Latest Climate solutions Podcast Episodes
Steve Raeder | Leading the charge in commercial solar
Climate Positive - February 08, 2024 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsIn this week's episode, Gil Jenkins sits down with Steve Raeder, the founder and CEO of Summit Ridge Energy. As a leading player in the community solar market, Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) has made significant strides since its inception in 2017, deploying over $1.6 billion into clean energy assets...
Markets for valuing biodiversity | Tim Male and Ryan Sarsfield, Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC)
Climate Positive - January 17, 2024 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsAt the end of 2022, 200 countries signed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework – what some have called the “Paris Agreement for Nature”. It calls on signatories to work together to enhance the resilience of natural ecosystems and to turn the tide on species extinction rates through ...
Tim Male and Ryan Sarsfield | Markets for valuing biodiversity
Climate Positive - January 17, 2024 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsAt the end of 2022, 200 countries signed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework – what some have called the “Paris Agreement for Nature”. It calls on signatories to work together to enhance the resilience of natural ecosystems and to turn the tide on species extinction rates through ...
Julia Selker | Speeding GETs for a clean and reliable grid
Climate Positive - January 03, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsAmerica’s dramatic shift towards renewable energy generation in remote areas will require a substantial transmission build-out in the years ahead, potentially doubling or tripling the current grid. In other words, there is no transition without transmission. While it's crucial that we expedite t...
Speeding GETs for a clean and reliable grid | Julia Selker, WATT Coalition
Climate Positive - January 03, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsAmerica’s dramatic shift towards renewable energy generation in remote areas will require a substantial transmission build-out in the years ahead, potentially doubling or tripling the current grid. In other words, there is no transition without transmission. While it's crucial that we expedite t...
Speeding GETs for a clean and reliable grid | Julia Selker, WATT Coalition.
Climate Positive - January 03, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsAmerica’s dramatic shift towards renewable energy generation in remote areas will require a substantial transmission build-out in the years ahead, potentially doubling or tripling the current grid. In other words, there is no transition without transmission. While it's crucial that we expedite t...
Tracking our solar-powered future | Dan Shugar, CEO of Nextracker
Climate Positive - December 19, 2023 18:48 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsIn our final episode of 2023, we sit down with Dan Shugar, founder and CEO of Nextracker, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXT), a leading provider of intelligent, integrated solar tracker and software solutions used in utility-scale and distributed generation solar projects globally. With over 30 years of experie...
Dan Shugar | Tracking our solar-powered future
Climate Positive - December 19, 2023 18:48 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsIn our final episode of 2023, we sit down with Dan Shugar, founder and CEO of Nextracker, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXT), a leading provider of intelligent, integrated solar tracker and software solutions used in utility-scale and distributed generation solar projects globally. With over 30 years of experie...
Why does it take five years to build a wind farm?
TILclimate - December 07, 2023 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsThe United States has a goal to power the country with 100% clean electricity by 2035. Unfortunately, our energy regulations are not set up to make this much change this quickly. Energy economist John Parsons of MIT joins the show to explain how much clean energy infrastructure we need to build,...
Mark Dyson | Applied hope and the ZEROgrid Initiative
Climate Positive - November 30, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsThe private sector has been a critical driver of increasing clean energy on the grid. Since 2008, corporate renewable purchases have helped bring online nearly 150 GW of new renewable energy capacity globally — more than the total power-generating capacity of France. Despite these purchase commi...
Energy storage: keeping the lights on with a clean electric grid
TILclimate - November 30, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsThe large majority of new energy we’re building today comes from clean, renewable wind and solar projects. But to keep building wind and solar at this pace, we need energy storage: technologies that save energy when the weather is favorable, and use it when wind and sun are scarce. Prof. Asegun ...
Mark Dyson | Applied Hope and the ZEROgrid Initiative
Climate Positive - November 30, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsThe private sector has been a critical driver of increasing clean energy on the grid. Since 2008, corporate renewable purchases have helped bring online nearly 150 GW of new renewable energy capacity globally — more than the total power-generating capacity of France. Despite these purchase commi...
Applied hope and the ZEROgrid Initiative | Mark Dyson, RMI
Climate Positive - November 30, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsThe private sector has been a critical driver of increasing clean energy on the grid. Since 2008, corporate renewable purchases have helped bring online nearly 150 GW of new renewable energy capacity globally — more than the total power-generating capacity of France. Despite these purchase commi...
(Ep. 50 replay) Outsmarting waste with the Mill kitchen bin | Matt Rogers, CEO of Mill
Climate Positive - November 16, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsIn this week's episode, Gil speaks with Matt Rogers, the founder and CEO of Mill, a startup revolutionizing how we tackle food waste. They delve into the inspiration behind Mill, discussing how the idea came about and the parallels to Matt's previous work as the co-founder of Nest, the company b...
Matt Rogers | Outsmarting waste with the Mill kitchen bin (Ep. 50 replay)
Climate Positive - November 16, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsIn this week's episode, Gil speaks with Matt Rogers, the founder and CEO of Mill, a startup revolutionizing how we tackle food waste. They delve into the inspiration behind Mill, discussing how the idea came about and the parallels to Matt's previous work as the co-founder of Nest, the company b...
A public health expert’s guide to climate change
TILclimate - November 16, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsWe all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. Amruta Nori-Sarma, assistant professor of environmental health at Boston University School of Public Health, joins the show to help us see climate change not in tons of c...
TILclimate presents: What the heck is El Niño, anyway? (from Outside/In)
TILclimate - November 09, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsWe were going to produce an episode on El Niño, and its relationship to climate change. And then we found out that Outside/In, from New Hampshire Public Radio, already did that. And they did a really good job. So please enjoy this episode of Outside/In, where you'll learn what El Niño is, how to...
Jason Kaminsky | Rising risks facing solar projects
Climate Positive - November 03, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsAccording to the International Energy Agency, the world is expected to build more renewable projects in the next five years as we have in the past 20. But this rapid and massive growth in the renewable energy space has proven increasingly challenging for insurers of these assets, who are struggl...
Rising risks facing solar projects | Jason Kaminsky, CEO of kWh Analytics
Climate Positive - November 03, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsAccording to the International Energy Agency, the world is expected to build more renewable projects in the next five years as we have in the past 20. But this rapid and massive growth in the renewable energy space has proven increasingly challenging for insurers of these assets, who are struggl...
Wildfires and how we're changing them
TILclimate - November 02, 2023 09:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsIf you live in the U.S. Mountain West, the Pacific Coast of the Americas, or large parts of Australia or southern Europe, there’s a good chance a major wildfire has passed near you in the last five or six years—maybe one more intense than anything you’ve ever heard of in your area. But why exact...
Can desalination solve water scarcity?
TILclimate - October 26, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsToday we’re talking about desalination: turning saltwater into freshwater, so we can drink it or use it to grow crops. And we’re talking about this because, in many parts of the world, freshwater is getting harder to come by. So… is converting saltwater a good solution? Our guest Prof. John Lein...
Mandi McReynolds | Generating and reporting sustainable impact
Climate Positive - October 19, 2023 14:06 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsWith the recent proliferation of sometimes conflicting standards around sustainability and impact reporting, companies across the globe are seeking trusted partners to help them determine and measure sustainability metrics that are truly material to the business and its stakeholders and also gen...
Generating and reporting sustainable impact | Mandi McReynolds, Workiva
Climate Positive - October 19, 2023 14:06 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsWith the recent proliferation of sometimes conflicting standards around sustainability and impact reporting, companies across the globe are seeking trusted partners to help them determine and measure sustainability metrics that are truly material to the business and its stakeholders and also gen...
Don’t throw away your refrigerator
TILclimate - October 19, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsRefrigerants are in every refrigerator, freezer and air conditioner, and the world is on track to make a lot more of them in the years to come. They’re also powerful greenhouse gases: often thousands of times more warming than carbon dioxide. Prof. Ronald Prinn, an expert in the physics and chem...
How tackling methane cools the planet fast
TILclimate - October 12, 2023 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsCarbon dioxide—CO2—is the greenhouse gas you’ve probably heard most about, on this podcast and elsewhere. But it turns out, methane is an incredibly important greenhouse gas too. Stopping methane emissions today is a powerful way to dampen climate change in the very near term—to keep the Earth c...
Manik Suri | Deploying a safer cold chain for vaccines, food, and planet
Climate Positive - October 05, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsWe all depend on the cold chain to keep our foods, vaccines, and medical equipment safely chilled from production to use. This energy intensive process requires constant monitoring. As CEO of Therma, Manik Suri deploys small mobile sensors that monitor conditions to optimize energy efficiency an...
Wait, how do greenhouse gases actually warm the planet?
TILclimate - October 05, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsYou probably know that today’s climate change is caused by certain gases—what scientists call greenhouse gases—that human activity has been adding to our atmosphere. But—how do these gases actually keep heat from escaping into space? And why these gases in particular? To help answer these questi...
Deploying a safer cold chain for vaccines, food, and planet | Manik Suri, CEO of Therma
Climate Positive - October 05, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsWe all depend on the cold chain to keep our foods, vaccines, and medical equipment safely chilled from production to use. This energy intensive process requires constant monitoring. As CEO of Therma, Manik Suri deploys small mobile sensors that monitor conditions to optimize energy efficiency an...
Coming Soon: TILclimate Season 5
TILclimate - September 21, 2023 09:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsThis is MIT’s climate change podcast, Today I Learned: Climate. If you're looking to get smart quick on climate change – without the jargon and without the politicking – this podcast is for you! In each episode, we work with experts at MIT and beyond to explain climate change science and solutio...
Andreas Aepli | Credibly removing carbon at scale
Climate Positive - September 20, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsAt this point, the science is very clear. If we want to limit global warming to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, we must not only reduce existing emissions, we must also at some point become net negative – meaning that we are removing more carbon from the atmosphere than we are putting int...
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