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Hosted by Ben Eidelson · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 33 episodes
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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.
Ben Eidelson hosts Climate Papa, a society show with 33 episodes published.
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 specime
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 wor
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, unde
✨ 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 tea
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
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 Hea
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 doctora
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 , Directo
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
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 itsel
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.
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 bel
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 sha
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 the
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
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 dec
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 s
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 . T
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-
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
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