Who's Saving the Planet?
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Who's Saving the Planet?
Discover how the minds, methods and money that fueled the explosion of innovation and disruption in silicon valley are working to build the technology, products and companies that will save the planet. Hosts: Lex Kiefhaber and Tony Noto. Music: Bill Gagliardi.
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Sesame Solar: The All-In One Solution to De-Carbonized Disaster Relief
What happens when disaster strikes, a hurricane or fire, and communities are left stranded without power, water, or basic medical needs? Generally we...
TED: Turning Conversations into Action
Ted is famously known for their captivating talks on how to change our perception of, well, everything. But what comes next? How do we translate that...
Commons: How to Turn Your Credit Card into a Force for Good... Part 2
When we last spoke to Sanchali Pal she was the CEO of Juro. Today, Juro is called Commons, and she has $10,000,000 reasons to be more optimistic about...
Ample: Revolutionizing EV Battery Swapping (no recharge required)
What if recharging your EV was as easy as swapping out the batteries in your flashlight? That's exactly the future Ample is building.
In this e...
Earthforce.io: Saving the Forest from the Trees
Understanding a forest has long been a marriage of art and science, but without the technology to scale. Earthforce is determined to bring forestry in...
Hedgehog: Using Europe as a Roadmap to Predict the Future of US Corporate Climatism
Europe has long been more aggressive in how it deploys legislation and regulatory agency to push for a more climate positive future from large corpora...
ePlant: Using AI to Speak to Trees... Literally.
It's morning, you walk into your backyard, stroll over to the Maple by the fence, and have a conversation about the weather. That, my friends, is exac...
Actual: Sim City, but for Real World Climate Change
What if you could build a virtual environment, a la Sim City, but with real world inputs about product pipelines, energy sources, construction cap ex,...
Chemix: Using AI to Build Better EV Batteries
Artificial Intelligence will reshape our future in ways we haven't yet imagined. Electric Vehicles will transform our relationship with transportation...
VSC Ventures: Bringing the Money and the Messaging to Climate Investing
Jay Kapoor is the General Partner of VSC Ventures, an offshoot of the internationally lauded PR firm VSC. As a seasoned investor Jay, who spent the la...
Micro Grid Solutions: Powering the Future of Distributed Energy
Tim Hade is the COO and Co-Founder of Scale Microgrid Solutions. He founded Scale Microgrid Solutions to build distributed energy systems for business...
KATLA: Creating the Future of Fashion Out of Seaweed and NFTs
The fashion industry is incredibly wasteful. Of the 100 billion garments manufactured in the world every year over 50 billion end up in landfill withi...
Gaeastar: Creating a New Coffee Cup... Out of Dirt
We throw away 50,000,000,000, that's fifty BILLION, single use coffee cups each year, in the US alone. While most of these are made out of paper they...
Climate Culture on Tap: How Carbon Neutral Club is Climatizing the Workplace
It all started with a pizza box.
Jack Bruner, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Neutral Club, is a reformed consultant, some of our fa...
The Optimistic Entrepreneur: Brooke Bowlin on Sustainability, Social Media and Meaningful Success
When you’re faced with a giant systemic machine that looks like it’s really never going to change, adopting some sort of nihilistic view isn’t uncommo...
A Yarn from the Sea: How Keel Labs is Turning Seaweed into Clothes
Riddle me this: What if all of our clothes were made from seaweed?
This week we sit down with two phenomenal women who are changing the fashion...
Moving Forward with PlanetFWD
Let’s say you’re a big company. You’ve been making all these commitments recently at press conferences to get “carbon neutral”.” it’s been great for p...
How Patch is Building the Future of Unified Climate Action
Every brand worth their sustainable (or marketing...) salt is claiming a path to carbon neutrality, the bridge between the marking claims and the clim...
Arrival Navigates Headwinds in the EV Market
Prior to becoming the President and Chief Strategy Officer of Arrival, Avinash Rugoobur, led General Motor's billion dollar acquisition of autonomous...
How To Turn Your Credit Card Into a Force for Climate Prosperity
As with most things magically, Joro was once an excel spreadsheet. Sanchali Pal was concerned with her personal carbon footprint when she was in under...
How to Invest in A Sustainable Future
Put your money where your mouth is, perhaps more effect would be to put your moneys where your values are. Carbon Collective is an investment platform...
The Rise of a Fashion Entrepreneur
We often discuss saving the planet in terms of technological breakthroughs, political movements or individual choices. This week we examine a more fun...
Sustainable Ride Sharing... but with Soul
They say culture eats strategy for breakfast, and if that's true it's unlikely Raven Hernandez, CEO and founder of Earthrides, will be hungry any time...
Saving the Planet Takes All of Us
Who gets a voice when it comes to the environment? After all, we all have to live on this little blue dot together. Everyone, regardless of identity,...
The Future of Retail, Empowered by Information
Imagine if you could wave your phone across a hoodie and instantly get information about where the cotton was sourced, how much the workers were paid,...
The Regenerative Alternative to Plastic
Imagine a substance which is as durable, malleable, and practical as plastic, except it's produced through extracting methane from the atmosphere, mak...
What's Old Is New Again: The Circularity Tech That's Reshaping the Fashion Industry
92 million tonnes of clothes end up in the garbage every year. That's more than one full dumpster truck every second. The fashion industry has long be...
The Future of Farming Comes In A Box
Nate Storey, the Chief Science Officer of Plenty, has a vision for the next evolution of agriculture, and it has nothing to do with a farm. At least n...
The Future of Beef (No Cow Was Harmed In the Making of this Future)
Within our lifetimes, actually within this decade according to our guest today, your grocery store will have three options for a burger: traditional (...
Solving Fashion's Waste Problem from the Fiber Out
Over one hundred million tons of fabric is produced for the textile industry ever year. The scale of that production is hard to comprehend, but for co...
Orange EV: Electrifying the supply chain, one Yard Dog at a time
As e-commerce has swallowed consumerism, we take for granted the speed and ubiquity of shopping online. Get anything ever in a day at most, feels like...
Recurate: Democratizing Re-Sale Technology for Independent Brands
This week Karin Dillie, VP of Partnerships for Recurate, joins us to talk about how they're building the technology for independent brands to resell t...
Another Tomorrow: Vanessa Makes Fashion Sustainable from the Farm to the Cloud
What if superior clothing retained re-sale value enough to justify a reach purchase, knowing you'd be able to recoup a hefty sum when you were ready t...
Barent Brings Sustainable Manufacturing to the Masses
Imagine if you could actually see sustainability in manufacturing manifested, immediately and obviously. That's exactly what the team at Circular Econ...
Furniture that Won't Weight You Down
This week we return to the world of furniture with Kristin Smith, COO, President, and even an early investor, of Fernish. The EPA estimates that 12.2...
How Mushrooms Can Reduce Our Dependance on Livestock
Paul Shapiro spent is career working to improve the wellbeing of animals through legislation, activism, awareness campaigns, and civic engagement duri...
Recycling Isn't Cutting It, and the GoodGoods is Here to Solve That
Zach Lawless is one of the few people I've met who's gets just as worked up about all the ways recycling isn't all it's made out to be as Jess Miles d...
How Madeline Fraser Created The Warby Parker of Jewelry Companies
Madeline Fraser came up with the idea for Gemist when she tried to design herself a custom ring. The ordeal proved successful but a headache. How is i...
Public Habit is Breaking the Fashion Supply Chain to Rebuild A Better One
After six years working at Amazon, Sydney Badger had bigger dreams than maximizing efficiency. But, she also had a black-belt in maximizing efficiency...
What If Chemicals Were Made Out of Corn Instead of Carbon?
The answer, at its most maximalist expression, a significant reduction in the 30% of greenhouse gasses released through the production of heavy indust...