Green Disruptors: Scaling the Future

How do we make sure more capital flows to the right climate solutions?

In this episode of Green Disruptors: Scaling the Future, Megan Kjar sits down with Noah Miller, co-founder of Rho Impact, a climate advisory and software company helping investors, consultants, and capital allocators forecast the real impact of emerging climate technologies.

With 2050 net-zero commitments looming and ESG under political scrutiny, the need for structured, defensible, and actionable climate data has never been more urgent.

Noah shares:

• The origin story of Rho Impact
• How the Crane tool evolved into their flagship platform, Koi
• Why better data transforms strategy into action
• How climate funds evaluate “thousands of things we could invest in”
• What’s driving growth and partnership momentum heading into 2026
• The cultural realities of scaling a distributed climate company
• And why Koi might just be the “Iron Man suit” for climate investors

If you’re a climate founder, investor, consultant, or capital allocator trying to navigate complex impact claims and allocation commitments — this episode delivers clarity.

🔗 Learn more about Rho Impact: https://koi.eco
🎙 Hosted by Megan Kjar
🌎 Green Disruptors: Scaling the Future

The conversation with Darrell Liski, co-founder of EnBioorganic Technologies, explores the challenges and opportunities in the adoption of biological solutions for environmental problems. It delves into the unique bio-organic treatment system developed by EBioorganic Technologies and the scalability and affordability of the solution. The discussion also covers the go-to-market strategy, overcoming bottlenecks, and the challenges in outreach and adoption.

Takeaways

• Biological solutions for environmental problems
• Challenges in the adoption of biotech solutions

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction to EnBioorganic Technologies
• 06:06 The Unique Solution
• 11:00 Scalability and Affordability
• 18:01 Overcoming Bottlenecks
• 23:02 Outreach and Adoption Challenges

How do we make sure more capital flows to the right climate solutions?

In this episode of Green Disruptors: Scaling the Future, Megan Kjar sits down with Noah Miller, co-founder of Rho Impact, a climate advisory and software company helping investors, consultants, and capital allocators forecast the real impact of emerging climate technologies.

With 2050 net-zero commitments looming and ESG under political scrutiny, the need for structured, defensible, and actionable climate data has never been more urgent.

Noah shares:

• The origin story of Rho Impact

If you’re a climate founder, investor, consultant, or capital allocator trying to navigate complex impact claims and allocation commitments — this episode delivers clarity.

🔗 Learn more about Rho Impact: https://koi.eco

In this episode of Green Disruptors, Megan Kjar interviews Itai Karelic, Chief Revenue Officer at VHive, about the next evolution in renewable infrastructure management.

VHive builds digital twin technology that allows wind and solar operators to autonomously inspect assets using off-the-shelf drones powered by AI. Their low-touch, DIY model eliminates traditional scheduling bottlenecks and embeds inspection data directly into asset workflows.

The conversation explores:

A must-listen for renewable operators, developers, and infrastructure leaders looking to scale smarter.

What if you could benefit from solar energy — without installing panels, investing upfront, or taking on risk?

In this episode, Megan Kjar sits down with Jason Kaplan, President of PowerMarket, to explore how community solar is unlocking clean energy savings for renters, apartment dwellers, and businesses across the United States.

PowerMarket manages over 1 gigawatt of community solar projects and partners with municipalities and nonprofits to bridge the trust gap that often slows adoption.

They discuss:

How community solar works

Who qualifies

Why skepticism exists — and how to overcome it

The political dynamics shaping renewable energy

The coming shifts in 2026 and beyond

Why staying cashflow positive in a volatile industry matters

Community solar may be one of the most accessible energy solutions available today — and most people don’t even know it exists.

Learn more at: powermarket.io

As renewable energy scales, the biggest challenge isn’t generation — it’s coordination.

In this episode of Green Disruptors, Megan Kjar speaks with Dan Travers, co-founder of Open Climate Fix, about how AI-driven forecasting is helping power grids integrate more solar and wind while reducing costs and emissions.

They explore:

A thoughtful, optimistic conversation about the invisible infrastructure powering the clean energy transition.

In this episode of Green Disruptors, host Megan Kjar sits down with Tim Raines, a climate tech commercialization advisor specializing in SBIR funding and go-to-market strategy.

Tim shares what separates successful SBIR applicants from those that stall out—and why technical excellence alone isn’t enough. From customer discovery and value propositions to sales, marketing, and founder mindset, this conversation unpacks what it really takes to bring climate technologies out of the lab and into the market.

If you’re a climate tech founder navigating grants, funding uncertainty, or commercialization challenges, this episode offers practical insight and hard-earned lessons from the field.

What happens when renewable energy development enters sacred land?

In this episode of Green Disruptors, host Megan Kjar sits down with David Harper, a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes and a Mojave leader with more than 30 years of cultural stewardship and 15 years in renewable energy development.

Dave shares his journey from opposing renewable projects that threatened sacred sites to helping tribes lead and own clean energy development on their own terms. He explains why trust is often missing in Indian Country, how historical trauma still shapes modern decision-making, and what developers must understand before entering tribal lands.

The conversation also explores Huurav Energy, a new financing model designed to provide bridge loans for tribal renewable projects that lost federal funding—helping tribes keep shovel-ready projects alive without sacrificing sovereignty.

This episode is a powerful exploration of energy, culture, capital, and what it truly means to build a just and inclusive energy transition.

In this episode of Green Disruptors, Megan Kjar speaks with Lev Buslovich, President of Apadana Energy, about leadership, focus, and scaling clean energy companies the right way.

Lev shares his personal journey—from refugee to executive—and how those experiences shaped his approach to risk, discipline, and growth. Together, they explore why focus is often the missing ingredient in scaling, how engineering-driven companies can grow sustainably, and why building teams around strengths is essential for long-term success.

This episode is a must-listen for clean energy founders, operators, and leaders navigating growth in solar, EV charging, battery storage, and beyond.

Buildings account for roughly 40% of global energy consumption and carbon emissions, yet one of the biggest drivers of that energy use remains largely invisible: HVAC systems.

In this episode of Green Disruptors: Scaling the Future, host Megan Kjar sits down with Jim Metropoulos, founder of BlueBox Air, to unpack a problem that’s been hiding in plain sight for over a century — biofouling inside HVAC heat transfer coils.

Jim shares how a background far outside traditional engineering led to an accidental but powerful breakthrough: a patented, enzyme-based process that cleans and automates HVAC systems from the inside out — without chemicals, shutdowns, or disruption. The result?

30–50% efficiency restoration in fouled systems

Dramatically lower energy costs and peak load demand

Improved indoor air quality

Fast ROI that often pays back in under a year

From hospitals and high-rise buildings to data centers powering AI, this conversation reveals why HVAC is the foundation of the modern world — and why solving this one choke point could meaningfully impact global energy use and emissions at scale.

This episode isn’t about moral arguments or sustainability buzzwords. It’s about performance, economics, and systems that finally work the way they were supposed to.