20 Million Acres Later: Regenerative Ag Has Its Business Model
People assume farmers are conservative by nature. Cautious. Set in their ways.Ryan Jones, VP of Sustainability at Indigo Ag, has a different read: farmers aren’t risk-averse. They’re risk-saturated.Co...
25 Helmi 42min
Solar for 45 Million Renters: How Shine Gets Building Owners to Say "Yes"
Forty-five million Americans live in apartments. Almost none have solar—not because the technology doesn't work, but because building owners pay for installation while tenants get the savings. It's th...
18 Helmi 46min
Cash Beats Climate: Crowdfunding Millions for Clean Energy
In 2019, Will Wiseman watched 100,000 people march through Barcelona for the global climate strikes. He felt hope. Then the obvious truth: everyone was going home, and nothing would change. So, he bui...
11 Helmi 45min
Beauty and Brains: Lunar Batteries Save Money and Look Good Doing It
Kunal Girotra was Head of Tesla Energy before leaving in 2020 to found Lunar Energy. Then he went silent. Over two years, he raised $300 million, built a 250-person team, and developed home battery sy...
4 Helmi 48min
Can AI Save AI Infrastructure? Cutting Energy, Water, and Wear in Data Centers
Data centers have always pursued energy efficiency through better hardware—smarter chillers, advanced cooling systems. But there's a ceiling. You can only make hardware so efficient.Seven years ago, J...
28 Tammi 39min
Stop Sorting: How UBQ Materials Uses 100% Of Your Trash
What if we stopped trying to recycle and just used all our trash instead?UBQ Materials makes bio-plastics from entire trash bags—dirty diapers, greasy pizza boxes, chicken bones, mixed plastics. Every...
21 Tammi 38min
Modernization Is Electrification: How Schneider Electric Builds at Gigawatt Scale
When any part of the economy modernizes, it electrifies. New HVAC systems? Electric heat pumps. Autonomous vehicles? Battery-powered electric cars. Next-generation factories? Not a smoke stack in sigh...
14 Tammi 45min
Mass Timber For The Masses: How Sterling Mainstreamed CLT
Mass Timber is growing fast—expanding from a handful of commercial wood buildings in the U.S. just over a decade ago to more than 2,000 today, with 24,000 projected by 2034. Once considered niche, mas...
7 Tammi 49min
