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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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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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46:22

$72 Billion Brokered: CRC is Clean Energy's Dealmaker

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2025/01/22

Who is paying for the clean energy revolution? Today, we’re diving into the financial side of the transition—where the trillions of dollars needed to move civilization off fossil fuels and into a low-carbon future are coming from, and how these massive deals come together. Joining Josh is Britta Von Oesen, Partner and Managing Director at CRC, the nation’s leading investment bank dedicated exclusively to financing the clean energy economy. CRC has advised on over 350 deals worth $72

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39:44

Right on Schedule: Zum Gives America’s School Buses a...

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2025/01/15

Every day, 27 million kids ride 500,000 school buses—the largest transit system in America. And yet, this 80-year-old relic is stuck in the past: buses are late, routes are inefficient, and parents have no clue where the bus is or when it’s coming. Ritu Narayan, founder and CEO of Zum, decided to fix it. All of it.With real-time tracking, smarter routes, and electric buses, Zum has modernized student transportation for 4,000 schools, including the school districts of Los Angeles, San

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41:26

Cutting Carbon with a Side of Fries: Budderfly Lowers...

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2025/01/08

Budderfly is one of the fastest growing companies in America, with an unparalleled Energy-as-a-Service offering. For many small business owners, especially franchisees of the world's most recognizable fast food brands like Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC, Al Subbloie and team offer up to 40% energy savings and no-cost upgrades of HVAC, lighting, and refrigeration equipment. Solar panels? Why not? Budderfly won’t even charge to install all of this state-of-the-art infrastructure. With an offer

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42:08

The Hidden Problem Wasting 10% of the World’s...

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2025/01/01

In 2009, Amit Gupta, a rising executive at Carrier, the global HVAC company, discovered a neglected technology inside the company called Aeroseal. It used aerosol particles to seal air leaks in building envelopes and air ducts—offering a simple yet powerful way to tackle a major problem: the 10% of global energy wasted due to leaks. Seeing its potential, Amit took a leap. In 2010, he left his corporate career, rebooted Aeroseal as a startup, and focused on what matters most to customers:

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40:40

(Reprised) Green Hospitals: How Gundersen Switched to...

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2024/12/25

In 2014, Gundersen Health, headquartered in La Crosse, Wisconsin, became the nation's first health system to eliminate fossil fuels, transitioning to 100% local renewable energy. Today, the high-growth Gundersen saves $5 million annually on energy, helping to control healthcare costs for its patient populations across 11 hospitals and 100+ clinics in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. Gundersen merged with Bellin Health in 2022 to become Emplify Heath. Alan Eber led the effort at

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22:17

The Underground Climate Economy: Modernizing Cities...

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2024/12/18

Cities have nowhere to go but down to tap new sources of emissions-free, clean energy, harden assets against climate impacts, cut operational costs, and enhance urban life for their residents above. In this end-of-year episode, we're delving into the emergence of the underground climate economy, a Supercool trend we've identified after completing our first 20 episodes since launching in July.Whether eliminating curbside trash pickup by sending out trash through pneumatic tubes below

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52:12

In Iowa, Wind Energy Sees No Red or Blue, Only Green

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2024/12/04

Iowa generates enough wind power to meet 77% of its energy demand. That's great for combating climate change and financially beneficial for local farmers, towns, and the overall economy. Discover how Iowa rose to wind energy prominence. We're joined by Chaz Allen, former Mayor of Newton, Iowa, and current Executive Director of the Iowa Utility Association. We also speak with Kathy Law, a farmer turned corporate attorney and one of the leading wind energy dealmakers in the state

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43:18

Breakthrough Climate Tech Marketing: Rising Above a...

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2024/11/27

Marketing holds the key to many of today's climate challenges. Companies trying to break through and reach potential buyers with their world-changing, carbon-cutting solutions must separate from a "sea of same," says today's guest. That's true whether touting new software that helps businesses cut costs and carbon or introducing carbon-negative building materials into the residential and commercial building industries, like Plantd, the company Josh co-founded before starting Supercool.Even

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52:49

No Grid, No Problem: d.light Transforms 180 Million...

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2024/11/20

Ned Tozun and Sam Goldman founded d.light in 2007 with a mission to provide safe, affordable, and sustainable energy solutions for all. For d.light, “all” has meant creating solar-powered products for over two billion people worldwide who lack reliable access to energy. It all began with an affordable, durable solar-powered lamp.Seventeen years later, d.light has become a global phenomenon. Its solar products have improved the lives of over 180 million people across 72 countries, including

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41:46

Walk This Way: Redesigning Cities with Jeff Speck

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2024/11/13

How do cities become great places to walk? What moves people to ditch their cars and use their own feet? According to Jeff Speck, the key is that the walk itself has to be as good as a drive. Jeff wrote the book on walkability—literally. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time is the best-selling city-planning title of the 21st century and a classic on making cities pedestrian-friendly.Jeff’s “General Theory of Walkability” spells out exactly what it takes: walking

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