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  Synopsis Road Out of Winter: An Apocalyptic Thriller by Alison Stine is a solutions journalism book that tells the story of Wylodine, who lives in an apocalyptic frozen world that has been impacted by climate change. Wylodine is a young marijuana farmer who decides to travel through the Appalachian mountains to California to find her mother. Her mother and step-father had left a year earlier as the weather had begun to worsen, with the intention to return. In the year that the novel occurs, spring never sprung, life never bloomed, and chaos was set upon society. There were food and water shortages, schools and businesses closed because they couldn’t afford to heat the buildings, and people began to leave Wylodine’s Appalachian town to search for better. Soon, there was a full collapse of government, the fall of radio and internet, and near anarchy. Wylodine travels with a misfit band of “orphans”: Grayson, whose parents left with the cult-like church, Dance, whose parents weren’t...

To : Clark Hansen, CEO, AMDP From: Ethan O’Keeffe, Research and Development Analyst, AMDP Date: March 11, 2022 Subject: Investment Opportunity: Aether Diamonds Following extensive market research on potential investment opportunities, I am pleased to recommend Aether Diamonds as an investment opportunity for AMDP. Aether is an award-winning climate tech startup that uses an alchemization process to pull pollution from the air and transform it into diamonds. Founded in 2018, Aether is a young company experiencing promising and rapid growth patterns. Their company philosophy aligns perfectly with AMDP standards: to actively build a future where we generate our own renewable energy sources (Aether).  Investing in a high commodity company like Aether not only offers us great returns but allows us to become part of a forward-thinking movement that is ambitiously proving itself as a vehicle for social change. AMDP Investment Standards As a research and development analyst at AMDP, I look...

The Reason I Chose To Read This Book I selected to read from the solutions journalism books Road Out of Winter: An Apocalyptic Thriller by Alison Stine. Road Out of Winter details the story of Wylodine, who lives in an apocalyptic frozen world that has been impacted by climate change. Wylodine is a young marijuana farmer who decides to travel through the mountains to California to find her mother. I thought from YesMagazine’s list of “11 Books to Give and Share'' that this one sounded the most exciting. I have always liked to read post-apocalyptic and dystopian novels in the past so I thought that Road Out of Winter aligned with the type of content that I like. I also thought it would be a good read after our experiences writing the AMDP Proposal because my company of interest is extremely concerned with climate change and reducing carbon dioxide pollution in order to prevent a scenario like the one that Road Out of Winter is set in. I think the idea of a “cli-fi” sub-genre of ...

To: Clark Hansen, CEO, AMDP From: Ethan O’Keeffe, Research and Development Analyst, AMDP Date: March 11, 2022 Subject: Investment Opportunity: Aether Diamonds Following extensive market research on potential investment opportunities, I am pleased to recommend Aether Diamonds as an investment opportunity for AMDP. Aether is an award-winning climate tech startup that uses an alchemization process to pull pollution from the air and transform it into diamonds. Founded in 2018, Aether is a young company experiencing promising and rapid growth patterns. Their company philosophy aligns perfectly with AMDP standards: to actively build a future where we generate our own renewable energy sources (Aether).  Investing in a high commodity company like Aether not only offers us great returns but allows us to become part of a forward-thinking movement that is ambitiously proving itself as a vehicle for social change. AMDP Investment Standards As a research and development analyst at AMDP, I look ...