Climate Tech Cocktails

🪩Disco,⚡️Energy Efficiency, 🚗EV Grid, 🎤Karaoke, and 💡More Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails [https://www.climatetechcocktails.com/]! Climate Tech Cocktails is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.  It’s all 🍸Bombay Sapphire [https://www.bombaysapphire.com/],🍸Citadelle Gin [https://citadellegin.com/en/], disco-balled cocktail shakers and Karaoke with Apoorv Bhargava [https://www.linkedin.com/in/apoorv-bhargava/], co-founder and CEO of WeaveGrid [https://www.weavegrid.com/]. A trailblazer in electrifying the future of EV grid integration, WeaveGrid [https://www.weavegrid.com/] is connecting automakers, utilities and drivers to tackle the challenges to and boost EV adoption across the industry. Featuring a stirring performance from Apoorv, this is one episode you’ll want to sit back, take a sip, and maybe even sing along to!

🌱 Soil health,💡Agricultural innovation, 🤝Humanitarian Aid,🌱Carbon offset, and💥More Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails [https://www.climatetechcocktails.com/]! Climate Tech Cocktails is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.  Today, Matt is joined by Chris Tolles [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christolles/], Co-founder and CEO of Yard Stick [https://www.useyardstick.com/], an organization that is revolutionizing the way farmers measure their soil by making it accurate, instant, and affordable. While Chris sips on a Gangster Duck [https://www.radiantpigbeers.com/beers], and Matt quaffs both a Sparkle Pony [https://blackhammerbrewing.com/pages/beer] and A Brew Hope [https://untappd.com/b/laughing-monk-brewing-a-brew-hope/5800318#], their discussion unearths the importance of soil health, its role as a carbon sink, and Chris’s fascinating journey from humanitarian relief worker to cutting-edge climate tech leader. So, go ahead, grab whatever beverage is calling your name right now, and let’s dig into the dirt together!

🌱 Vertical Farming⚙️Construction Automation,💡Innovative Disruption  and 💥 More! Joining Matt and his Athenaeum Whiskey [https://www.instacart.com/products/26113343-athenaeum-double-barrel-bourbon-whisky-750-ml?csr=true] today is the man, the myth, the legend - and Matt’s dear friend and mentor - Jack Oslan [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackoslan/]. This fantastically successful co-founder of the two blockbuster start-ups, Plenty [https://www.plenty.ag/] and Diamond Age [https://www.diamondage3d.com/], comes armed with some Maker's Mark Reserve [https://www.makersmark.com/] to discuss both his personal and professional life. From growing up next to a corn field in small town Illinois to being a two-time Silicon Valley tech founder to building shelters for war torn Ukraine, Jack leads a nobly purposeful existence helping out those most in need, and you get to share in his extensive experience and wisdom here today.

Matt welcomes Stacy Flynn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacyeflynn/], CEO & Co-Founder at EVRNU [https://www.evrnu.com/], to the podcast this week to enjoy some impressive Willamette Valley [https://www.willamettevalley.org/] Pinot Noirs [https://www.foodandwine.com/wine/red-wine/pinot-noir/pinot-noir-wine-guide], and to discuss everything from Happy Gilmore [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116483/] and Prince [https://www.prince.com/] to the ways in which her company is reshaping fashion's environmental impact. Together, they review Stacy’s unique career trajectory and how it has her led to co-founding EVRNU [https://www.evrnu.com/] - an industry leader “converting textile waste materials into ‘new’ engineered fibers, which can be recycled again and again.”

We’re in a Manhattan [https://www.liquor.com/recipes/manhattan-2/] state of mind this week as John Felts [https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-felts-7a784936/], Co-founder & CEO of Cruz Foam [https://www.cruzfoam.com/], bends an elbow, sharing the waves Cruz Foam is making in the sustainable packaging. Propelled by a deep connection with the ocean, powerfully forged in childhood, John’s journey from surfer to scientist and entrepreneur has inspired a mission to provide a natural, sustainable, and easily integrated alternative to styrofoam. Cruz Foam is setting ‘a new standard for what it means to be a sustainable product.’