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Flanigan"s Eco-Logic

Flanigan’s Eco-Logic is a sustainability and clean energy podcast hosted by Ted Flanigan, exploring practical solutions for a more sustainable future. Ted talks with leading practitioners and policy makers about solar, energy storage, microgrids, energy efficiency, electrification, energy resilience, climate action, and emerging clean energy technologies. The conversation also extends beyond energy to water, food systems, sustainable business, natural resources, and everyday choices. Grounded in

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34:48

Alex Macharia - Schools Can Tap Electric Bus Fleets...

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2026/10/05

Alex Macheria is Vehicle Grid Integration Program Manager for PowerFlex, a firm that recently acquired The Mobility House where Alex worked for three years. He brings his love of wheels to the job, tackling the complex world of vehicle grid integration (VGI) and its multiple benefits. PowerFlex helps to connect fleets of electric vehicles, notably electric school buses, to the grid, simultaneously unlocking savings for fleet operators and utilities. By connecting these distributed storage

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31:52

Inna Korobkina on Ethical Fashion and the Nexus...

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2026/09/28

Inna Korobkina joins Ted Flanigan to discuss the nexus between her work in the fashion industry, and his work as a sustainability consultant. They discuss the impacts of fashion on oneself and on the planet. What you wear affects your own wellbeing and at times your health. From a societal perspective, one-tenth of global CO2 emissions are related to textiles... more than all air transportation emissions and maritime emissions combined. Textiles are a big deal, and a whole lot of clothing

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34:56

Zach Woogen - The Emerging Benefits of Bi-directional...

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2026/09/21

Zach Woogen is the Executive Director of the Vehicle-Grid Integration Council. He is a self-described "policy and market-design nerd on a mission to equitably decarbonize energy systems." He explains Vehicle Grid Integration (VGI)... an umbrella term that covers managed and smart charging of EVs... shifting when and where charging occurs so that drivers pay less and utilities are not only least impacted, but even supported during peak power periods.Thanks to the rise of bi-directional EV

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33:24

Jules Kortenhorst - Global Coalition at ETC Is Now...

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2026/09/14

Jules Kortenhorst is the co-chair of the Energy Transition Commission (ETC), a group of 50+ "wickedly smart people" dedicated to effective analysis and insights to drive down CO2 emissions and to accelerating the transition to carbon-free energy. The former chief executive officer of Rocky Mountain Institute who grew RMI from a staff of 50 to 600, Jules is passionate about the ETC's critical work to battle the rise in greenhouse gases that are threatening the planet and humanity. The ETC

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33:44

Kevin J. Patel - Tapping Young Activists to Solve the...

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2026/09/01

Kevin J. Patel is a voice for young people, channeling their stories and solutions to address and turn the course on climate change. Born to parents who were climate refugees from India, Kevin took charge in his local South Central LA community, developing community gardens to address the gross inequities of food. He noted that his community had an abundance of fast food, but nothing healthy. This is racial inequality, what he calls an injustice. Food activism was his starting point.Kevin

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35:06

Natasha Crowe - Octopus Energy is Extra Focused on...

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2026/08/31

Natasha Crowe is the Vice President for Marketing and Communications for Octopus Energy North America. She's been working for Octopus CEO and Founder, Greg Jackson, for 20 years. His vision is to make energy affordable for all, and to make it clean, helping to decarbonize the power sector and stem climate change. Octopus was founded in the United Kingdom in 2015. Thanks to clever branding and exceptional customer service, it is now the UK's most popular power provider. And it has spread..

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33:32

Dr Tyler Evans - The Need for Better Health Equity as...

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2026/08/24

Dr. Tyler Evans is a physician, academician, and author who focuses on infectious diseases and how to curb them. The conversation begins with a basic question: What is health equity? It's not equality. Instead, it is about access to health care. Dr. Evans has seen the lack of equity first hand, working in countries including Mexico and South Africa. Health equity provides the basics... care, medicine, and vaccines. Domestically, he explains that half of the country cannot engage in

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34:25

Joel Makower - Networking Opportunities and Support...

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2026/08/17

Joel Makower is the CEO and Chairman of the Trellis Group, formerly Green Bizz. A nationally syndicated journalist and author of more than a dozen books, he has been a strong voice and champion of sustainability for 35 years, aggregating content and convening major conferences to spur action. Green Bizz is "the" annual conference for 2,000+ sustainability professionals, a time for them to connect, swap notes, learn, and inspire.Joel is hardly slowing down. He jokes that if he retired all he

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34:20

Travis Baumgardner -- Acai the Brazilian Superfood...

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2026/08/10

Travis Baumgardner is the Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer for Sambazon, a company that produces Acai products in Brazil and imports them to America. Acai is a fruit which grows high atop the acai palm trees in the Amazon River Delta where the palms live with the tides every day. Long a staple of the "river people's" diet, acai is loaded with antioxidants. It cuts cholesterol, lowers the risk of heart attacks, and improves brain health. Today, Sambazon is selling its acai products in

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31:22

Jay Potter -- Ecor Global's Chemical Free Building...

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2026/08/03

Jay Potter is the co-founder and CEO of Ecor Global, a company focused on repurposing agricultural and urban wastes into bio-based building materials. He is a champion of the circular economy, manufacturing wastes into value. Ecor produces dense particle boards for construction, materials that are organic, without chemical binding agents, and which are fully recyclable.What's he working on this week? Simple: seeking investors. He jokes that Ecor is a classic 15-year overnight success story

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37:17

Dr. Bob McCauley, Naturopathic Medicines Now Found to...

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2026/07/27

Dr. Bob McCauley is a naturopathic doctor, an entrepreneur, and author. Thirty-three years ago he founded the Watershed Wellness Center in Lansing, Michigan where he provides health consultations. For each client, Dr. Bob advises, "This is what I would do." For years he has helped clients focus on what they eat because you are not only what you eat, but you are what you can assimilate and use for body and brain health. Inversely, your body becomes a junkyard for what you cannot assimilate

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32:18

Nikita Khandheria - How to Design Unforgettable...

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2026/07/20

Nikita Khandheria is the founder and CEO of Eria Hospitality, a high-end event planning and execution company in the San Francisco Bay Area that is making waves. Nikita, born and raised in California and India before college in Scotland, says she gets her standard for immaculate hospitality from Asia, her efficiency and decorum from England, and much of her drive from America. So far, in four years, Nikita and her firm Eria Hospitality have opened four venues to create unforgettable

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31:00

Dr. Barry Davis -- Human Nature Gets in the Way of...

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2026/07/13

Dr. Barry Davis has had a distinguished career as a physician and bio-statistician. Having begun his academic career at MIT, and getting his MD from University of California at San Diego, and a PhD in applied mathematics at Brown University, he is now a Professor Emeritus at University of Texas School of Public Health. And recently, he has written a book titled, "The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries that Changed the World." The book begins with fire prevention. It

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31:04

Tim Christophersen - The Urgent Need to Fix Our...

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2026/07/06

Tim Christophersen has just released a book titled "Generation Restoration" that provides a roadmap, and conditional optimism, for fixing our relationship crisis with Mother Nature. Its forward by Jane Goodall provides guiding perspectives such as how our global society has shifted from taking resources as we "need" them to "greed" and over use. Goodall also posits that while humans may be the most intellectual creatures on Earth, we are certainly not the most intelligent... as we are

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32:30

Etelle Higonnet - An Ambassador For Better Coffee...

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2026/06/29

Etelle Higonnet is the Founder and Director of Coffee Watch. She was born and raised in France, earned her undergraduate degree and law degree from Yale, worked around the world on human rights issues, before pivoting her focus to environmental issues with Greenpeace, the Rainforest Action Network, and others. She is currently based on Copenhagen, Denmark. In this episode Etelle makes it painfully clear that while drinking coffee is a morning ritual for many of us, its production comes with

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33:08

Stuart Jenkins - Great Runners Are Faster Wearing...

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2026/06/22

Stuart Jenkins is the founder and chief executive officer of Blumaka, a company that manufactures insoles and shoes for high performance athletes. As a marathon competitor, Stuart was frustrated not to be able to access high performance running shoes, so he designed and now manufacturers and sells his own line. Blumaka also sells its insole technology to Fleks shoes, one of Oprah's top product picks.The podcast begins with Stuart's story. A farm boy from Nebraska, he won major marathons,

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33:42

Bryan Hannegan -- U.S. Utility Runs on 100% Renewable...

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2026/06/15

Bryan Hannegan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Holy Cross Energy (HCE), an electric cooperative in the mountains of Colorado. He appeared on the podcast in 2021 talking about how to create the utility of the future. Now he reports on results and the remarkable accomplishment that HCE operated with 100% renewable power in the month of March 2026.The conversation begins by digging into the 100% clean energy accomplishment, that Bryan describes as an intermediate step toward

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31:46

Claire Smith -- Vegan Entrepreneur and Fund Manager

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2026/06/08

Claire Smith, based in Geneva, Switzerland, is the CEO of Beyond Investing and Chief Innovative Officer for Beyond Impact. These two ventures work in concert, one providing impact investing, the other advancing startups for plant-based and cruelty-free businesses. Claire describes her journey... how she melded two major aspects of her life: her vegan path with her 30-year career in conventional finance. Bringing them together brought coherence and consistency to her personal and

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32:46

Gareth Evans - Driving Down Business Energy Costs

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2026/06/01

Gareth Evans is the founder and CEO of Veckta, an energy consulting firm that advises businesses on how to take control of their energy costs. Far from taking passive positions, and given rising energy costs, he encourages businesses to explore their options using tools such as onsite energy production, energy efficiency, and energy storage. Veckta develops custom solutions and then employs its platform of ~4,000 vendors to fulfill strategies based on a particular company's needs... be it

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34:05

Allen Hershkowitz PhD -- Climate and Sports

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2026/05/25

Allen Hershkowitz PhD is an environmental scientist who joined Ted for an update conversation. Allen has worked at the confluence of climate and sports for 25 years. He first recorded on Flanigan's Eco-Logic in March of 2022 highlighting his early influences and early career... including 28 years at the Natural Resources Defense Council. There he met the actor Robert Redford who encouraged him to create an alliance of sports leagues and teams to promote efficiency, sustainability, and

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