How We Can Ingrain Car Sharing Into American Culture. With Aric Ohana
Aric is the CEO/Founder of Envoy There a startup making Electric Vehicles an amenity. Ian Sumner sits downs with Aric to learn about how car sharing can be ingrained into American Culture.
How You Can Bank Sustainably Today. With Ravi Mikkelsen
Ravi Mikkelsen joins us to share how switching to the right bank can actually accelerate our move to sustainable energy & resources across the board.
Why Venture Capital Needs Morals – With Joel Solomon
How to use capitalism to drive social progress with Joel Solomon. In this episode, he shows how we can use money to drive positive impact in the world.
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🦠 😷 COVID19: THE BURNOUT EDITION 🤒 🧻
The goal is to get out of survival mode – mindfulness is a great practice to decompress
Micro-plastics Has Made It Into Our Ocean Breeze.
A new study published in the journal PLoS One, found that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of micro-plastics could be blowing ashore on the sea breeze every year.
Deadly Extreme Humidity Weather Events Appear Sooner Than Scientists Projected
Climate change means heat – lesser thought of, is that it also means humidity.
Two fights in California to keep an eye on this week – one in natural gas and the other against Tesla.
Two fights in California to keep an eye on this week – one in natural gas and the other against Tesla.
🦠 😷 COVID-19: PRODICTIVITY 🤒 🧻
It can be tough to get into the zone and sometimes impossible to measure up to pre-COVID levels. But we live in a different world now – life is different, so productivity needs to be measured differently, too.
MICRO-PLASTICS!
You probably know about the giant floating Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But not all Plastic floats. Human activity is creating garbage patches on the ocean floor, too. Specifically micro-plastics. Specifically in biodiversity hotspots.
Your A/C Probably Sucks. With Liam Berryman
There’s no one magic bullet to solving the climate crisis – there are many different solutions we need…tune in as Ian Sumner speaks with Liam Berryman about what role material science plays in solving the climate crisis, and why your A/C Sucks.
Shell Didn’t Really Just Make That Investment…
Fascinating week in oil! As you may have seen in the headlines, oil prices went negative. Specifically West Texas Intermediate (the benchmark for US crude oil) oil price went negative for two days because they’re traded as futures contracts. Production has barely changed but usage has sunk so we have way more supply than we can even […]
🦠 😷 COVID-19: THE SILVER LININGS EDITION 🤒 🧻
Sometimes we need a little break from the news. There’s no good about the unseen enemy that leaves serious illness, death, and mass anxiety in its wake (and that just COVID-19 – we’re not even going to start on the economy).
🦠 😷 COVID-19: The CO2 Drop Edition 🤒 🧻
Carbon dioxide emissions could fall by the largest amount since WWII. Some projections expect that we could see up to a 5% drop in carbon dioxide emissions this year.
You Can Be As Impactful As A Celebrity. With Debbie Levin
You Can Be As Impactful As A Celebrity… tune in as Ian Sumner speaks with Debbie Levin, CEO of The Environmental Media Association, about how you can use social media to communicate sustainability and have as much impact as a celebrity.
The Model Y in public proves it’s going to be tough for automakers to beat
Tesla Model Y rollout is really starting to roll and reviews are pouring in! In short? People Love it. The Model 3 is the best selling electric car in the world and was the 9th best selling of all cars in the US in 2019. Pair that with the massive popularity of crossovers in the […]
Strike 3!! Coal is OUT–
Economically, Coal is Out Right now, in every major market, it’s cheaper to make new investments in renewables than in coal. According to Carbon Tracker, if governments and investors don’t cancel coal projects they stand to lose more than $600 billion. AND by 2030 it will be cheaper to build new renewable energy than to […]
We Can Still Save Our Oceans
We Can Restore Our Ocean’s Within 30 Years – But We Have To Act Now A major new scientific review says that we have a narrow window of opportunity to be able to restore the world’s oceans to their “former glory” within a generation. So we have this window – what’s the prescription? In order to […]
Renewable Energy Needs Grids With Long-Duration Storage – We’re Almost There
There’s no getting around the fact: renewable energy required grids have long-duration storage, and we just don’t have that infrastructure in place yet. It makes sense – operating a fully renewable grid is a lot different than running one fossil-fuel based. For starters, where operators could power up and down a natural gas plant however […]
🦠 😷 COVID19: The Solar Edition 🤒 🧻
Damn it, Jim, we’re – well, no, we’re not doctors. And we’re not here to talk about COVID19 itself, but the effects it has on industries. This week, COVID19: The Solar Edition. California Usually Has Too Much Solar Energy – COVID19 Means Wasting Even More of it. Even in a normal year, California grid operator CAISO […]
EPA Suspends Environmental Rules Enforcement In Response To Covid19
Last week we talked about how lower economic activity can mean lower emissions (until they come roaring back on the up-turn). It’s – at the very least – a slim silver lining to economic disruption. But the white house has different plans. EPA Suspends Environmental Rules Enforcement In Response To Covid19 Last week we talked […]
Do you even know what a carbon footprint is? With Victoria Beall
Our carbon footprints are much larger than we think…tune in as Ian Sumner speaks with Victoria Beall about how you can understand what a carbon footprint even means and what you can do about it!
Break down what composting is, green-washing associated with bio-plastics and how do we remove the need for single use plastics?