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Supercool

Climate companies are winning. Trillions in capital are shifting to solutions that cut carbon, grow profits, and redefine modern life. At the center are CEOs, founders, and operators turning climate innovation into market momentum. Hosted by climate-tech founder and author Josh Dorfman, Supercool goes inside their strategies, execution, and business models to reveal how value is created in the race to decarbonize—and how the future is being built.

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43:45

Interface is Going Carbon-Negative (No Offsets...

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2025/08/20

Interface is a public company proving that carbon-negative is possible at scale. The billion-dollar flooring brand has more than 400 carbon-negative products on the market today and a plan to take its entire business carbon-negative by 2040. Liz Minne, Head of Global Sustainability Strategy, shares how Interface is operationalizing that ambition through product innovation, supply chain engagement, and a culture that keeps climate goals at the center of business decisions. She discusses what

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42:44

Amazon: Faster Delivery, Lower Emissions

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2025/08/13

At Amazon, speed isn’t a carbon cost—it’s a carbon advantage. The company now runs 30,000 electric delivery vehicles, delivered 1.5 billion packages on battery power last year, and has built over 600 renewable energy projects in more than 20 countries—20 gigawatts of clean energy capacity, making it the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable power.Inside that scale is a playbook for how a global business operationalizes decarbonization without slowing down. Chris Rowe, Amazon’s

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41:12

Freedom From Ordinary: Brompton Folding Bikes Take on...

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2025/08/06

For fifty years, Brompton has been the most iconic name in urban cycling. Engineered and made in London, beloved by city riders, and still unrivaled in how fast it folds and how good it feels to ride.But in the U.S., where biking is still mostly recreational and folding bikes barely register, the brand faces a different challenge: how to scale a joy-filled, performance-driven mobility tool in a market that doesn’t know it needs it.Juliet Scott-Croxford, President of the Americas, is

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42:36

Clean Energy Is As American As Football in the...

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2025/07/30

To scale climate solutions, you have to know how to talk about them. The companies driving climate adoption don’t just offer better solutions—they tell better stories. Stories that reframe clean energy as the smarter, cheaper, everyday choice. Stories that win customers, sway skeptics, and shift markets.Keith Zakheim has spent two decades working with climate brands to sharpen their strategy and scale their message. As CEO of Antenna Group, he’s shaped the public narrative around clean

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47:59

Hemp Grows Up: A Long-Awaited Crop Now Insulates U.S....

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2025/07/23

Industrial hemp always had believers. What it lacked was a supply chain.Hempitecture is changing that—starting with the only commercial-scale factory in the U.S. making high-performance home insulation from hemp.From Idaho, it now ships to over 5,000 customers across 48 states. It’s the largest buyer of industrial hemp fiber in North America—proving a crop once sidelined by regulation and volatility can power a fast-growing manufacturing business.In this episode, co-founder Tommy Gibbons

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51:39

Electrify Everything: Span’s Big Bet on the Dumbest...

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2025/07/16

Consumers want the upgrades. The climate does too. But the electrical panel in the garage stands in the way.EVs, heat pumps, induction stoves—electrification is becoming more attractive. The products are faster, cleaner, cheaper to run. But nearly 48 million U.S. homes still rely on outdated 100-amp service. That means expensive utility upgrades, long delays, and a halt to progress.Arch Rao, former Tesla Energy product lead, built Span to fix the bottleneck. The Span Panel replaces the old

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45:39

Clean Energy Is Dead. Long Live Clean Energy.

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2025/07/09

Clean Energy Is Dead. Long Live Clean Energy.The U.S. was first. The first silicon solar cell in New Jersey. The first wind turbine in Cleveland. The first microinverter in a California garage.But now it’s China scaling the clean energy transition—building factories, locking in supply chains, and racing toward a low-carbon economy at industrial speed.In the U.S., the president just signed the Big Beautiful Bill into law—gutting the historic clean energy investments at the heart of the

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49:22

Profits at Recycling's Edge: TerraCycle Finds ROI in...

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2025/07/02

TerraCycle takes on waste the rest of the world ignores—cigarette butts, diapers, pharmaceutical blister packs.But what makes the model work isn’t what they recycle. It’s how they get companies to pay for it.Even with one of the boldest missions in climate tech—eliminate the idea of waste—TerraCycle doesn’t lead with sustainability. It leads with the business case.In this episode, CEO Tom Szaky shares with host Josh Dorfman how the company has grown for 23 straight years by solving a

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49:30

Built for the EV Generation: Formula E Energizes 500...

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2025/06/25

When Roger Griffiths first heard about Formula E in 2014, he was intrigued but skeptical. A veteran of IndyCar, Le Mans, and Formula 1—and a self-described petrol head—he wasn’t convinced electric racing could deliver credible performance.Then he saw who was signing on.Michael Andretti. Alain Prost. Emerson Fittipaldi. Frank Williams. Plus early backers like Richard Branson. Racing legends and global brands were putting their reputations behind an all-electric series built for city streets,

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41:33

Cleaning the Grid: Wärtsilä Tackles the Toughest...

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2025/06/18

Grid battery storage has gone from niche to necessary, fast.Projects that were once 300 megawatt-hours are now hitting 9 gigawatt-hours. And companies like Wärtsilä are leading the charge, taking on the hardest, highest-stakes deployments around the world.In this episode, Dave Hebert, VP of Global Sales & Business Strategy for Wärtsilä's Energy Storage division, takes us inside the systems powering the clean energy transition. Wärtsilä has deployed over 17 gigawatt-hours of

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58:34

The ROI on Climate Capital: A Mayor’s Blueprint for...

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2025/06/11

Jaime Pumarejo led one of the most ambitious urban transformations in Latin America. As mayor of Barranquilla, Colombia—a coastal city of 1.5 million—he turned climate action into economic growth, civic pride, and global recognition.He didn’t just plant trees. He created a public-private company to integrate trees into city planning—boosting property values, tax revenue, and urban resilience. He led the development of 300 community-designed parks that revitalized neighborhoods and

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45:01

Solar, Semiconductors, and the American Dream:...

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2025/06/04

The energy grid we know today was built for a different era—centralized generation, one-way power flow, no rooftop solar, no EVs, no AI-driven demand. If Thomas Edison were alive, he’d recognize it instantly. And that’s the problem.Raghu Belur bet the system would have to change. In 2006, he co-founded Enphase Energy and started from the distributed edge, designing a microinverter that made every solar panel smart, efficient, and self-reliant.That foundation became the starting point for a

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47:22

Racing the Clock: Wasteless Turns Expiring Food into...

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2025/05/28

If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter, right behind the United States and China, accounting for 8-10% of global carbon emissions. It’s a staggering problem: 30% of all food produced globally goes to waste. And for supermarkets already operating on razor-thin margins, that waste translates into billions of dollars lost every year.At the heart of the problem? A broken pricing model. Food hits an arbitrary sell-by date—and it’s trashed.Oded Omer thought that was

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43:55

Climate Finance: The Mayor Who Built a Subway—and is...

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2025/05/21

Before becoming the youngest elected mayor in Quito’s history, Mauricio Rodas had already founded a political party, launched a think tank in Mexico City, and run for president.In 1944, when the global financial system was designed, just 29% of the world lived in cities. Today, that number has nearly doubled to 56%. Cities now account for more than 70% of global emissions and 80% of energy consumption—yet most still can’t access the capital they need to fund climate solutions. The system,

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45:34

Trove Turns Recommerce into a Profit Driver for...

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2025/05/14

Circularity isn’t just about keeping t-shirts and jeans out of landfills. Done right, it’s a growth engine for brands. That’s exactly what Trove is building: the recommerce technology that drives margins, attracts new customers, and streamlines operations.As the resale platform behind Patagonia, Levi’s, Brooks, Arc'teryx, Carhartt, and Canada Goose, Trove helps brands give their products a second, third, even fourth life—while driving profitable growth.For CEO Terry Boyle, an e-commerce

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46:24

The Mayor Who Cut Carbon, Cut Bills, and Cut a...

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2025/05/07

As mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees helped launch a billion-pound public-private partnership to decarbonize his city, one of the most ambitious deals of its kind anywhere in the world.This wasn’t just about climate targets. It was about results: cutting emissions, cutting energy bills, creating jobs, and improving housing — all while building a long-term investment model that gave private partners confidence and gave residents real benefits they could feel.When Marvin started, the city had no

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44:18

Rare Earths, Recycled: How Cyclic Materials Achieved...

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2025/04/30

Rare earth magnets power the modern world and the clean energy transition. They’re inside every EV motor, wind turbine, MRI machine, and computer hard drive in a data center. But the world throws most of them away. Less than 1% are ever recycled.That’s the crisis Cyclic Materials was built to solve — by turning circularity into industrial reality.In this episode, CEO Ahmad Ghahreman explains how his team figured out what the industry long thought impossible: separating rare earth magnets

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34:35

3x the Grid: Siemens Energy and the Race to Rewire...

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2025/04/23

It took over a century to build today’s power grid. Now we need to triple its capacity by 2050. Why? Because demand is surging, and a net-zero future depends on a bigger, smarter, and cleaner grid. Electrification is transforming how we power transportation, buildings, industry, and data. Renewables are decentralized and intermittent. And the current grid, built for centralized fossil fuel power, wasn’t designed for what comes next.Grid infrastructure is now one of the most urgent

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45:38

Simple, Unstoppable: Rondo Energy is Solving...

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2025/04/16

Rondo Energy is building a renewable energy battery using bricks and toaster wire. But it’s not for your home—it’s for the factories that run the world. Industrial heat drives 10% of global carbon emissions. It’s essential for making steel, cement, chemicals, food, paper, and fuel. And it’s one of the hardest challenges in climate—expensive to electrify, risky to retrofit, and central to the global economy.That’s what makes Rondo’s approach so powerful. In this episode, John O’Donnell,

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46:31

Apple-ifying Energy: Renew Home Makes Virtual Power...

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2025/04/09

Fifteen years ago, smart thermostats promised to save you money and learn your habits. Today, they—and other grid-connected devices and appliances—are forming the backbone of the most sustainable power plant on the grid.Jeff Gleeson, Chief Product Officer of Renew Home, joins Josh to unpack how his team is transforming everyday home tech into a distributed, intelligent, always-on energy layer—one that cuts carbon, boosts grid resilience, and earns households money, all without asking

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