Climate education and literacy is an often overlooked climate solution. This week, we spoke to Rebecca Lindsey, project director of Climate.us. Her team of former Climate.gov staff rebuilt the federal government’s free climate science resource after 2025 federal cutbacks. Now an independent nonprofit, the site keeps climate science accessible to everyone.
Group-buys of heat pumps can encourage more homeowners to make the switch from traditional gas furnaces, which are large contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, by offsetting the high upfront cost. Shreyas Sudhakar, founder and CEO of heat pump installment company Vayu, also comments on both the technical efficiency and sustainability benefits of the shift to heat pumps.
Solar panels have become a leading solution in the race to expand renewable energy infrastructure – but cost, both environmental and financial, is a critical challenge. This week, we spoke to materials scientist Dr. Marina Leite whose work on perovskite solar cells represents a significant advancement in making solar development cleaner and cheaper.
As livestock farming is increasingly known as a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions, cellular agriculture has emerged as a sustainable alternative to conventional meat production. This week, we spoke with Dr. Natalie Rubio, co-founder and CEO of Deco Labs, about how advances in cellular agriculture could make cultured meat more affordable and accessible.
The Central Valley faces devastating water shortages exacerbated by climate change. At the same time, California requires massive solar energy deployment to meet its climate goals. The Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan is an ambitious plan to build out solar energy capacity across the Central Valley in what would be an economic lifeline for the region’s farmers and, if fully built out, the largest solar energy project in the world.
For decades, lithium-ion batteries have been on the cutting edge, but now, sodium-ion batteries could make renewable energy storage more abundant, cheaper, and less carbon-intensive. Dr. Shirely Meng explains how sodium could be used to complement lithium-ion batteries, especially for large scale grid storage, by relying on an abundant resource and existing manufacturing infrastructure.
Cheese is one of the least sustainable food products in the world. Matt Gibson, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of New Culture, has spearheaded a way to make cheese more eco-friendly—without sacrificing taste.
A sustainable, waste-free solar industry may be cultivated through solar panel recycling. This week, we spoke to Dr. Pablo Dias, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of SOLARCYCLE about how solar panel recycling can play a role in reducing environmental challenges of renewable energy.
Small green tech startups often have the right ideas but lack the resources to get them to market. Howard Lee, associate director of Hong Kong’s green technology hub at HKSTP, explains how a physical community of 230+ companies ranging from new energy, smart cities, green buildings, and green fintech are changing that equation. By co-locating companies of like minds, facilitating business matchmaking, and offering hands-on training for attracting investors, the hub helps startups punch above their weight. Howard talks about how the hubs accelerate the replacement of climate-harming technology by giving green innovators the network, visibility, and skills they need to go global.
At UC Berkeley, electricity and steam are generated by burning natural gas – but a renewable energy future is right around the corner. This week, we spoke to Sally McGarrahan, Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Services, about how the university is advancing towards a carbon free campus through clean energy innovation.