Episodes 168
Avg. Duration 33m
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Apple Rating 4.8 (211)
Since Nov 2021
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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We already have many of the climate solutions we need. But scaling them is hard. The Green Blueprint is a show about the people who are architecting the clean economy. Every other week, host Lara Pierpoint profiles the founders, investors, and organizational leaders who are solving complex challenges in the quest to build climate technologies fast.

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The perovskite bet that could transform solar

Jun 03, 2026 39m

Silicon solar panels have led the market for decades but will soon hit a ceiling around 25% efficiency. Perovskite, a frontier material once dismissed for degrading too fast, is now being called the…

How Supercool Earth's microbes could ease the water crisis

May 20, 2026 43m

California recorded its second-lowest Sierra Nevada snowpack on record this spring. That's not just a bad ski season, it's a water supply crisis. Snowpack is where California's water comes from. And…

The $6 trillion threat to climate tech finance

May 06, 2026 44m

The global financial system is undergoing a structural shift into a "volatile new world order," where unpredictability is the norm, and climate tech is uniquely exposed.  Venture investor Susan Su…

The Green Blueprint is back for a second season!

Apr 23, 2026 2m

We already have the blueprint for decarbonizing the global economy. We've invented many of the solutions, but much of that tech is still sitting on the sidelines waiting to get financed and built at…

Sage Geosystems' bet on underground energy storage

Dec 17, 2025 38m

About 90% of global energy storage is pumped storage hydropower – which requires a mountain, a lake, and a whole lot of permitting. While lithium batteries have gotten drastically cheaper over the…

Inside Microsoft’s plan to remove 50 years of carbon emissions

Dec 12, 2025 35m

In 2020, Microsoft announced a major goal: by 2050 the company aims to remove from the atmosphere all the carbon emissions it has produced since its founding in 1975.  When Phil Goodman joined the…

Captura's high-stakes gamble

Nov 19, 2025 30m

Back in January, Captura CEO Steve Oldham was sitting in a conference room in Hawaii, entertaining reps from the company’s first potential customer. What the customer didn’t know was that Captura’s…

Boston Metal’s path to carbon-free steel

Nov 07, 2025 37m

This year in the U.S., steel manufacturers will produce more than 71 million tons of steel – enough to build nearly 200 Empire State buildings. It's a stunning statistic, but not surprising. The…

The thermal battery transforming cold storage for India’s dairy farmers

Oct 22, 2025 40m

In 2007 Sam White, co-founder of Promethean Power Systems, was traveling through India looking for a rural electrification problem to solve. He and his team had just won a $10,000 grant in an MIT…

This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington

Oct 08, 2025 48m

Clean energy founders love to talk about technology, capital, and scale. But few are prepared for the fourth pillar of success: government. Shomik Dutta, a co-founder and managing partner at Overture…

Shortening the nuclear development cycle from decades to years

Sep 24, 2025 47m

For decades, nuclear has struggled with cost overruns and delays — Georgia’s Vogtle plant being the latest example. Kairos Power co-founder and CEO Mike Laufer thinks the solution is to flip the…

The sunk cost dilemma

Sep 10, 2025 32m

Deep into engineering studies for Project Cormorant, 8 Rivers' massive low-carbon ammonia facility, the team discovered new efficiencies that would create a safer, more advanced version of their…

John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition

Aug 27, 2025 34m

Three years ago this month, the Inflation Reduction Act passed, marking the largest investment in climate policy in U.S. history. It included over $300 billion to address global warming and was…

The rogue idea that saved a hydrogen startup

Aug 13, 2025 38m

In 2022, Zach Jones learned that his technical team at Graphitic Energy was secretly working nights and weekends on an unsanctioned approach to producing clean hydrogen from natural gas. It was an…

The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough

Jun 18, 2025 50m

In 2021, Commonwealth Fusion Systems proved it had built the most powerful magnet in the world. The breakthrough was based on a specific material - a tape - that conducts massive amounts of current…

Frontier Forum: Fixing distributed energy's finance gap

Jun 12, 2025 41m

Clean energy attracts nearly $3 trillion in investment annually, but most of that capital flows to massive utility-scale projects through the world's biggest banks and large-scale asset managers.…

FOAK tales

Jun 04, 2025 52m

This week, we're bringing you a special episode of Catalyst with Shayle Kann, a show about how to decarbonize the planet. In this episode: what it takes to secure investments for first-of-a-kind…

Building Fervo's geothermal giant

May 21, 2025 42m

In 2023, Sarah Jewett was on her honeymoon in France when she received a life-changing text: steam was flowing from Fervo Energy's first commercial geothermal project in Nevada. That moment confirmed…

Terawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy

May 07, 2025 33m

In 2021, Neha Palmer co-founced Terawatt Infrastructure with a bold mission: create the backbone for America's electric trucking revolution. Within its first year, Terawatt secured a billion-dollar…

The scrappy beginning of Tesla’s energy business

Apr 23, 2025 35m

In 2014, Drew Baglino was helping build Tesla's energy division with a passionate, scrappy team. Using parts from Tesla's vehicles, they created the first Powerwall home battery. But as demand grew,…

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