Season 3

Disrupting ESG: The Need for Transparency and Openness with Frank Meehan from OpenESG
June 03, 2023x
11
00:33:27

Disrupting ESG: The Need for Transparency and Openness with Frank Meehan from OpenESG

Introduction: Host Tarmo Virki welcomes listeners to "NatureBacked," a show discussing the green economy. Guest speaker Frank Meehan from openESG, joins the conversation. Frank Meehan is a seasoned investor and co-founder of SPARKlabs, an investment firm focused on climate, food, and agricultural te...

Tapping Booming Demand for Microgrids with Rod Matthews
May 22, 2023x
10
00:20:49

Tapping Booming Demand for Microgrids with Rod Matthews

Green is a crucial part of the offering, but not the only benefit microgrid clients are seeking, said Rod Matthews from San Diego, California-based microgrid producer Brevian Energy. "We're looking at ways to help make power much more affordable for people and resilient because you are generating it...

Turning Investment Portfolios Green With Peter Krull
April 19, 2023x
9
00:30:05

Turning Investment Portfolios Green With Peter Krull

For sustainable investing one has to make clear changes, looking beyond lowering the share of fossil fuel companies in the portfolio, said Peter Krull, Partner at Earth Equity Advisors. “We don't have to accept less bad. We can just simply make transitions,” Krull said. “So sustainable investing to ...

Carbon Negative Bitcoin Mining?! With Sazmining
April 10, 2023x
8
00:23:00

Carbon Negative Bitcoin Mining?! With Sazmining

Sazmining is building a platform for green, even carbon-negative, bitcoin mining, said founder William Szamosszegi. Looking at the big picture, the environmental effects of Bitcoin are considerable, partly because Bitcoins are made using electricity partially generated by gas and coal-fired power pl...

Going Local with Adam Beaumont
March 27, 2023x
7
00:42:16

Going Local with Adam Beaumont

When Eden Project North, an environmental visitor attraction in northern England, opens in a few years, a lot of the work will be done by local enterprises, said Adam Beaumont, trustee and non-executive director at Eden. The project will be located at Morecambe, once a thriving coastal town, which h...