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🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Over a century ago, the industrial revolution brought wealth and opportunity to a generation of American innovators. It also brought us dirty coal power and a sky clogged with carbon emissions. The good news? There’s a new generation of entrepreneurs eager to make their fortune by fighting global warming. Creative start-ups are coming up with fresh, climate-friendly ideas for getting around town, powering your cell phones, and even eating breakfast. And there is a growing number of forward-thinking venture capitalist firms eager to seek out and nurture those innovative thinkers. A discussion about clean tech startups and how they could help save the world. Guests: Lidiya Dervisheva, Associate, G2VP Davida Herzl, CEO and Co-Founder, Aclima Gabriel Kra, Managing Director, Prelude Ventures This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on May 14, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Climate One, changing the conversation about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:08.6	On today's program, news from the front lines of the Clean Tech Revolution.
0:13.4	So it's not only solar, wind, tide, and so on, but it's actually the way we use energy,
0:18.4	the way we conserve energy, the way we figure out better ways
0:21.8	to use the resources that we currently have.
0:26.2	Creative startups are coming up with fresh, climate-friendly ideas for getting around town,
0:31.4	powering your cell phones, and even eating breakfast.
0:34.7	Milk, yogurts, cheeses, turns out there's a lot of carbon embedded in that production
0:40.5	ecosystem.
0:41.5	So if you can just take cows out of the dairy equation, then you can actually save a lot of
0:47.0	energy and impact climate change.
0:48.8	The promise of cool, clean tech.
0:51.2	Up next on Climate One.
1:03.0	Music Cool Clean Tech. Up next on Climate One. Can Clean Tech startups save the planet?
1:06.3	Welcome to Climate One, changing the conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment.
1:22.3	Over a century ago, the Industrial Revolution brought wealth and opportunity to a generation of American
1:28.3	innovators.
1:29.3	It also brought us dirty coal power and a sky clogged with carbon emissions.
1:35.3	The good news?
1:36.3	There's a new generation of entrepreneurs eager to make their fortune by fighting global warming.
1:41.3	Today on Climate One, Greg Dalton digs into some of the exciting new ideas
1:45.6	coming our way from the world of clean tech. His guests represent three companies that are
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