Everybody in the Pool

This week on Everybody in the Pool, a two-fer of artist-activists who are both advocating for a world without fossil fuel-derived plastics and also working to portray that world in film and TV. Dianna Cohen is the founder and CEO of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, and Nada Djordjevich is an independent filmmaker, and both are trying to change the story—or at least make it represent real life.

• Plastic Pollution Coalition: https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/
• Plastic Kills! Horror short film contest: https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2023/9/7/plastic-kills-horror-short-film-contest-2023
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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we respectfully thank you very, very much for carrying a reusable water bottle and refilling it instead of buying plastic water bottles. And also, sadly, we’re going to have to do a lot more than that to get rid of disposable beverage containers. This week’s entrepreneur, Manuela Zoninsein, is building a whole bottling plant the size of a vending machine that plugs into local tap water, filters it, delivers it in a reusable stainless steel bottle, and washes, sanitizes, and refills it when you bring it back. And that’s cool, but what’s really smart is who the first customers are—warehouses, construction sites, Air Force bases—and how they ended up with those customers at all. Drink it all in and enjoy!

• Kadeya
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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re diving into a topic that has many people afraid of the deep end: should you go vegan to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions? Like many things you maybe don’t want to do, the answer is unequivocally yes, at least from a climate standpoint. But I hear you, it’s tough. So this week, we’re asking our new favorite vegan, Jessica Resler, to address some of the myths, the barriers, and the resistance, and she gives some tips and tricks on how to get started.

• More on Jessica Resler
• Watch The Game Changers on Netflix
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This week on Everybody in the Pool, I got to spend a little extra time with the rest of the team at Mill, to find out how they ended up working in climate tech, how they found their way to that company, and the origin stories that put them on this path. In this week’s episode, a sort of extended version of the Job Board takes us from the Obama White House to the search for just the right kind of climate company to a harrowing wildfire escape that put the search for a climate solution up close and personal. 

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, sometimes tackling the climate crisis means starting at home, with the things you love. Meagan Downey had a long career in nonprofit work and was looking for a way to have climate impact. She landed on one of her favorite things: giving and wrapping beautiful gifts. She’s now the founder of Shiki Wrap, reusable gift wrap that, if we all got in the pool, could keep millions of pounds of waste out of landfills every year. Also it’s just super pretty and fun!

• Shiki Wrap
• Furoshiki: the Japanese wrapping tradition
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This week on Everybody in the Pool, a climate entrepreneur and tech veteran solving big climate problems in unexpected ways. Matt Rogers is the co-founder of Mill, a kitchen appliance that turns food waste into dried, odorless grounds that consumers drop in the mail and that get upcycled into chicken feed. And Matt just happens to have also co-founded a little company called Nest, which has been a powerful driver of energy efficiency. He and Molly talk about how food waste is the unexpected giant emitter that requires major behavior change, and sometimes, a sexy gadget is just what you need to make that change. 

• Mill
• Mill vs Lomi via Architectural Digest
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This week on Everybody in the Pool, prepare for a bit of a tone shift. We’re talking with climate futurist Alex Steffen, author of The Snap Forward podcast and newsletter, who’s been covering climate and climate solutions as a journalist for decades, and now tries to prepare people and businesses as a futurist. The over-arching lesson from this episode? The future we tried to avoid for 30 years is here now, and in some cases, is happening faster than we expected. So we’d better get rugged, and fast.

• The Snap Forward
• Ruggedize Your Life
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This week on Everybody in the Pool, one of the most common things people say to me is: “recycling isn’t real, right?” It’s complicated, but it could definitely be better. And services and startups are stepping in to fill the void—like Ridwell, which is a super cheerful pickup service that takes plastic, batteries, light bulbs, old clothes, styrofoam, and “surprise” categories once a month to trusted partners for either recycling or re-use. And the question becomes: cool, yeah, how do we get this everywhere and make it easier for cities to do it, too!? Molly talks with founder and CEO Ryan Metzger. 

• Ridwell
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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’ve got a double whammy of solutions. We know that to transition our economy away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we need to deploy as much renewable energy as fast as we can (and yes, interconnect it, I know). Also, renewable energy deployment is a huge investment opportunity that’s mostly unavailable to you and me, even though these are projects that can throw off reliable cash for 20 or 30 years. So, startups are coming in to try to connect regular old people with renewable energy projects—like crowdfunding, but with a return. This week, Molly interviews Will Wiseman, co-founder and CEO of Climatize, an app that does all of the above. Win-win!

This week’s episode is sponsored by Fennel Markets.

• Get the Climatize app
• Climate Tech VC deep dive into project finance
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This week on Everybody in the Pool, it’s playtime. Obviously, global warming and the climate crisis are intimidating topics. But this week’s guest has built an entire career out of play. Jenny Gottstein is a game-maker, previously of Go Games and IDEO, and a few years ago, she created a game called Beat! That! Heat!, a climate action game show. Molly and Jenny talk about how play can create an accessible conversation that celebrates climate action no matter where you start, offers an onramp to the conversation for people who are curious but embarrassed, and did I mention that making games for a living is an actual job? This week’s episode is sponsored by Fennel Markets.

• Beat! That! Heat!
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