To slow climate change, we need to transform our homes, buildings, cars, and economy quickly. "The Big Switch" explains how to rebuild the energy systems all around us. Dr. Melissa Lott of Columbia University brings together historical examples, current events, and incisive analysis to give listeners a deep understanding of the solutions to climate change.
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Podcasting about the policy and politics shaping our clean energy economy.
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Get the latest insights on climate change and breakthrough technologies and innovations that are fighting climate change! According to a United Nations climate change report, the evidence of human-caused climate change is overwhelming and continues to strengthen. The impacts of climate change are intensifying and climate-related threats to our physical, social, and economic well-being are rising at an unprecedented rate. Widespread climate changes are causing extreme heat, severe drought, un ...
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A podcast for busy people who want to save the planet by completing one simple eco-challenge at a time. The vision for this show is to engage, educate and empower people to reduce their carbon footprint and solve our climate crisis by completing various small eco-challenges. Produced by Heard Not Seen Media, Inc.
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The Freeing Energy Podcast


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The Freeing Energy Podcast
Bill Nussey - Author, TED Speaker, and Climate Investor
Hear from energy pioneers and visionaries from across the globe who are accelerating the shift to clean energy by making their own electric power for their homes, offices, and communities. Join TED speaker, author, and climate investor, Bill Nussey and co-host Sam Easterby as they talk to the people who are disrupting the century-old grid monopoly and making clean, local energy a reality. Visit FreeingEnergy.com for more.
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Solarpunk is a fictional podcast from the year 2047. It is the future history of my children. In America, in Europe and on Mars. Think of Solarpunk as kind of an Immigrant Tale: It's about the joy of starting fresh. It’s the story of how we heal the world. Make it a better place. For you and for me and the entire human race. More: www.solarpunk.art
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How 2 Build Green: The Sustainability Podcast


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How 2 Build Green: The Sustainability Podcast
Sustainability, energy saving, green building, and green energy. How to bui
The How 2 Build Green Podcast is a sustainable lifestyle podcast. Focusing on how we live in not only our homes and buildings but how we interact with the planet. We are accelerating change in the way we live and the way we consume the Earth's resources. This is also designed to give you specific how to information that you can integrate in your own life. Some might be thinking about building their own home, becoming a sustainable building contractor, or just living a more organic and free l ...
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Climate Change with Scott Amyx

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Interview with Dr. Andy Kerr, Chief Strategy Officer, EIT Climate-KIC
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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.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Dr. Michelle Scharer-Umpierre Marine Biologist
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Interview with Dr. Sanjay Patnaik Director of the Center on Regulation and Markets at Brookings
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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.
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Interview with Norman Crowley Chair of CoolPlanet
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CoolPlanet is a decarbonisation management system.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Lauren Gropper, CEO of Repurpose
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Repurpose is a leader in plant-based tableware.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with David Fenton, Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook
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The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons from 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Nick Engelfried, Author of Movement Makers
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Author of Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Brennan Spellacy, CEO of Patch
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Patch is a platform that powers climate action.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Tucker Perkins, President & CEO of the Propane Education & Research Council
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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.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Jeremy Rifkin, Author, Economic & Social Theorist & Activist
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Jeremy Rifkin, a bestselling author of 22 books translated into 35 languages.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with David Moscow, Host of From Scratch
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David Raphael Moscow, a creator, executive producer, and host of From Scratch.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Professor Bruce Usher & Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School
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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.By Scott Amyx
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Tom Jensen/FREYR Battery: From Giga Arctic to Giga Americas - the most capital and operationally efficient battery plant in Europe is headed for the US State of Georgia.
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Listen in as Host Bill Nussey talks with Tom Jensen, CEO and Cofounder of the publicly traded, Luxembourg and Norway based FREYR Battery. FREYR is emerging as a leader in clean, high density battery cell manufacturing. Jensen shares insights into the driving forces that have shaped FREYR to date, the importance of upstream and downstream partnershi…
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Interview with William Anderegg Climate Scientist Professor at the University of Utah
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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.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Mark Wishnie Head of Landscape Capital and Chief Sustainability Officer BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group
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Mark Wishnie, Head of Landscape Capital and Chief Sustainability Officer, BTG Pactual Timberland Investment GroupBy Scott Amyx
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Interview with David Meyers Executive Director Conservation Finance Alliance
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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.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Dr. Barrett Klein Professor of Biology at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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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.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Dr. Christiaan De Beukelaer Senior Lecturer in Culture Climate at the University of Melbourne
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Dr. Christiaan De Beukelaer, Senior Lecturer in Culture & Climate at the University of Melbourne and the author of Trade Winds.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with James Malley, CEO of Paccurate
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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.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with John Hecklinger, President & CEO of Global Fund for Children
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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.By Scott Amyx
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John Berger and Michael Grasso: Sunnova wants to build a ground breaking local energy powered neighborhood and that is rattling cages. Will regulators let them?
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One of the world’s largest installers of solar + storage energy systems has a groundbreaking and industry changing proposal to build a neighborhood that runs on local energy. Their proposal is currently in front of the California Public Utility Commission, but naysayers are trying to squelch the conversation. Join host Bill Nussey as he talks with …
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Climate Change with Scott Amyx

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Interview with Chad Massura and Jules Giuliano of Rosy Soil
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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.By Scott Amyx
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Geothermal energy doesn’t get near the attention that wind and solar do. But to decarbonize our energy systems, we need a team of net zero technologies. And despite geothermal’s low profile, it’s an always-on, zero carbon technology that can complement intermittent renewables like wind and solar. So could geothermal become a bigger player on the ne…
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Interview with Professor Michael Mehta Webster
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NYU Professor is the author of The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on Earth.By Scott Amyx
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The Big Switch


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California’s Climate Czar on Banning Gas Cars
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There’s been a pretty major shake-up in the world of transit decarbonization. This summer, the California Air Resources Board – a state organization that regulates air quality – approved a rule mandating that by 2035, all new cars sold in California will be zero-emissions. This rule will transform California's car market; and deliver some huge clim…
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Interview with Anastasios Arima CEO of IperionX
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IperionX is developing zero carbon, sustainable critical minerals and metals.By Scott Amyx
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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.By Scott Amyx
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Donnel Baird/BlocPower: His boyhood Brooklyn apartment was heated with an oven. Now he is pursuing a bold, gutsy vision of how entire cities can retrofit buildings and save on energy costs.
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In this episode we learn that one man didn't know exactly what to do at first, but he knew the “where,” the “when,” and the “why,” of the problem he saw. And, that was enough to begin shaping an incredibly bold vision for building a potential unicorn in the clean tech space while simultaneously helping millions of low income Americans. Join us as h…
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From Landfill to Solar Farm in a Black Houston Neighborhood
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In this episode, a former oil-and-gas man named Efrem Jernigan catches the solar bug. Inspired by the potential for lower energy bills and green jobs, he looks into bringing solar to the neighborhood he grew up in, a historically black part of Houston called Sunnyside. But for many Sunnyside residents, the technology is out of reach: Many are rente…
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Interview with Maya van Rossum Founder of Green Amendments For The Generations
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Maya van Rossum is the Founder of Green Amendments For The Generations and a veteran environmentalist.By Scott Amyx
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On this show we talk a lot about the “big switch” to zero-carbon energy sources. But there’s another kind of switch that needs to happen, too. You might have heard the term “just transition” before – the idea that as we make the switch to new energy sources, we also have to help transition the workers and communities that produce that energy to new…
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Interview with Alexis Normand CEO of Greenly
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Greenly is a carbon accounting and management platform helping companies on their climate journey.By Scott Amyx
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Jacqueline Novogratz: Two decades of hard-edged hope coupled with off- grid solar changed the lives of hundreds of millions. What’s next?
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For over two decades, Acumen and its partners have dared to go where traditional investors feared to tread. Acumen’s pioneering vision and legendary hard work has brought life changing, off-grid electricity to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. And, along the way, their work has inspired and supported intrepid entrepreneurs and innovators in…
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EV charging stations have an equity problem
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Frogs. Bees. Finicky software. There are a lot of things that can cause an electric vehicle charging station to break. We need to replace fossil-fuel powered vehicles with EVs as soon as possible—but if the stations don’t work, it will slow the adoption of EVs. In Los Angeles, two Black women have started training a small army of technicians to fix…
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Michelle Moore/Groundswell: Will America’s smaller, rural communities have to wait for the far reaching benefits of clean power?
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In her inspiring new book, Rural Renaissance, social entrepreneur, author and clean energy non-profit CEO Michelle Moore offers a vision of thriving rural communities where clean power is the spark that leads to greater investment, vitality, and equity. Additionally, Moore argues that we have everything we need in hand today to make this vision a r…
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Hwy Haul is a digital freight platform that connects fresh produce shippers with reliable truckers to eliminate intermediary friction and deliver sustainable, reduced waste, and business-class shipping experience.By Scott Amyx
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Interview with Kelly Wanser Executive Director of SilverLining
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SilverLining is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that society has sufficient options to address near-term climate risk.By Scott Amyx
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We’re switching things up a bit for the next few weeks. Instead of continuing our sector-by-sector decarbonization tour, we’re taking you to the front lines of the energy transition – to communities where the big switch to a zero carbon future is already underway. We’re starting with New York City, where there’s a project underway that’s tackling d…
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Astrid Atkinson/Camus Energy: What do Capybaras and Google’s famous reliability have to do with managing a dynamic, zero carbon electric grid?
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Scalability, high availability, rapid detection and mitigation of failure…just some of the requirements of a highly performant infrastructure managing a massive distributed environment…like Google’s cloud services. Could the same principles and patterns apply to the requirements of managing a rapidly changing electric grid? And, what might that mea…
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Interview with Mihir Pershad CEO of Umami Meats
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Umami Meats is pioneering cultivated, 'not caught' seafood by crafting delicious, nutritious, and affordable cultivated fish that is better for our health, our oceans, and our future.By Scott Amyx
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Catherine Von Burg: Can climate tech founders achieve success without compromising on their mission?
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When our guest and her partners launched their business a dozen years ago, she had a vision, a technology, and the determination to stick to the mission. If you have a startup in the clean tech space or just interested in really cool technology, listen in as Catherine Von Burg, CEO and Co-founder of SimpliPhi Power, shares the amazing story of how …
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Patrick Walsh & Anish Thakkar: How is this solar+battery startup improving tens of millions of lives while simultaneously creating one of the hottest companies in climate tech?
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Our guests today run a global cleantech powerhouse that recently closed $260 million in a series D funding round. They've served 90 million customers so far and they're adding two million households a year at their current connection rates. If that isn't inspiring enough, what makes these two scrappy entrepreneurs even more inspiring is the fact th…
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