The Net Zero Life

The Net Zero Life


Latest Episodes

#32 Investing in a Net Zero Future with Louis Schick, Director of Investments at Clean Energy Ventures
July 19, 2022

In the tenth and final episode of season three, TNZL explores the lessons of a technologist with a rich history of environmental-focused innovation.  From teacher to engineer to hedge fund manager and

#31 The True Impact of Renewable Energy, with Laura Zapata, CEO and Co-founder of Clearloop
July 12, 2022

How do you ensure a new renewable energy project is displacing fossil fuel production? How can we ensure clean energy is available to all communities, even those in the most rural areas? In the ninth

#30 Reversing Climate Change through Podcasts with Ross Kenyon, Co-Founder of Nori and Host of the Reversing Climate Change Podcast
July 05, 2022

Nori is the carbon removal marketplace that  helps organizations, companies, and individuals meet their climate goals with high-quality carbon removal offsets. They are early advocates of carbon remov

#29 Creating New Markets to Achieve Net Zero with Elena Schmidt, Executive Director at The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
June 28, 2022

How do we create new paradigms that shift the current economic incentives that ignore negative externalities like carbon emissions? One method is through new economic markets. But in order to build th

#28 The Sustainable Possibilities of Crypto with Jonathan Rackoff, ex Coinbase, Obama White House and EPA
June 14, 2022

Is cryptocurrency bad for the environment? A simple question with no simple answers. Not all coins are equally bad for the environment. Nearly all crypto related emissions are scope 2 — so is it even

#27 Discovering Your Inner Environmentalist with Mark Tercek, Former CEO of The Nature Conservancy
June 07, 2022

How does a banker end up leading the world's largest environmental organization? What resources did he use to build his sustainability knowledge and what frameworks did he learn from 11 years leading

#26 Grand Challenges with Apoorv Sinha and Madison Savilow of Carbon Upcycling, winners of the Carbon X-Prize X-Factor Award
May 30, 2022

Business and governments have the unique responsibility to foster innovation that breeds new technologies, especially ones that enable humanity to achieve net zero. While the more recognizable way is

#25 Why Net Zero Starts with the Grid with Rob Gramlich, Founder and President of Grid Strategies LLC
May 24, 2022

A net zero future starts with zero-carbon electricity and then electrifying everything, so why are developers with fully funded solar and wind energy generation projects waiting to build them? What's

#24 Sustainable Corporate Governance with Diana Birkett Rakow, SVP Alaska Airlines
May 17, 2022

How do you move the needle in a hard-to-abate sector? What does good sustainable corporate governance look like in a Fortune 1000 company? In the second episode of season three, TNZL explores the corp

#23 Hacking Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis with Gavin McCormick, Executive Director of WattTime
May 10, 2022

How does one go from teaching in Namibia to founding one of the most audacious climate change programs in the world? Well, in Gavin McCormick's case he was convinced to attend a hackathon which led hi