The Climate Champions

Chris Villarreal, President, Plugged In Strategies, providing regulatory, policy and technical consulting services to companies seeking greater understanding and awareness of the electricity market evolution. Formerly CA and MN Public Utility Commissions.

Jan Vrins, Segment Leader, Global Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure at Guidehouse, advises on developing and implementing policies and strategies in areas such as climate action planning, decarbonization, resiliency, and grid modernization.

Dr. Josh Feder, Global Advisory Board, OurWorldToo; Medical Director, Positive Development; Editor In Chief, The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report; with special interest helping children and families living with autism; Al Gore's Climate Reality Project

Lee Krevat, the host of The Climate Champions, raps a wrap-up summary (a "rap-up") of the first 100 episodes of his podcast. Lee improvises a rap-up each episode, but rap #100 is prewritten. Every guest and a highlight from that interview is referenced.

Michael Grunwald, ex-Senior Writer, Politico & Time Magazine, Staff Writer, Washington Post & Boston Globe. Author, “The New New Deal” and “The Swamp.” Both received the gold medal for non-fiction in the Florida Book Awards, to go with many others awards.

Albert Cheung, Head of Global Analysis at BloombergNEF, leads the global analyst team across renewable energy, storage, smart technologies and advanced transport, providing perspective on global commodity markets and the technology driving decarbonization

Dr. Sylvia Earle, Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic Society, Author of the upcoming book, National Geographic Ocean: A Global Odyssey. Ex-Chief Scientist, NOAA, founder of Mission Blue, SEAlliance, and Deep Ocean Exploration and Research.

Eric Dresselhuys, CEO, ESS (Energy Storage Systems), the leading provider in long-duration energy storage, a key to enable the decarbonization of the energy system, and a catalyst for a sustainable planet. He was a Co-Founder of Silver Spring Networks.

Jim Madej is CEO, Franklin Energy, and ex-CEO, VEIC (Vermont Energy Investment Corporation). His mission is to help catalyze the transition to a clean energy economy where businesses profit from the end of climate change and the growth of our planet.

Dr. Thomas Delworth is Senior Scientist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, NJ, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and is one of the world's leading climate modeling centers. He's been there since 1984!!