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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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39:40

The Missing Renewable: Wave Power Comes Ashore

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2026/04/22

Sign up for Johnson Controls' Free Webinar: Optimizing Lifecycle Value Webinar--The ocean is an unforgiving place to put a machine. That’s why wave energy has remained one of the most promising — and most elusive — sources of renewable power. In this episode, Josh talks with Catharina Belfrage Sahlstrand, Chief Commercial Officer of CorPower Ocean, about how the company is turning wave energy into a viable power source. They discuss CorPower’s spherical buoys, designed around a principle

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45:50

The House That Rice Built: Modern Mill’s Breakthrough...

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2026/04/15

Sign up for Johnson Controls' Free Webinar: Optimizing Lifecycle Value Webinar-- It’s one thing to invent a better, more sustainable building material. It’s another to get builders, dealers, and contractors to adopt it. Modern Mill has done both. In this episode, Josh talks with Chandler Delinks, the company’s Sales Director and employee number one, about how Modern Mill set up shop in Mississippi to upcycle rice hulls into Acre, a high-performance material now used for trim, siding,

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43:19

AI Mapping & 3D-Printed Reefs: Coastal Climate...

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2026/04/08

Sign up for Risk and Resilience — Designing for a Changing World, a Johnson Controls fireside chat at 1pm EST today featuring Ralph DiNola, founder of Building Insights Group and former CEO of New Buildings Institute, in conversation with Rob Tanner, Marketing Director at Johnson Controls. --For decades, the answer to shoreline erosion has been the same: build something big, hard, and heavy. Natrx is rewriting that playbook using AI, machine learning, and 3D-printed reef structures

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11:00

Don’t Talk About Climate: How to Scale a Climate Company

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2026/04/01

Every climate company that scales knows the secret: they don’t sell climate. In this solo episode of Supercool, host Josh Dorfman shares one of the clearest lessons from nearly two years of conversations with founders, CEOs, operators, and investors across the low-carbon economy: the companies that break through do not lead with technical specs or climate mission. Their messaging is built around concrete customer benefits. Josh shows what that looks like in practice, with examples from

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47:43

The $1.9 Trillion Opportunity in Circular Retail

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2026/03/25

If the circular economy is ever going to become just “the economy,” it will need infrastructure. In this episode, Josh talks with Rich Amsinger, co-founder of ManyCo, about building it. The conversation traces the company’s evolution from Borobabi, which began with Rich and Carolyn Butler trying to keep their daughter’s outgrown clothes in use, to Manymoons, what the company calls America’s first circular retailer, and now ManyCo, the AI-, logistics-, and demand-powered engine behind it

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51:42

Passive House: All The Lifestyle Gain, None of the...

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2026/03/18

Most architects don't tell you your home could be nearly silent, filter every breath of air, and run almost without heat. Not because it's impossible. Because they don't know how to build it.Michael Ingui does. For more than a decade, his firm has built Passive Houses across New York City — landmarked townhouses, gut renovations, apartments with swimming pools and floor-to-ceiling glass. His clients get quieter rooms, cleaner air, and heating and cooling bills 80 to 90 percent below a

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44:24

Fun: Why Sustainability Needs It And How To Bring It...

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2026/03/11

Nobody wants to be policed. Not even sustainability advocates.Charlie Sellars has spent six years as a Director of Sustainability at Microsoft. He's the author of What We Can Do: A Climate Optimist's Guide to Sustainable Living and his TEDx talk is called Make Sustainability Fun Again. His argument: the movement has spent too long trying to be right at the expense of being effective. And that mistake is costing us.But making sustainability fun is only half the equation. The other half is

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35:58

320 Boreholes Below Brooklyn: How Geothermal Replaces...

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2026/03/04

* Sign-up for Johnson Controls Webinar: Evolving Building Codes *The largest geothermal residential building in New York City just opened in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 834 apartments. 320 boreholes drilled hundreds of feet underground — enough to heat and cool every unit in the building. Even the rooftop pool.Geosource Energy drilled it. This conversation is about how they did it, and what it takes to build geoexchange systems at scale in dense cities, where there's already a city's worth of

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42:09

20 Million Acres Later: Regenerative Ag Has Its...

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2026/02/25

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.Consider factors like weather, debt, input costs, labor, and fluctuating commodity prices. One bad season can set a farmer back years. So when someone shows up and says, “Change how you farm,” the first question any farmer asks is: who’s carrying the risk?That’s the problem Indigo was built to

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46:56

Solar for 45 Million Renters: How Shine Gets Building...

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2026/02/18

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 the split incentive conundrum holding the sector back.Owen Barrett saw this problem when he started investing in apartment buildings. Nobody in multifamily was thinking about energy—just paint colors and new countertops. He tried consulting. Nobody listened. So he raised capital, bought

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45:33

Cash Beats Climate: Crowdfunding Millions for Clean...

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2026/02/11

In 2019, Will Wiseman watched 100,000 people march through Barcelona for the global climate strikes. He felt the hope. Then the obvious truth: everyone was going home and nothing would change.So he built Climatize, an SEC-registered investment platform that lets anyone invest as little as $10 in renewable energy projects across the United States.Climatize specializes in the $250,000-$5 million project range that institutional lenders won't touch. AI tools compress due diligence from weeks

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48:15

Beauty and Brains: Lunar Batteries Save Money and...

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2026/02/04

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 systems that blend sleek design with state-of-the-art technology. Lunar emerged from stealth in 2022 with a mission to deliver endless, affordable clean energy.What differentiates Lunar: it's both a hardware and software company. The battery and AI are designed and integrated as a single system

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39:32

Can AI Save AI Infrastructure? Cutting Energy, Water,...

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2026/01/28

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, Jasper de Vries discovered the butterfly effect in data centers—something on a roof rippling through 300 billion sensor readings down to valves in server rooms. His company, Lucend, ingests that sensor data to generate operator recommendations. One facility cut power usage by 40% in a year,

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38:53

Stop Sorting: How UBQ Materials Uses 100% Of Your Trash

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2026/01/21

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. Everything. 100% utilization. Nothing returns to landfills.The material works in existing manufacturing equipment, costs the same as virgin plastic, and can be recycled 10+ times. It's already in Mercedes interiors and McDonald's products.CEO Albert Douer spent eight years in stealth mode perfecting

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45:41

Modernization Is Electrification: How Schneider...

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2026/01/14

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 sight. Which means the US needs to build as much grid infrastructure in the next decade as we built in the last 50 years.Schneider Electric is a 189-year-old infrastructure company that makes everything from the cooling systems in AI factories to the switchgear moving power across the grid. Jim

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49:41

Mass Timber For The Masses: How Sterling Mainstreamed...

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2026/01/07

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, mass timber is moving mainstream—competing on price, speed, and domestic supply chains, not sustainability alone.Sterling Structural is leading that shift. As the world's largest CLT manufacturer, the company produces one cross-laminated timber panel every 65 seconds, sourcing 100% of its wood

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46:55

The Clean Energy Transition Runs on Affordability

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2025/12/31

Clean power has never been cheaper. So why are electricity bills rising—and what's blocking faster deployment? Jigar Shah joins Supercool to explain why 2025 marked a turning point: for the first time in history, essentially 100% of new electricity demand worldwide was met by solar, wind, and nuclear. It happened because the same solutions that solve climate change are winning on affordability.But deployment could be moving much faster. The technology is proven. The finance exists. The

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45:06

The $2.2 Trillion Year: Clean Power Keeps Compounding

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2025/12/24

In 2025, the U.S. president called climate change a hoax. Meanwhile, global clean energy investment hit a record $2.2 trillion. Akshat Rathi is a senior reporter covering climate and energy for Bloomberg. His read on the past year: China is becoming the modern Standard Oil. The same way Rockefeller's empire exported petroleum infrastructure globally, China is now exporting electrification—solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, grid tech, project finance—to countries racing to modernize

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55:06

The Grid's Next Move: Nuclear Daydreams vs....

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2025/12/17

In this end-of-year conversation, David Roberts, a renowned climate and clean energy journalist, lays out his headline for 2025: the rapid growth of AI data centers has forced long-delayed decisions about the power system. After two decades of mostly flat U.S. electricity demand, utilities are now facing sharp new load growth, tighter timelines, and major uncertainty—making grid capacity and interconnection central challenges. Roberts, who hosts and writes the Volts podcast and newsletter,

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40:41

Remote-Control High-Rises: HVAC That Pays You Back

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2025/12/10

Real estate companies say they want sustainability. They'll pay for it too, provided it comes with zero risk.Brad Pilgrim is co-founder & CEO of Parity, a remote HVAC optimization service for high-rises and hotels. Its customer team can walk into a building, spend 90 minutes going from the basement to roof, and tell the owner how much energy they can save—then guarantee it. After eight years, clients like AvalonBay—one of the largest multifamily REITs in the country—are seeing 20-30%

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