“72% of CEOs say that innovation is one of their top three priorities. And close to 70% of them say they have a hard time driving innovation in their organization. I would posit, having been in there and been an intrapreneur myself, that the problem is they hire the wrong people. They hire for what… Continue reading Hire The Outliers – Joan on Lesley Michaels Show, “Women We Should Know”
“What I’m hearing is, how do we go faster? How do we transform the key industries that are driving emissions now? And, that can be the solutions to our climate crisis, to our biodiversity crisis. They’re really seeking what are the strategies, where should they be going strategically to shift capital, to shift their operations?…I’m… Continue reading Creating A Climate Positive Economy – Aimee Christensen, CEO, Christensen Global & Founder/CEO, Sun Valley Forum
“We are a resource hub in that we engage with individuals, organizations, and communities who are on the front lines of climate injustice and ensure that they have, they know what informational, technical, financial, strategic resources are out there to strengthen their work…So that’s everything from developing research reports to help folks to have the… Continue reading Making Lost Communities Resilient – Jacqui Patterson, The Chisholm Legacy Project
“We have an allocated pool of capital that we are investing in early stage startups that are solving some of the world’s most critical challenges. And…we care just as much about the financial success of the company as we do the impact that that company is going to make on the world. When I say… Continue reading Investing In Companies For Social Impact – Meredith Shields, Citi Impact Fund
“People who have been to space really do speak about it with great reverence. And it is for that reason that we want to take people to space in our car. Neutral zero emission spaceship, spaceship vacuum, which as you saw is not a rocket. Enormous balloons. It’s a very gentle flight. We want… Continue reading Carbon Neutral Space Travel? – Jane Poynter, Space Perspective
“The goal is net zero, which is a balance between the emissions we put into the air and the emissions we take out….We have solutions and…it’s not that the technologies don’t work, it’s not that we don’t know how to use them. It’s because we haven’t made the choice to actually use them at the… Continue reading “Chasing Carbon Zero” – Melissa Lott, Director of Research, Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
“At ON Power, we operate three power plants… and combined we produce just under 20% of the energy produced in Iceland…. We are removing carbon from our operations. So… there are low emissions associated with the production ther, from our operations. There’s around seven grams of CO2 per produced kilowatt hour, compared to 800, if… Continue reading How Iceland Extracts CO2 From The Air, Geothermal – Berglind “Begga” Olafsdottir, CEO of ON Power, Iceland
“The impact investing we focused on, and tried to bring tools and resources together for, really represents areas of investing where you’re looking for both a financial return and a social return through the investments that you make. So, it’s really that simple. It’s asking the question of, ‘is there some kind of social return… Continue reading ESG, Impact Investing & the SEC’s Climate Rules – Jean Case, Case Foundation
Massive Study On Climate Risk, Gender Differences – Sarah Cumbers, Lloyd’s Register Foundation “We want data is going to drive impact….It’s not as simple as saying that men or women are more worried (about climate change). We need to look at those granular differences at the country level. And, particularly actually when it comes to… Continue reading Massive Study On Climate Risk, Gender Differences – Sarah Cumbers, Lloyd’s Register Foundation
“Geothermal very broadly put, is just the collection of energy from the heat that comes from the earth’s core. And so it’s, it’s tapped into by just going to underground reservoirs and capturing some of that heat. There’s a couple of broad categories I’d like to split geothermal into from the outset, and that’s geothermal… Continue reading Geothermal Energy 101 – Sarah Golden, Greenbiz, VP of Energy
