Inevitable

In today’s episode, we cover: How Zahra landed at Buzzfeed covering climate The Trump Administration and how its policies have affected climate Her audience and readership The positioning of her news room and editors Journalism’s role Her journey from studying geology at Brown to the world of climate journalism What she learned at Inside Climate News How climate change has become increasingly topi...

In today’s episode, we cover: David’s influential career in tech His advocacy of various causes DHH’s view that, regardless of one’s background, one should become versed in climate change How his attention first peaked with the California drought How the fires near Malibu made the crisis feel personal and urgent “The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace Wells helped inform him of the catastrophe...

In today’s episode, we cover: • Shayle’s journey from energy transition in the market intelligence space to climate change venture capital at Energy Impact Partners (EIP) • EIP, a VC with ~$1B in AUM whose LPs are a coalition of utilities • The sectors EIP invests in • Abe’s journey from Rockport Capital Partners, a cleantech private equity firm based, to cofounding Congruent Ventures in 2016 • A...

In today’s episode, we cover: ● The Rebound Effect and the ironic implications of improving energy efficiency ● Harry’s journey into Climate Change ● How Harry earned the moniker, “The Godfather of Rebound” ● Contention around rebound and its Climate implications ● Factoring in the welfare of those in developing countries and the plight of “energy poverty” ● The integral role of nuclear in any cle...

Today’s guest is Rob Hanson, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Monolith Materials, where he leads the development of next-generation technology for producing low cost, low emission hydrogen and carbon black, an important raw material used in the manufacture of rubber and plastic. Prior to Monolith, Rob served as the global director of product management for AREVA Solar , the solar division o...

Today's guest is Matt Eggers, Investor & Company Builder at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a $1.1 billion, patient capital fund dedicated to building companies that will have a massive impact on greenhouse gas mitigation. He also serves on the Board of the Institute for Market Transformation. Matt is a seasoned cleantech leader, investor and advisor with 20 years of experience delivering results in...

Today’s guest is Phil Duffy, President & Executive Director at Woodwell Climate Research Center. Expertise Climate modeling, extreme weather risk, societal impacts of climate change, domestic climate policy, international climate change negotiations, climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. Dr. Philip Duffy is a physicist who has devoted nearly 30 years to using science to address the...

Today’s guest is David Keith, Professor at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Kennedy School, and Founder of Carbon Engineering. David has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy for twenty-five years. He took first prize in Canada's national physics prize exam, won MIT's prize for excellence in experimental physics, and was o...

Today's guest is BJ Fogg, Founder & Director, Behavior Design Lab at Stanford, with an appearance by William Shan, one of his students who is project managing the launch of his new Behavior Design for Climate Action online training program. BJ teaches good people how behavior works so they can create products & services that benefit everyday people around the world. He is a behavior scientist, wit...

This was an experiment using a new app Talkshow, which is a live discussion broadcast via twitter where listeners can text questions as we talk! Today's guest was Clay Dumas from Lowercarbon Capital, to talk about what they are up to with the fund and their newly opened roles! It is also always great to talk shop with Clay on everything climate change. Clay is a partner at Lowercarbon Capital wher...

Today's guest is Jigar Shah, President & Co-Founder at Generate Capital. Jigar was the founder and CEO of SunEdison (NASDAQ: SUNE, TERP), where he pioneered “no money down solar” and unlocked a multi-billion-dollar solar market, creating the largest solar services company worldwide. He is the author of Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy. After SunEdison, Jigar served as the foun...

Today's guest is Gary Cohen, President & Co-Founder of Health Care Without Harm. Gary has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for thirty years. Cohen is President and Co-Founder of  Health Care Without Harm  and  Practice Greenhealth . He was also instrumental in bringing together the NGOs and hospital systems that formed the  Healthier Hospitals Initiative . All three were created...

Today's guest is Tim Freundlich, CEO of ImpactAssets. Tim is a long-time innovator in new financial instruments in the social enterprise sector, which he now applies as the head of ImpactAssets, the $1 billion boutique donor advised fund and investment note offerer for impact investments. While previously at Calvert Foundation for 12 years, he conceived of and launched the donor advised fund. He w...

Today’s guest is Akshat Rathi, a London-based reporter, covering science, energy, and environment for Bloomberg News. He has a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Oxford, and a BTech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. He tells stories of the people and their ideas tackling the biggest problem facing humanity: climate change. And he is currently...

Today's guest is Joey Bergstein, CEO of Seventh Generation, recently acquired by Unilever. Seventh Generation’s mission is to inspire a consumer revolution that nurtures the health of the next seven generations. The company is a leader in positive business practices through the use of renewable plant-based products, industry-leading transparency with respect to ingredient disclosures, and recyclab...

Today's guest is Senator Stephen Fenberg, a Democrat who serves as state Senator in the 18th District in Colorado where he's served since 2017. He also serves as the Senate Majority Leader. A few years after graduating from CU, Senator Fenberg founded New Era Colorado, a nonprofit organization dedicated engaging, educating, and training young people in the political process. The organization has r...

Today's guest is Shreya Dave, co-founder and CEO of Via Separations. Via Separations has pioneered a new membrane based on graphene oxide for fine liquid filtration in harsh environments, with applications in food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and bulk and specialty chemicals.  They are scaling up and commercializing the material platform for use in industrial separation processes such as food ing...

Today's guest is David Perry, President, CEO, and Director of Indigo Ag,  Indigo Ag is harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet. They improve grower profitability, environmental sustainability, and consumer health through the use of natural microbiology and digital technologies. Founded in 2016 Indigo Ag has raised more than $650 million in funding. The recently announced Terr...

Today's guest is Dr. Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown. Project Drawdown is a world-class research organization that reviews, analyzes, and identifies the most viable global climate solutions, and shares these findings with the world. Their book, Drawdown, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and describes the hundred most substantive solutions to global warming. For each...

Today’s guest is Barney Schauble, Chairman, Nephila Climate, the world's largest asset manager dedicated to weather and catastrophe insurance risks. Barney joined Nephila Capital in 2004 as a Managing Partner and moved to San Francisco in 2010 to set up Nephila Advisors. Barney is the Chair of the Board of Nephila Climate (NCx), and also a Director of Nephila Capital Ltd. and Nephila Holdings Ltd....

Today’s guest is Marilyn Waite, Program Officer, Climate & Clean Energy Finance at William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. Marilyn manages the foundation’s grantmaking on climate and clean energy finance with the ambitious goal of addressing climate change by accelerating the transition to a climate-friendly economy. Her grantmaking mobilizes private capital investments in low-carbon and climate-frien...

Today’s guest is Gene Berdichevsky, Co-Founder & CEO of Sila Nanotechnologies.  Prior to co-founding Sila, Gene was the seventh employee at Tesla Motors where he served as Principal Engineer on the Roadster battery, leading the development of the world’s first, safe, mass-produced, automotive lithium-ion battery system. Gene holds two degrees from Stanford University; an MS in Engineering with a f...

Today’s guest is Shayle Kann, Managing Director for Energy Impact Partners. EIP is an investment firm that invests in companies shaping the energy landscape of the future. It's backed by a broad coalition of some of the world's largest and most innovative utilities that collectively span the globe, access millions of households, and spend more than 20 billion annually on new technologies and procu...

Today’s guest is Jason Jacobs, host of this podcast! That's right. Enough people were asking me to do an episode where someone interviews me to summarize where I am on the journey, that I finally but the bullet and did it. And it wasn’t even planned! I was having coffee with an avid MCJ listener, Remy Evard, and he said “you should really do an episode where someone interviews you”, so, with about...

Today’s guest is Professor Sam Fankhauser, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Director of the ESRC-funded Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, both at The London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also an Associate Director at economics consultancy Vivid Economics and a Non-Executive Director of CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institu...