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The Largest Private Recycling Company in America Just Showed Up
Ron Gonen built the largest privately held recycling and composting company in America largely in secret. For five years, his team acquired family-owned recycling oper...
The Missing Renewable: Wave Power Comes Ashore
Sign up for Johnson Controls' Free Webinar: Optimizing Lifecycle Value Webinar--The ocean is an unforgiving place to put a machine. That’s why wave energy has remained...
The House That Rice Built: Modern Mill’s Breakthrough Building Material
Sign up for Johnson Controls' Free Webinar: Optimizing Lifecycle Value Webinar-- It’s one thing to invent a better, more sustainable building material. It’s another to...
AI Mapping & 3D-Printed Reefs: Coastal Climate Adaptation Gets Its Tech Stack
Sign up for Risk and Resilience — Designing for a Changing World, a Johnson Controls fireside chat at 1pm EST today featuring Ralph DiNola, founder of Building Insight...
Don’t Talk About Climate: How to Scale a Climate Company
Every climate company that scales knows the secret: they don’t sell climate. In this solo episode of Supercool, host Josh Dorfman shares one of the clearest lessons fr...
The $1.9 Trillion Opportunity in Circular Retail
If the circular economy is ever going to become just “the economy,” it will need infrastructure. In this episode, Josh talks with Rich Amsinger, co-founder of Manymoon...
Passive House: All The Lifestyle Gain, None of the Environmental Pain
Most architects don't tell you your home could be nearly silent, filter every breath of air, and run almost without heat. Not because it's impossible. Because they don...
Fun: Why Sustainability Needs It And How To Have It At Work
Nobody wants to be policed. Not even sustainability advocates.Charlie Sellars has spent six years as a Director of Sustainability at Microsoft. He's the author of What...
320 Boreholes Below Brooklyn: How Geothermal Replaces Fossil Fuels in Cities
* Sign-up for Johnson Controls Webinar: Evolving Building Codes *The largest geothermal residential building in New York City just opened in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 834 ...
20 Million Acres Later: Regenerative Ag Has Its Business Model
People assume farmers are conservative by nature. Cautious. Set in their ways.Ryan Jones, VP of Sustainability at Indigo Ag, has a different read: farmers aren’t risk-...
Solar for 45 Million Renters: How Shine Gets Building Owners to Say "Yes"
Forty-five million Americans live in apartments. Almost none have solar—not because the technology doesn't work, but because building owners pay for installation while...
Cash Beats Climate: Crowdfunding Millions for Clean Energy
In 2019, Will Wiseman watched 100,000 people march through Barcelona for the global climate strikes. He felt hope. Then the obvious truth: everyone was going home, and...
Beauty and Brains: Lunar Batteries Save Money and Look Good Doing It
Kunal Girotra was Head of Tesla Energy before leaving in 2020 to found Lunar Energy. Then he went silent. Over two years, he raised $300 million, built a 250-person te...
Can AI Save AI Infrastructure? Cutting Energy, Water, and Wear in Data Centers
Data centers have always pursued energy efficiency through better hardware—smarter chillers, advanced cooling systems. But there's a ceiling. You can only make hardwar...
Stop Sorting: How UBQ Materials Uses 100% Of Your Trash
What if we stopped trying to recycle and just used all our trash instead?UBQ Materials makes bio-plastics from entire trash bags—dirty diapers, greasy pizza boxes, chi...
Modernization Is Electrification: How Schneider Electric Builds at Gigawatt Scale
When any part of the economy modernizes, it electrifies. New HVAC systems? Electric heat pumps. Autonomous vehicles? Battery-powered electric cars. Next-generation fac...
Mass Timber For The Masses: How Sterling Mainstreamed CLT
Mass Timber is growing fast—expanding from a handful of commercial wood buildings in the U.S. just over a decade ago to more than 2,000 today, with 24,000 projected by...
The Clean Energy Transition Runs on Affordability
Clean power has never been cheaper. So why are electricity bills rising—and what's blocking faster deployment? Jigar Shah joins Supercool to explain why 2025 marked a ...