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A16Z leads investment in Firemaps, a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires

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Meanwhile, Greece and other Mediterranean nations have been fighting fires for weeks to bring a number of massive blazes under control. These options can vary widely in cost, although some local and state governments have created reimbursement programs to allow homeowners to recoup at least some of the expenses of these improvements.

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Why the next big entrepreneur must come from climate tech

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Hurricane Katrina had just happened, and many experts viewed it primarily as a failure of the government to take care of its weakest citizens in the face of a natural disaster, not as climate change’s early shot. Governments are finally putting tough building codes in place. When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0

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