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Who's Saving the Planet?

Planet Savers Org.

Discover how the minds, methods and money that fueled the explosion of innovation and disruption in silicon valley are working to build the technology, products and companies that will save...

Episodes

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Sesame Solar: The All-In One Solution to De-Carbonized Disaster Relief

What happens when disaster strikes, a hurricane or fire, and communities are left stranded without power, water, or basic medical needs? Gen...

00:44:02Nov 14, 2023

TED: Turning Conversations into Action

Ted is famously known for their captivating talks on how to change our perception of, well, everything. But what comes next? How do we trans...

00:38:36Oct 26, 2023

Commons: How to Turn Your Credit Card into a Force for Good... Part 2

When we last spoke to Sanchali Pal she was the CEO of Juro. Today, Juro is called Commons , and she has $10,000,000 reasons to be more optim...

00:34:23Sep 20, 2023

Ample: Revolutionizing EV Battery Swapping (no recharge required)

What if recharging your EV was as easy as swapping out the batteries in your flashlight? That's exactly the future Ample is building. In thi...

00:40:18Sep 13, 2023

Earthforce.io: Saving the Forest from the Trees

Understanding a forest has long been a marriage of art and science, but without the technology to scale. Earthforce is determined to bring f...

00:40:48Sep 5, 2023

Hedgehog: Using Europe as a Roadmap to Predict the Future of US Corporate Climatism

Europe has long been more aggressive in how it deploys legislation and regulatory agency to push for a more climate positive future from lar...

00:30:32Aug 29, 2023

ePlant: Using AI to Speak to Trees... Literally.

It's morning, you walk into your backyard, stroll over to the Maple by the fence, and have a conversation about the weather. That, my friend...

00:55:38Aug 23, 2023

Actual: Sim City, but for Real World Climate Change

What if you could build a virtual environment, a la Sim City, but with real world inputs about product pipelines, energy sources, constructi...

00:46:51Aug 15, 2023

Chemix: Using AI to Build Better EV Batteries

Artificial Intelligence will reshape our future in ways we haven't yet imagined. Electric Vehicles will transform our relationship with tran...

00:48:59Aug 8, 2023

VSC Ventures: Bringing the Money and the Messaging to Climate Investing

Jay Kapoor is the General Partner of VSC Ventures, an offshoot of the internationally lauded PR firm VSC. As a seasoned investor Jay, who sp...

00:54:42Aug 1, 2023

Micro Grid Solutions: Powering the Future of Distributed Energy

Tim Hade is the COO and Co-Founder of Scale Microgrid Solutions . He founded Scale Microgrid Solutions to build distributed energy systems f...

01:06:19Jun 27, 2023

KATLA: Creating the Future of Fashion Out of Seaweed and NFTs

The fashion industry is incredibly wasteful. Of the 100 billion garments manufactured in the world every year over 50 billion end up in land...

00:50:23Jun 20, 2023

Gaeastar: Creating a New Coffee Cup... Out of Dirt

We throw away 50,000,000,000, that's fifty BILLION, single use coffee cups each year, in the US alone. While most of these are made out of p...

00:55:30Jun 13, 2023

Climate Culture on Tap: How Carbon Neutral Club is Climatizing the Workplace

It all started with a pizza box. Jack Bruner, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Neutral Club , is a reformed consultant, some of our favorite peo...

00:49:08Apr 26, 2023

The Optimistic Entrepreneur: Brooke Bowlin on Sustainability, Social Media and Meaningful Success

When you’re faced with a giant systemic machine that looks like it’s really never going to change, adopting some sort of nihilistic view isn...

00:49:43Apr 11, 2023

A Yarn from the Sea: How Keel Labs is Turning Seaweed into Clothes

Riddle me this: What if all of our clothes were made from seaweed? This week we sit down with two phenomenal women who are changing the fash...

00:50:54Mar 14, 2023

Moving Forward with PlanetFWD

Let’s say you’re a big company. You’ve been making all these commitments recently at press conferences to get “carbon neutral”.” it’s been g...

00:38:09Jan 25, 2023

How Patch is Building the Future of Unified Climate Action

Every brand worth their sustainable (or marketing...) salt is claiming a path to carbon neutrality, the bridge between the marking claims an...

00:45:52Jan 12, 2023

Arrival Navigates Headwinds in the EV Market

Prior to becoming the President and Chief Strategy Officer of Arrival, Avinash Rugoobur, led General Motor's billion dollar acquisition of a...

00:40:14Nov 18, 2022

How To Turn Your Credit Card Into a Force for Climate Prosperity

As with most things magically, Joro was once an excel spreadsheet. Sanchali Pal was concerned with her personal carbon footprint when she wa...

00:38:18Jul 5, 2022