Future in Bloom

What to Do When the Perfect Climate Solution Takes Too Long | Jackie Wong, NRDC

Right now, humanity puts billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. This has real, negative impacts on environmental and human health. Clean energy and the u

How to Get More Climate Tech as Cheap as Solar| Eric Rubenstein, New Climate Ventures

In the past 50 years, the cost of generating solar power has dropped by 99%. That’s largely due to economics: when more solar generators get made, the cheaper it is to ma

Why You Can’t Get Solar and Why That’s Changing | Cora Stryker, Bright Saver

Most Americans support solar. Most are interested in it. But most people can’t afford it because of cost. And 63% of renters say the only reason they don’t have it is tha

How AI is Making Global Supply Chains Visible | Peter Swartz, Altana AI

Supply chains are made up of thousands of interconnected pieces, each with their own customers, suppliers, and responsibilities. In a global economy, how can any one comp

How to Expand Climate Tech and Community Trust with Brandon Middaugh

Most climate solutions don’t fail because the science is wrong. They fail because the market around them doesn’t get built. So, who is building more markets, and how? In

How can we finance development that’s good for the planet and the communities that live there?

7 out of 10 Americans don’t want a data center in their backyard, and it’s hard to blame them. But we’re also seeing backlash increase against clean energy infrastructure

Fixing the Reason Why Nobody Wants a Heat Pump | Jeff Coleman, Eli

Jeff Coleman woke up one morning and realized he was running a different kind of company than he started. What began as a software platform to help homeowners access clea

The climate tech company copying trees to remake our world sustainably

On this episode of Future in Bloom, Steph Speirs speaks with Etosha Cave, co-founder and Chief Science Advisor at Twelve. Twelve is discovering new ways to recycle CO2 an

It feeds half the world. It Also Emits 2% of Global CO₂. Can We Fix It?

In this episode of Future in Bloom, host Steph talks with Dr. Lea Winter, a chemical and environmental engineering professor at Yale, to explore how we can redesign the b

Impermanent Philanthropy: A new way to think about legacy with Santhosh Ramdoss

What if the best thing a foundation could do was plan its own ending? In this episode of Future in Bloom, Steph Speirs sits down with Santhosh Ramdoss, President & CEO of

Better Soil with Natural Carbon Removal: A Yale Geochemist Explains

What if one of the most powerful climate solutions wasn’t something we needed to build, but something the Earth has been doing for billions of years? In this episode, St

The 200 People Who Control Your Electricity Bill

Charles Hua, founder of Powerlines and former US Department of Energy strategist, makes the case that America’s energy affordability crisis is a regulatory problem. With

Clean Energy Has to Outcompete Fossil Fuels (Not Cancel Them)

Aliya Haq has been involved in the environmental movement since she was eight years old, protesting an incinerator in her rural hometown. Over 25 years she’s led policy a

“People are going to fly whether we like it or not.” Now what?

The aviation sector has an emissions problem. Convincing people to fly less won’t cut it: The answer is fundamentally reinventing the fuel itself. In this episode of Futu

How One Person’s Impact Can Unlock Gigawatts of Energy

Matt Traldi, co-founder of Greenlight America, joins Steph Speirs to unpack the “hidden” political friction points stalling the U.S. energy transition. From the permittin

Why Most Grid Batteries Won’t Survive a Winter Storm

Arvin Ganesan, CEO of Fourth Power, joins Steph Speirs to unpack what’s really happening at the intersection of extreme heat, carbon blocks, and the future of long-durati

The Hidden Barrier to America’s Clean Energy Future

Antoine Vagneur-Jones, Head of Trade & Supply Chains at Bloomberg NEF, joins Steph Speirs to unpack what’s really happening at the intersection of tariffs, critical miner

How AI Slashes Clean Energy R&D by Decades W/ Lisbeth Kaufman

Lisbeth Kaufman, AWS Head of Climate Tech Startups and former founder, joins Steph Speirs to discuss how the world’s largest cloud provider is accelerating the next gener

Navigating the Climate Tech Capital Stack & The Future of VC | Sophie Purdom

The “Green Premium” is officially dead. If you think a great invention is enough to save the planet—and a business—think again. In this eye-opening breakdown, Sophie Purd

Investing in Clean Energy Innovation Keynote | Yale Clean Energy Conference

In this keynote panel from the Yale Clean Energy Conference, we go beyond the surface of “green tech” to discuss the brutal realities of financing the energy transition.