In this episode of Climate Positive, hosts Gil Jenkins and Guy Van Syckle chat with Zeyneb Magavi, Executive Director of HEET, a Massachusetts-based non-profit focused on designing a strategic evolution of aging gas systems into bidirectional ambient thermal grids, with the aim of driving rapid and equitable decarbonization of heating and cooling in urban ar ... Show More
Apr 2026
Renewable water and a >$1 trillion investment need | Guillaume Clairet, COO of H2O Innovation
Water is something most of us take for granted. We turn on the tap, and it's just there. But behind that tap is an increasingly strained system that is quietly becoming one of the defining infrastructure challenges of our time. Just in the US, McKinsey estimates we are underinves ... Show More
43m 34s
Apr 2026
Investing in nature’s most powerful ecosystems | Tripp Wall, CEO of Pantheon Regeneration
In this episode of Climate Positive, Guy Van Syckle connects with Tripp Wall, CEO of Pantheon Regeneration, to explore how his team is turning degraded peatland ecosystems into high-impact stores of carbon with a wealth of additional benefits for biodiversity and resiliency. We d ... Show More
51m 6s
Mar 2026
Rethinking nuclear: from bespoke plants to mass manufacturing reactors | Matt Loszak, CEO of Aalo Atomics
In this Climate Positive episode (our 100th!), Chad and Guy talk with Matt Loszak, CEO and co-founder of Aalo Atomics, about their innovative approach to building factory-made advanced micro reactors to power the AI-driven energy demand surge. Matt shares his unconventional journ ... Show More
38m 12s
Jun 2023
Tapping the heat beneath your feet with Kathy Hannun of Dandelion Energy
Millions of American households rely on oil for heat. Growing up in New Hampshire, Kathy Hannun was familiar with this decades-old and environmentally-taxing approach. As part of Google’s innovation lab, X, she began unearthing a solution — indeed from underground...This week on ... Show More
31m 46s
Jul 2021
How to Get Comfortable with Negotiation with Kathy Hannun of Dandelion Energy
If you asked how ubiquitous electric vehicles would be a decade ago, it's hard to imagine their current rise into the mainstream. So what's next for clean energy innovation? Kathy Hannun, co-founder of Dandelion Energy, believes the next frontier is geothermal heat pumps. At Dand ... Show More
30m 32s
Jan 2024
Decarbonize Using Digital Service
<p>Charli has Tyler Haak on this week talk about his passion for decarbonization. <br/><br/> </p><p><b>Tyler Haak is the Vice President of Sustainability and Service at Schneider Electric, and prides himself on being an enthusiastic evangelizer of connected, sustainable, and effi ... Show More
22m 39s
Oct 2024
From AI to food recycling: Innovations transforming the energy sector
Making change is all about innovation. That’s no different when it comes to the energy sector. In this episode of Energized: The Future of Energy, host JJ Ramberg and Enbridge CEO Greg Ebel talk to two innovators in the energy sector. First, we hear from Uli Homann, a Distinguish ... Show More
35m 35s
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Geothermal energy doesn't get near the attention that wind and solar do. But to decarbonize our energy systems, we need a</span> <a href= "https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/building-zero-carbon-sports-team"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">t ... Show More
