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Profits at Recycling's Edge: TerraCycle Finds ROI in Trash No One Wants
TerraCycle takes on waste the rest of the world ignores—cigarette butts, diapers, pharmaceutical blister packs.But what makes the model work isn’t what they recycle. I...
Built for the EV Generation: Formula E Energizes 500 Million Global Race Fans
When Roger Griffiths first heard about Formula E in 2014, he was intrigued but skeptical. A veteran of IndyCar, Le Mans, and Formula 1—and a self-described petrol head...
Cleaning the Grid: Wärtsilä Tackles the Toughest Battery Storage Projects on Earth
Grid battery storage has gone from niche to necessary. Fast. Projects that were once 300 megawatt-hours are now hitting 9 gigawatt-hours. And companies like Wärtsilä a...
The ROI on Climate Capital: A Mayor’s Blueprint for Citywide Renewal
Jaime Pumarejo helped lead Barranquilla, Colombia, through a stunning transition. When he first joined the city’s government in his twenties, Barranquilla was under ba...
Solar, Semiconductors, and the American Dream: Enphase Is a $5.5B Climate Tech Powerhouse
The energy grid we know today was built for a different era—centralized generation, one-way power flow, no rooftop solar, no EVs, no AI-driven demand. If Thomas Edison...
Racing the Clock: Wasteless Turns Expiring Food into Profit for Grocers Worldwide
If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter, right behind the United States and China, accounting for 8-10% of global carbon emissions. It’s a ...
Cities Have The Climate Ambition—Now Mayors Are Rewriting Global Finance to Match
Before becoming the youngest elected mayor in Quito’s history, Mauricio Rodas had already founded a political party, launched a think tank in Mexico City, and run for ...
Trove Turns Recommerce into a Profit Driver for Patagonia, Levi’s and On
Circularity isn’t just about keeping t-shirts and jeans out of landfills. Done right, it’s a growth engine for brands. That’s exactly what Trove is building: the recom...
The Mayor Who Cut Carbon, Cut Bills, and Cut a Billion-Pound Deal
As mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees helped launch a billion-pound public-private partnership to decarbonize his city, one of the most ambitious deals of its kind anywhere...
Rare Earths, Recycled: Cyclic Materials Cuts Into China's 90% Head Start
Rare earth magnets power the modern world and the clean energy transition. They’re inside every electric vehicle motor, wind turbine, MRI machine, and computer hard dr...
3x the Grid: Siemens Energy and the Race to Rewire the Future
It took over a century to build today’s power grid. Now we need to triple its capacity by 2050. Why? Because demand is surging, and a net-zero future depends on a bigg...
Simple, Unstoppable: Rondo Energy is Solving Industrial Heat with Bricks
Rondo Energy is building a renewable energy battery using bricks and toaster wire. But it’s not for your home—it’s for the factories that run the world. Industrial hea...
Apple-ifying Energy: Renew Home Makes Virtual Power Plants Painless & Profitable
Fifteen years ago, smart thermostats promised to save you money and learn your habits. Today, they—and other grid-connected devices and appliances—are forming the back...
Reuse, Rock ‘n’ Roll & the Circular Economy
Mike Martin helped launch the first climate change concert tour with Dave Matthews. He’s worked with Billie Eilish to flip venues vegan and wrote the green touring pla...
Old Giant, New Vision: Johnson Controls Puts Carbon Reduction on Autopilot
Johnson Controls helped invent modern air conditioning. Now, it’s reengineering how buildings cut carbon — using AI and automation to make infrastructure smarter, clea...
The E-Bike Boom: How Upway Is Winning the Million-Bike Market
E-bikes are booming—nearly as many were sold in the U.S. last year as electric cars. But while EVs get the attention, e-bikes are quietly reshaping how people move, cu...
Power Moves: Turning Clean Energy into a Simple, Irresistible Lifestyle
How do you make solar adoption irresistible? By not selling solar.This week on Supercool, we’re joined by Mary Powell, CEO of Sunrun, and Jessica Bergman, a marketing ...
Telling the Future: Climate, Capital, and the Power of Story
Supercool regularly speaks with innovators working at the intersection of business, technology, and climate—AI giving buildings brains, pneumatic tubes hauling away tr...