ClimateTech Talks: Exploring the pathways to net zero David Contreras

This was a fun one to record. Finally our two cohost and cofounders, Daniel and David have a chat to discuss the year in review, aspirations, learnings and personal and corporate climate landscape for the new year

Hope you enjoy it



Art by: Maria Alexandra Monteverde / Instagram: @mariale.ilustra.asi

Editing, mixing and mastering by: Daniel Arraiz

Disclaimer: This podcast was prepared by myself in my personal capacity and the views and opinions expressed in the podcast are my own.

They do not necessarily reflect the opinion or views of TGS and TGS does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of the information provided herein.

Our guest this week is Madhusudhan Rao, who is the founder of Oorja, a company that provides energy efficiency, renewable cooling and heating solutions, mostly in the Indian market. He’s also a mechanical engineer by training and an entrepreneur for most of his working life.

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Art by: Maria Alexandra Monteverde / Instagram: @mariale.ilustra.asi

Editing, mixing and mastering by: Julio Cesar Fernandez.

Disclaimer: This podcast was prepared by myself in my personal capacity and the views and opinions expressed in the podcast are my own.

They do not necessarily reflect the opinion or views of TGS and TGS does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of the information provided herein.

Our guest this week is Anish Malpani. About 81% of waste in India is left untreated and half of it ends up in landfills. However some entrepreneurs have realised that those landfills actually represent a mountain of opportunities and potential multi-billion dollar business. Anish Malpani from Ashaya is pushing to develop a social impact startup that can improve both the quality of life of waste pickers while tackling heads on the recycling issue.

Our Substack - Explorationists: https://explorationists.substack.com/

Art by: Maria Alexandra Monteverde / Instagram: @mariale.ilustra.asi

Editing, mixing and mastering by: Julio Cesar Fernandez.

Disclaimer: This podcast was prepared by myself in my personal capacity and the views and opinions expressed in the podcast are my own.

They do not necessarily reflect the opinion or views of TGS and TGS does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of the information provided herein.

Our guest this week is Anirudh, and he defines himself as an idealist, a dreamer who wants to build a better, safer, wealthier planet for all of us. Anirudh was born in South India, moved to New Delhi, lived in a boarding school at the foothills of the Himalayas, moved to the US to study economics and political science at Berkeley, moved to Spain to work with Airbus and then went back to India.

It was when he returned to India that, led by curiosity, he tried to adopt sustainable practices like zero waste, water efficiency and solar systems at home. He managed to install solar panels at his place and he realized the power of sustainable solutions. Anirudh transformed his house into an off-grid solar powered place and that triggered a domino effect among his neighbors. Anirudh’s own sustainable curiosity allowed him to build a database of sustainable solutions providers across India.

“A map of sustainable solutions across India”

Our Substack - Explorationists: https://explorationists.substack.com/

Art by: Maria Alexandra Monteverde / Instagram: @mariale.ilustra.asi

Editing, mixing and mastering by: Julio Cesar Fernandez.

Disclaimer: This podcast was prepared by myself in my personal capacity and the views and opinions expressed in the podcast are my own.

They do not necessarily reflect the opinion or views of TGS and TGS does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of the information provided herein.

Our guest this week is going to tell us a lot about what his company does in the Energy transparency sector. Based in Sweden, Nils Söderström is the CEO of Renbloc, a company bringing radical transparency to the energy market. We also discussed his motivations, background and how he got into the Climate Tech space. Enjoy!

Nils's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nilssoderstrom/

Renbloc's website: http://www.renbloc.com/ 

David's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcontrerasdiaz/

Our Substack - Explorationists: https://explorationists.substack.com/

Art by: Maria Alexandra Monteverde / Instagram: @mariale.ilustra.asi

Editing, mixing and mastering by: Julio Cesar Fernandez.

Disclaimer: This podcast was prepared by myself in my personal capacity and the views and opinions expressed in the podcast are my own.

They do not necessarily reflect the opinion or views of TGS and TGS does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of the information provided herein.

Our guest this week is going to tell us a lot about what her company, Clean Planet Energy is doing, but perhaps most importantly, she will share insights on her career pivot from the O&G industry into a role that has given her the opportunity to align her values of protecting the environment and maximizing impact. Katerina Garyfalou, is the commercial and business development director at Clean Planet Energy.

We are very excited about this conversation because, for full disclosure, Katerina’s own energy transition from O&G to a clean energy role is quite an inspiration for the program we are building with our partners at Terra.do. We want to help fellow upstream O&G workers to trace their own road map to pivot their careers to clean energy jobs. And to do so, we can’t stress enough the importance of roles models like Katerina. We are delighted that she has kindly agreed to be one of our guest lecturers in the program and as you will read next, we can all learn a lot from her journey



Katerina's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-katerina-garyfalou-mba-42893612/

David's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcontrerasdiaz/

Our Substack - Explorationists: https://explorationists.substack.com/

Art by: Maria Alexandra Monteverde / Instagram: @mariale.ilustra.asi

Editing, mixing and mastering by: Julio Cesar Fernandez.

Disclaimer: This podcast was prepared by myself in my personal capacity and the views and opinions expressed in the podcast are my own.

They do not necessarily reflect the opinion or views of TGS and TGS does not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of the information provided herein.