Rebecca Henderson: Can Capitalism Address Climate Change
As the impacts of climate change mount, questions have arisen about whether the capitalist economic system we have in place is able to adequately address them. But what if, rather than upending the sy...
5 Tammi 202241min
Making a Marketplace for Captured Carbon: Steve Oldham, Carbon Engineering
Many of the innovators we’ve spoken with this season are launching technologies or business models that produce less carbon than status quo approaches – leather made from mushrooms instead of cows, fo...
20 Touko 202142min
Investment Management for the Carbon Potential of Forests: David Brand, New Forests
David Brand is founder and CEO of New Forests, a business that manages forests for long-term returns for institutional investors. He has an unusual climate vision. Right now the forestry business, tog...
13 Touko 202130min
Electrifying Mass Mobility: Uday Khemka, SUN Mobility
Decarbonizing our economy will require shifting transportation from fossil fuels to electricity generated by carbon-free sources. Uday Khemka (HBS MBA 1995), co-Founder and Vice Chairman of SUN Mobili...
6 Touko 202135min
Critical Climate Infrastructure: Scott Jacobs, Generate Capital
Generate Capital invests in and operates technologies that provide distributed clean energy and energy efficiency, electric vehicles and charging depots, and waste transformation—technologies importan...
29 Huhti 202138min
Ensuring a Resilient Future: Shalini Vajjhala and Jamie Rhodes, re:focus partners
Shalini Vajjhala and Jamie Rhodes of re:focus partners share new thinking on how they are helping communities design and finance climate resilience projects needed to protect municipalities from the p...
22 Huhti 202138min
Innovation in Materials for a Better Climate: Matt Scullin, MycoWorks
Matthew Scullin, CEO of MycoWorks, is attempting to reduce the carbon impact of the fashion industry by producing leather made from mushrooms as an alternative to leather made from cow hides or plasti...
15 Huhti 202134min
Bringing Scale Capital to Climate Game-Changers: David Crane, Climate Real Impact Solutions SPAC
David Crane tried to lead the NRG utility to transition from fossil fuel energy sources, but was ousted in 2015. He shares his lessons learned, reflects on what’s changed since then, and describes his...
8 Huhti 202125min
