Raise Green

Solar systems provide a myriad of benefits to their owners: cheap and accessible energy, independence from common utilities, and a decarbonized source of power. Chaz Peling, CEO SolSolutions, has been constructing solar microgrids for nearly 40 years. His company is now one of California’s largest providers of rapidly-deployable solar systems. As climate impacts and disasters threaten the power grid, the need for local resilient energy systems becomes increasingly clear.

In this podcast episode, Chaz joins Matt Moroney in conversation about the growing role of solar and its many benefits.

Raise Green Podcast Episode #9: “Base Load Renewables, Sustainable Design, and Circular Economy” with Rick Sellers, Manager of Circular Fuels, LLC, features a discussion of the impact potential for circular economic designs and the power of base load renewable energy plants.

Raise Green Podcast Episode #8, "Ending Water Poverty in the Developing World" is an in-depth discussion on clean water scarcity in developing countries with Ola Filter CEO Elizabeth Clandos, in which she highlights the necessity for and significance of accessible and affordable clean water solutions, such as the Ola Filter.

DJ Cavem is an activist, educator, and vegan chef whose eco hip-hop has become a global movement. He has rapped about climate change, food justice, and plant-based foods everywhere from his hometown in Denver to the Obama White House.

“Raise Green” is a 7 episode podcast exploring the climate crises through the minds of local leaders and global experts. Short, accessible conversations explore new ways of working together via personal stories about creating a healthy, just, and sustainable future.

Margot Brandenburg has spent the last two decades working at the intersection of philanthropy, capital markets, and environmental justice. She is currently a senior program officer at the Ford Foundation, where she focuses on strengthening capital markets in relation to impact investment.

“Raise Green” is a 7 episode podcast exploring the climate crises through the minds of local leaders and global experts. Short, accessible conversations explore new ways of working together via personal stories about creating a healthy, just, and sustainable future.

John Clippinger is a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Group, where he is a co-principal investor on a research program working to develop legal and software methods for protecting and sharing personal information for mobile services applications in health, education, and finance. He is also co-founder and executive director of ID3, a non-profit organization formed to develop and field-test legal and software trust frameworks for data-driven services, infrastructures, and enterprises. Previously, Dr. Clippinger was founder and Co-director of The Law Lab at Harvard University, which was founded to undertake multidisciplinary research to explore new forms of digital law and institution building to facilitate cooperation and entrepreneurial innovation.

Raise Green is a 7 episode podcast exploring the climate crisis through the minds of local leaders and global experts. Short, accessible conversations explore new ways of working together via personal stories about creating a healthy, just, and sustainable future. As economic disparity, environmental degradation and social injustices continue emerging as defining issues of the 21st century, we need solutions that scale faster than the pace of the problems. These conversations ask how.

On this episode of Raise Green we examine the potential growth of impact investing during times of social unrest and intensifying climate issues through a conversation with the esteemed author, impact investor, and big-picture thinker Joel Solomon.

Joel Solomon is the founding partner of Renewal Funds, Canada's largest mission venture capital firm at over $240 Million in assets under management. Investing primarily in organic food and environmental technology, he brings a wealth of experience to the field with over 14 years as a principal for an innovative, activist family office with Carol Newman prior to founding Renewal Funds. He is a co-author of "The Clean Money Revolution", co-producer of "The Integrated Capital Institute", a TEDxVancouver speaker, a founding member of The Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, The Tides Canada Foundation, and a 25-year board chair of Hollyhock, as well as a University of British Columbia Governer.

Raise Green is a 7 episode podcast exploring the climate crisis through the minds of local leaders and global experts. Short, accessible conversations explore new ways of working together via personal stories about creating a healthy, just, and sustainable future. As economic disparity, environmental degradation and social injustices continue emerging as defining issues of the 21st century, we need solutions that scale faster than the pace of the problems. These conversations ask how.

This episode of Raise Green is part two of a whirlwind tour through the past and future of global climate policy with U.S. State negotiator Sue Biniaz. In stressed times, how do international organizations and country governments adhere to their climate commitments.

For more than 25 years, Sue Biniaz served as the lead climate lawyer for the U.S. State Department. In that capacity, she played a central role in the negotiation of all the major climate agreements, including the Paris Agreement. She was also a Deputy Legal Adviser and in that capacity covered U.S. treaty practice, the law of the sea, Somali piracy, Latin America, human rights, criminal law, and other environmental issues.

Raise Green is a 7 episode podcast exploring the climate crisis through the minds of local leaders and global experts. Short, accessible conversations explore new ways of working together via personal stories about creating a healthy, just, and sustainable future. As economic disparity, environmental degradation and social injustices continue emerging as defining issues of the 21st century, we need solutions that scale faster than the pace of the problems. These conversations ask how.

This episode of Raise Green is part one of a whirlwind tour through the past and future of global climate policy with U.S. State negotiator Sue Biniaz. In stressed times, how do international organizations and country governments adhere to their climate commitments.

For more than 25 years, Sue Biniaz served as the lead climate lawyer for the U.S. State Department. In that capacity, she played a central role in the negotiation of all the major climate agreements, including the Paris Agreement. She was also a Deputy Legal Adviser and in that capacity covered U.S. treaty practice, the law of the sea, Somali piracy, Latin America, human rights, criminal law, and other environmental issues.

Raise Green is a 7 episode podcast exploring the climate crisis through the minds of local leaders and global experts. Short, accessible conversations explore new ways of working together via personal stories about creating a healthy, just, and sustainable future. As economic disparity, environmental degradation and social injustices continue emerging as defining issues of the 21st century, we need solutions that scale faster than the pace of the problems. These conversations ask how.

In this episode of Raise Green hosts Matt and Franz speak with Eva Gladek about the circular economy and its potential impact on environmental and economic issues.

Eva has developed broadly adopted methodologies for systems transformation, the circular economy, and sustainable design. Speaking at forums around the world she shares her vision to accelerate a collective greater impact. She is consistently listed among the top influencers in sustainability in The Netherlands, a country recognized as leading the transition to a circular economy.

Raise Green is a 7 episode podcast exploring the climate crisis through the minds of local leaders and global experts. Short, accessible conversations explore new ways of working together via personal stories about creating a healthy, just, and sustainable future. As economic disparity, environmental degradation and social injustices continue emerging as defining issues of the 21st century, we need solutions that scale faster than the pace of the problems. These conversations ask how.