Climate Change with Scott Amyx

Interview with Alison Malmqvist, Director, Sexual & Reproductive Health, Climate Health Lead, PSI Global

Today I am joined by Alison Malmqvist, Director, Sexual & Reproductive Health, Climate Health Lead, PSI Global. She has 20 years of experience developing and leading integrated public health programs in Africa and the Caribbean with a focus on designing, implementing, managing and monitoring social marketing and health communication programs for sexual and reproductive health, malaria prevention and child survival. 

Interview with Stefan Schwab, CEO of Enlighted

Enlighted, a Siemens company, integrates cognitive environmental IoT sensors and lighting controls connecting to intelligent workplace experience apps, offering a scalable, interoperable solution to address a spectrum of building, space, and productivity needs.

Interview with Dr. John J. Berger, Environmental Science and Policy Specialist

Dr. John J. Berger, Ph.D. is an environmental science and policy specialist, prize-winning author, and journalist.

Interview with Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network

Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), released her new book The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. The dominant cultural worldview is based upon extraction and exploitation practices that have brought us to the precipice of social, environmental, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, climate justice and deep cultural analyses, and the collective knowledge of Earth-cent...

Interview with Michael Azlen, CEO of Carbon Cap Management

Carbon Cap Management is an alternative asset management firm operating in the global carbon and environmental markets. Their mission is to provide solutions directly related to the capping and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.

Interview with Dr. Ethan Cohen-Cole, CEO of Capture6

Capture6 is a technology that removes CO₂ from the atmosphere while producing additional freshwater for local communities.

Interview with Elizabeth Whitlow, Executive Director at Regenerative Organic Alliance

Regenerative Organic Alliance manages the Regenerative Organic Certified program, a groundbreaking certification for food, fiber, and personal care products. Integrating USDA Organic, Fair Trade, and high-bar animal welfare standards, it surpasses current criteria, setting global benchmarks for soil health, animal welfare, and social fairness. 

Interview with Frank Pao, Chair of Industrial Advisory Board on Center of Energy Harvesting Material & Systems

Frank Pao, Chair of Industrial Advisory Board on Center of Energy Harvesting Material & Systems, The National Science Foundation.

Interview with Jan Skjoldhammer, CEO of NoviOcean

NoviOcean is a wave energy developer that uses ocean waves to generate electricity.

Interview with Stéphane Germain, President & CEO of GHGSat

GHGSat monitors emissions from space, using its satellites and aircraft sensors to measure greenhouse gas emissions directly from industrial sites, providing actionable insights to businesses, governments, and regulators. 

Interview with Ryan Lupberger, CEO of Cleancult

Cleancult is a zero plastic waste packaging household cleaning brand.  

Interview with Joseph Kane, a Fellow at Brookings Metro

Today I am joined by Joseph Kane, a Fellow at Brookings Metro, a program of The Brookings Institution. His work focuses on a wide array of built environment issues, including transportation and water infrastructure. Within these areas of research, Kane has explored infrastructure’s central economic role across different regions as well as its relationship to opportunity and resilience.

Interview with Dr. Joe Romm Senior Research Fellow University of Pennsylvania

Interview with Robert Koenen Chief Revenue Officer Boxed Water Is Better

Interview with Mary Alice Lee, Director, NYC Playgrounds Program, Trust for Public Land

Since 1996, Trust For Public Land—alongside countless partners—has helped transform well over 200 schoolyards into thriving parks and playgrounds, getting the absolute most of the space available and giving the gift of social connection and nature play back to the communities.

Interview with Sanchali Pal founder CEO of Commons

Interview with Maria Korsnick, Nuclear Energy Institute, President & CEO

The Nuclear Energy Institute is the policy organization of the nuclear technologies industry, based in Washington, D.C.

Interview with Scott Sabin, CEO of Plant With Purpose

Plant With Purpose works at the nexus of poverty and environmental degradation to transform the lives and land of farming communities through environmental restoration, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal.

Interview with Diz Petit, Founder and CEO of LiquiDonate

LiquiDonate provides the simplest donation method for retailers, businesses, downsizing organizations, and anyone with excess items.

Interview with Dr. David Scheel, Professor of Marine Biology at Alaska Pacific University

David is a field-oriented ecologist with experience in remote and wilderness settings in Africa and Alaska.  At Alaska Pacific University, he teaches courses in marine biology, aquarium husbandry, and animal behavior.

Interview with Dr. Thomas McInerney, International Lawyer and Strategist

Thomas McInerney is the Executive Director of the Rule of Law for Development Program at Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he teaches courses relating to international law, development finance, and institutional reform.  

Interview with Charles Yhap, CEO, Clean Robotics

Clean Robotics revolutionizes waste and resource recovery. The company's flagship product, TrashBot, uses Al, robotics, and machine learning to identify and sort waste at the time of disposal, eliminating human error and diverting more circular materials from landfills.

Interview with Michael Hecht, President & CEO of Greater New Orleans

Greater New Orleans is the economic development agency for southeast Louisiana. 

Interview with Tony Hiss, Author, Former Journalist and NYU Scholar

Today I am joined by Tony Hiss, author of Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth.

Interview with Morgan Bierschenk, CEO of GEOSHIP

Geoship is an affordable home prototype, featuring a unique combination of eco-friendly ceramic materials and geodesic dome structures.

Interview with Owen Barrett, President of Rayven

Rayven is a real estate investment platform.

Interview with Dr. Andy Kerr, Chief Strategy Officer, EIT Climate-KIC

EIT Climate-KIC is Europe’s largest climate innovation initiative, responsible for the group’s overarching strategy, its financial sustainability, and delivery of its global impact.

Interview with Dr. Michelle Scharer-Umpierre Marine Biologist

Interview with Dr. Sanjay Patnaik Director of the Center on Regulation and Markets at Brookings

A  from The Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution explores six major areas of potential policy reform in the permitting process of renewable energy generation and electric transmission projects in the U.S.

Interview with Jeff Grass CEO of HUNGRY

Interview with Norman Crowley Chair of CoolPlanet

CoolPlanet is a decarbonisation management system.

Interview with Lauren Gropper, CEO of Repurpose

Repurpose is a leader in plant-based tableware.

Interview with David Fenton, Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook

The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons from 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.

Interview with Nick Engelfried, Author of Movement Makers

Author of Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change.

Interview with Brennan Spellacy, CEO of Patch

Patch is a platform that powers climate action.

Interview with Tucker Perkins, President & CEO of the Propane Education & Research Council

The Propane Education & Research Council is a nonprofit that provides leading propane safety and training programs and invests in R&D of new propane-powered technologies.

Interview with Jeremy Rifkin, Author, Economic & Social Theorist & Activist

Jeremy Rifkin, a bestselling author of 22 books translated into 35 languages.

Interview with David Moscow, Host of From Scratch

David Raphael Moscow, a creator, executive producer, and host of From Scratch.

Interview with Professor Bruce Usher & Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School

Dr. Bruce Usher, Professor of Professional Practice and the Elizabeth B. Strickler ’86 and Mark T. Gallogly ’86 Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School.

Interview with William Anderegg Climate Scientist Professor at the University of Utah

Dr. William Anderegg, Director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy and an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah.

Interview with Mark Wishnie Head of Landscape Capital and Chief Sustainability Officer BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group

Mark Wishnie, Head of Landscape Capital and Chief Sustainability Officer, BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group

Interview with David Meyers Executive Director Conservation Finance Alliance

The Conservation Finance Alliance is the leading professional association for conservation finance experts and practitioners. CFA's mission is to promote awareness, expertise, and innovation in conservation finance globally.

Interview with Dr. Barrett Klein Professor of Biology at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Dr. Barrett Klein, a professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, is an entomologist and artist who studies insect behavior, sleep biology, and ways in which insects have affected humans throughout history.

Interview with Dr. Christiaan De Beukelaer Senior Lecturer in Culture Climate at the University of Melbourne

Dr. Christiaan De Beukelaer, Senior Lecturer in Culture & Climate at the University of Melbourne and the author of Trade Winds.

Interview with James Malley, CEO of Paccurate

Paccurate is a cartonization software for efficient shippers that helps find the best way to pack every shipment to reduce supply chain costs and waste.

Interview with John Hecklinger, President & CEO of Global Fund for Children

Global Fund for Children is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform the lives of the world's most vulnerable children.

Interview with Chad Massura and Jules Giuliano of Rosy Soil

Rosy Soil is an Earth-positive soil company on a mission to nurture plants and the planet by crafting high-quality soils from captured CO2.

Interview with Professor Michael Mehta Webster

NYU Professor is the author of The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on Earth.

Interview with Anastasios Arima CEO of IperionX

IperionX is developing zero carbon, sustainable critical minerals and metals.

Interview with Paul Evers CEO of RIFF

Riff Energy+ as part of their innovation efforts to utilize, and develop, a greater demand for coffee fruit, the nutritionally-rich, yet historically wasted byproduct of the coffee harvest.