Mission-related investment is increasingly becoming a convergence of mission and impact themes with sustainable economics. We spoke with Tom Mitchell, Managing Director at Cambridge Associates and founding member of Cambridge's Mission-Related Investing (MRI) Group, about the model of mission-related investing and how it’s helping solve social and sustainability challenges of our generation. 

Globally, renewables are the fastest growing source of energy generation, driven primarily by wind and solar. But did you know that electricity from solar is also cheaper than coal or nuclear? Join us for a conversation with Sol Systems Vice President Andrew Gilligan about how solar projects are financed, what is driving investors to get involved, and the exciting future of a growing renewables industry.
 

How can we stop eight million tons of plastic from entering the ocean each year? And how can we recycle that plastic into something useful? In this episode, we speak with Bureo cofounder Ben Kneppers about how his company is turning discarded plastic fishing nets into skateboards and sunglasses, helping to reduce marine plastics and create the sustainable circular economy of the future.

Did you know that 10% of people on the planet are employed in the tourism industry? Neither did we, until we spoke with Dr. Harriet Hentges. Check out this episode for a conversation about what considerations go into development of a sustainable tourism industry at the country level, the challenge of mobilizing capital to get it going, and what all of this looks like in the face of pandemic-related economic disruption.

This episode is the second in our series on sustainable construction and design. Recorded in march of 2020, we spoke with Diana Horvat, a member of AIA and Principal of 23/Consulting LLC, on sustainability trends in the architecture and construction industry.

Mark Bryan, Director of the U.S. Green Building Council for the National Capital Region, talks about LEED, an international standard for buildings certified as environmentally friendly. We discuss his work, the program, and why owners, investors, architects, and developers are changing the way they build here at home and around the world. 

This is part two of our carbon capture town hall and the final episode in our series on carbon capture. Cathy Novelli along with Drs. Greenberg, Saadi, and Stark answer questions from the audience on the policy landscape of carbon capture technology. To learn more about carbon capture technology, how it works, and why it's important, check out this video by Zero Emissions Platform on youtube!

This episode is taken from a town hall event held in February of 2020. Dr. Sallie Greenberg, Dr. Fadl Saadi, and Dr. Addison Stark talk carbon capture moderated by our own Cathy Novelli. They discussed the technology’s landscape and it’s potential to lead the US to a carbon dioxide free future. 

We talked with Dr. Fadl Saadi about his company C-Zero, a company that is working on a technological innovation that can be paired with carbon emitting fuels, like natural gas, to completely decarbonize them. Such an innovation could revolutionize the energy industry, and help us reach international carbon emissions goals faster. 

In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Sallie Greenberg from the Illinois State Geological Survey about carbon capture and storage innovations. This tech Is slated to quickly become one of the biggest reducers of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.