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Supercool

Low-carbon innovations are scaling. But innovation alone doesn"t win markets. Adoption does. Each week, climate entrepreneur Josh Dorfman talks with the founders, CEOs, and executives who win customers, grow revenue, and capture market share—by making their low-carbon solutions the industry’s preferred choice. Without adoption, the clean energy transition falters. With adoption, we build the low-carbon future. Supercool reveals how we get there.

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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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33:01

Reuse, Rock ‘n’ Roll & the Circular Economy

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2025/04/02

Mike Martin helped launch the first climate change concert tour with Dave Matthews. He’s worked with Billie Eilish to flip venues vegan and wrote the green touring playbook years ago that artists still follow today.But after decades trying to make recycling and compostables work at live events, Mike hit a wall. Zero-waste wasn’t working. Then he remembered what he saw on tour with U2 during the Joshua Tree run—European stadiums using reusable cups.That moment sparked r.World, the reuse

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33:09

Old Giant, New Vision: Johnson Controls Puts Carbon...

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2025/03/26

Johnson Controls helped invent modern air conditioning. Now, it’s reengineering how buildings cut carbon — using AI and automation to make infrastructure smarter, cleaner, and more efficient.Reuben Petty, Principal Digital Sales Engineer, works with business leaders, facility teams, and city officials to connect legacy systems to the digital tools of tomorrow. His focus is OpenBlue — the company’s platform that brings data and intelligence to the heart of building operations.In this

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40:55

The E-Bike Boom: How Upway Is Winning the...

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2025/03/19

E-bikes are booming—nearly as many were sold in the U.S. last year as electric cars. But while EVs get the attention, e-bikes are quietly reshaping how people move, cutting emissions, making urban life easier, and recreation more fun.The catch? Buying an e-bike is easy. Reselling one isn’t.That’s where Upway comes in. They’re building the Carvana for e-bikes—a seamless resale marketplace with accessible pricing, warranties, home delivery, and easy returns. And the industry is taking

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46:00

Power Moves: Turning Clean Energy into a Simple,...

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2025/03/12

How do you make solar adoption irresistible? By not selling solar.This week on Supercool, we’re joined by Mary Powell, CEO of Sunrun, and Jessica Bergman, a marketing strategist who’s spent her career figuring out why clean energy adoption stalls—and how to fix it.Under Mary’s leadership, Sunrun stopped being just a solar company and became something much bigger: a storage-first, customer-obsessed clean energy lifestyle brand. And it’s working—60%+ of customers now add batteries, turning

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40:41

Telling the Future: Climate, Capital, and the Power...

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2025/03/05

Supercool regularly speaks with innovators working at the intersection of business, technology, and climate—AI giving buildings brains, pneumatic tubes hauling away trash, and electric school buses optimizing routes. With so much climate momentum underway, how do we properly assess this moment?Molly Wood has been tracking it from multiple angles. A veteran journalist (Wired, CNET, The New York Times, NPR’s Marketplace), she left media to invest in climate tech—then returned with Everybody

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49:58

There’s a New Clean Energy Grid in Town—And It’s Your...

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2025/02/26

Since 2018, GoodLeap has financed home solar, batteries, and efficiency upgrades at an unprecedented scale—serving over 1 million customers and originating more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions.Founder Hayes Barnard saw the bottleneck wasn’t price—it was friction. Homeowners needed fast, hassle-free financing. Contractors needed better tools to manage projects. GoodLeap built a technology platform to solve both—delivering a seamless, app-driven experience that puts

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42:36

The Architects Who Don’t Wait For Permission

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2025/02/19

CannonDesign is building a reputation for designing buildings that eliminate carbon and improve lives. In 2024, Metropolis Magazine recognized the firm as its Planet Positive Firm of the Year for leading the way in net-zero architecture.It wasn't always this way. As one of North America's largest and oldest firms, CannonDesign had the scale, heritage, and reputation—but no clear sustainability strategy. In 2019, they turned to Eric Corey Freed, one of the foremost voices in green

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42:03

AI Has Entered the Building: The Future of Energy and...

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2025/02/12

What if buildings could think for themselves—anticipating energy needs, preventing breakdowns, and adjusting to outside weather conditions in real time? In this episode, we explore how BrainBox AI, a Montreal-based company, is making that a reality. Their cutting-edge technology powers over 15,000 buildings across 17 countries, using advanced artificial intelligence to take the guesswork out of building management. No more scrambling for last-minute repairs or manually adjusting

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48:32

Hot Rocks: The Battery That is Changing Industrial...

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2025/02/05

Industrial heat is one of the biggest, most stubborn sources of carbon emissions—responsible for nearly a quarter of global greenhouse gases. High costs, complex retrofits, and tight margins keep manufacturers locked into fossil fuels. But what if there were a way to swap out natural gas boilers without costly disruptions or major infrastructure overhauls? That’s exactly what Brenmiller’s thermal energy storage (TES) technology offers. Chief Business Officer Doron Brenmiller explains how

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46:55

Zero-Carbon Compute: How TeraWulf Powers The Future...

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2025/01/29

The one name on the business community's mind this week is DeepSeek—the Chinese AI company that seemingly came out of nowhere, built a model so good it shot to #1 in the Apple App Store and did it allegedly for just $5.6 million.That price tag sent shockwaves across markets. OpenAI, Google, and others are spending billions to train their AI models. If cutting-edge AI can be built this cheaply, what does that mean for the infrastructure powering it?Enter TeraWulf. Best known as one of the

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