Giving That Supports Community-Focused Climate Solutions

Featuring Claire McGuinness, Maya Batres, Shawn Jensen & Barbara Wheeler-Bride

How have nonprofits adapted their strategies to help mitigate climate change? How can donors best support climate solutions? Leaders from the One Acre Fund and The Nature Conservancy discuss how climate change is shaping their work and ways philanthropy can step in with catalytic funding. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360

Powering Needs, Empowering Lives

Hosted by Jonathan Levine

SELCO caters to India’s hundreds of millions of rural poor with solar-powered energy solutions carefully customized to their needs. Now the social enterprise is sharing its model with others around the world.

What California Can Teach Washington

Featuring Mary Nichols

At the 2013 Stanford Center for Social Innovation’s 2013 Conradin Von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture, Nichols addresses CA's cap-and-trade system and what it means for our environment.

Why Small Does Not Equal Powerless

Featuring Katie Hill

An increased demand for energy means an increased need for environmental sustainability. Where does economic development fit in?

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Food, Water, and Energy

Featuring Ann Bartuska 1

In this audio lecture, Dr. Ann Bartuska of the U.S. Department of Agriculture shares her insight on the necessary steps to sustainably feed the nine billion people that will be living on our planet by 2050.

Solar Power in a Suitcase

Featuring Laura Stachel & Hal Aronson

In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman talks with Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson, co-founders of WE CARE Solar, about their effort to combat this issue worldwide. WE CARE stands for Women’s Emergency Communication and Reliable Electricity.

Environmental Sustainability and Energy Policy

Featuring Dan Reicher, Arun Majumdar, and Aneesh Chopra

In this panel discussion we hear from senior government energy and technology officials on what’s up and coming with respect to environmental responsibility.

Creating an Innovation Revolution

Featuring Lenny Mendonca

Lenny Mendonca discusses the role the federal budget plays in helping or hindering research, development, and private innovation.

Jocelyn Wyatt, social innovation lead at IDEO,on social innovation

Design Thinking for Social Inclusion

Featuring Jocelyn Wyatt

Jocelyn Wyatt, social innovation lead at IDEO, describes her organization's efforts to use design thinking, a problem-solving system that is grounded in a client's or costumer's needs.

Alexis Belonio on clean energy and social entrepreneurship

Local Clean Energy for All

Featuring Alexis Belonio

Alexis Belonio has accomplished the seemingly impossible and developed a clean burning cooking stove and continuous-flow industrial flow burner.

Environmental Sustainability in Electricity

Featuring Frank A. Wolak

Professor Frank Wolak considers how different utility rate structures might accelerate or delay the vision of an intelligent energy supply/demand nexus in the home.