Innovating to a Clean Economy: Recent Episodes
IE Clean Tech Podcast by UNC
This new IE Cleantech podcast will provide a closer look at people who are driving cleantech innovations and how they contribute to the cleantech economy. The first season will focus on decarbonizing the economy with episodes available in July that will feature: agtech, transportation, blue tech and transforming the electric grid, among others. Specifically, episodes will explore: vehicle-to-grid technology, innovations targeting our oceans or blue tech, the future of electric vehicles, precision farming and transforming the American power grid, to name a few.
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This episode features Emily Neville, founder of Reborn Clothing Co., and Dr. Amy Cooke from UNC-Chapel Hill speaking about sustainable fashion with student guest host, Vivian Le, an IE Cleantech Corner intern. Join host, Kiersten Williams for this podcast episode. Guests: https://rebornclothing.co/ https://cfe.unc.edu/bell-portfolio/amy-cooke/ Learn more about IE Cleantech Corner at https://ie.unc.edu/clean-tech-corner/
This episode features David Nenon, a Senior Global Supply Manager for Tesla; Brian Bartholomew, a U.S. Power Analyst with Bloomberg New Energy Finance; and James Robinson, the Energy Storage Project Development Manager for Strata Solar. Together, with Host Kiersten Williams and our student guest host, Norman Xie, we will learn more about battery storage; why we should invest in it now, ideas that rethink the battery supply chain, and the business opportunities from the grid.
Visit https://ie.unc.edu/clean-tech-corner/ for more information about our focus on innovating towards a clean economy.
Season 2 Student Guest Hosts: Vivian Le: linkedin.com/in/vivian-le-b16802146/ Brenda Palacios: linkedin.com/in/brenda-palacios-rodriguez-1647131a6/ Norman Xie: linkedin.com/in/norman-xie-a6a09917b/
This episode features start-up representatives from Cara Green, Living Roofs, and Epoch Rain barrels. Your host, Kiersten Williams is joined by student host Brenda Palacios, who shares the important benefits of sustainable building practices. These include recycled building materials, green roofing, and rainwater storage using rain barrels. To learn more about each company featured in this episode, click on the links below:
Cara Green https://www.caragreen.com/ Living Roofs https://www.livingroofsinc.com/ Epoch Rain Barrels https://www.epochrainbarrels.com/
To learn more about who IE Cleantech Corner, visit us here: https://ie.unc.edu/clean-tech-corner/
This episode features Joshua Miller, founder of FarmShots, a satellite imagery provider for farmers; John Battle, co-founder of Your Local Greens, a city farm in Burlington; and Emily Glenn, Director of Business Development at Arbiom, a wood to food biotechnology company. Join us, as our guest student host, Vivian Le speaks with these companies that are all reimagining the future of agriculture.
http://farmshots.com/ https://www.yourlocalgreens.com/ https://arbiom.com/
Visit us for more information about our focus on innovating to a clean economy: https://ie.unc.edu/clean-tech-corner/
This second season of the Innovating to a Clean Economy Podcast will feature stories about startups, SMEs, and traditional companies that are innovating to a cleaner world. Each episode will feature IE Cleantech Program student interns: Brenda Palacios Rodriguez, Norman Xie, and Vivian Le. Learn more at https://ie.unc.edu/clean-tech-corner/
This episode features Russell Gold, a Pulitzer Prize nominated energy reporter for the Wall Street Journal and author of Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform American Energy. We join him at the UNC Clean Tech Summit where he discusses: themes from his book about transforming America’s power grids; and breaks down the past, present, and future of our relationship with energy.
Guest: Russell Gold, senior energy reporter, The Wall Street Journal and author
Visit https://ie.unc.edu/clean-tech-corner/ for more information about our focus on innovating to a clean economy.
In this episode, Kiersten is joined by Matt Russell, a fifth-generation farmer in Iowa and Executive Director of Iowa Interfaith Power and Light. Matt talks about how farmers are using their agriculture techniques and skills to accelerate the carbon, water and nutrient cycles; with a specific focus on capturing carbon from the atmosphere where we don’t want it, and putting it to work in our soils where we do want it. Cleantech and agtech innovations are helping farmers with this new intentional farming practice.
This episode features cleantech innovations being applied to agriculture and our oceans. Mark Huang, founder of SeaAhead and blue tech innovator shares insights from the 2020 UNC Clean Tech Summit. Additionally, our host Kiersten is joined by guest Susanne Kjemtrup, an agtech consultant who tells us about how technological advancements like precision farming are shaking the foundation of the agricultural sector and igniting trends that will make farming more efficient and sustainable.
Guests: Susanne Kjemtrup, Agtech Consultant Mark Huang, Co-founder and Managing Director of SeaAhead
Find more cleantech stories of innovation here: https://ie.unc.edu/clean-tech-corner/cleantech/