Everybody in the Pool

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re sticking with renewable energy! Wind and solar often steal the renewable spotlight, but geothermal energy—derived from the Earth's constant underground heat—offers a clean, infinite source of power for heating and cooling. This week, we’re joined by retired NHL great Mike Richter, who has an amazing career pivot story into climate finance and resource deployment. He’s currently the CEO of Brightcore Energy, which does all kinds of sustainable energy retrofitting for the built environment, and which, lately, is specifically focused on ground source heat pumps, using geothermal energy to heat and cool buildings even in dense urban areas, like Manhattan.RESOURCES & LINKSBrightcore Energy: https://brightcoreenergy.com/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re talking utilities. We know that one of the big keys to dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions and slowing global warming to manageable levels is to transition as quickly as possible to renewable energy and electrify everything. And at the absolute heart of that challenge are utilities—the ones responsible for generating and distributing electricity. Addressing the challenge takes commitment, to start with, and not all utilities are created equal in this regard. The ones who are quickly realized it also takes investment and innovation. Molly talks with Steve Smith, the CEO of National Grid Partners, which is the corporate venture arm of National Grid Group, about the tech needed to modernize the grid ASAP.RESOURCES & LINKSNational Grid Partners: https://www.ngpartners.com/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re getting a little high-tech. In the climate solutions conversation, people often talk about the need for game-changing innovation. That doesn’t mean giving up on policy and business and energy transition, obviously. But if we’re building a better future for everyone, it’s good to think of the breakthroughs that could not only solve our current crisis, but lay the foundation for all kinds of other breakthroughs, as well. One of those is quantum computing: computing powerful enough to revolutionize materials discovery, battery chemistry breakthroughs, fertilizer production, and who knows what else. Molly talks with Pete Shadbolt, co-founder of PsiQuantum, about the company’s attempts to commercialize quantum computing as soon as possible.RESOURCES & LINKSPsiQuantum: https://www.psiquantum.com/Quantum computing, explained: https://www.explainthatstuff.com/quantum-computing.htmlAll episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re featuring a panel discussion moderated by Molly at the GreenBiz conference, held in Phoenix, AZ, in February. The conversation blends tech and climate and three amazing professionals talking about how AI (the other hottest topic on the planet, if you’ll pardon the very scary pun) can help with efforts to heal nature and restore biodiversity. Molly spoke with Elizabeth Hunter, co-founder and COO of a robotics and AI biodiversity startup called TreeSwift; Melanie Nakagawa, chief sustainability officer at Microsoft; and Millie Chapman, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and Climate Change AI.RESOURCES & LINKSVideo version: https://www.greenbiz.com/events/greenbiz/sessions/ai-nature-climate-and-beyond-how-new-tech-transforming-sustainabilityTreeSwift: https://www.treeswift.com/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re going a little sci-fi with a startup that spun out of Google and is trying to reinvent urban mobility. And by that I mean they’re developing modular electric tram systems that would take passengers around dense urban areas, hospital or college campuses, or maybe, you know, Google, on a series of cables suspended above buildings and streets. This means reducing the number of cars on the road, sure, but it also means we can build new cities, housing developments, and urban centers that have density without resource-hogging skyscrapers, and which don’t need a ton of extra land for parking and multi-lane highways and such. Wild? Sure. Doable? We’ll see. Interesting? Absolutely. With Swyft Cities founder and CEO Jeral Poskey.RESOURCES & LINKSSwyft Cities: https://swyftcities.com/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re back to buildings! Buildings and the built environment are responsible for as much as 40 percent of carbon emissions and energy demand. In fact, a UN report from 2022 found that although the buildings and construction industry has done some investing in energy efficiency and more sustainable processes, its emissions hit an all-time high that year, after a brief dip during the pandemic. Solutions lie in more sustainable building practices, denser housing, and better building materials, and this week’s guest is doing all three. Plant Prefab sustainably builds multi-unit housing in super high-tech automated factories. This week’s guest is founder and former CEO Steve Glenn.RESOURCES & LINKSPlant Prefab: https://www.plantprefab.com/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re exploring a topic that once seemed fanciful, unlikely at best, and even slightly controversial: carbon removal. Literally, taking carbon dioxide out of the air and storing it so it doesn’t keep warming the planet. In fact, in 2022, the UN released a report that essentially said developing carbon removal technology is not optional, in addition to cutting emissions, if we want to keep warming to manageable (ie, not catastrophic) levels. So this week, we’re talking with one of the most promising players in the space, Spiritus, whose CEO Charles Cadieu details the novel material they’ve invented that will eventually become orchards of carbon-absorbing “fruits.”RESOURCES & LINKSSpiritus: https://spiritus.com/enAll episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Everybody in the Pool. This week: how to get to the major breakthroughs that a lot of people think are necessary if we’re going to stop or even reverse the worst effects of human-caused climate change. Breakthroughs take money, yes, and they also take brilliant people, full stop! Scientists, inventors, wild-eyed optimists—the people who have ideas and need support, training, funding, and encouragement to see them through or come up with other brilliant ideas. Enter Activate, a nonprofit fellowship that provides all of that to scientist-entrepreneurs, in hopes of making sure there are more of them in every room where decisions are being made. This week, Molly talks with Activate’s new CEO, Cyrus Wadia. Enjoy!RESOURCES & LINKSActivate: https://www.activate.org/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Everybody in the Pool in 2024! We’re getting a bit of a late start this year because Molly was at CES in Las Vegas last week, which turned out to be a stealth sustainability show. On this week’s episode, we caught up with Stefan Solyom, CTO of Pebble, which is making a completely electric travel trailer—think RV—that can sustain itself off the grid for up to a week, power your home like a giant backup battery, back up and park itself, and has tech built inside that puts all other glamping to shame. Plus, flying cars. No, really. Lots of them! Welcome back and happy New Year!RESOURCES & LINKSThe Pebble RV: https://pebblelife.com/From the newsletter: Is it the age of EVTOLs?All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, it’s almost the end of 2023 and this little podcast just finished its first year of existence! Aww! Thanks to everyone who came on this ride and came on this show! This week, we’re doing a little retrospective to look at some of the fun, adoptable solutions we highlighted (from wrapping paper to repairing your phones and keeping them longer), all the way to the mind-blowing inventions that have us genuinely hopeful about the future. Shout-out Shiki Wrap, Kyle Wiens, Ridwell, Mill, Universal Hydrogen, Magrathea Metals, Anuma Aerospace, and more. Happy New Year!RESOURCES & LINKSAll episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we are once again thinking big when it comes to the energy transition. If last week was about electrifying whole fleets of cars, this week is about electrifying entire towns! Dan Bridleman of KB Home and Matt Brost of Sunpower join Molly to talk about how they’ve teamed up on a big experiment in southern California: a planned community of more than 200 net zero homes, all-electric, with smart thermostats and plugs and energy meters, with solar and whole-home batteries, that will also be connected with a community battery and a microgrid that will send power back to the utility to help keep the lights on when needed and give power back to the utility when they need it. Cool, right? Let’s move there!RESOURCES & LINKSShadow Mountain at Menifee: https://www.kbhome.com/new-homes-california/menifeeAll episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we all know it’s a big deal to get lots of drivers to switch from ICE (internal combustion engine) cars to electric cars. But getting them to switch one at a time is for the birds—let’s talk about fleets of cars all at once! Taxi cabs, company cars, delivery vehicles, government cars … what does it take to get hundreds or thousands of cars to go electric? Well, a lot, as it turns out. Today’s guest is Josh Green, CEO of Inspiration Mobility, which buys and leases electric cars but also provides all the fleet management services a company needs to transition to EVs—which, not for nothing, are cheaper and more reliable to operate once they do. Plus, the surprising reason existing fleet management companies don’t prioritize EVs.RESOURCES & LINKSInspiration Mobility: https://inspirationmobility.com/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, new ways to make old stuff! The materials, creation, transport, and disposal of furniture all generate lots of greenhouse gases, and manufacturers have been exploring ways to make furniture production greener, including overhauling the entire manufacturing process by 3D printing beautiful furniture from biodegradable and carbon-neutral materials. This week, Molly talks with Phillip Raub of Model No. about sustainable design, hyperlocal manufacturing, and turning waste into super beautiful chairs and planters.RESOURCES & LINKSModel No. https://www.model-no.com/Business Insider on furniture rental: https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/why-i-rent-furniture-2021-11All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re going up a level, from the entrepreneurs inventing solutions to the climate crisis to an investor who’s keeping an eye out for the next big thing. But this isn’t just any venture capital fund—Fifth Wall is a massive investment fund that gets a lot of its money from the property and real estate industry. So, obviously, climate was an inevitable part of its investment thesis, since the built environment is a huge contributor to climate change, and an industry desperately in need of innovative solutions. Molly talks with Greg Smithies, co-head of the climate practice at Fifth Wall.RESOURCES & LINKSFifth Wall: https://fifthwall.com/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re going back to the topic that first got Molly interested in climate solutions: adaptation and resilience. Or, put simply, how we survive the worsening climate crisis. This week, we’re talking with Emilie Mazzacurati, who’s been working on getting attention, money, and data on this part of the conversation for over a decade. She’s now founded Tailwind Climate, an organization designed to encourage, incubate and fund solutions that help us survive—and thrive—the changes all around us.RESOURCES & LINKSTailwind Climate: https://www.tailwindclimate.com/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, alchemy! Just kidding, it’s science. I’m talking to a cleantech entrepreneur who has co-invented a new way to make magnesium metal out of seawater, in a process that’s specifically designed to use renewable energy. That’s a big deal because magnesium is an alloy in all kinds of metals we need, like aluminum, steel, and titanium, and right now it’s almost all coming from China or Russia and it’s made with coal. An abundant supply of domestic lightweight metal leads to, among other things, EVs that go farther on a charge, and could just replace dirtier aluminum altogether. With Alex Grant, co-founder and CEO of Magrathea Metals.RESOURCES & LINKSMagrathea Metals: https://magratheametals.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re always looking to national governments and multinational corporations to make big changes, but a lot of times, the real impact is local. The LA Cleantech Incubator is a super interesting example of an organization that used support from the city to raise private dollars and start a fund to support entrepreneurs building cool climate solutions. And with the Olympic Games coming to town in 2028, it’s an organization on a mission to decarbonize the city before they get there. Who doesn’t love a deadline, right?RESOURCES & LINKSLA Cleantech Incubator: https://laincubator.org/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Visit the website: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re going full sci-fi. And when we say full sci-fi, we mean back to science that was conceived in the 17th century and is only now being perfected by a startup that’s trying to bring back lighter-than-air ships (blimps and aerostats) in the hopes of eventually moving cargo around in a zero-emissions and possibly even carbon-negative way. Diana Little of Anuma Aerospace explains the tech and and how proving the co-inventor of calculus wrong is only part of the, ahem, equation.RESOURCES & LINKSAnuma Aerospace: https://www.anumaaerospace.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Visit the website: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, it’s funny how we keep talking about climate solutions and haven’t gotten to the big ball of free energy in the sky yet. Maybe it’s because everybody thinks solar is “solved,” or it’s old tech, or it’s boring. But actually, solar adoption is lagging, and that’s a problem, because as we electrify everything, we need lots more renewable energy to meet the demand, and solar combined with batteries is not only a renewable energy solution, but a really cool way to create a resilient and effective kind of “shadow grid” for electricity. Today’s guest is Chris Rauscher, the head of grid services at Sunrun. Oh, and we even get to geek out about cars!RESOURCES & LINKSSunrun: https://www.sunrun.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Visit the website: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/ Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, more hard problems! Today we’re talking to a startup focused on buildings and the carbon emissions that get literally built into them. That comes from construction materials like walls and flooring and yes, concrete, and even windows and the steel used to support them. Increasingly, developers and builders are on the hook for measuring and reducing what’s known as “embodied carbon,” and this week’s startup helps them do just that. Nicole Granath and Anneli Tostar of Tangible Materials join Molly to talk about building better buildings, and, full disclosure, make a lot of “tangible” puns.RESOURCES & LINKSMore on Tangible Materials: https://tangiblematerials.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, sometimes you just need to know that people are out there working on solving hard problems—like cement, which has roughly the same global CO2 emissions as … well, cars. It’s a big problem, it’s basically been made for the same way for 150 years, and it’s the single most-consumed human-made material on earth. So a few years ago, Cody Finke, a chemist, was looking for an impactful company to start in the climate space that wasn’t getting a ton of attention. Turns out, it’s cement. Fast forward to today and they’ve got a process for making carbon negative cement that’s exactly the same as what we use today. PHEW, right?RESOURCES & LINKSMore on Brimstone: https://www.brimstone.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Visit the website: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, a two-fer of artist-activists who are both advocating for a world without fossil fuel-derived plastics and also working to portray that world in film and TV. Dianna Cohen is the founder and CEO of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, and Nada Djordjevich is an independent filmmaker, and both are trying to change the story—or at least make it represent real life.RESOURCES & LINKSPlastic Pollution Coalition: https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/Plastic Kills! Horror short film contest: https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2023/9/7/plastic-kills-horror-short-film-contest-2023Visit the website: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we respectfully thank you very, very much for carrying a reusable water bottle and refilling it instead of buying plastic water bottles. And also, sadly, we’re going to have to do a lot more than that to get rid of disposable beverage containers. This week’s entrepreneur, Manuela Zoninsein, is building a whole bottling plant the size of a vending machine that plugs into local tap water, filters it, delivers it in a reusable stainless steel bottle, and washes, sanitizes, and refills it when you bring it back. And that’s cool, but what’s really smart is who the first customers are—warehouses, construction sites, Air Force bases—and how they ended up with those customers at all. Drink it all in and enjoy!RESOURCES & LINKSKadeyaSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re diving into a topic that has many people afraid of the deep end: should you go vegan to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions? Like many things you maybe don’t want to do, the answer is unequivocally yes, at least from a climate standpoint. But I hear you, it’s tough. So this week, we’re asking our new favorite vegan, Jessica Resler, to address some of the myths, the barriers, and the resistance, and she gives some tips and tricks on how to get started.RESOURCES & LINKSMore on Jessica ReslerWatch The Game Changers on NetflixSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, I got to spend a little extra time with the rest of the team at Mill, to find out how they ended up working in climate tech, how they found their way to that company, and the origin stories that put them on this path. In this week’s episode, a sort of extended version of the Job Board takes us from the Obama White House to the search for just the right kind of climate company to a harrowing wildfire escape that put the search for a climate solution up close and personal. RESOURCES & LINKSSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, sometimes tackling the climate crisis means starting at home, with the things you love. Meagan Downey had a long career in nonprofit work and was looking for a way to have climate impact. She landed on one of her favorite things: giving and wrapping beautiful gifts. She’s now the founder of Shiki Wrap, reusable gift wrap that, if we all got in the pool, could keep millions of pounds of waste out of landfills every year. Also it’s just super pretty and fun!RESOURCES & LINKSShiki WrapFuroshiki: the Japanese wrapping traditionSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, a climate entrepreneur and tech veteran solving big climate problems in unexpected ways. Matt Rogers is the co-founder of Mill, a kitchen appliance that turns food waste into dried, odorless grounds that consumers drop in the mail and that get upcycled into chicken feed. And Matt just happens to have also co-founded a little company called Nest, which has been a powerful driver of energy efficiency. He and Molly talk about how food waste is the unexpected giant emitter that requires major behavior change, and sometimes, a sexy gadget is just what you need to make that change. RESOURCES & LINKSMillMill vs Lomi via Architectural DigestSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, prepare for a bit of a tone shift. We’re talking with climate futurist Alex Steffen, author of The Snap Forward podcast and newsletter, who’s been covering climate and climate solutions as a journalist for decades, and now tries to prepare people and businesses as a futurist. The over-arching lesson from this episode? The future we tried to avoid for 30 years is here now, and in some cases, is happening faster than we expected. So we’d better get rugged, and fast.RESOURCES & LINKSThe Snap ForwardRuggedize Your LifeSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, one of the most common things people say to me is: “recycling isn’t real, right?” It’s complicated, but it could definitely be better. And services and startups are stepping in to fill the void—like Ridwell, which is a super cheerful pickup service that takes plastic, batteries, light bulbs, old clothes, styrofoam, and “surprise” categories once a month to trusted partners for either recycling or re-use. And the question becomes: cool, yeah, how do we get this everywhere and make it easier for cities to do it, too!? Molly talks with founder and CEO Ryan Metzger. RESOURCES & LINKSRidwellSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’ve got a double whammy of solutions. We know that to transition our economy away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we need to deploy as much renewable energy as fast as we can (and yes, interconnect it, I know). Also, renewable energy deployment is a huge investment opportunity that’s mostly unavailable to you and me, even though these are projects that can throw off reliable cash for 20 or 30 years. So, startups are coming in to try to connect regular old people with renewable energy projects—like crowdfunding, but with a return. This week, Molly interviews Will Wiseman, co-founder and CEO of Climatize, an app that does all of the above. Win-win!This week’s episode is sponsored by Fennel Markets.RESOURCES & LINKSGet the Climatize appClimate Tech VC deep dive into project financeSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/ Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, it’s playtime. Obviously, global warming and the climate crisis are intimidating topics. But this week’s guest has built an entire career out of play. Jenny Gottstein is a game-maker, previously of Go Games and IDEO, and a few years ago, she created a game called Beat! That! Heat!, a climate action game show. Molly and Jenny talk about how play can create an accessible conversation that celebrates climate action no matter where you start, offers an onramp to the conversation for people who are curious but embarrassed, and did I mention that making games for a living is an actual job? This week’s episode is sponsored by Fennel Markets.RESOURCES & LINKSBeat! That! Heat!Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re going big. Like, air travel big. Green hydrogen (that is, hydrogen produced using only renewable energy) is a super promising solution for powering rockets and airplanes, but one thing holding it back is a lack of infrastructure. As in, there aren’t hydrogen “gas stations” in every airport yet. This week’s guest is Paul Eremenko, the co-founder and CEO of Universal Hydrogen, a company creating a sort of “Nespresso capsule” fuel cell for plug-and-play hydrogen in regional jets. It’s a company with an ambitious vision that happens to be very doable. Let’s go.RESOURCES & LINKSUniversal Hydrogen celebrates its first test flightSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, the best possible climate solution for the lazy among you: just never get rid of your stuff. Molly talks with Kyle Wiens of iFixit, the how-to and repair manual site that teaches you how to fix and restore everything from laptops to phones to wigs to purses and shoes. Kyle is also the de facto leader of the Right to Repair movement, which is pushing to undo actual real laws that prevent you, in some cases, from fixing your own electronics (by which we mean everything from phones to tractors). The more stuff we buy, the more resources we need, and e-waste, in particular, is the fastest-growing waste stream in the world, and it’s toxic as heck. Be cool, carry old stuff.RESOURCES & LINKSCelebrating 20 years of iFixitRight to RepairSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, the climate crisis is already costing you money. Whether it’s higher prices at the grocery store, skyrocketing home insurance, replacing furnishings and infrastructure after an extreme weather event, or the declining value of your stock portfolio and its fossil fuel investments, personal finance and global warming are on a collision course. That’s how this week’s guest, Farnoosh Torabi, found herself in the pool: she’s a personal finance blogger and podcaster who increasingly realized that her stories, like so many others, are actually climate stories. Torabi is the host of the podcast So Money, and joined Molly to talk about personal finance in the climate economy. RESOURCES & LINKSSo Money, the podcastSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, enough coddling the next generation. They’re filthy trash-generating beasts, and while you might think they’re going off to college to learn and become productive citizens, they’re really just generating waste at a colossal scale, and on-campus dining is at the core of a ton of it. Actually, lots of tons of it. But you know me, I’m not here for problems. I’m here for solutions. On today’s show, Topanga.io, a software company that makes it easy for colleges to offer reusable packaging that students can check out and return. Some schools are even making it mandatory. Maybe the kids are all right after all.RESOURCES & LINKSTopanga.ioSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool … my absolute favorite thing: a super boring-sounding topic! In this case, your 401k. Turns out our retirement plans are how we are unknowingly funneling at least a trillion dollars into fossil fuel companies, and there’s a growing social movement for employees to demand greener options in their benefits portal. This week, I’m talking with a serial entrepreneur who has a new company that makes it easier for employers to offer better options. Plus, an update on the state of home insurance in California: turns out, we’re uninsurable! That escalated quickly!RESOURCES & LINKSJoin the movement at SphereSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Everybody in the Pool … we’re shopping! Consumer goods and the food we eat account for about a third of global carbon emissions, and everything we buy has what I like to call a True Cost. There’s what the thing actually costs, but there’s also the cost that went into producing it, shipping it, packaging it, and disposing of it. This week’s show has a little explainer about how all that works, plus an interview with a startup, Finch, trying to make shopping for sustainable alternatives just a little bit easier. RESOURCES & LINKSShop at FinchSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback or become a sponsor at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don’t kid yourself: we’re in the climate economy now. Extreme weather, drought, fire, floods—all of it means adapting to a changing climate, and that adaptation process will touch just about every business. This week, we’re looking at two businesses in particular: real estate, and interior design. I asked a real estate agent and a kitchen and bath designer what shoppers are asking for, how climate change is impacting the work they do, and how being climate-aware is a differentiator in their businesses. Also, cool product alert: recycled denim insulation!? Who knew!? RESOURCES & LINKSNational Association of Realtors GREEN certificationClimateCheckRecycled Denim BattingSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the first episode of Everybody in the Pool! This week’s climate solution has to do with where and how you invest, and how new companies like Fennel Markets are coming along trying to give you even more power to use your dollar and the voice that goes with it. Plus: the first edition of The Job Board! This is our segment that features people who want to pivot into a new career in climate (or who already have). New episodes every week — please subscribe and tell a friend! RESOURCES & LINKSFennel.comSubscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool Please subscribe and tell your friends about EITP! Send feedback at [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Introducing Everybody in the Pool, a podcast about climate solutions, hosted by longtime journalist and climate tech investor Molly Wood. New episodes every week, starting May 17, 2023! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.