44:41 Jul 22, 2026
How Nevada Became a CleanTech Hub | Tristan Pollock, Managing Director @ gener8tor
Tristan Pollock explains why Nevada, home to the only active US lithium mine and a Tesla-scale industrial park bigger than Detroit, is qu...
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57 conversations with the founders, investors, and scientists building the energy transition. Newest first.
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35:14 Jul 15, 2026
Can Heavy Industry Be Decarbonized? | Grant Budge, CEO & Co-Founder @ PeroCycle
Grant Budge says PeroCycle can decarbonize steel with no green premium and no carbon price required, just a one to three year payback.
47:09 Jul 10, 2026
The Future of Water Testing | Vernon LaLone, Founder & CEO @ Wave Lumina
Vernon LaLone spent a decade perfecting Raman spectroscopy on pharma drug accumulation before pointing it at PFAS, the chemical the EPA r...
52:48 Jul 8, 2026
Building a Startup: The Legal Playbook | Kim Klayman, Partner @ Ballard Spahr
Kim Klayman, who chairs Ballard Spahr's national emerging company and venture capital group, explains why founders who skip a $50 LLC fil...
44:20 Jul 1, 2026
How to Raise Impact Capital | Charney Robinson-Williams, CEO @ Noire Impact
Charney Robinson-Williams explains why a traditional pitch deck will fail you in an impact investor room, and what to bring instead.
38:16 Jun 29, 2026
Could This Biotech Replace Farm Chemicals? | Matias Figliozzi, Co-Founder & CEO @ UniBaio
Matias Figliozzi says mixing shrimp-shell powder with pesticides can cut Roundup use by half while maintaining the same killing power.
58:34 Jun 26, 2026
Why Trucking Needs Better Data | Celine King, CEO @ GreenIRR
Celine King says 95% of U.S. trucking fleets run fewer than 20 vehicles, and that fragmentation is why emissions data barely exists.
36:39 Jun 24, 2026
What It Takes to Fund Deep Tech | Sean Joseph, Co-Founder @ Altilium
Altilium co-founder Sean Joseph explains how a 40,000-pound council grant became the foundation for a Series A backed by the world's larg...
39:45 Jun 23, 2026
From Water Tech to Lithium | Devesh Sharma, CEO @ Aquatech
Aquatech CEO Devesh Sharma explains how mastering zero liquid discharge brine management accidentally positioned a 45-year-old water comp...
43:22 Jun 17, 2026
Can Climate Tech Change the Economy? | Sergio Carvalho, Partner @ Planet First Partners
Sergio Carvalho explains how Europe's green hydrogen mandate created a market from scratch, and why that model separates investable clima...
39:10 Jun 5, 2026
Can Desalination Solve Water Scarcity? | Sachin Nair, CEO @ Hydron
Sachin Nair says every oil well produces four to five times more water than oil, and Hydron is building the technology to treat it withou...
45:10 Jun 2, 2026
A New Approach to Energy Storage | Thomas Nann, Founder & CEO @ Allegro Energy
Thomas Nann built Allegro Energy's flow battery platform from a microemulsion electrolyte discovery, then had to abandon their first prod...
28:39 May 21, 2026
The Energy Industry Still Runs on Excel | Alon Mashkovich, CEO & Co-Founder @ enSights
Alon Mashkovich built enSights after watching billion-dollar renewable portfolios still run on Excel and CSVs in 2018.
50:00 May 18, 2026
How CleanTech Companies Build Scalable Growth Systems Eben Meyer, CEO @ CleanTech Growth Lab
Eben Meyer shows why up to 62% of B2B ad spend reaches audiences who can never buy your product.
54:40 May 11, 2026
How Battery Storage Is Changing the Grid | Alex Shoer, Managing Partner @ GridVest
Alex Shoer explains why the commercial and industrial battery storage market is structurally broken and what GridVest is doing to fix it.
43:44 May 4, 2026
Why Solar Needs to Change | Michael Fakukakis, Founder & CEO @ Mechatron Solar Inc
Michael Fakukakis built a gearless solar tracker that produces 60% more power than fixed panels, and the hardest part was never the physics.
41:18 Apr 28, 2026
The Hidden Signals Driving CleanTech Sales | Eben Meyer, CEO @ CleanTech Growth Lab
Eben Meyer shows how an EPA enforcement notice beats a hiring signal every time for cleantech sales teams.
37:31 Apr 27, 2026
This Algae Tech Could Replace Wastewater Treatment | Martin Gross, CEO @ GWT
Martin Gross turned a lost oil-industry job in 2016 into GWT, which now uses algae to replace chemicals and bacteria in wastewater treatm...
35:53 Apr 14, 2026
Scaling CleanTech with Eben Meyer, CEO @ CleanTech Growth Lab
Eben Meyer argues CAC is structurally higher in cleantech than any other B2B category, and explains exactly why.
44:05 Apr 6, 2026
The Energy Transition with Emily Grubert, Associate Professor @ University of Notre Dame
Emily Grubert argues the energy transition is not actually happening because no one has committed to making it happen.
35:55 Mar 30, 2026
Building Nature Tech Communities with Paige Perillat-Piratoine, Nature Tech Collective
Paige Perillat-Piratoine built community across army bases, COVID hackathons, and a hygroscopic electricity startup before landing at Nat...
36:44 Mar 10, 2026
Smarter Desalination with Arian Edalat, Founder & CEO @ Active Membranes
Arian Edalat's electrically conductive membranes can self-adjust in real time, targeting a market expansion from $3 billion to $300 billion.
41:48 Mar 10, 2026
Purifying Water with Greg Newbloom, CEO @ Membrion
Greg Newbloom built Membrion's ceramic desalination membrane by walking away from two failed startups first.
39:03 Mar 10, 2026
Sustainable Change with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr, Founder @ Leading Real Change
Dr. Jacqueline Kerr argues that science alone never moves policy makers, but their own constituents reliably do.
46:50 Mar 10, 2026
120-Day Fresh Meat with Gaurav & Anat Tewari (Tewari De-Ox Systems)
Gaurav and Anat Tewari claim their Zero Ox Tech gives retail-ready meat cuts a 120-day shelf life, eliminating a $3 billion annual indust...
51:41 Mar 3, 2026
Betting on Water with Steve Kloos, Partner @ Burnt Island Ventures
Steve Kloos maps a $1.6 trillion water sector and explains why flood forecasting startup Provisico is crushing it.
38:41 Mar 2, 2026
The Shrimp Revolution with Daniel Russek, Founder & CEO @ Atarraya
Daniel Russek built Atarraya over 17 years to prove shrimp farming can close its nitrogen loop without poisoning the ocean.
59:21 Feb 23, 2026
Earth & Water Tech with Sunena Gupta, Associate @ CleanTech Group
Sunena Gupta explains why raw satellite data is becoming worthless without the analytics layer built on top of it.
1:05:37 Feb 23, 2026
Energy & AI with Zainab Gilani, Research Associate @ CleanTech Group
Zainab Gilani's two-bucket framework for energy and power makes data center demand and China's battery leadership suddenly legible.
50:44 Feb 23, 2026
Building Climate Startups with Serena Dao, Climate Tech Operator & Writer
Serena Dao spent years at pre-seed to Series C climate hardware startups before the Engine, and argues carbon capture only survives if it...
55:49 Feb 19, 2026
Critical Minerals & Recycling with Diana Rasner, Group Lead @ CleanTech Group
Diana Rasner explains why China's dominance in mineral refining took 50 years to build and why ore grades are now the mining industry's s...
43:01 Feb 19, 2026
Building Sustainably with Nathan Silvernail, CEO @ Plantd
Nathan Silvernail left SpaceX in 2021 to invent a carbon-negative wood substitute that grows from biomass, not trees.
44:33 Feb 19, 2026
Telling Climate with Eric Fischgrund, Founder & CEO @ FischTank PR
Eric Fischgrund built FischTank PR to 26 employees over 12 years by treating media relations as a craft, not a mail-merge automation.
36:09 Feb 19, 2026
Farming, Finance & Biochar with Aukrit Unahalekhaka, Co-Founder & CEO @ Ricult
Aukrit Unahalekhaka built a million-farmer AgTech platform in Thailand, then walked away to bet on biochar.
1:08:01 Feb 9, 2026
Clean Tech Trends with Anthony DeOrsey, Research Manager @ CleanTech Group
Anthony DeOrsey explains why China's EV market grew from dozens to hundreds of companies before most collapsed, and what the US misreads...
56:10 Feb 9, 2026
Kelp Economy with Majid Hajibeigy, Ecopreneur @ Canadian Pacifico Seaweeds
Majid Hajibeigy explains why every solo kelp farmer burns out and why aggregation is the only path to a real industry.
44:26 Feb 4, 2026
AI for Utilities with Vik Chaudhry, Co-Founder & CTO @ Buzz Solutions
Vik Chaudhry beat GE and ABB in a 2021 New York Power Authority RFP by spending three years building AI models before talking revenue.
51:03 Jan 20, 2026
Water, Risk & Climate Capital with John Robinson, Partner @ Mazarine Climate
John Robinson, after 17 years in water and wastewater, argues the industry's biggest obstacle is that everyone already thinks they unders...
1:15:48 Jan 19, 2026
Nuclear Reality Check with Yangbo Du, Entrepreneur and Innovation Lead @ Innovo
Yangbo Du traces how 48 U.S. utilities bankrupted themselves chasing bespoke reactor designs, and why that still shapes nuclear's odds to...
45:56 Jan 14, 2026
Unlocking Grid Interconnection with Emily Moini, Product Manager @ Nira Energy
Emily Moini explains why transmission planning, one of NERC's 14 reliability categories, is the silent bottleneck for every new solar and...
1:16:00 Dec 22, 2025
Backing the Planet with Hampus Jakobsson, General Partner @ Pale Blue Dot
Hampus Jakobsson of Pale Blue Dot argues the planet's inefficient 'operating system' is the largest investable opportunity humanity has e...
42:28 Dec 15, 2025
Low Flow, Big Impact with Russell Schindler, Founder & CEO @ SampleServe
Russell Schindler turned a Michigan regulatory change in 2001 into a software company by listening to customers who wanted the tool, not...
35:58 Dec 15, 2025
Water Tech Breakthroughs with Nili Persits, Founder & CEO @ Dottir Labs
Nili Persits shrunk a $100,000 refrigerator-sized Raman spectroscopy sensor to cell-phone scale to put real-time water monitoring within...
34:40 Dec 9, 2025
Climate Adaptation with Louie Woodall, Founder @ Climate Proof
Louie Woodall argues climate adaptation is the unavoidable reality most climate media is still choosing not to look at directly.
52:15 Dec 8, 2025
The Future of Nuclear Energy with Rod Adams, Managing Partner @ Nucleation Capital
Rod Adams founded a small modular reactor company in 1993, decades before the term 'SMR' entered mainstream climate discourse.
46:58 Dec 8, 2025
Climate Science with Dr Elizabeth Whitney, Biogeochemist @ NOAA National Ocean Service
Dr. Liz Whitney's PhD compared carbon movement across forest, agricultural, and urban coastal sites in the mid-Atlantic, where sea level...
33:22 Dec 8, 2025
Carbon Recycling with Freya Burton, CSO @ LanzaTech
Freya Burton turned steel mill pollution into ethanol, proving a 'biologically impossible' process commercial by 2018.
40:49 Dec 4, 2025
Navigating False Summits with Ben Silton, CEO @ TrelliSense
Ben Silton built TrelliSense's laser-based methane tracking by treating every sales call and forklift shift as founder training.
39:52 Dec 4, 2025
Bio-Industrial Innovation with Sophia Xu, Co-Founder & CSO @ Carbon Bridge
Sophia Xu's Carbon Bridge makes microbes 500% more productive by solving a physics problem, not a biology one.
46:50 Nov 25, 2025
Entrepreneurship Unfiltered with Celine King, Founder & CEO @ GreenIRR Inc.
Celine King founded GreenIRR at 20 and argues the startup narrative hides the emotional cost that actually determines who survives.
45:01 Nov 25, 2025
Mastering Startup Pivots with Jimmy Chiu, Co-Founder & CTO @ Loop CO2
Jimmy Chiu turned a $1.9M DOE grant into Loop CO2's first 20-liter CO2-to-polyester reactor, scaling chemistry that sat dormant for 40 ye...
48:37 Nov 20, 2025
Regeneration and Innovation with Rob Avis, Co-Founder and Chief Engineering Officer at 5th World
Rob Avis built 5th World after teaching 10,000 people permaculture, arguing beavers increase biodiversity 28x and humans can too.
38:34 Nov 20, 2025
Climate Entrepreneurship with Ben Soltoff, Ecosystem Builder & Entrepreneur in Residence @ MIT
Ben Soltoff's MIT book on climate entrepreneurship argues startups are one route to impact, not the only one.
36:20 Nov 20, 2025
Clean Air Innovation with Austin Riesenberger, Founder @ SWERV
Austin Riesenberger built SWERV's first five ERV units for $2,000 total, then turned down a Hawaii relocation to keep the company.
32:14 Nov 20, 2025
Turning Waste into Value with Mo Balapour, CEO & Co-Founder @ SusMaX
Mo Balapour turned a Drexel PhD project on coal ash into SusMaX, a company recycling landfill waste into construction aggregate.
34:56 Nov 19, 2025
The E-Waste Vision with Agabas Agudor, Founder @ AppCyclers
Agabas Agudor built AppCyclers from a 2019 hackathon with no e-waste knowledge into a nine-person AI marketplace connecting Ghana's infor...
36:17 Nov 19, 2025
Rethinking Water with Quantum Wei, Founder @ Harmony Desalting
Quantum Wei built Harmony Desalting's first prototype over a year of trial and error, then validated it at a 2019 conference in New Orleans.