Make Climate Cool Again

Make Climate Cool Again

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Make Climate Cool Again episodes

  • #41 Saving Green & Diapers from Landfill with Esembly Baby

    Seeking a way to combine entrepreneurship and environmentalism, Liz Turrigiano, CEO of Esembly, left her career in advertising at Wieden + Kennedy to co-found a cloth diaper service in NYC. Running Diaperkind stimulated her assiduous nature and allowed her to learn the great lessons of business ownership and leadership, all while enabling fellow parents to achieve a less wasteful lifestyle. A decade later, she is taking that knowledge and passion and pouring it into a new company, Esembly. Liz and her companies have appeared on MSBNC, in the NY Times, Forbes, Fast Company, and New York Magazine expounding the benefits of reusable diapers.

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    52 min
  • #40 Companies Listen to Eco Consumers with Sheets and Giggles

    Colin McIntosh is Founder & CEO of Sheets & Giggles™, a fast-growing direct-to-consumer brand in the $12B US bedding space. Launched in May 2018 with a nearly $300,000 crowdfunding campaign, S&G became one of the few companies to make $1M in sales in its first 12 months.


    S&G places an emphasis on doing good and having fun, especially with sustainably made products and socially responsible business practices. The company's eucalyptus lyocell bedding uses up to 96% less water to make than cotton sheeting, and uses no insecticides or pesticides. The company also plants a tree for every order – planting nearly 20,000 trees in the US from 2019 sales alone – and regularly donates to causes that their community cares about, like the $40,000 S&G recently contributed to COVID–19 emergency relief in Colorado. As a millennial and an inaugural member of Good Business Colorado, Colin also regularly lobbies for progressive issues and causes with a group of over 200 progressive CO business owners.

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    59 min
  • #39 How Small Things Can Change the World with Blueland

    Sarah Paji Yoo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blueland. She is a serial retail entrepreneur passionate about building meaningful and innovative consumer brands. Previously, was a Partner at LAUNCH, creating and operating new consumer businesses including M.Gemi, Rockets of Awesome and Follain. Prior to LAUNCH, was co-founder and CEO of Snapette, the largest mobile platform for local fashion shopping, which was sold to leading e-commerce platform PriceGrabber in 2013. Sarah has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Forbes, Time, InStyle and Glamour, and previous speaking engagements include CNBC, ABC News, Fox, Bloomberg TV, Time Inc., and Harvard.

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    57 min
  • #38 One Idea to Spark Change with Soluminos

    Cynthia Leung is the Founder & CEO of Solumionos, a social enterprise focused on building a rapidly deployable solar charging station for disaster relief applications. She recently completed the 2020 Rockefeller - Acumen Student Social Enterprise Accelerator and the 2020 Columbia-Harvard MIT Bootcamp Accelerator and is a Clinton Foundation CGI U Commitment Maker. Last summer, she interned with the Clinton Foundation with the Clinton Climate Initiative and focused on their Islands Energy Program.

    She is a Master's Candidate in the Sustainability Management Program and two time Earth Institute Sustainability Fellow. She served as the Sustainability Management Student Association's VP of Community Outreach and currently serves as the Women & Sustainability’s Director of Initiatives. Prior to Columbia, Cynthia was a Project Development Manager on the Utility team at SunPower where she worked on developing over 1 GW of solar projects over 6.5 years. She was a Professional Mentor and Impact Coach for the TechWomen Program and is a Certified Mentor under the Mentoring Standard. 


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    1 hr 35 min
  • #37 Is Consumerism Actually Climate Change? with Peter Olah

    Born and raised in Los Angeles, Peter Olah has been a life-long environmentalist, capitalist, and ardent believer that organizations (for-profit and non-profit) have a civic and moral duty to do well by their stakeholders while ensuring sustainable practices for the natural world. The chief reason that mankind is in this perilous state is due to the prevalence of market pricing, and the failure to consider the true cost of doing business. This global issue is what led me to pursue a career in the clean energy sector to shift our economy's addiction to fossil fuels towards renewables that are superior in cost, naturally replenishing, and are not nearly as harmful to us and our natural world.

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    52 min
  • #36 Eating for a Healthier Body and Planet with Dr. Vincent Esposito

    Dr. Vincent Esposito is a board-certified chiropractor in the state of New York, and has a Master’s Degree in Nutrition. He combines his passion for cooking with his expertise in functional medicine principles to create realistic, sustainable practices to prevent and treat chronic diseases.


    He is a co-host of The Art of Eating Podcast, and has recently started a platform for live cooking demonstrations weekly. He also shares the latest information on whole foods, plant-based nutrition, wellness, and sustainable health on his YouTube Channel.


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    1 hr 15 min
  • #35 Pay Up for Pollution with Climate Neutral
    Austin Whitman is the CEO of Climate Neutral, a new non-profit organization mobilizing brands and consumers to accelerate action against climate change. He oversees all aspects of the organization in pursuit of its mission to get all companies to pay for their climate pollution. He went to Yale to get his masters in environmental studies and his MBA. Over his 20-year career, he has focused on building innovative companies and programs focused on energy and environmental issues. He has worked with some of the world’s largest utilities, investors, and nonprofits. Most recently, he was Vice President of Energy Markets at FirstFuel Software, where he oversaw FirstFuel’s strategic vision and worked closely with the largest American utility companies. Austin also led FirstFuel’s regulatory affairs team, which advocated within state legislatures and utility commissions for utility industry modernization and broader use of data analytics and cloud computing solutions.
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    1 hr 11 min
  • #33 Support BIPOC Communities Fighting for Climate Justice with NYC Office of City Planning

    Fernando is the Community Engagement Associate Planner for the Bronx Borough Office at the NYC Dept of City Planning. He is also a sustainable consultant and has prior experience working on community development and environmental justice planning and policy with THE POINt CDC in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx. Fernando has studied across four continents researching and observing sustainability related issues.

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    1 hr 5 min
  • #32 What is Environmental Justice?

    “Environmental justice is the intersection of both social justice and environmentalism, where the inequity in environmental degradation is also considered.” - Leah Thomas

    With everything going on I felt it was important to talk a little bit more about what environmental justice and racism, my experience recognizing it in the industry and about how minorities, specifically black people are significantly impacted. We talk about the water crisis in Flint Michigan, and Superfund and Brownfield sites near low-income housing. 


    Citations:

    https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/workforce-houses-in-east-chicago-to-be-built-on-epa-superfund-site

    https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-12062016-142631/unrestricted/McKane.pdf

    Data:

    https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/bronxcountybronxboroughnewyork

    https://statisticalatlas.com/neighborhood/New-York/New-York/Financial-District/Race-and-Ethnicity

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    25 min

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Climate change is scary. But doing something about it is easy. And we are going to make it fun.