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Climate Papa
by Ben Eidelson
At the intersection of climate change, technology, and parenthood. Climate Papa is a home for the climate dads, climate papas, and climate papis. The climate abbas, the climate babas, and climate tatas.We're here to gather folks sitting at the intersection of Emily Oster, Dr. Volts, Jason Jacobs, and Elad Gil. Maybe I’m the only one. Maybe there’s dozens of us.
Episodes
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The Power of Noticing: Scott Loarie on Building a Global Biodiversity Movement with iNaturalist
What if the most important step you can take for biodiversity is simply… noticing? Species are disappearing far faster than we can track, and for many of them, our entire scientific record amounts to a handful of specimens scattered across museum shelves. My guest today, Scott Loarie, has spent…
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40 years of climate economics and the practice of hope with Professor Gary Yohe
How do you make decisions for the next hundred years based on evidence you only know today? That’s the question Gary Yohe has spent more than four decades wrestling with. One of the first five economists in the world working on climate change back in the early 1980s, Gary served as the…
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Turning acres into options with Aarden AI CEO Danan Margason
Agriculture, forestry, and land use together account for nearly 24 % of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet somehow land sits in a weird blind spot: ignored by climate conversations focused on energy and transport, underanalyzed by markets, and mispriced by farmers and timber investors alike....
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Stepchange Teaser: Data Centers
✨ Special teaser from the Stepchange Show. Details here. ✨ 🎧 Listen to the full episode: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Substack Any other podcast player search: ‘Stepchange’ Today’s Climate Papa episode is a quick teaser from my other project, The Stepchange Show. Anay and I spent months…
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Digital infrastructure for the EV revolution with Apoorv Bhargava, CEO WeaveGrid
What happens when you take the two biggest sources of emissions in the US—transportation and electricity—and smash them together at breakneck speed? In this episode of Climate Papa, I sit down with Apoorv Bhargava, the co-founder and CEO of WeaveGrid. We explore the massive, unfolding challenge…
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How companies can actually build and buy clean energy with Ever.green's Michael Leggett
Ben sits down with Michael Leggett—former Google and Facebook design leader turned climate entrepreneur—to explore the invisible but essential machinery behind the clean energy economy. Michael is the co-founder and Head of Product at Ever.green, a startup working to democratize access to...
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Climate Papa × Volts: Live with David Roberts
In this live crossover episode of Climate Papa and Volts, I sit down with renowned climate journalist David Roberts for a conversation bridging the personal and the planetary. David traces his unlikely path from doctoral philosophy drop out into journalism—and how his early love of systems…
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Leveraging product scale for the climate with Google's Director of Product for Climate & Sustainability, Travis McCoy
What if the biggest climate impact from companies like Google wasn’t in their operations, but in how they shape the decisions of billions of people? In this episode of Climate Papa, I sit down with Travis McCoy, Director of Product for Sustainability at Google. We talk about his journey into...
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#24: The Stepchange Podcast: Coal Part I
Today I'm excited to introduce a new project, the Stepchange podcast, where we share the stories of human progress. Like Climate Papa, it's driven by a curiosity about the systems that shape our world, but focuses on the historical innovations and moments that got us here and the transformations...
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#23: Making sense of the Los Angeles fires with Jay Ribakove from Convective Capital
There was a fire that burned for 29 hours. It destroyed over 17,000 buildings, killed over 300 people, and left more than 100,000 homeless. This was the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Out of the ashes, Chicago rebuilt itself into a global model of resilience. The disaster spurred major changes,...
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#22: Cooking as medicine for our bodies and our planet with chef Joel Gamoran
On this show, we’ve explored how people can make infrastructure changes in their lives that have long-term positive climate impacts—whether it’s upgrading your furnace to a heat pump or switching from a gas car to an EV. Food is on the other end of the spectrum. It’s the ultimate behavioral...
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#21: Digging down deep for (near) free heat with Kathy Hannun of Dandelion Energy
I sit down with Kathy Hannun--the founder of Dandelion Energy, a geothermal heat pump comany that she spun out of Google X. What is a geothermal heat pump? Well, if you go outside and drill a hole a few hundred feet below ground you would get to a stable temperature--somewhere in the 50-60…
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#20: The other half of Stepchange’s origin story: integrating fatherhood, investing, and a values-driven life with Anay Shah
A bit over a year ago Ben met Anay Shah. In the months that followed Anay and Ben spent hours, then days, then months bringing forth Stepchange. Anay has not only become a fund co-founder and close friend—he’s also shared in the joy of parallel newborn parenting—both he and Ben had new babies…
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#19: Unlocking home decarbonization and a side of bluegrass, with Jeff Coleman
How do we get the money from climate legislation into the hands of someone buying a heat pump or solar? Between passing legislation, like the Inflation Reducaiton Act (IRA), and a homeowner getting new devices to run their homes there is a major coordination, paperwork, and financing problem to...
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#18: A very special Father's Day
This episode is a bit more papa and a bit less climate. Ben shares some family news and processes it with his 6-year-old and 3-year-old. They hit on some climate topics, the purpose of ants, and what was in the universe before earth. Kids are the best. Happy Father’s Day to all the fellow climate...
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#17: Why we must understand the present with Nat Bullard
The presentation: Decarbonization: Stocks and flows, abundance and scarcity, net zero In 1995, a Morgan Stanley analyst named Mary Meeker released a report called The Internet Trends Report. In 2001 it became a slide deck. Each year the release of the annual Mary Meeker deck was eagerly devoured…
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#16 - Introducing Stepchange, our new venture fund
As the first episode of the year, I’m focusing on a bit of a personal update. Today, I'm announcing the launch of a new climate venture fund, Stepchange. I use this week's episode to share the story behind the fund. I struggled with putting this episode out—I felt self-conscious spending the time...
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#15: Making the climate revolution irresistible with Nicole Kelner
See Nicole's work referenced here. The world of climate tech is small and something happened about two years ago. From climate newsletters to Twitter accounts and LinkedIn posts... everything became more...colorful. There were stunning watercolors explaining the carbon cycle in oceans, the carbon...
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#14: The urgency of this decade and YC's role in climate tech with David Rusenko
It was the summer of 2022 and David Rusenko had completed 15 years of a classic Silicon Valley success story. It started back in 2007 when he applied to the 4th batch of YC two hours before the deadline with his startup--Weebly. He grew Weebly, a website and ecommerce platform, to hundreds of...
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#13: Maximizing climate impact and minimizing parental jerkhood with Dimitry Gershenson
Ben sits down with fellow climate papa, Dimitry Gershenson. They head off the deep end into how to balance being a present father with being present for your start up ambitions. They explore if founding a startup makes you more of a jerk to your kids and the importance of vulnerability and…
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A personal message on Israel
I wasn't sure if I should put an episode out this week. I feel like at any given moment nearly 100% of my mind and attention and definitely my emotional energy has been on processing the events over this last weekend in Israel. Climate Papa is not a news podcast and certainly not a geopolitical...
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#12: What can the Climate Movement Learn From the Jewish High Holidays?
Announcement: It’s PNW Climate Week next week and I’m going to host the first ever Climate Papa meetup! Next Wednesday, September 27th, at 3:30pm at Volunteer Park. Register here! Fall is here—the leaves are changing and it’s back to school season. This time of year always feels like the “real”...
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#11: The Health Risks of Gas Stoves and the Future of Cooking with Weldon Kennedy
Well, we made it ten episodes in before hitting on the most emotionally charged of home appliances—the cooktop. Despite gas stoves not being a significant cause of emissions, they are a clever lock-in device used to drive homeowners to want to keep (or even add) gas hookups to their homes. The…
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#10: The magic devices that cool (and heat) our homes and how to perfect them with Bill Kee
It's the middle of August. For most of us, this is a hot and humid time of year--especially with heat waves raging across much of the world. To deal with more extreme temperatures we're going to need effective cooling, and a lot of it, quickly. Fortunately, we have the right device that can suck...
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#9: Methane bubble baths, bad unit conversions, and working at the frontier with Erika Reinhardt
Ben and Erika Reinhardt hop on post-bedtime to trade stories about their 5 and 2.5 year olds and make bathtub greenhouse gas analogies. Erika has made it her, and Spark Climate’s, mission to find and invest in the solutions we are likely or possibly going to need in the future that are, today,...
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#8: Decarbonizing Seattle and Loving Cities with Jessyn Farrell
Jessyn Farrell, Director of Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and Environment, sits down in her living room to chat with Ben about all of Seattle’s decarbonization plans. But first, two of Jessyn’s kids express their lukewarm feelings about podcasting and begrudgingly kick off the show. They…
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#7: Noaa Avital Cohn - Data to Energy to Surrender
Ben catches up with long-time friend Noaa. They quickly establish that Ben would not be a very effective sports podcaster. They dive into Noaa’s transition from building cloud data platforms to building energy marketplaces and explore the challenge and importance of measuring impact in climate...
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#6: Father's Day - Rewiring America x Climate Papa - Let's #ElectrifyFathersDay
Ben realizes Father’s Day is coming and that he didn’t want any of the stereotypical Father’s Day gifts. The team at Rewiring America agrees. It turns out a lot of dads would actually prefer we focus on improving our climate outcomes, address wildfire smoke, electrify our homes, and much, much...
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#5: Julia - Building Emotional Infrastructure
Ben dives in with Julia, a psychotherapist, and Asa’s mom (Asa was the 7-year-old star of Episode #4). After a false start leads to a parenting reflection, they dive into the psychology of thinking and working on climate change. As wide ranging as the conversation was with Asa on the external...
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#4: Asa - A Small Voice, A Big Impact: The Climate Perspective of a 7-Year-Old
Ben dives deep with 7-year-old, Asa, on all things climate. In a wide ranging conversation they cover the basics of climate change, the work of Rewiring America, Indigenous practices, regenerative farming, and how to MacGyver hydropower and wind power. The deepest insights come in exploring what…
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#3: Bill Clerico - Fires, Fintech, and Fatherhood
Ben urgently calls on Bill Clerico, founder of Convective Capital, to help make sense of the wildfires and smoke pillaging the East Coast. Meanwhile, Bill is out visiting Boston with his one year old and navigating the AQI. After tackling flying with babies, they explore the relationship between...
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#2: Dan Lindquist on Papa-hood, Product, Purpose, and Probability
Ben chats with Dan Lindquist, a fellow papa and product leader, about what motivates them to work on climate, how to pick your lane among the many interesting avenues in the space, the role of software as a friction reducer, and the uniquely collaborative and open dynamic in the budding climate...
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#1: Ben & Arthur - Introducing Climate Papa. What is this thing?
Welcome to Climate Papa! Ben and Arthur verbally process the impetus for this podcast and what motivates their work on climate (hint: it’s their kids and it isn’t), and set an intention for the creative act of this project. They also talk about Barbies, getting screamed at by our kids above 93...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
At the intersection of climate change, technology, and parenthood. Climate Papa is a home for the climate dads, climate papas, and climate papis. The climate abbas, the climate babas, and climate tatas.We're here to gather folks sitting at the intersection of Emily Oster, Dr. Volts, Jason Jacobs, and Elad Gil. Maybe I’m the only one. Maybe there’s dozens of us.
HOSTED BY
Ben Eidelson
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