A Climate Change with Matt Matern

259. California Just Passed Balcony Solar - Now It's Up to Newsom w/ Cora Stryker

Today, Matt is joined again by Cora Stryker, co-founder of Bright Saver. One year after first joining us on the show, a lot has changed. When she was last on, plug-in sol

258. The AI Beehive Fighting Colony Collapse w/ Saar Safra

Today, Matt is joined by Saar Safra, co-founder and CEO of Beewise, to talk about one of the quietest threats to our food supply - the collapse of the world's bee colonie

257: Building the “Apple of EV Charging,” w/ Zak Winnick

Today, Matt Matern speaks with Zak Winnick, founder and CEO of Rangeway Energy, about building America’s first hospitality-forward EV charging network. Zak shares how a c

256. Why the Ocean Always Wins with Bren Smith

Today, Matt speaks with Bren Smith, co-founder and co-executive director of GreenWave, about his journey from commercial fisherman to pioneer of regenerative ocean farmin

255. What If We Could Store Carbon the Way the Ocean Already Does? w/ Garrett Boudinot

Today, Matt is joined by Dr. Garrett Boudinot, founder and CEO of Vycarb, to talk about a new approach to carbon capture and storage that works with water instead of pipe

254. How Fossil Fuel Companies Are Quietly Buying Legal Immunity with David Fenton

Today, Matt is joined by David Fenton - veteran progressive communications strategist and host of The Fenton Forecast - for a conversation about the climate movement’s bi

253. He Helped Build Waymo. Now Tom Chi Builds Robots That Replant Forests

Today, Matt speaks with Tom Chi, founding partner of At One Ventures and a founding member of the Google X team behind Waymo, about using deep tech to restore ecosystems

252: Why Only 1% of US Farmland Is Organic with Linley Dixon

Today, Matt speaks with Dr. Linley Dixon, Co-Director of the Real Organic Project and cohost of the Real Organic Podcast, about why how we grow food may be the climate le

251. Why 40% of Americans Can't Charge an EV at Home with Jeff Prosserman

Today, Matt speaks with Jeffrey Prosserman, CEO and co-founder of Voltpost, about a simple idea with big potential: turning the lampposts and utility poles cities already

250. The Founders Loved the Land - and Left One Thing Unfinished

In this milestone 250th episode, Matt Matern goes solo for the final installment of our “250 for 250” series - tracing what the people who founded the country actually be

249. He Watched January 6 Happen - Then Wrote This Book w/ Brian Jay Jones

Today, Matt speaks with New York Times bestselling biographer Brian Jay Jones, author of Becoming Dr. Seuss and the new book The Capitol: The Surprising Biography of an A

248. Why The Lorax Matters More Now Than Ever with Philip Nel

Today, Matt speaks with Philip Nel, University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University and one of the world's leading Dr. Seuss scholars, about The

247. America’s Best Idea: How the U.S. Invented the National Park

Today, no guest - just Matt, with the story of what one writer called “the best idea America ever had”: the national park. In 1872, in a country built on private property

246. How FEMA Became the Most Hated Agency in America with Micah Loewinger

Today, Matt speaks with Micah Loewinger, co-host of WNYC’s On the Media and the reporter behind the new four-part series American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA, ab

245. How 20 Million Americans Got a Republican President to Build the EPA

Today, no guest - just Matt, telling one of the strangest and most hopeful stories in American politics. It's the story of the first Earth Day, when 20 million Americans

244. He Left SpaceX After 13 Years to Solve the Water Crisis with Jonathan Criss

Today, Matt speaks with Jonathan Criss, CEO and co-founder of Vital Lyfe, about reinventing how the world gets clean drinking water. After 13 years at SpaceX working on t

243. How CarbonCure Locked 768,000 Tons of CO2 Permanently into Concrete with Dean Forgeron

Today, Matt speaks with Dean Forgeron, Chief Technology Officer at CarbonCure Technologies, about the Halifax-based clean tech company decarbonizing one of the world's mo

242. Why a Top Climate VC Is Endorsing Tom Steyer for Governor w/ Dan Miller

Today, Matt is joined by Dan Miller - Managing Director of The Roda Group and host of Climate Chat on YouTube - for a wide-ranging conversation on the economics of the en

241. How 9,000 Restaurants Became America's Newest Power Plant with Ibhade Eigbobo

Today, Matt speaks with Ibhade Eigbobo, Director of Corporate Project Management at Budderfly, about why the small and midsize business sector is one of America's most un

240. Why Protecting Nature Starts With Protecting People w/ Brett Jenks

Today, Matt is joined by Brett Jenks, CEO of Rare, a global conservation nonprofit that helps coastal fishing communities, smallholder farmers, and local leaders in 60+ c