Flanigan's Eco-Logic

Ted Flanigan
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Flanigan’s Eco-Logic is a sustainability and clean energy podcast hosted by Ted Flanigan, exploring practical solutions for a more sustainable future. Ted talks with leading practitioners and policy makers about solar, energy storage, microgrids, energy efficiency, electrification, energy resilience, climate action, and emerging clean energy technologies. The conversation also extends beyond energy to water, food systems, sustainable business, natural resources, and everyday choices. Grounded in decades of environmental experience, Eco-Logic brings a solutions-oriented perspective and pragmatic optimism to one essential question: What can we do today to create meaningful, lasting change?

  1. 4d ago

    Janette Spiezio - How to Make Your Home Sustainable and Healthy

    Janette Spiezio is the founder and owner of Sustainable Haus, a bricks and mortar business that crafts and sells clean and healthy household goods. She describes herself as an "eco-preneur." After working in corporate America in finance for 30 years, Janette was ready for a new chapter in her life, a "give-back chapter." It began with her curiosity about laundry detergent. What's in it? What she found was alarming... one well-known detergent made up of 80 chemicals.  Her investigation of detergents sparked her business. She decided to make her own detergent using three basic ingredients. That product was the first. Now her store in Summit, New Jersey sells over 100 products that she and her team make and buy... from sponges, to shampoo and conditioner bars, washable cloth napkins, and all manner of kitchen utensils from stainless steel cookie sheets to spatulas made of olive wood. All of her products are plastic free; many are package free. Sustainable Haus now sells over 3,000 SKUs (stock keeping units); Janette also manages online sales and routinely ships products throughout the country. Ted asks about the refill business that she runs. Janette describes her early experience with Bread and Circus, a company that was bought by Whole Foods. She fondly remembers customers taking in their own containers to refill things like peanut butter, flour, rice, and beans. Today, Sustainable Haus has over 100 refillable products. Customers' containers must be clean and dry. Then her employees manage the refilling, while educating customers on the products and their non-toxic ingredients and  their lack of packaging. Much packaging, Janette explains, is toxic too and while manufactures must state what is in their food, they do not have to report on anything related to the packaging... some of which is really toxic. Throughout the interview Janette talks about changing habits, shifting patterns, and returning to some of the basics that our ancestors took for granted... while also adopting new ecologically sound technologies. One small action, she says, like refilling a bag of detergent, often empowers an educated consumer. It's nice to clean your clothes and not harm the planet in the process. It is smart to store food in containers that are not shedding plastic. First purchases and actions can lead to more and more eco-steps in the home and beyond... like investing in solar, driving electric, visiting national parks, honoring biodiversity, and more. Ted asks about the public's reaction? Is she perceived as a whacky salesperson, or are customers grasping her logic? She responds that people do like the convenience of big box stores, but that her customers see the value of supporting locally owned and operated businesses like hers. Unlike the big box stores, Sustainable Haus gives back to the community. Its mission and practices are supporting customers' health and caring for the planet. She dispels the perception that her products bear a cost premium. Many cost less. Her detergent, for example, costs just 15 cents a load. Plus, her products have enormous societal benefits: Her cloth wipes are certainly not responsible for decimating forests to make disposable paper towels. Sustainable Haus is putting homeowners on a path, taking action to squarely address concerns for our health and the health of the planet.

    Janette Spiezio - How to Make Your Home Sustainable and Healthy

  2. Oct 19

    David Pedersen, PE - Wastewater for Potable Re-Use Now Has High Value In California

    David Pedesen is the General Manager of the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District and the Administrating Agent for the Las Virgenes - Triunfo Joint Powers Authority. These two agencies are developing the PURE Water Project and are building a $466 million facility that will take wastewater and purify it into potable water. Given his municipal water agency's dependence on State Water Project allocations from Northern California four hundred miles away, under his leadership, Las Virgenes is diversifying the water sources that it delivers to 100,000 customers. The conversation starts with the big picture: Fully 71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. But 95% of this water is saltwater. Only 5% is freshwater and of this, 68% is locked up in ice caps. Clearly access to fresh water is problematic around the world, and especially so in Southern California where the effects of climate change are causing more severe droughts and shortages, followed by flooding. Given this reality, water agencies have been exploring alternative sources... from the low-hanging fruit of water conservation, to far-out ideas like tapping and piping waters from Alaskan Rivers proposed in 1991. The discussion turns to desalination, a logical pursuit given the Las Virgenes service territory and its proximity to the Pacific Ocean. During water shortages in 1922, hundreds of concerned residents and businesses questioned asked about this opportunity... especially as it has been employed worldwide. While its costs of approximately a half penny per gallon compares to the PURE project --  Dave explains that there are environmental factors that hinder such desalination developments... from the need for a coastal footprint to industrial desalination plants, to water intakes sucking in fish and other marine life, to concentrated brine being discharged into the ocean. But paramount is the reality that it is energy intensive... exacerbating climate change. The PURE Water Project builds on Las Virgenes's work to diversity its water supply, taking its use of recycled water for watering grass, irrigation, golf courses, school grounds, and highway medians to the next level. Now these agencies are purifying recycled water so that it is potable. Recycled water will be drawn from the Tapia Water Reclamation facilities, then will be advanced through three purification steps - microfiltration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet light oxidation, before being stored in a reservoir to be treated once again for human consumption.  Similar purification projects are being done around the country in states including Nevada, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. Los Angeles County has a similar project albeit a much larger scale. The Warren Water Resource facilities in Carson, California are being adapted to clean and produce up to 150 million gallons of potable water each day. That $8 billion project will send potable water through pipelines to recharge local groundwater basins in different parts of the county.  Dave summarizes that he is fulfilled in his career. He is proud to be making a difference pioneering with recycled water and turning it into a viable resource for the future and future generations. He is educating his constituents, many of whom need special attention and time to get comfortable with drinking wastewater. Dave explains that the PURE Water Project, and the quest for potable re-use of wastewater, is all part of the water cycle that replenishes the Earth. Water is not created or destroyed, it is just turned from one form or another to sustain healthy life on the planet. Flanigan's Eco-Logic PodcastEpisode 293, 10/19/2026 🖥️ Watch: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast/2026-episodes/david-pedersen-wastewater-for-potable-re-use-now-has-high-value-in-california/ ★ All episodes: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast © 2026 EcoMotion, Inc.

    David Pedersen, PE - Wastewater for Potable Re-Use Now Has High Value In California

  3. Oct 12

    Dan Fletcher - dcbel Takes Household Energy Management to the Next Level

    Dan Fletcher is the chief operating officer of dcbel, a company with a big mission and valuable products. Dan reports that its mission is "to deliver energy to a household so they can live a without compromise." He is resolute and dcbel delivers resilience, control, and choice. Dan and his colleagues believe that homeowners ought to be rewarded for their investments in solar and batteries and electric vehicles by taking advantage of time-of-use rates and optimizing solar and storage for their highest values. dcbel's products integrate these systems, reaping the greatest functionality and maximum compensation for homeowners. Based in Montreal, Quebec, dcbel has facilities in San Bruno, California with operations in Texas and a small office in Europe. The company has grown thanks to clever engineering and control technologies, and thanks to increased market penetration of EVs combined with increased utility interest in the value of aggregating incremental loads from household systems. dcbel's primary product, the ARA, connects household systems to optimize their values. It includes integrating hardware and a sophisticated controls processor. Ted brings the conversation down to Earth, specifically to his own home. How can dcbel optimize his home's energy use? Dan notes that people like Ted are "in the club." They have invested in solar, sometimes batteries and electric vehicles. dcbel can link these systems, controlling demands and times of day and season, with opt-out features and consumer control. All homes can tap into dcbel's backup power capability. Instead of solar systems being unusable during grid outages, dcbel assets are islanded from the grid, and homes continue to be powered by solar, batteries, and EVs. Unfortunately, those "in the club" cannot reap the full economic benefits of a new system. "Technology favors new entrants," notes Dan. You have already invested in a unidirectional charger; now you'd buy a bidirectional charger to power your home to gain greater funcationality and to participate in utility programs. Many utilities compensate homeowners who can export power during peak periods, as much as $2/kWh through the Emergency Load Reduction Program in California. Furthermore, a new dcbel system obviates the need for multiple inverters. You no longer need one for your solar system and another for your batteries. By using dcbel, one inverter is at the hub of your household energy system.  Dan provides an interesting perspective to the conversation and dcbel's efficient operation: dcbel's mantra is "keeping DC until you need AC," ie, for as long as possible." Solar which comes off the roof as DC, can directly, and without conversion, charge batteries. The batteries can later charge cars... all DC. Dan notes that each conversion loss -- the losses that dcbel avoids -- is in the 10 - 15% range.  Ted and Dan dig into the state of virtual power plants in America. It's not universally accepted by the ~3,300 utility jurisdictions in America. Each has its own rules, interconnection requirements, and compensation levels. More are becoming aware of the potential and synergy of integrating homes and the grid, notably integrating electric vehicles and the grid. Smart control of household use and distributed energy resources saves money for both consumer and utility. dcbel is a market leader in an exciting space. More homeowners and more utilities are seeing the value of integration so that power flows both ways for mutual benefit. Flanigan's Eco-Logic PodcastEpisode 292, 10/12/2026 🖥️ Watch: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast/2026-episodes/dan-fletcher-dcbel-takes-household-energy-management-to-the-next-level/ ★ All episodes: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast © 2026 EcoMotion, Inc.

    Dan Fletcher - dcbel Takes Household Energy Management to the Next Level

  4. Oct 5

    Alex Macharia - Schools Can Tap Electric Bus Fleets for Extra Energy and Profit

    Alex Macheria is Vehicle Grid Integration Program Manager for PowerFlex, a firm that recently acquired The Mobility House where Alex worked for three years. He brings his love of wheels to the job, tackling the complex world of vehicle grid integration (VGI) and its multiple benefits. PowerFlex helps to connect fleets of electric vehicles, notably electric school buses, to the grid, simultaneously unlocking savings for fleet operators and utilities. By connecting these distributed storage devices, power grids call on EVs as capacity resources during peak periods, paying operators for their precious kilowatt-hours. In turn, a school district can earn as much as $2,000 per year per bus, while getting energy resilience to boot. The Mobility House has been in the energy management space since 2009 doing cutting-edge projects that link EVs with the grid, notably at the Johan Cruyff Arena in the Netherlands where fans plug in their EVs to support the stadium's power requirements. In America, The Mobility House has worked with five electric utilities developing synergistic VGI approaches. Now with PowerFlex, a division of EDF Renewables North America, Alex and his colleagues will provide the same services at scale... accelerating the VGI technology in the commercial sector. Ted asks Alex how he describes what he does for work at a cocktail party. Tough question, notes Alex. VGI is a complex topic covering a number of functions that involve electric vehicles' interactivity with grid services. His work is building on traditional unidirectional EV charging, tapping into the benefits of stationary energy storage assets. Electric buses travel predictable routes on set schedules, allowing for their valuable energy storage capacities to be at the ready during utility peak periods, especially in summer. Alex digs into his job and how PowerFlex works with clients and utilities, uncovering means to dispatch power back to the grid. He is working to explore and tap revenue opportunities for fleet operators, and benefits for utilities. A typical electric bus has an order of magnitude more storage capacity than a typical Tesla Powerwall, capacity that can be used to buy power during low-cost periods, offsetting high-cost peak charging. Utilities are getting on board having had significant experience with distributed generation -- notably with solar systems that feed back into the grid with net metering. VGI builds on that with far higher voltage. Thus these systems need to be carefully engineered and managed. Alex discussed different utilities' interconnection requirements, programs such as the Emergency Load Reduction program that provide compensation to fleet operators... up to $2 per kilowatt-hour during extreme utility peak conditions. Another interesting aspect of Alex's work is V2B, or Vehicle to Building. Schools are now being set up to receive power from Ebuses. Alex explains that the electric buses can be charged by solar at a bus yard, and then move to a school site if there is an outage, plugging into the school to power its critical loads. This energy resilience is more and more attractive as California schools experience Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS), events now sanctioned by California regulators that allow utilities to shut down the grid due to extreme fire danger. The conversation focuses on an interesting pilot program involving school districts in Pittsburg and Fremont, California. It brings all these VGI aspects to the fore in a pilot that involves seven parties funded by the California Energy Commission. PowerFlex has been orchestrating the team.... funders, schools, engineers, non-profits (including the World Resources Institute), all working to develop a viable business model for replication. He salutes the team citing their passion for the project. In fact, it is the passion of the stakeholders that has overcome the project's complexity. And at the end of the day, Pacific Gas and Electric gets critical capacity resources during peak periods, the school districts get savings and resilience, and the communities get more reliable power and cleaner buses and thus cleaner air. The final question is just for fun: Growing up in Kenya, did Alex ever imagine that he would be involved in advanced VGI activities in America? Well, not really, he notes. But he describes himself as a huge nerd; his dad worked for a utility and was always tinkering. So Alex reports that he has found himself exactly where he is supposed to be, with great people and mentors around him, a great family, Kenyan coffee and woodworking... and delving into cutting-edge projects that are case studies for replication. Flanigan's Eco-Logic PodcastEpisode 291, 10/5/2026 🖥️ Watch: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast/2026-episodes/alex-macharia-schools-can-tap-electric-bus-fleets-for-extra-energy-and-profit/ ★ All episodes: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast © 2026 EcoMotion, Inc.

    Alex Macharia - Schools Can Tap Electric Bus Fleets for Extra Energy and Profit

  5. Sep 28

    Inna Korobkina on Ethical Fashion and the Nexus Between Looking Great and Sustainability

    Inna Korobkina joins Ted Flanigan to discuss the nexus between her work in the fashion industry, and his work as a sustainability consultant. They discuss the impacts of fashion on oneself and on the planet. What you wear affects your own wellbeing and at times your health. From a societal perspective, one-tenth of global CO2 emissions are related to textiles... more than all air transportation emissions and maritime emissions combined. Textiles are a big deal, and a whole lot of clothing ends up prematurely in landfills, wasted and with a large ecological footprint. Born in Siberia, Inna's family moved to Canada when she was ten years old.  In her 20s she moved to Los Angeles where she excelled in her modeling and acting career. In the movies she often played roles as an Eastern European enchantress... in one movie giving birth to a zombie baby! Toronto is her home base today. For Inna, fashion is about feeling good, dressing up, working with a positive image, and putting out good vibes that come around. Inna explains that fashion is multi-sensory: It's visual and it's touch. Why not deliberately adorn yourself with purposeful colors, shapes, textures, and lengths that define you? She explains that you can use different clothes to play out different archetypes. She often uses two... the rebel and the athlete. Inna explains that what you wear is symbolic of who you are, what aspect of your personality that you are expressing. You are sending signals to your tribe. It's about presenting your authentic self. The nexus between Inna and Ted's work is both the impact to one's self and one's own wellness, and the wellness of the planet. Fast fashion, in particular, is harmful to the planet. It is marred by poor labor conditions, toxins, and synthetic materials unhealthy to our bodies. Inna discusses alternatives like linens, wools, and organic cottons... creating what she calls a biodiverse wardrobe. She helps clients break out of old patterns, expressing themselves differently through clothing to purposefully lead a fulfilling and adventurous life. Inna defines ethical fashion. It's fashion that takes working conditions into consideration, that avoids trendy styles that are short-lived, and that quickly end up in landfills. Slow fashion is thoughtful, it is ethical. It has the end of life in mind, considers who makes it, what it's made of, takes stock of its impact on the planet. She discusses the peaceful closet... orderly and an expression of different moods and styles to be worn and celebrated. Inna is a believer in doing with less and alleviating clutter. She draws principles from nature in color, balance, proportions, in works of art. She admires forms found in nature and takes design lessons from sea shells, pine cones, and sunflowers. She discusses colors, for instance greens that tend to ground the wearer and those around him or her. Green, she explains, reminds us of a deep and quiet forest... peaceful, hopeful, and rich in possibilities. She leads workshops on colors, green, purple, and more. Colors trigger different feelings and convey different meaning. Ted asks about her business through Jewel Branding Studios... her consultations, workshops, guide, and how to get past the typical situation where 15% of the clothes in your closet are worn 85% of the time. Working with her clients, they uncover reasons, mostly subconscious, for routines and ruts. Then she guides clients to be creative with what's already in the closet, to express themselves through varieties and combinations of clothing. She helps them bring their outfits to their consciousness. And clients love it, she reports. Their eyes light up! They're finding their true fashions. She's helping them feel good which in turn creates enviable good vibes for us all while nurturing and respecting a healthy planet. Flanigan's Eco-Logic PodcastEpisode 290, 9/28/2026 🖥️ Watch: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast/2026-episodes/inna-korobkina-on-ethical-fashion-and-the-nexus-between-looking-great-and-sustainability/ ★ All episodes: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast © 2026 EcoMotion, Inc.

    Inna Korobkina on Ethical Fashion and the Nexus Between Looking Great and Sustainability

  6. Sep 21

    Zach Woogen - The Emerging Benefits of Bi-directional EV Charging Look Promising

    Zach Woogen is the Executive Director of the Vehicle-Grid Integration Council. He is a self-described "policy and market-design nerd on a mission to equitably decarbonize energy systems." He explains Vehicle Grid Integration (VGI)... an umbrella term that covers managed and smart charging of EVs... shifting when and where charging occurs so that drivers pay less and utilities are not only least impacted, but even supported during peak power periods. Thanks to the rise of bi-directional EV charging, EVs will not only draw power from the grid, but will be able to discharge power to the homes and businesses to provide back-up power, and can discharge to the grid to support local utilities while providing drivers with a new source of income. After all, there is 40 GW of energy storage in parking lots, fleet depots, driveways, garages, and curbsides across North America. A recent California Energy Commission study finds that there is more battery capacity in California's EVs (18.5 GW) than all other forms of utility energy storage in the state (14 GW). Yes, that's the "gross technical potential," Zach explains. Cars sit idle 95% of the time. While only a fraction of that will be available to utilities as EVs' number one priority is to provide mobility to their owners, often EVs have excess capacity on board and they are rapidly growing in number. Zach explains that the promise of bidirectional charging is great.Tapping this new opportunity is not a technical challenge as much as it is a policy challenge. Ford, General Motors, Kia, Polestar,Tesla, and others all are developing the technology to unlock consumer and utility benefits. Virtually every electric bus now is equipped with the technology. Given increased electric demands due to decarbonization -- for heat pumps, air conditioning, EVs, and data centers -- many utilities are in need of additional capacity. Ted asks Zach about whether VGI might void warranties for batteries. Are concerns about additional cycling of batteries valid? This is certainly an important question. Zach notes that there is considerable research about this and that warranties are an issue. But batteries are "fickle," he explains. Some new studies suggest that light-duty cycling (8 - 11 kW) of EV batteries for VGI might actually be good for batteries' health and longevity, certainly less impactful than deep charging at rates up to 350 kW. The conversation ends with the role of the Vehicle Grid Integration Council that he leads. VGIC is a member-based trade association focused on the variety of use cases... chief among them being household resilience for EV drivers. Forums managed by VGIC explore solar and storage-paired VGI, fleet management, and the role of aggregators in this growing market. VGIC is engaged with auto makers, utilities, and their regulators... all keen in developing this new capability. Flanigan's Eco-Logic PodcastEpisode 289, 9/21/2026 🖥️ Watch: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast/2026-episodes/zach-woogen-the-emerging-benefits-of-bi-directional-ev-charging-look-promising/ ★ All episodes: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast © 2026 EcoMotion, Inc.

    Zach Woogen - The Emerging Benefits of Bi-directional EV Charging Look Promising

  7. Sep 14

    Jules Kortenhorst - Global Coalition at ETC Is Now Committed to Net-Zero Emissions

    Jules Kortenhorst is the co-chair of the Energy Transition Commission (ETC), a group of 50+ "wickedly smart people" dedicated to effective analysis and insights to drive down CO2 emissions and to accelerating the transition to carbon-free energy. The former chief executive officer of Rocky Mountain Institute who grew RMI from a staff of 50 to 600, Jules is passionate about the ETC's critical work to battle the rise in greenhouse gases that are threatening the planet and humanity.  The ETC has just released a report, "Energy Transition Monitor 2026," that presents good and bad news. The bad news is profoundly disturbing: Rising CO2 emissions are likely to eclipse the Conference of Parties' 2015 Paris Agreement to maintain the average, global temperature to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The good news is that there has been remarkable progress in stemming the emission of gases responsible for global warming. Ted and Jules discuss the ETC, its genesis and mission, and its new report. Jules calls its findings a paradox: One one hand the rise of renewables and clean energy technologies worldwide is far outpacing all expectations and projections. Renewables are coming on faster and cheaper than anyone had expected. Clean energy supplied 99% of new power growth last year. China has more solar installed than coal, it has more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined. Solar and wind and batteries and EVs are rising worldwide... and their costs are dropping dramatically. China is producing and deploying electric trucks that no one thought could replace internal combustion engine trucks. That's the good news. The bad news, the sobering part of the paradox, is that emissions are not falling. In fact, they are at best "plateauing," and in many cases rising. Climate outcomes are "off track." A United Nations Environmental Program report, also just released in August, echoes this finding. It states that an "overshoot" is occurring, overshooting the 1.5 degree ceiling... and at best 1.8 degrees by mid century. At best, the report finds, we are on track to hit 2.6 - 2.8 degrees without policy changes. Jules is concerned about this overshoot. It will require us to work hard to bring emissions back to the 1.5 degree threshold before we can get to the critical work dropping emissions. The conversation shifts to CO2 abatement policies in tough sectors. First and foremost, notes ETC, is phasing out coal. Unlike most countries that dispatch power resources based on marginal cost pricing which favors carbon free and low cost solar and wind, China continues to burn coal due to an antiquated policy that prioritizes coal contracts, even curtailing solar and wind at times. Curtailing methane emissions must also be a focal point, as a single methane molecule is 86 times as potent as a CO2 molecule. Methane must be captured in the oil and gas industry and in coal beds that seep the toxic gas. Cows produce methane at alarming rates and we all have an opportunity to eat less meat to cut methane emissions. Stemming deforestation is key... as is its cure... reforestation. Jules notes that the best way to safely capture emissions is to plant trees. Ted wraps the episode with a question about what listeners can to. On top of it all, emphasizes Jules, is voting. We simply must get out to vote and elect officials that will take climate change and the need to reverse the rise in emissions seriously. Vote for those that share your views, that have the guts to take on vested interests. And finally, notes Jules, we all must follow what our former boss Amory Lovins, has so aptly framed as "applied hope." This is not to be naive, and simply hopeful, but to apply our smarts — new technologies and policies and programs that are cost and climate effective — to stem rising emissions, to urgently reverse rising emissions, for the benefit of all.

    Jules Kortenhorst - Global Coalition at ETC Is Now Committed to Net-Zero Emissions

  8. Sep 7

    Kevin J. Patel - Young Activists Are Taking On The World Climate Crisis

    Kevin J. Patel is a voice for young people, channeling their stories and solutions to address and turn the course on climate change. Born to parents who were climate refugees from India, Kevin took charge in his local South Central LA community, developing community gardens to address the gross inequities of food. He noted that his community had an abundance of fast food, but nothing healthy. This is racial inequality, what he calls an injustice. Food activism was his starting point. Kevin suffered from air pollution at a young age, hospitalizing him and galvanizing his commitment to take action, then tackling the injustice of the fossil fuel industry that was extracting locally, but putting nothing back into his community that is plagued with so many injustices... a lack of trees, a plethora of highways and roads, what he calls "sacrifice zones." Los Angeles Councilman Paul Koretz gave him a voice; at age 15 he was on the podium telling his story. That led to an idling ban for vehicles. In high school, he formed the world's first environmental justice club. What a trajectory. His activism drew the attention of then Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti who formed the Mayor's Youth Council for Action, the world's first. That led to Garcetti appointing him to a similar role within the C40. Kevin became the founding member of the C40's Youth Hub. Then thanks to Gary Gero, LA County's Sustainability Officer, Kevin was appointed to the County's Youth Climate Commission. He also became a member of the US EPA's Youth Advisory Council. And when Greta Thunberg came to LA to support the LA Climate Strike, Kevin hosted her and they shared inspiration for voice and change. The conversation ends with a focus on solutions. Kevin is clear. we have the solutions. Now is the time for implementation, turning our voices to action, becoming what he calls "solutionists." He says that this is not the time for despair, but instead a time of declaration. Having completed college, he has transitioned to an intergenerational model. He recently formed Earth Era Institute... to resource activism with two new funds and to convene action with concerned citizens and experts across cultures and generations.  Flanigan's Eco-Logic Podcast Episode 287, 9/7/2026 🖥️ Watch: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast/2026-episodes/kevin-j-patel-young-activists-are-taking-on-the-world-climate-crisis/ ★ All episodes: https://ecomotion.us/flanigans-eco-logic-podcast  © 2026 EcoMotion, Inc.

    Kevin J. Patel - Young Activists Are Taking On The World Climate Crisis
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Flanigan’s Eco-Logic is a sustainability and clean energy podcast hosted by Ted Flanigan, exploring practical solutions for a more sustainable future. Ted talks with leading practitioners and policy makers about solar, energy storage, microgrids, energy efficiency, electrification, energy resilience, climate action, and emerging clean energy technologies. The conversation also extends beyond energy to water, food systems, sustainable business, natural resources, and everyday choices. Grounded in decades of environmental experience, Eco-Logic brings a solutions-oriented perspective and pragmatic optimism to one essential question: What can we do today to create meaningful, lasting change?

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    2021 - 2026
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