Aniya Butler is a 18 year old spoken word poet, published author, and youth organizer with Youth Vs. Apocalypse (YVA) from Oakland, California. Within YVA, she leads the Hip Hop & Climate Justice Team, writing workshops, and organizes community events that mobilizes youth throughout the Bay Area to learn creative writing skills and use their creative writing skills to target power holders and demand action. Through her poetry and organizing, she demands immediate and radical action to dismantle the foundational systems of oppression that are responsible for the climate crisis. Aniya believes through unity, resistance, and creativity we can rebuild a world where every living thing is allowed to thrive.

Aishani Garg is a senior in high school and the co-chair of environmental youth organization BAYCS. She is passionate about youth organizing and bringing people together to fight for a common cause. Aishani is also the host of an environmental career podcast and launched a green career curriculum at her school, and hopes to encourage more high school students to pursue green careers after college. Listen to her podcast here: https://www.theclimatecareerkit.com

"The cheapest and most efficient kW of electricity is the one you don't use." -Bob Hinkle Bob established Metrus in 2009 and created the Efficiency Services Agreement (ESA) and Sustainable Energy Services Agreement (SESA) that are the contractual backbone of financing large-scale energy efficiency retrofit and renewable energy projects. Bob helped develop and grow the Energy as a Service market which is currently a $5.4 billion industry. He has developed and implemented over $500 million of large-scale energy efficiency projects and clean energy investment programs in the U.S. and in emerging global markets for utilities, major energy end-users, government agencies, export credit agencies and international donors.

Call to Action:

Learn more about Vote Solar: https://votesolar.org/about-us/

Learn more about their mission: https://votesolar.org/about-us/mission/

 

Call to Action

Apply to the Cleantech Open 2020 accelerator: https://www.cleantechopen.org/en/challenge/2020-cto-accelerator

 

Calls to Action

Read Kelsey's recent editorial in the Daily Camera: https://www.timescall.com/2020/02/15/kelsey-grant-christianity-and-climate-change/

Learn more about the Citizen's Climate Lobby: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

 

 

Learn more about Solomon's book and events: https://www.solomongr.com/

Follow Solomon on Twitter: @SolomonG_R

 

Calls to Action

Learn more about the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University. 

Learn more about the Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest 2020: https://everythingchange.submittable.com

To read Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II, which collects the grand prize winner and finalists from the 2018 contest, visit https://climateimagination.asu.edu/everything-change-vol-2. 

 

Calls To Action

Find your local chapter of the Citizens' Climate Lobby: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/chapters/

Learn more about the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/energy-innovation-and-carbon-dividend-act/

 

Calls to Action

Learn more about Inside the Greenhouse: https://insidethegreenhouse.org/

Learn more about the musical Shine: https://insidethegreenhouse.org/shine/index.html

 

Calls to Action

Learn more about Max's newest book, published by Cambridge University Press: Creative (Climate) Communications

Max is a Project Leader for Inside the Greenhouse, a multidisciplinary team that uses creative framing and storytelling of issues surrounding climate change through video, theatre, dance, and writing to connect a wider audience to the deep and pressing need to address climate change.

Calls to Action

Watch Beth's TEDx talk on climate crisis courage: https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_hartman_climate_crisis_courage

Learn more about Project Drawdown: https://www.drawdown.org/

Learn more about the Rocky Mountain Institute: https://rmi.org/

 

Call to Action:

Given it is the holidays, my only call to action is to let me know how I can make this podcast more useful to you in 2020.  Please share any ideas, insights or criticism with me at: flavorflahive@gmail.com

I hope you all enjoy the holidays.  I look forward to engaging with you again in 2020.

Raviv Turner is a serial big data and AI entrepreneur and the founding member of the Nature Tech Collective, a non-profit coalition of nature tech companies covering satellite imaging, drones, IoT, LIDAR, eDNA, bio-acoustics and other tech that helps financial institutions and corporations measure, report and verify their nature-related impact claims and disclosures, to fight greenwashing and accelerate investment in nature-based solutions. Raviv also sits on the TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures) nature data working group. He speaks on the topics of biodiversity ESG, natural capital, spatial finance, and digital MRV.

Calls to Action

Learn more about Wunder Capital: https://www.wundercapital.com/about

Listen to an interview with Dave about how to use first principles to build an intentional career in clean energy: https://blog.wundercapital.com/2019/02/26/gtm/

Learn more about the challenges and opportunities for C&I solar projects to have an impact on curbing carbon emissions: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/10/20/the-weekend-read-ci-challenges-and-innovations/

 

 

 

Calls to Action

Learn more about the Center for the New Energy Economy: https://cnee.colostate.edu/

Learn more about Bill's work with Mesh Power to create sustainable energy resources in Africa that bypass carbon: https://cnee.colostate.edu/bill-ritter-visits-rwanda-microgrid-project-development/

 

Call to Action

Thanksgiving is tomorrow so this week's call to action is more lighthearted than usual.  Given that this episode is all about beer, here are some great resources to help you use beer to make Thanksgiving more tasty and more fun.  Grab a six-pack of Upslope Craft Lager and give these a try:

Thanksgiving Recipes that Incorporate Beer: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/news/cooking-beer-thanksgiving/

More Beer-Infused Recipes for Thanksgiving: https://draftmag.com/thanksgiving-recipes-made-with-beer/

Even MORE Recipes: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/slideshow/beer-recipes

Beer Pairings for Thanksgiving Dinner: https://justbeerapp.com/article/beer-pairings-for-thanksgiving

More Beer Pairings: https://www.craftbeer.com/beer-and-food/thanksgiving-beer-pairings-first-course-final-bite

 

 

 

 

Call to Action

Read more about Auden's philosophy that climate activism is a daily practice: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/opinion/sunday/climate-change-global-warming.html

Learn more about POW (Protect Our Winters): https://protectourwinters.org/

Here are Aspen Ski Resort's Guiding Principles: https://www.aspensnowmass.com/we-are-different/guiding-principles

Call to Action:

Learn more about POW: https://protectourwinters.org/

Climate Activist's Roadmap: https://protectourwinters.org/climate-activists-roadmap/

POW's guide to discussing climate change during the holidays: https://protectourwinters.org/how-to-talk-climate-with-your-uncle-at-thanksgiving/

Call to Action

Learn more about Hunter's work with Natural Capitalism Solutions.

Learn more about Gabe Brown's innovative work to reclaim the natural productivity of his soil.

Order meat, eggs and honey from Gabe Brown's Nourished by Nature online marketplace.

 

Call to Action

If you are a resident of Colorado, become part of Jack's Solar Garden and earn Xcel electricity bill credits.

Learn more about Community Solar. 

Learn more about Agrivoltaics.

Mike Kuby teaches Geography at Arizona State University.  In this episode we discuss his research into transportation, energy and optimal locations for hydrogen and electric fueling stations as we build a new energy transportation infrastructure.  In a country where petroleum fueling stations are ubiquitous, where will should we place the first alternate fuel refueling stations?  Rather than just following the patterns of the existing infrastructure, Mike has used research into driver behavior to find the locations for battery and fuel cell stations that will build a network that can serve the most vehicles most effectively.

Tom Cech is an award winning conservationist and Director of the One World One Water Institute at Metropolitan State University in Denver.  He is a prolific author and teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses and creates water-oriented content and curricula for K-12 and lifelong learners.  In this episode we discuss water conservation and activism as well as glacial retreat, cyclical droughts in the west, desalination and the use of new technologies to deliver clean water to refugee camps.

Call to Action

10 ways to conserve water at home

EPA guidelines to protect water resources

Help provide clean water to communities around the globe

Paul Bodnar, currently a Managing Director at Rocky Mountain Institute, discusses a variety of economic, social and environmental issues related to climate change. Paul was in New York for the United Nations Climate Action Summit and shares this experience in the context of prior international conferences he attended while at the State Department and as President Obama's Special Assistant and Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change. This includes his work as a chief architect for the Paris Agreement. We discuss the role of international institutions and central governments in achieving climate mitigation and specifically address how to make this a bipartisan issue in a divided United States.

Call to Action

Participate with the United Nations through their ACTNOW movement: https://www.un.org/en/actnow/index.shtml

Learn more about the Rocky Mountain Institute: https://rmi.org/

Find out how financial leaders can help create a sustainable and inclusive global economy: https://www.bloomberg.com/cfli/

 

Hannah Bellamy is Managing Director of charity: water, a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world.

Call to Action and Follow-Up

Here are two recent commentaries from Chip:

https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/09/want-to-save-the-planet-eat-more-plants/

https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/09/humanity-has-entered-a-period-of-extraordinary-transformation/

 What was once considered unusual weather is now becoming standard because we have disrupted the jet stream by arctic amplification: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2019/09/28/historic-snow-storm-in-the-west-plus-a-heat-wave-in-the-east-whats-going-on/#.XZKHIedKg6g

And and in a prelude to next week's interview, where we will get an update on the recent climate action summit at the United Nations: https://unfccc.int/

This is the official trailer for Climate Changers, a podcast that features interviews with remarkable entrepreneurs, scientists, activists, educators and other leaders who are taking initiative as we face a growing climate crisis.

As the father of 2 girls, I want to be able look them in the eye when they are older and say that I had an impact on their future by working to mitigate and help prepare for the effects of climate change.  This show is my first step. 

Climate Changers is for people like me who are tired of feeling helpless and want to hear real stories from thoughtful and effective leaders who are on the front lines of building the products and coalitions that will create change 

The future is worth fighting for, so join me in this weekly celebration of the heroes who are working to create a new and sustainable resource and energy economy.

Recently named one of “Time 100 Most Influential Companies of 2023,” Patagonia has been widely regarded over the years for its ground-breaking environmental and social practices. The company that pioneered corporate responsibility is now in its 50th year and has plans to thrive responsibly for another fifty. The Future of the Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 50 Years reveals how businesses and nonprofits can (and should) prioritize purpose over profit to restore and protect our home planet. Written by Vincent Stanley, Patagonia's Director of Philosophy (also one of the company's original employees), with Yvon Chouinard, founder and former owner of Patagonia, the book challenges business owners and leaders to rethink their business in a time of cultural and climate chaos. The advice is simple, but powerful: reduce your environmental footprint (and its skyrocketing cost), make legitimate products that last, reclaim deep knowledge of your business and its supply chain to make the most of opportunities in the years to come, and earn the trust you’ll need by treating your workers, customers, and communities with respect.

Steve Pantano is the Head of Market Transformation at Rewiring America, where he leads efforts to build and share comprehensive working knowledge of how to replace more than one billion fossil fuel devices with clean electric alternatives. For the past fifteen years Steve worked with CLASP and ICF International to develop policy, market development programs, research, and technical analysis aimed at maximizing the climate benefits that can be achieved with energy efficient appliances and equipment. He spent years before that tinkering with and testing everything from Hydrogen fuel cells to Space Shuttle hardware. He has a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University.

Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. They develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. They believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.

 

 

Jo is an architect specialized in green home design and passive solar strategies. That means, the things you can do to your house that don't cost money running them (unlike your aircon).

You can find out more about Jo's projects here: 

https://maven.com/jopetroni/climateproof 

https://thecarbonalmanac.org/connect-the-dots 

https://permarchitecture.net/ 

https://jopetroni.substack.com/

 

As Head of Product and Sustainability, and founding member of Better for All, Raegan Kelly works with biopolymer engineers and manufacturing experts to create a unique line of PHBH™ home compostable bioplastic cups. Prior to Better for All, she produced creative projects for USC Annenberg, Warner Bros Records, LACMA, Otis College of Design, Disney’s Epcot Center and more.

Leslie Chang is Director of Strategy & Policy at Caelux Corporation, a pioneer in utilizing perovskites to make solar energy more powerful and cost-effective. Caelux’s proprietary technologies improve the performance of any new crystalline silicon module. Headquartered in Baldwin Park, California, Caelux is at the forefront of the emerging science of perovskites, a special class of nanomaterials. Its flagship product, Caelux™ One is an innovative product that integrates seamlessly into existing PV module manufacturing processes, boosting performance, reducing installed costs, and accelerating the proliferation of solar.

Cherish Lodico is a 17 year old Climate and Social Justice activist from Quezon City, Philippines and Daly City, California. She is a proud environmental leader in her high school's environmental action club, where she tackles multiple projects locally such as promoting a climate petition to pass a school board policy, a thrift store on campus, a local native plant garden, and more. Outside of school, she serves her Filipino-American migrant community with GABRIELA Daly City -- a Filipina women's organization fighting for national democracy in the Philippines and the fights for the rights and welfare of all women and children. Outside of community organizing spaces, Cherish loves to read, write, and create ceramics pieces. You can connect with her on Instagram on @cherishlodiko.

Andrea is back for his second episode of Climate Changers. In this conversation he describes what to expect and why he is optimistic about the potential impact of the upcoming COP 28 in the UAE on climate, gender equality and the global economy.

Marios is passionate about finding innovative ways to preserve the planet's wild spaces. As part of the AMES foundation, he is the founder of the AMES-habitatfund which aims to scale the conservation of protected areas through nature-positive investment models. Previously he founded several Nature based initiatives, such as the ecolodge consulting company called Fjällbos in Sweden. Marios believes in finding ways to revalue biodiversity for its natural capital, which remains integral as we build resilient ecosystems in the face of climate change.

Ubiquitous Energy is the world leader in transparent solar technology working towards a goal of helping solve climate change by creating truly transparent renewable energy for every surface across the globe. Ubiquitous Energy’s patented technology, UE Power™, is the world’s first invisible electricity-generating alternative to traditional windows. UE Power™ harvests solar energy and serves as an invisible, onboard source of electricity for greater energy efficiency. Founded by scientists from MIT, Ubiquitous Energy is now producing its highly transparent, efficient solar cells in a production facility in Silicon Valley. Veeral Hardev is VP of Corporate Strategy at Ubiquitous Energy. Veeral has over a decade of experience commercializing novel nano-materials products for the electronics industry. This includes his time at Nanosys, Inc. where he led materials development, product management, and business development. Hardev holds an MBA from the Berkeley Haas School of Business, and bachelor’s degrees in Materials Science and Economics from UCLA.

Graham Hill is one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business" and has been featured on the cover of Inc. and Dwell Magazines, is a highly sought-after speaker known for his ability to eloquently explain how we can all create a simpler, wealthier, greener and happier planet. He has presented at many prestigious conferences around the world, including two main-stage TED Talks that have received 11M+ views. Graham is the founder and CEO of The Carbonauts. They help Fortune 1000 companies build climate-literate, sustainability enthusiastic cultures via tools such as live, interactive sustainability workshops. Their clients include giants such as Amazon, Chanel, News Corp, Toyota, AT&T, Warner Brothers, Discovery, Netflix, Dow Jones, and HarperCollins. Many companies have or are developing sustainability strategies. While this is a positive development, it is said that “Culture Eats Strategy” and as such for these strategies to succeed, it’s critical to develop a culture of sustainability. It is for this reason that The Carbonauts focus on cultural transformation. The Carbonauts believe that if companies can find and support internal sustainability change-agents that their ranks will start to grow and once they reach 25% of the company, a rapid transition to a powerful, sustainability-forward culture will take place. Graham has worked in the environmental field for over 22 years. Before Carbonauts, he founded the ground-breaking website TreeHugger, which was the most trafficked green site for years, with billions of page views. In 2007, he sold this website to the Discovery Channel. He also worked on the topic of small living (architecture, possessions, behavior) under LifeEdited for a decade. Additionally, he designed an iconic New York souvenir that has been a best seller at MOMA for over 15 years.

Alyssa Rade is Chief Sustainability Officer at Sustain.Life, a SaaS platform that helps organizations across industries understand how to measure, manage and report their carbon emissions. They empower business owners to take actionable steps towards being a net-zero organization through the insights captured through the platform.

Listen in as Atlantic Packaging President Wes Carter and Cruz Foam Co-Founder and CEO John Felts discuss the continued growth in global plastic packaging and the alternatives available on the market today, including new innovations in recovering, reusing and recapturing materials. Working together to tackle a massive issue – and one that continues to surge due to e-commerce – these companies team up for an inspiring conversation about what’s possible and what’s next.

Wyatt Roberts is Head of Channel Development for Dandelion Energy. He is a builder and a building scientist, and is passionate about reducing the impact of our built world on the global environment. Dandelion Energy is committed to freeing homes from fossil fuels through the adoption of geothermal HVAC systems. Wyatt works with partners across a variety of sectors to better understand, design, and deploy geothermal in all of our buildings. For more information, visit www.dandelionenergy.com.

Avery Roslansky is a climate activist from San Francisco, California, studying architecture at UC Berkeley. Her work in climate activism ranges from public policy to aquatic insect research, and she's enthusiastic about doing whatever she can to stop the crisis. Currently, she is working on building mycelium-engineered living materials to replace conventional building materials that are harmful to the environment. When she's not working on school or research, she loves to hike, play guitar, or visit the beach.

David Fenton is the author of the new book The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons from 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator. David earned the moniker “the Robin Hood of Public Relations” from The National Journal for creating the first PR agency for social change organizations to adopt corporate PR tactics to win major victories for freedom, democracy, and the environment. Through his firm, Fenton, he has spear-headed history- making activism, including the campaigns to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in the late 1980s, the No-Nukes Concerts in 1979 with Bruce Springsteen, banning fracking, and legalizing mariuana. He's now working exclusively on bipartisan efforts to address the climate crisis, co-founding organizations like Families for a Future and Science Moms.

Victoria Brunner is the co-founder of FATTE Bikes, the first ebike company to operate in Denver, and one of just a few ebike companies to actually build their ebikes in the U.S.A. Victoria and her partner Kenny learned early on that if ebikes are built overseas, they just aren't as well put together as when they do it themselves in their factory. By building their ebikes in the U.S.A, they are able offer more color options, better quality paint and assembly, more customization than anyone. This makes FattE-Bikes the most customizable ebike brand in the world. While they use premium globally-sourced ebike components, FATTE strives to source locally, create local jobs, and most importantly, provide industry-leading quality control and customer care.

Brad Liski is a social entrepreneur and the CEO of British Columbia-based Tru Earth, a global household cleaning product company focused on biodegradability and the elimination of waste. The company is one of several founded in his lifetime, but the first that inspires him to wake up every morning excited to make a difference. Liski is a member of the Board of the Salish Sea Research & Education Society and is passionate about the environment and causing disruption for the betterment of the planet. He has also built a strong partnership between Tru Earth and the global conservation organization, Ocean Wise. Together, the two organizations have founded the American Shoreline Clean-up Program to encourage others to get involved in the fight to save the oceans and the planet. In addition, Liski is a leader in positioning companies and brands for dynamic growth and profitable expansion; he has a long and verifiable record of success leading start-up, high growth, acquisition, merger and receivership operations. Liski believes that the best thing we can do to save the planet is to educate young people. He lives out this passion as a mentor at Entrepreneurship @ University of British Columbia focusing on climate solutions. Liski was recently named a Sustainability Leader by Canada’s Clean50 for 2022. As the leader in the Retail Product category, he has been recognized for making the most significant impact in helping Canada reach our climate targets. Other awards Liski and Tru Earth have received include B.C.’s CEO of the year, B.C.’s Top Exporter of the Year, and Best Eco-Friendly Household Product Company 2022.