Opinion

August 4, 2022

Founders, do you have an Earth Overshoot plan?

Tech founders are uniquely well placed to come together and bend the arc of consumption back in the right direction.


Tessa Clarke

4 min read

Tessa Clarke (left) and Saasha Celestial-One, cofounders of OLIO

The ultimate promise of technology is to be able to do more — much more — with less. And yet despite 100 years of mind-blowing tech revolutions, this promise has spectacularly failed to materialise.

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Tessa Clarke

Tessa Clarke is cofounder and CEO of OLIO

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