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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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28:28

Election Special: Deputy Secretary David Turk of the...

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2024/11/02

Are we better off today as a nation than we were four years ago in our efforts to decarbonize the economy and build a more equitable society? With the election on the horizon, we’re taking stock of the strides made since the Biden-Harris Administration took office and prioritized the clean energy transition.David Turk, Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy, joins the conversation. As the DOE’s second-in-command and Chief Operating Officer, he has played a key role in

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56:45

Climate Meets Crypto: CleanSpark’s Clean Energy...

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2024/10/30

Bitcoin mining frequently faces criticism in climate circles for its voracious energy appetite. But what if that narrative is over-generalized or maybe even entirely misses the mark?This week, we venture into the world of Bitcoin with Matthew Schultz, the founding CEO and now Executive Chairman of CleanSpark—the fourth largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner by market capitalization, valued at $3.2 billion. CleanSpark’s roots in renewable energy predate its entry into Bitcoin mining. A decade

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44:32

Geothermal Comes with the House: The Future of Home...

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2024/10/23

Bringing climate tech into the mainstream means pulling off the near-impossible: replacing familiar, conventional choices with something cheaper, better, and easier to adopt. That’s precisely what Dandelion Energy has accomplished with home geothermal energy.Kathy Hannun spun Dandelion out of Google X—Alphabet’s lab for moonshot ideas—in 2017, aiming to make geothermal a no-brainer for homeowners: easy to install, cheaper than traditional heating and cooling, and so seamless you barely

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40:39

Crime Fighters & Therapists: The Low-cost, High Value...

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2024/10/16

Startling research from the U.S. Forest Service reveals that urban trees are more than just climate champions. They're playing a pivotal public health role in cities. The more trees in your neighborhood, the less violent crime, fewer prescriptions for antidepressants, and lower rates of asthma, childhood leukemia, and other immune diseases. These leafy giants affect everything from improved pregnancy outcomes to longer life expectancy. While saving the Amazon grabs headlines, the trees

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47:11

Clean Cities: Piping Out Trash Beneath The Streets

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2024/10/09

Cities worldwide are revolutionizing waste management, reshaping their streets into cleaner, quieter, and safer spaces. Today, we dive deep into how urban neighborhoods, hospitals, and high-rises are rethinking trash collection, going underground to cut carbon, lower costs, boost recycling, strengthen resilience, and enrich the quality of life for residents on the streets above.Joining Josh is Joakim Karlsson, CEO of Envac, the Swedish company that invented underground automated waste

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48:08

Masterfully Planned: Hurricane-Proof, Zero-Energy...

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2024/10/02

An hour outside Tampa on Florida’s hurricane-prone Gulf Coast, Hunters Point presents a bold new vision for sustainable housing. As the first community in the world to achieve LEED Zero Energy certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, it operates entirely on renewable energy. Solar panels and battery storage guarantee residents never face an energy bill, while the thick, super-insulated walls and other cutting-edge features provide the resilience needed to weather

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51:33

Cities on the Move: Safe, Connected Bike Lanes Built...

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2024/09/25

Every city dreams of safe, connected bike lanes that quickly get people where they want to go. But turning those dreams into reality often drags on for years, if not decades, stalling a city’s aspirations and frustrating its citizens. A complete network of protected bike lanes does more than enable zero-emission commuting and errand running—it enhances health, boosts economic activity, attracts job-creating companies, and raises overall quality of life.Enter The Final Mile Project—a

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38:32

Wind, Water & Solar: 100% Clean Renewable Energy by 2035

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2024/09/18

On January 10th, 2019, just a few months before the COVID -19 crisis struck and changed our world forever, 600 organizations wrote a letter to Congress in support of policies to dramatically cut carbon emissions. It included phasing out the extraction of all fossil fuels and abolishing subsidies for the industry. And it called for a transition to 100% clean renewable energy by 2035.Just a few weeks later, on February 7th, Representative Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez and Senator Edward Markey

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Net Zero Energy Schools: Lower Emissions, Higher...

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2024/09/11

Baltimore is setting a new benchmark for education and sustainability with its groundbreaking net zero energy schools. Holabird Academy and Graceland Park, both public pre-k through 8th-grade schools, are redefining what it means to learn in a future-forward environment free from fossil fuels. With solar panels on the roof, geothermal wells below the ballfields, and energy-efficient features throughout, they generate all the power they need to operate. While a clear win for the planet,

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43:32

Inside the Global Race to Decarbonize Cities and...

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2024/09/04

Cities are in a high-stakes race to cut carbon. Responsible for 70% of global emissions, urban centers around the world are rising to the occasion. In Africa, Addis Ababa is planting millions of trees. In Asia, Shenzhen operates an all-electric fleet of thousands of public transportation buses. In North America, New York City is driving deep decarbonization in large buildings through ambitious greenhouse gas reduction laws. In Europe, Paris is hyper-localizing everything — work, school,

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49:18

Robot Revolution: Unseating Lawn Care with Autonomous...

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2024/08/28

Heading into Labor Day weekend, we visit Martha's Vineyard only to discover it's ground zero for the robotic future. Autonomous, battery-powered, electric lawnmowers are gliding efficiently and quietly across our sports fields, parks, and backyards today. Americans love their lawns, and it shows - caring for them is a $60 billion business responsible for 4-5% of U.S. annual greenhouse gas emissions, a staggering climate impact for a single industry. Now, school districts from Fargo, North

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Geothermal Energy Runs Deep in Boise and Across the U.S.

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2024/08/22

In Fort Worth, 4,000 new wells are in the ground but weren't drilled for oil. Instead, they're tapping underground water for a massive, Texas-sized high school heated and cooled by geothermal energy. In Framingham, Massachusetts, Eversource, New England's largest natural gas utility, built a brand new district geothermal system for thirty-seven residences and commercial buildings, a historic milestone in the transition of fossil fuel companies to clean energy. Geothermal is on the rise, but

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High Achievers: Denver Public Schools District Leads...

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2024/08/14

Over a sustained two-year effort, a group of thirty students within the Denver Public Schools District convinced the School Board of Education to approve a climate policy that charged the district with becoming a national leader in climate action. Leanne Kittle, Executive Director of Sustainability, is responsible for developing and steering Denver's Climate Action Plan, which already saves the school system $5 million annually through carbon-cutting initiatives. LeeAnn joins host Josh

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Utah’s Residential Solar Plus Batteries Model Could...

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2024/08/07

Utah is at the forefront of a major shift in residential solar energy. Rocky Mountain Power, the state's energy utility, is enrolling thousands of residents in Wattsmart, a pioneering program offering financial incentives and payments to homeowners who install grid-connected batteries alongside solar panels or retrofit older solar panel systems with new batteries. Rocky Mountain Power weaves these batteries together into a "virtual power plant" that keeps energy rates low, cuts carbon

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Heat in Sewers to the Rescue and Making Vancouver The...

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2024/07/31

Let's go to Vancouver, where Josh speaks with former Mayor Gregor Robertson, elected on a platform to make Vancouver the greenest city on the planet. Over three terms, Gregor's administration spearheaded many sustainability initiatives, including North America's largest sewer heat recovery system, which has provided zero-emissions heat and hot water to 6,000+ apartments in the False Creek neighborhood since 2010, when Vancouver hosted the Olympics. We also speak with Lynn Mueller, the

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Green Hospitals: Gundersen Health embraces renewable...

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2024/07/17

In 2009, Gundersen Health System embarked on an audacious journey to generate all of its power from local, renewable energy sources. By 2014, the organization headquartered in La Crosse, Wisconsin, succeeded. Alan Eber was right there near the beginning, first as Manager of Engineering and Energy and eventually rising to Director of Gundersen Envision, overseeing the entire energy and sustainability arm of the organization. Alan joins us to share this remarkable story of climate innovation

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Welcome to Supercool

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2024/06/20

The low-carbon future is unfolding faster than most of us realize. In the U.S. alone, over 600 towns and cities are implementing climate action plans. Supercool explores civilization’s dynamic response to climate change, the people and places leading the way in cutting carbon emissions while saving money and improving our quality of life. Hosted by Josh Dorfman, climate author and entrepreneur, the show highlights today’s most innovative climate solutions that fit the modern world and bring

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