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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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The Freeing Energy Podcast
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Bill Nussey - Clean Energy CEO & TED Speaker
Hear from energy pioneers 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 and Solar Inventions CEO Bill Nussey and co-host Sam Easterby as they talk to the individuals who are disrupting the century-old grid monopoly and making clean, local energy a reality. Visit FreeingEnergy.com for more.
Podcasting about the policy and politics shaping our clean energy economy.
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 ...
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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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 ...
It’s officially summer in North America, and that means one thing – it’s getting hot. Every year, heat waves are the deadliest extreme weather event, and they’re only getting more severe. Often, the people who fall victim to heatwaves are those who are left without access to air conditioning. Dr. Diana Hernández has a name for this phenomenon: ener…
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Interview with Dr. John Cooley Chief of Product of Nanoramic Laboratories
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Spun out of MIT, Nanoramic is the exclusive designer, manufacturer, and licensor of Neocarbonix electrodes for rechargeable li-ion batteries, li-ion capacitors, and supercapacitors.By Scott Amyx
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Jeff Cramer/CCSA: How community solar can make local energy accessible to everyone.
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What is community solar? How does it work? What are the benefits? Host Bill Nussey drills into the critical role community solar plays in a clean local energy future with Jeff Cramer, President and CEO of the Coalition for Community Solar Access, CCSA. Jeff dives into the nitty gritty of how it all works, who it serves and the business models that …
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Interview with Lindsay McCormick CEO of Bite
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Bite is a maker of plastic-free, cruelty-free products on a mission to become the world’s most sustainable personal care company.By Scott Amyx
In this episode, we’re touring a home with a buildings doctor. Ian Hamilton is a professor of energy, environment and health at University College London. Together, Melissa and Ian show us the parts of our homes we need to upgrade to zero out carbon emissions—and to keep us safe in a more dangerous, changing climate. They talk about insulation, hea…
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Interview with Jereme Kent CEO of One Energy
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One Energy is a utility 2.0 company that is building the customer-centric power grid of the future.By Scott Amyx
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Titiaan Palazzi: How is AI reshaping the grid, and how will that affect local energy?
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If you've wondered what role AI can play in the clean energy transition, this is an episode to listen to. Host Bill Nussey nerds it out a little with Titiaan Palazzi, Co-Founder and COO of Myst AI. Myst AI is the artificial intelligence platform that is shaking up electricity supply and demand forecasting with highly localized time series data that…
Moleaer is a global leader in nanobubble technology with a mission to unlock the power of water to do more with less.By Scott Amyx
This week on the show, we meet someone on a mission: to decarbonize America’s buildings. Decarbonizing buildings is is actually a huge piece of decarbonizing our economy: carbon pollution from heating, cooling, and powering our buildings accounts for 30 percent of U.S. carbon emissions – that includes our homes, schools, hospitals and office buildi…
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Interview with Emily Johannes Nestle USA and Lauren Brey FSF
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Emily Johannes, Head of Sustainable Sourcing for Nestlé USA and Lauren Brey, Managing Director of Farmers for Sustainable FoodBy Scott Amyx
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Arshad Mansoor: What is the grid’s biggest R&D team planning for the future and how does local energy fit?
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Host Bill Nussey catches up with Arshad Mansoor, President and CEO of the Electric Power Research Institute, the world's preeminent independent, non-profit energy research and development organization. Mansoor shares the vision his global organization has for a safe, clean, resilient energy future for people and communities worldwide and the critic…
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Sustainability FoodTech Panel with Solar Foods at Astor Perkins April 2022
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Dr. Pasi Vainikka, CEO of Solar FoodsBy Scott Amyx
Ninety-five. That’s the number of times we've mentioned hydrogen on The Big Switch over the past 18 episodes. This week, we’re taking a step back to ask what IS hydrogen? And how can it help decarbonize the economy? It turns out, there’s a whole rainbow of hydrogen fuel – gray hydrogen, blue hydrogen, even pink hydrogen. But the kind of hydrogen th…
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Climate Solutions Panel with We Dont Have Time and GA Drilling at Astor Perkins April 2022
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Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO of We Don't Have Time Igor Kocis and CEO of GA Drilling.By Scott Amyx
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Jigar Shah:The US Department of Energy is breaking down barriers to Local Energy and the story goes way beyond science and technology.
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Our guest, Jigar Shah, is an innovator, entrepreneur, author, podcast superstar and now Director of the powerful US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office with $40 Billion in its coffers. Shah joins host Bill Nussey in a fascinating and revealing conversation about the extraordinary efforts the DOE, and the LPO in particular, are making to rea…
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Climate Policy Initiatives Panel with US DHS at Astor Perkins April 2022
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Climate Policy & Initiatives Panel at Astor Perkins with US DHSBy Scott Amyx
Hydrogen could be essential for the zero-carbon economy, especially for cleaning up concrete, steel, and chemicals. It’s also a promising fuel source for transportation and electricity that's attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in global investment. But there’s a problem. Every year, the world produces millions of tons of hydrogen through a d…
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Professor Paul Behrens Keynote at Astor Perkins
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Ben Polito of Generac: How a 60-year-old industrial company is transforming itself into a leader in the clean, local energy market.
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Our guest spent his early years without grid electricity and now he is a driving force behind the first fully integrated whole-home, plug and play, solar power solution. Host Bill Nussey talks with Ben Polito, President of Energy Storage Systems at Generac, the leader in secure home power systems. Polito shares the background and vision of how his …
Steel goes into pretty much everything around us – from buildings and bridges to the furniture in our homes. And decarbonizing the steel industry is essential because we need steel to decarbonize the world. Think about it. Solar panels, electric vehicles, even our power grid; steel goes into everything we need to fight climate change. But there’s a…
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Interview with Dominic Sinnott Co-Founder at Zen Running Club
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Zen Running Club, a vegan approved running lifestyle that prioritises sustainable, plant-based materials.By Scott Amyx
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Amory Lovins: Local energy was born 20 years ago with the book Small is Profitable. Where will it go from here?
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Host Bill Nussey catches up with prolific author, professor, energy expert, co-founder of the global powerhouse, RMI, and “the Einstein of Energy Efficiency”, Amory Lovins. Lovins takes us back to the future, sharing what inspired the seminal work, Small is Profitable, and what surprises him most as he looks at the changes that have taken place sin…
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Interview with Wake Smith Lecturer in Yale College
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Wake Smith, lecturer at Yale College.By Scott Amyx
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Justice in Cancer Alley: Petrochemicals Part 2
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St. James Parish, Louisiana sits in the middle of an 85-mile corridor along the Mississippi river that’s home to more than 150 petrochemical plants. This concentration of petrochemical facilities has taken a toll on the health of nearby communities – a toll that falls disproportionately on Black communities. Cancer risk in some parts of this corrid…
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Bryan Hannegan: Can the electric utility industry reinvent itself? One small utility in Colorado is proving it can.
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Listen in as host Bill Nussey talks with Bryan Hannegan, President and CEO of Holy Cross Energy, the Electric Membership Cooperative serving Western Colorado, including the famous ski resorts of Vail and Aspen. Holy Cross Energy is well on its way to achieving an aggressive goal of 100% clean energy by 2030. And, Bryan shares how Holy Cross is maki…
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Decarbonizing a Pervasive Industry: Petrochemicals Part 1
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Petrochemicals. You might not have heard of them, but you certainly use them every day. These chemicals, made from oil, are in almost everything – plastics, medicines, clothes, toothpaste, even the insulation in your home. So how can we decarbonize an industry that makes such a pervasive product? This week, we spoke with climate solutions expert De…
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Crossover Episode: Threats to Nuclear and Energy Security
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Things have shifted dramatically since we aired our last episode. There’s now a crisis in Ukraine and sanctions on Russian oil and gas. This is all on top of record demand for petroleum products and electricity as the world emerges from lockdowns. So this week, we’re bring you an episode about energy security from the other podcast that we have her…
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Gabriela Herculano: What’s behind the first ever publicly traded fund (SHFT) for local energy?
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Listen in and learn the story behind the very first Exchange-Traded Fund focused on local energy. Gabriela Herculano, CEO and Co-Founder of iClima Earth shares with host Bill Nussey how the fund evolved, the transparent model for the underlying index, and a simple way for everyday investors to bet on local energy, DERs, and as iClima refers to it, …
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Erwin Spolders: Learn how renting solar power in a box is revolutionizing energy access for businesses across Africa.
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Host Bill Nussey talks with Erwin Spolders, CEO and Founder of Redavia Solar Power. Redavia, based in Germany, Kenya, and Ghana, provides pre-configured, containerized solar power generation systems to small and medium sized businesses across Africa. Learn how this company’s innovations are leading to these cost-effective solutions and proving to b…
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Interview with George Crave President of Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese
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All of Farmstead Classics are made with our farm fresh milk and are produced with renewable energy. Crave Brothers makes fresh mozzarella, sweet cream mascarpone, chocolate mascarpone, fresh cheddar cheese curds, farmers rope string cheese, and other varieties of mozzarella.By Scott Amyx
This week: A love story about concrete. Melissa and Rebecca Dell, an industrial decarbonization expert, break down our relationship with concrete, and why it’s so dysfunctional. The problem? Making concrete – especially its key ingredient, cement – is toxic to the climate. Only two countries in the world – the US and China – produce more greenhouse…
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Interview with Dr. Kinari Webb MD Founder of Health In Harmony
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Health In Harmony is an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential to the survival of humanity.By Scott Amyx
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Danny Kennedy: An inside look at the amazing California clean tech ecosystem that’s reshaping how startups are built.
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Clean tech entrepreneurs, listen up! Host Bill Nussey talks with Danny Kennedy, a founder and CEO of New Energy Nexus. Kennedy shares his journey from activist to entrepreneur, and how his firm is using a dramatically different theory of change and a massively broad engagement model to pave a significantly faster on-ramp for climate tech startups i…
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Interview with Amali De Alwis CEO at Subak
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Subak is a not-for-profit accelerator and data community that scales climate impact through data, policy and behavior change.By Scott Amyx
What does a toaster oven have to do with carbon emissions? This week, Melissa and producer Alexandria Herr dissect one to find out. Turns out carbon emissions are embedded in everything around us – from the clothes we wear to our kitchen appliances. Melissa also talks to energy expert Chris Bataille about what it will take to decarbonize the heavy …
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Interview with Paul Behrens Associate Professor in Energy Environmental Change at Leiden University
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Paul Behrens is an Associate Professor in Energy and Environmental Change at Leiden University, the Netherlands and author of The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science.By Scott Amyx
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Michael Barnard: Nuclear, solar, wind, hydrogen, batteries? This expert predicts the winners and the losers.
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Join in as host Bill Nussey catches up with the global energy thought leader, strategist, business advisor, and founder of The Future Is Electric, Michael Barnard. Barnard shares his positive, pragmatic, and colorful views on a range of clean energy technologies and which ones he would place his bets on in the global race to a clean and affordable …
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Interview with Vitezslav Kremlik Author of A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse
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Author of A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse.By Scott Amyx
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Crossover Episode: Energy Demand Makes a Comeback
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We have something different today: A crossover between The Big Switch and The Carbon Copy. If you like this episode, go over to The Carbon Copy and hit subscribe. When Covid disrupted the economy and shifted energy use, it sharply brought down economy-wide carbon emissions. Many wondered: would the pandemic-related changes to our energy system help…
