The Keep Cool Podcast

Thallo is filling a major gap in the voluntary carbon market. Discover how blockchain and climate tech together are revolutionizing financing for environmental projects in the developing world.

Joseph Hargreaves is the UK-based Co-founder of Thallo, the platform built on blockchain offering a transparent and efficient carbon offset marketplace for buyers and sellers.

Nick and Joseph dive into why we need to throw the kitchen sink at solving climate change, why thinking differently is key, and why keeping a human perspective is always worthwhile.

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No-one thinks about water, until there’s a problem. Find out how a lack of water can impact businesses and ZwitterCo's solution.

ZwitterCo is on a mission to help industries recycle water and enhance product recovery with breakthrough advancements in filtration.

Nick gets into conversation with Alex Rappaport, CEO and Co-Founder, on his personal connection to water, why we should all go visit a water sanitation plant, and some seriously impressive case studies solving some hard, and expensive, waste water problems.

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When more than 7 million acres of forests are swallowed up by fire every year, you need to find a smart way of reseeding them. 

Jonathan Loevner is the VP of Carbon Markets at DroneSeed, the company offering full lifecycle services for forestry management by using an efficient, cost-competitive fleet of drones to reduce reliance on manual labor.

Nick and Jonathan get into how DroneSeed is leveraging the voluntary carbon market to get results, the cost of wildfires every year, and how to make forests sustainable long into the future.

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Lauren Flanagan is the lifelong entrepreneur on a mission to use clean energy for power in emergency situations. Find out how Sesame Solar is doing just that.

Sesame Solar manufactures the world’s first 100% renewably-powered Mobile Nanogrids. Using solar, battery storage, and green hydrogen, the Nanogrids offer clean, off-grid power and are delivered ready-to-use to meet essential services and emergency response needs.

Nick and Lauren discuss Lauren’s philosophy on founding companies with a narrow focus and scaling later , how Sesame Solar’s solution marries mitigation with adaptation, and the future of mobile renewable power as a service.

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Brennan Spellacy is on a mission to rebalance the Earth’s atmosphere at Patch. Find out why the business’ mission is so critical for the future of our world.

Patch is the software company scaling unified climate action. Effectively two businesses in one, its Co-founder and CEO, Brennan explains how Patch works with carbon credit developers and corporations to accelerate  carbon removal.

Nick and Brennan discuss how Patch provides infrastructure for the carbon removal industry to grow to gigatonne scale by 2050, how the platform helps stakeholders diligence carbon removal pathways and projects, and how they think aligning incentives for their business and customers.

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How do you help complex businesses reduce carbon emissions? You combine science with practical solutions. 

Meet Steve Davies, Head of Climate Science at Watershed.

Watershed is on a mission to bend the climate curve, by helping businesses to measure, reduce, and report their carbon emissions with real-time, audit-grade emissions data.

Nick and Steve get into how companies are understanding their carbon emissions across complex supply chains , how Watershed is dismantling the barriers to corporate climate action, and how to drive more results based on research from academia.

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Inna Braverman believes in second chances. Hear her incredible story from Chernobyl victim to Eco Wave Power Co-founder.

Eco Wave Power is the company harnessing the power of nearshore waves to create clean electricity. Having proven its viability as a stable form  of renewable energy, Inna is determined to commercialize wave power  globally.

Nick and Inna get into why a second chance at life inspired her mission, some of the mistakes early wave energy companies made, and how using existing manmade structures cuts down on paperwork and environmental concerns.

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Kyle Cherrick has been banging the drum for renewable energy for years and it looks like the tide is finally turning. Find out how.

Nick and Kyle get into the future of batteries for the home, why he created an investment syndicate to back tomorrow’s climate tech founders, and renewable energy companies to watch.

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Peter Olivier is at the cutting edge of carbon removal, helping develop developing innovative processes to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at scale. Find out how.

Beyond the technical processes, Nick and Peter talk about the social, political, and financial advances needed to scale carbon removal. Through Undo, Peter is working on cutting-edge partnerships with the agricultural industry to remove carbon and help them achieve their net zero goals.

You’ll hear how enhanced rock weathering processes can remove carbon from the atmosphere  as well as insights on the climate tech space as a whole which, in many ways, is where software was 10 years ago.

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Madison Savilow and Nick Gardner are ripping up the plastics playbook, creating advanced packaging using captured carbon. Find out how.

As Chief of Staff at Carbon Upcycling Technologies, Madison is in the weeds improving some of the most common materials in the world. Nick is Co-founder of Element Packaging and together these companies are at the forefront of creating more sustainable alternatives to plastics.

They join host Nick Van Osdol in conversation about how to improve materials like plastics , why plastic recycling rates are so bad, and why it’s important to take a pragmatic approach to incremental changes when tackling big climate problems that also gets consumers excited.

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