Intuitively, money that is almost entirely electronic seems like it should be environmentally friendly. Yet mining crypto — a complex and decentralized accounting exercise — requires an incredible amount of energy and creates an amazing amount of heat. Some innovators, however, are finding innovative solutions to the former and just-as-innovative uses for the latter.

Every prior generation had some upcoming date, event or achievement that served as a metaphor for The Future. For many, that future was 2020.  Now it has arrived. But If Now Was the Future Then, When is the Future Now?

When the Beatles’ John Lennon first heard Paul McCartney’s It’s Getting Better all the Time , he had only one suggestion, adding, “can’t get no worse,” to the chorus. The former sentiment is, in fact, true. The latter is not: It can get worse. It is possible to continue the good trends while changing the bad ones and It is our task now to stop the slide and make the world much better.

Welcome to Valutus Sustainability R.O.I. Special ReCap/PreCap Edition. In it we Recap 2019, and Precap the new year — and boy, is it ever shaping up to be a humdinger! What will we be talking about this time next year? We've consulted our crystalline spheres, stopped in at Delphi, and even looked up a little hard data — hey, it's us. Read on for our 2020 prognostications.