Back to the Future – Vox

of this edition highlight is a thought experiment: What if solutions to some of our most pressing challenges, from climate change to public health crises, can be found by rethinking old concepts and outdated technologies? is closer than you think. It just means we have to rethink what we already know, like the meat we consume, the office space we’re not returning to, or the batteries powering the electric car revolution.

Vox’s Ben Denzer

our buildings are making us sick

Here’s how to fix them and what’s getting in the way.

Kellen Landman

Vox’s Phil Robibello

Inside the fantastical and practical quest to make ‘hybrid’ meat

Hybrid cars have been replaced by electric cars. Can “hybrid meat” do the same with beef and pork?

Kenny Torrera

Vox’s Ben Denzer

Behind the Electric Vehicle Revolution

In the EV era, older automakers are learning new technologies.

Rebecca Heilweil

Vox’s Nick Little

The end of a battery’s life is just as important as its beginning

Americans are not good at recycling. Electric vehicles are an opportunity to change that.

Rebecca Laver

Vox’s Phil Robibello

Wasted Potential of Garbage Dump

Toxic landfills are a symbol of environmental injustice across the United States. Clean energy can remake them.

Neil Danesha

Vox’s Ben Denzer

The future of the office is the lab

What happens to office space that is no longer needed?

Lani Mora

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Editor: Samantha Altman, Adam Clark Estes, Libby Nelson, Izzy Ramirez, Brian Resnick, Brian Walsh
Copy editor: Kim Eggleston, Elizabeth Crane, Caitlin Penzimoog, Tanya Pai
Art direction: Dion Lee, Vita Honerber
audience: Gabriela Fernandez, Sheila Tarlo, Agnes Mazur, Mary Perkins
Production/Project Editor: Susanna Locke, Nathan Hall