About
Jed Anderson is the Creator and CEO of EnviroAI, a Houston-based company building environmental superintelligence—a physics-grounded, real-time information infrastructure for the biosphere. Before EnviroAI, he spent twenty-seven years as an environmental attorney, practicing at Baker Botts and Vinson & Elkins before co-founding the AL Law Group in 2009. He served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law School, where he taught the Clean Air Act. He holds a degree in biology from St. Olaf College and is the author of A Victorious Defeat (2016), a memoir of a decade spent trying to reform the Clean Air Act from the inside. The work on this site is what happens after twenty-seven years inside a system that couldn't close the gap—the conclusion that no system that operates by moving atoms can, and that the rest of his life's work is building the one that will.
Jed Anderson writes on Environmental Superintelligence, information physics, and the causal sovereignty of knowledge over matter and energy. This site is the canonical archive of that work.
The thesis is short. Environmental damage is an information problem before it is anything else. The energy cost of knowing where atoms are is roughly 10²⁰ times less than the energy cost of moving them once they have scattered. No policy regime can close that gap. An information system can. I have spent twenty-seven years inside the legal system that tried; I am spending the rest of my life building the one that will.
Most of what I write about lives at the intersection of information theory, physics, and the protection of nature. I am looking for the simplest possible ideas about how the biosphere actually works and how a planetary information system can help her thrive. The deeper I get into the physics, the closer it brings me to questions of meaning, faith, and what we are for—so those threads run through the work too.
The claim underneath all of it: information accumulates causal sovereignty over matter and energy. We are the part of nature that finally grew old enough to fight back.
Reading the corpus
The work spans physics, information theory, environmental policy, faith, and the architecture of stewardship. A few entry points:
- For the broad case in one essay: The First Defender
- For the physics: The Intelligence Leverage Equation
- For the thesis in four words: Bit Protect It
More entry points by topic: physics, information theory, environmental superintelligence, foundational.
Current work
Creator and CEO of EnviroAI—applying environmental superintelligence to planetary-scale problems.
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Contact
Email: jedanderson432@gmail.com
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