Welcome to the Season Finale of The Renewable Generation! 10 episodes up, 10 episodes down! Joining us this week is Mara Midiere: a Master in Sustainability, Science and Policy from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and a junior project leader at diep working on 5th generation district heating and cooling. We hear about her journey, breaking into the climate space with a liberal arts background, all the way to Glasgow and COP26.  We want to thank our listeners for joining us this season. Kelly and Steve will be taking a break, but stay tuned to hear updates next year about Season 4.

This week, we are graced with an expert young person - Benny Corona! Benny has a Master of Public Policy coming from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and has represented California's Central Valley in various capacities at the federal, state, and local level.  Agriculture makes up about 10% of all GHG emissions. California's Central Valley is one of the most agriculturally productive regions in the world. In this episode, Benny gives us his perspective on sustainable agriculture in CA, how CA is leading the world, and how it is falling short on its ambitions.

In this episode, Steve and Kelly chat with Bonnie Gurry and Elizabeth Landau, co-founders of GreenPortfolio, a tool that helps individuals use their financial portfolios to support climate action. We chat about how Bonnie and Elizabeth got started in sustainability, their journey to founding a company, what it's like to be a female founder, and much more.  Learn more about GreenPortfolio by visiting https://greenportfolio.com/.

You know it, you love it.. no not slam-dunking the political left, it's Lithium-Ion batteries!   This week we are soaking up the sun... and wind.. and hydro... and dirty energy as well?? Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are a keystone technology that helps solve renewable energy's intermittency problem. But batteries are not strictly clean energy devices. They also help support the grid in technology-agnostic ways by providing lightning quick voltage and frequency support.   Listen to us rant about Lithium-ion batteries, its technological competitors, the market solution it provides, and more!

This week on The Renewable Generation, Kelly and Steve cover "Biden Bucks" and a $1 trillion infrastructure package that stands as the US’s last chance to pass meaningful climate policy for a decade.

And we're back! Introducing Season 3 of The Renewable Generation, now with an official sponsor from Bright Power, Inc. There are quite a few changes with our lies, the show, as well as with the state of climate action since we last spoke.   This week, Steve and Kelly lead with science. The new IPCC report has come out, which represents the absolute best data and models to predict what's to come in the next century. What does it entail?   Working on climate issues means you are constantly In Your Feelings. We open up on how to deal with this.