silence is king.…

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Synthetic Chemicals in the Food System A statistic that always haunts me is that in the EU there ae about 400 chemical additives and preservatives while in the US that number is 10,000 – a staggering number. Not long ago to me “processed food” simply meant something like canned beans or frozen peas. But today, it’s a different story with our food system is steeped in synthetic chemicals — from fertilizers that boost crop yields to preservatives that stretch shelf life and colorants that make snacks glow like neon signs. These are lab-made substances designed to improve flavor, texture, and…

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AI’s Water and Electricity Usage: Separating Truth from Myth Artificial intelligence has become one of the most transformative forces of our time, reshaping industries and influencing daily life. But as AI models like ChatGPT and others have grown in scale, a pressing question has emerged: what is their real environmental footprint? Specifically, how much water and electricity does AI actually use — and how much of what we hear is misleading? The conversation around AI’s resource consumption is complicated, and it’s easy for numbers to be twisted in ways that sound alarming or trivial depending on the storyteller. At the…

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Your Brain Is Plastic(s): How Nanoplastics Are Quietly Rewiring Humanity When we talk about the threats facing the planet, climate change tends to dominate the conversation with rising seas, wildfires, and vanishing biodiversity command headlines. Yet, beneath this global crisis is another — quieter, microscopic, and disturbingly rapidly increasing invasion of nanoplastics into the very tissues that define our humanity — our brains. Recent research has revealed something astonishing: the human brain, that intricate organ of memory and emotion, now contains measurable amounts of plastic. How measurable? A helluva lot more that I had ever thought conceivable. Read on…. The…

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Green.org had the opportunity to sit down with Susan Stone, the CEO of Blue Current, to learn how the company is disrupting the battery industry with advancements in safety and performance. Before we get started, let’s get to know Susan a little better. Susan Stone was recently named CEO at Blue Current, a startup designing high-performing solid-state batteries that safely and sustainably power the EV and consumer tech industries. As an award-winning entrepreneurial leader, she specializes in growing companies with disruptive technologies to commercially scale and transform the industries they serve. Stone was previously CEO of solar technology company Ubiquitous…

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