About this podcast
Supercool spotlights climate innovations that have moved beyond the lab and into the market.
Hosted by climate-tech founder and author Josh Dorfman, Supercool features CEOs, founders, and operators building businesses that are decarbonizing energy, transportation, food, materials, and buildings. Each episode explores the strategies, execution, and business models behind companies that cut carbon, grow profits, and redefine modern life.
Episodes
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- No Fossil Fuels Are Home in a Jetson Future · 46 min · Episode 118We have electric cars, artificial intelligence, and rockets that land themselves. So why are millions of American homes still using last century’s technology and burning fossil…
- From Sofas to Swim Spas: Secondhand Goods Get the Buy-New Experience · 51 min · Episode 117From Sofas to Swim Spas: Secondhand Goods Get the Buy-New Experience Buying a used Peloton, sofa, or swim spa can save you thousands of dollars. But when it comes to large…
- Reprised | Crime Fighters & Therapists: How Urban Trees Improve City Life · 39 min · Episode 116While saving the Amazon grabs headlines, the trees right outside your front door shape your life in important ways. The more trees in your city neighborhood, the less crime, the…
- Reprised | Trust Scales: Veo Is the Micromobility Partner Cities Love · 43 min · Episode 115In an industry that moved fast and defied cities, Veo chose a different path: partnership over disruption. Co-founder and CEO Candice Xie is building one of the only profitable…
- Reprised | Right on Schedule: Zum Gives America’s School Buses a 21st Century Upgrade · 37 min · Episode 114Every day, 27 million kids ride 500,000 school buses—the largest transit system in America. And yet, this 80-year-old relic is stuck in the past: buses are late, routes are…
- Reprised | Clean Energy Meets Its Match: Crux Accelerates Deal Flow · 45 min · Episode 113There are trillions of dollars of clean energy projects ready to be built—and trillions more in capital waiting to fund them. But the system connecting the two is too slow…
- The Planet Needs Better Products, Not Better People · 8 min · Episode 112People aren’t looking for a mission. They’re looking for products that improve their lives. In this Supercool episode, host Josh Dorfman takes us back to China 30 years ago, when…
- Boats That Fly: 5x More Efficient Across Four Continents · 42 min · Episode 111How do you make boating an extremely efficient form of transportation? You lift the boat out of the water. Vessev’s electric hydrofoils use underwater wings to raise almost the…
- They Called Him Nature Boy. Now 45 Climate Tech CEOs Call Him for Advice. · 44 min · Episode 110Climate tech CEOs are running a long, consequential, high-stakes race. Where do they go when they hit unfamiliar terrain? Chris Wedding created Entrepreneurs for Impact so they…
- Artifacts from the Future: Reimagining Sustainable Interiors with David Bergman · 57 min · Episode 109We think of a building as something permanent. Its interior is anything but. A lease comes up. A new tenant moves in and renovates the space. The building may last for 100 years…
- When It’s Time to Power: Critical Loop Gets Electricity Where It’s Needed · 45 min · Episode 108In America today, it can be faster to build a factory than to get enough electricity to run it. Time to power has become a major bottleneck for factories, data centers, EV…
- Reprised | Alloy Built Brooklyn’s First All-Electric Skyscraper — Wall Street Wants More · 47 min · Episode 107By fusing architect and developer, Alloy Development is proving that the riskiest choice in real estate isn’t electrification or Passive House — it’s clinging to the past. CEO…
- Reprised | Built for the EV Generation: Formula E Energizes 561 Million Global Race Fans · 46 min · Episode 106When 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—he wasn’t…
- The Profitable Climate Solution: Integrative Design for Radical Efficiency — with Amory Lovins · 40 min · Episode 105Nearly 50 years after Amory Lovins published his landmark Foreign Affairs article, “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?,” we have made enormous gains in efficiency. But we have…
- Reprised | Rare Earths, Recycled: Cyclic Materials Cuts Into China's 90% Head Start · 43 min · Episode 104Rare 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 drive in a…
- Circularity is Strategy: Why Billion-Dollar Brands Are Betting on Resale · 45 min · Episode 103Resale has become more than a sustainability initiative. For billion-dollar brands like Patagonia, Levi's, and Michael Kors, it's become core business strategy. In this episode…
- Twenty Years to Supercool: A Replay with Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle · 50 min · Episode 102What do China, a sustainable furniture startup, and a blog called The Lazy Environmentalist have to do with Supercool? This week, we're taking a short summer break from new…
- 50,000 EVs Later: How Amazon Is Remaking Delivery · 52 min · Episode 101In 2019, Amazon made one of the biggest EV bets in business: 100,000 electric vehicles by 2030. Today, it is halfway there. Amazon now has more than 50,000 EVs on the road…
- Everyone Inside Agrees—Net Zero Building Is Just Better · 37 min · Episode 100If net zero is better, why isn’t it normal? We have the technology and the know-how. Schools, hospitals, and skyscrapers are already being built that are beautiful, cheap to…
- Verse Raises $54M Series B to Help Data Centers Get Power Faster, Cheaper, Cleaner · 43 min · Episode 99Some of the biggest, most sophisticated companies in the world have almost no real visibility into one of their largest costs: power. Contracts are complex. Prices swing. Grid…
