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What happens when disaster strikes, a hurricane or fire, and communities are left stranded without power, water, or basic medical needs? Generally we rely on shipping in fuel to power generators, but that's not always an option, and certainly an imperfect one- burning the same fossil fuels which helped propogate the disaster in the first place.
Sesame Solar has a solution. Today CEO and co-founder Lauren Flanagan joins us today to discuss her all in one solution for a mobile disaster relief unit powered by, you guessed it, solar.
But that's not all Lauren brings to the table. From a lifetime of working in tech, she shares with us the teachings from working alongside none other than Steve Jobs.
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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 attention into action? Lindsay Levin has a plan.
Lindsay is in charge of partnerships and impact at TED, her mandate is to mobilize the global platform beyond the role of educator to catalyst for action. We discuss how she sees how role of storytelling can unite disparate communities through a collective action platform, what challenges lay ahead in our fight against climate change, and how you can get involved. -
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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 the future of personal carbon accountability.
Commons is an app that allows you to track your credit card spend and then offset your carbon footprint, a simple and elegant means of self-accountability. They've also partnered with pre-vetted businesses to offer more sustainable options to the products you purchase regularly.
Since we last spoke with Sanchali she's raised a Series A round from Sequoia Capital, the founders of Afterpay and the one and only Jay-Z. We dig into how she was able to achieve that milestone and what's in the store for the future of Commons.
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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 episode we sat down with Ample president John de Souza to discuss the future of electric mobility, fighting entrenched legacy energy in the halls of congress, what it means to be an entrepreneur and more.
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Understanding a forest has long been a marriage of art and science, but without the technology to scale. Earthforce is determined to bring forestry into the 21st century so we might better prepare for natural disasters while protecting one of most important natural resources.
In addition to being as serial entrepreneur, Justin Dawe is also a native Hawaiian. Here are a few of the charities working to support fire relief efforts in Maui.
Maui Strong Fund
Kokua Restaurant and Hospitality Fund
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement
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Europe has long been more aggressive in how it deploys legislation and regulatory agency to push for a more climate positive future from large corporate interests.
Still with me? Great, you'll love this episode.
Joost Walterbos is a dear friend, accomplished climate entrepreneur, wildly chill guy, and possessor of great foresight when it comes to translating the transformation we're seeing in Europe to future action in the US. His firm, Hedgehog, works with companies large and small based both in the US and Europe, so he has a uniquely broad perspective in how climate is finding its way onto balance sheets and into five year plans.
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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 exactly how the team at ePlant imagines your day will start, and sooner than you think.
On today's episode we sit down with ePlant.bio founder and CEO Graham Hine about the company he's built that allows us to, literally, commune with nature. Combining a custom built sensor that can measure tree growth, precipitation, humidity, and more, with cutting edge AI that leverage large language models, Graham and his team have built a means of bridging the gap between humans and nature through natural, everyday conversation.
This was a wild, fascinating, thought provoking and inspiring conversation, hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.
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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, and environmental impact? That's exactly what Actual is building.
Tune in to this episode's interview with Actual President and co-founder Karthik Balakrishnan, and start planning for a better future.
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Artificial Intelligence will reshape our future in ways we haven't yet imagined. Electric Vehicles will transform our relationship with transportation. Today we're talking with Jason Koeller, the man who is at the collision point of AI and the batteries that will power the EV transformation.
Chemix is making EV batteries more sustainable and higher-performing by using artificial intelligence to optimize battery chemistries. As a result, the company is able to limit or even eliminate controversial scarce elements such as cobalt or nickel, all while developing highly specialized, efficient, and optimized batteries in a virtual environment before any machines (the physical kind) get to work.
â Jason Koeller the co-founder and CTO of Chemix, has 6+ years of experience in the battery and machine learning industries. He has a PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley and may, just may, be the next Elon Musk.
Today's episode is sponsoered by See Change Sessions. Learn more about their upcoming event, Sept. 12-15 in Vermont, at www.seechangesessions.com
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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 last decade advising teams and athletes in the NFL, NBA and other major US sports, is now entrenched in the climate world- he hosts the climate pod Climb which you can check out here.
Money is important to building a sustainable solution. So is policy, advocacy, corporate responsibility, personal accountability, technology, and collaboration. No one solution or tactic will provide a silver bullet to creating a sustainable solution. The unifying thread that binds them all together, and makes the sum greater than the parts: storytelling.
Jay works with his companies to develop a narrative that will supercharge their ability to attract and enrapture customers. By leveraging their PR prowess VSC is able to provide exposure, craft narratives, and make the problem of climate change feel personal through the companies they support.
Todays episode is sponsored by See Change Sessions: Join a global crew of adventurous minds to solve some of the worlds biggest problems . For more information about their upcoming session in Vermont, September 12-14, check out their website here: https://www.seechangesessions.com/
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Tim Hade is the COO and Co-Founder of Scale Microgrid Solutions. He founded Scale Microgrid Solutions to build distributed energy systems for businesses and electric vehicle transit fleets throughout the country. Before joining the cleantech industry, Tim served on Active Duty as an officer in the United States Air Force. His time in the military taught him how to achieve an objective, but when he became a civilian he found it virtually impossible to get the government to do anything about climate change.
Tim believes that the public sector is broken when it comes to climate change. He stresses we need to hold our leaders accountable for the dire future we are leaving to our children while also getting to work and taking matters into our own hands to create change.
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The fashion industry is incredibly wasteful. Of the 100 billion garments manufactured in the world every year over 50 billion end up in landfill within 12 months.
Inspired by Iceland, where beauty and sustainability go hand in hand, Katla.com is an eco-friendly fashion brand built on the core values of respect for people, animals and the environment. KATLA is pioneering a regenerative fashion business model and recognizes that the needs of the world today demand that we strive further and put in more than we take out. It is not enough to simply limit our impact on the environment; rather, we need to also put our efforts into regeneration. Katla has a range of items made of seaweed blends that have been sustainably harvested in Iceland in the area surrounding Sleepy Islands.
Listeners of Who's Saving the Planet can get an exclusive $100 Credit by entering the code planet100 at checkout.
Seaweed regeneration is a key tool to solving the climate crisis as seaweed is an effective tool for carbon sequestration. More than land forest, seaweed is in fact up to 20x more effective at carbon sequestration. KATLA has set up an experimental hatchery in the Sleepy Islands for the development of best practices for seaweed cultivation in Iceland.
Katla works with leading fabric suppliers to develop vegan fabrics with minimal environmental impact. Katla uses small production runs and on-demand manufacturing to minimize wasted inventory.
Katla is pioneering advances in Web 3 including the delivery of NFTs directly through clothing. Katla recently launched a series of NFTs, the Wonderful Beings, in collaboration with Icelandic artist Hendrikka Waage. A portion of the sales will go towards ocean regeneration.
Aslaug Magnusdottir, Founder & CEO Katla
Aslaug Magnusdottir is the Founder and CEO of Katla, a DTC, sustainable fashion brand that applies zero waste manufacturing practices. Aslaug is the Co-Founder and former CEO of luxury e-commerce site Moda Operandi. Previously, she launched TSM Capital, a retail and fashion investment company she co-founded with industry legend Marvin Traub. She served as a senior executive at Gilt Groupe, overseeing merchandising. Previously, Magnusdottir served as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co and as a corporate attorney at Deloitte. A Fulbright Scholar, Magnusdottir holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an LL.M from Duke University School of Law and an undergraduate degree in Law from the University of Iceland. She is a Forbes contributor on sustainable fashion.
Website: www.katla.com
Instagram: @katlaforce
Aslaug Magnusdottir
Listener $100 credit is code planet100 for use at check out at www.katla.com
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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 include a plastic liner which makes them very tricky, if impossible, to recycle. Sanjeev Mankotia is on a mission to create a better coffee cup, one you can recycle yourself, just by smashing it on the ground.
The idea for Gaeastar arose when Sanjeev was visiting family in India. There he was re-introduced the millennia old practice of building a cup out of clay. Local vendors would go the river bed in the morning, form their cups out of mud, then sell their wares to clients who would smash the cups on the ground after they'd finished their drink. Simple, elegant, and entirely environmentally sound.
Using 3D printing and robotics automation Sanjeev is adopting that tradition to a western market. He envisions a world where every coffee shop has their own 3D printing machine on the counter, building coffee cups to order, personalized with your name and smash-ready when you're done with your morning brew.
Check out more at www.gaeastar.com.
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It all started with a pizza box.
Jack Bruner, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Neutral Club, is a reformed consultant, some of our favorite people here at WSTP. After cutting his teeth building vast and complex solutions for the corporate 100's of the world, he wanted to create a company that imbued his values, not just got the job done. Thus was born Carbon Neutral Club, the one-stop solution for building a workplace culture which revolves around education about and action toward a more sustainable future.
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When youâre faced with a giant systemic machine that looks like itâs really never going to change, adopting some sort of nihilistic view isnât uncommon.
Brooke Bowlinâs giant machine is the Fast Fashion industry, which (for the record) creates more carbon emissions than the global shipping and aviation industries combined.
What makes Brookeâs situation unique is that despite facing down this giant for the last four years, she hasnât succumbed to some doomsday-style climate nihilism.And thatâs what makes her so uncommon.
Brooke Bowlin is a ray of sunshine when she enters a room. Or at least when she logs onto a zoom call.
-Sheâs an artist, entrepreneur, content creator and sustainable fast fashion advocate.
-In the past, she was the owner of Thrift 251, a thrift store aimed at reducing clothing waste.
-Today, she is the voice of âSecondhand Sustainability,â a popular cross-platform media project for conscious fashion. It currently has over 18K+ followers on instagram, and sheâs even planning a podcast for it.
Over the past three years, Brooke has cultivated a strong following of young adults eager to change the usually wasteful model that is the modern fashion industry.
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Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine Wilkinson
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (mentioned)
Consumed by Aja Barber
Follow her on Instagram: @Secondhand.Sustainability
Her Website Nuance Required
And Newsletter: Nuance Required Newsletter
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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 industry from the inside out. Keel Labs was founded by fashion industry alumni Tessa Callaghan and Aleksandra Gosiewski. Theyâre two business partners who met at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and founded Keel Labs to create ocean based solutions, including their flagship product which is a kelp based yarn.
Here's a breakdown of some of the highlights:
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:03:34) - United By Zero
(00:04:09) - Interview
(00:05:05) - What is Keel Labs?
(00:13:44) - Changing existing systems to be plant-based
(00:20:24) - Market challenges for seaweed-derived yarns
(00:26:52) - Changing systems from the inside the fashion industry
(00:42:34) - Dealing with doubts about how much youâre helping
(00:44:33) - Advice to your younger self
(00:50:11) - Credits
And, we'd love to thank our sponsor, and our adored sister organization, United by Zero!
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Letâs say youâre a big company. Youâve been making all these commitments recently at press conferences to get âcarbon neutralâ.â itâs been great for publicity, but now youâre worried because you have to actually follow through on them. You look through your contacts and youâre coming up short. Who do you call? Who can help your company actually go carbon-neutral?
Julia Collins. That's who. Julia is the CEO of PlanetFWD, a company that bills itself as a brandâs âultimate climate ally.â PlanetFWD specializes in reducing emissions for companies that have made these promises and works with them to become carbon-neutral and (with a little magic) get brands on the path to becoming net zero. Not bad for someone in an industry expected to be worth $30-40 billion in 2030.Julia is also the founder of Moonshot Snacks, the worldâs first climate-friendly, truly carbon neutral snack brand. Sheâs a start-up entrepreneur, mother and a fantastic optimist who believes that everyone can do something today to fight climate change.
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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
[00:03:33] - How do you raise children when you own a company?
[00:08:47] - What is PlanetFWD?
[00:09:58] - How did PlanetFWD start?
[00:11:14] - Creating Moonshot: the worldâs first climate-friendly snack brand
[00:17:12] - How do you get big companies to change?
[00:24:21] - The Cartographerâs Paradox
[00:28:21] - What can we do to save the planet?
[00:33:24] - If you could go back to the beginning, what would you change?
[00:37:16] - Credits
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Our host, Lex, also runs an eco-friendly fashion company called United By Zero. You can find out more about it at www.unitedbyzero.com.
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Every brand worth their sustainable (or marketing...) salt is claiming a path to carbon neutrality, the bridge between the marking claims and the climate realities is being built in real time. This week we sit down with the hyper-successful startup Patch, Brennan Spellacy, to unpack how they are building the tools necessary to make corporate climate neutrality a reality.
Patch was founded in 2020 but has already raised over $80 million in venture funding from blue chip firms like Andreessen Horowitz. They serve companies in two main ways: understanding what drives carbon emissions in the company, and building a plan to offset that carbon through internal reductions and when appropriate buying carbon offsets.
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Prior to becoming the President and Chief Strategy Officer of Arrival, Avinash Rugoobur, led General Motor's billion dollar acquisition of autonomous driving company Cruise. Understanding frontier technology in the world of automotive advancement is squarely in his wheelhouse, which is why it created quite a stir when he left Cruise in 2020 for the startup electric bus company, Arrival.
Since he joined, they've been on a roller coaster of valuations and product launches. In 2021 Arrival went public through a SPAC, listing at a $13 billion valuation. Today the valuation is less than down 97%, to under $300 million. But, where there's a will there's a way, and Avinash is in it for the long term. We touch on the future of the electric vehicle industry, the need for innovation on a scale to equal the threat of climate change, and not the least, what working in a chocolate factor can teach you about running an billion dollar car manufacturer.
Note: This interview was recorded in May of 2022.
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As with most things magically, Joro was once an excel spreadsheet. Sanchali Pal was concerned with her personal carbon footprint when she was in undergrad at Princeton, so did as anyone would: she started tabulating the specific carbon weights of all of her choices on what became a massive excel sheet. After Harvard Business School, Ms. Pal was ready to turn this hobby into a force for empowering every consumer with better information about- and the means to offset- their personal consumption choices.
Joro was founded in 2019 backed by one of (if not the) world's most preeminent venture capital firms, Sequoia. The app connects with a consumer's credit card to track and analyze spending habits, proving automated insight into what our most carbon intensive activities are, how to curb those habits, and opportunities to offset the carbon we consume in our daily lives.
More broadly, Sanchali's mission goes to the heart of consumer behavior, and human nature. How can we make it so simple to save our planet, that not doing so is actually less convenient?
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