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The Mission to Zero:

ABB has fully embraced the challenge of achieving net-zero targets with a goal to achieve carbon neutrality in its operations by 2030. The company’s Mission to Zero initiative aims to significantly reduce emissions from its global facilities by implementing solar, energy storage, and smart switchgear solutions. By adopting digitalization, ABB seeks to optimize electricity utilization and make informed decisions for a more sustainable future.

The Evolution of the Customer Mindset:

While selling sustainable energy solutions initially required extensive education and advocacy efforts, Brian noted that today’s customers are increasingly interested in the environmental impact of the products they purchase. ABB recognizes this shift and has developed an environmental product declaration for every piece of equipment it manufactures, enhancing transparency about CO2 impact and recyclability. 

The Age of Adoption is an exciting era in which businesses across industries must embrace climate and sustainability. ABB, through its ambitious goals and initiatives, is driving this transformation forward. 

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Nikki Sumpter, Chief Administrative Officer of Atlantic Health System, joins us to discuss the health system's efforts to address health equity and sustainability in the Age of Adoption. 

Nikki shares how Atlantic Health System is working to create a more equitable and sustainable healthcare system for its staff, patients, and the communities in which it operates. She explains that by increasing access to transportation, providing language assistance, and improving health education, the hospital is already seeing the impact of its efforts.

Atlantic Health System is also addressing its carbon footprint, given the negative impacts the climate crisis has on human health. Nikki explains how the hospital is considering its Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and, in doing so, adjusting how it uses water, how patients get to their appointments, and how the hospital sources its food.

Listen to the episode to learn more about the progress being made at Atlantic Health System to address equity and sustainability in healthcare. And don’t forget to check out Nikki’s book recommendation: Branding That Means Business.

Decarbonizing the industrial sector is the next frontier in climate action, but for Dimensional Energy’s Co-Founder & CEO, Jason Salfi, the work doesn’t stop there. Dimensional Energy is instilling climate justice principles throughout their business, beginning by pairing sustainable, carbon neutral fuel development with binding community engagement processes. Their work to foster equitable relationships between technologists and the public could make the difference between solving the climate crisis or not. 

Join us as we explore Dimensional Energy’s transformative fuel technology for one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions (aviation) as we discuss:

• A future of carbon neutral fuel production that leverages renewable energy, carbon capture and green hydrogen technologies.  
• Why energy communities are central to the sustainable deployment of climate technologies and infrastructure.
• How fast-moving start-ups can slow down for climate justice without compromising innovation, market opportunities and business growth. 
• The driving factors that have incited the Age of Adoption, i.e. honest media coverage, younger decision-makers, etc., and why they spur optimism for the future. 

Join the conversation on social with the hashtag #ageofadoption and visit ageofadoption.com to explore our curated essay series covering topics from ESG Leadership, Environmental Justice, and more.

Executive leadership in today’s highly-complex innovation economy requires more than the traditional investment in IP, market transformation, and engineers. According to this week’s Age of Adoption (formerly Raising Your Antenna) special guest, the most competitive, resilient startups depend on emotional awareness that begins at the C-Level. This is particularly true in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse in March 2023, whereby bank executives made a series of risky decisions with little oversight, leading to the frantic withdrawal of over $40 billion from depositors and culminating in the bank’s failure.

Join us, alongside Jon Bonanno, Managing Partner at Strategic Operating Partners, as we dive into what individuals, investors and the world’s most innovative companies must do to capitalize on the momentum of the Age of Adoption and lead the new age: 

• How corporate leaders can leverage emotional intelligence to distinguish themselves and drive business success in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank crisis and the continued uncertainty following its failure
• The opportunity and responsibility that corporate leaders have to support the decarbonization of developing nations to fight climate change in an increasingly globalized world 
• The key trends that forecast the future direction of the climate tech market and lessons learned from previous transformations in the sector

Interested in learning more? Visit ageofadoption.com to understand more about this transformative era and to explore Antenna Group’s curated eBook series covering topics from Environmental Justice to ESG Leadership and more. 

This week we are privileged to have two exceptional guests on Raising Your Antenna’s Special Inflation Reduction Act 8-Part Series, Mahesh Ramanujam and Sarah Merricks. They discuss how Global Network for Zero (GNFZ) is redefining net-zero strategy and green building certifications to optimize corporate sustainability efforts. 

GNFZ focuses on a significant culprit of global emissions: the existing U.S. building stock. Approximately 80 percent of the buildings that will be standing in 2050 are already built, though most net zero goals are aimed at new construction. Listen as GNFZ’s CEO & Founder and Chief Strategy Officer explain why the public and private sectors must prioritize retrofitting and updating existing buildings or risk missing critical climate reduction goals.

Before launching GNFZ, Mahesh served as President & CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), where Sarah served as his Chief of Staff. Following more than a decade USGBC, they founded the GNFZ in 2022 with the ambition of realizing a zero-emissions world by focusing on sectors traditionally difficult to decarbonize. 

In today's podcast, GNFZ addresses: 

• Empowering people and organizations to accelerate the realization of a zero-emissions world
• Measuring the ROI of green building sustainable technologies and resonating with investors
• Driving opportunities for the accurate measurement and elimination of a building’s embedded carbon
• Communicating the environmental and economic benefits of  retrofitting buildings to be more sustainable to existing property owner

Learn more about the Global Network for Zero and reach out to Antenna Group with any questions about this podcast.

This episode of Raising Your Antenna features Jordan Feldstein, Product Co-Chief / Tech Lead at BlocPower, to discuss the path forward to upgrading all 125MM American homes and 5MM fossil fuel-burning buildings to make them more cost-effective, healthier, smarter, and greener. This transition is not only combating the climate crisis but creating inclusive new job opportunities and saving money for property owners and tenants. 

BlocPower is leading the charge to replace and retrofit dated and dangerous heating and cooling systems with electric heat pumps in residential and commercial buildings. Fast Company recognized BlocPower for its transformational technology, naming it the 4th Most Innovative Company in the World in 2022. 

While technological innovations to lower greenhouse gas emissions in real estate are here – what lies ahead is the challenge of mass adoption. Most regulation around the environmental impact of the built environment is focused on new construction. While important, the built environment is the 4th largest emitter of greenhouse gasses not because of new builds, but mostly because of the inefficient and unhealthy older buildings. 

Jordan and Keith discuss why addressing this part of the problem is crucial to combat the worst effects of climate change: 

• Why heat pumps are an important part of the equation to reducing emissions in buildings
• How the Inflation Reduction will play a key role in electrifying older buildings and what programs are available to fund the transition
• How to electrify old construction to meet the current moment, and in doing so improve health, increase building value, and lower costs for owners and tenants
• How environmental justice and equity will be pivotal to the transition, and how BlocPower  is integrating them into its business

Learn more about how BlocPower is building opportunity in high-gun violence neighborhoods by preparing 1,000 talented individuals for a career in climate technology with its Civilian Climate Corps and partnership with NYC. For additional information on these programs, you can read about their recently expanded engagement with the City of New York and Year One Impact Report on the Civilian Climate Corps.

Excited about the possibilities in climate since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act? Learn more about what lies ahead in the Age of Adoption in Greenbiz.

This episode of Raising Your Antenna features David Kim, former U.S. Department of Transportation Deputy Administrator under President Obama and California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) Secretary under Gov. Newsom, to discuss the ways in which industry can help unlock billions of dollars in local transportation investments and help build a more equitable mobility system. 

Secretary Kim is a globally recognized leader in transportation policy. As CalSTA Secretary, Kim focused on advancing safe, accessible low-carbon multimodal transportation systems. His agency developed the state’s Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure, an aggressive framework to overhaul transportation planning and project selection by aligning transportation investments with climate, health and equity goals. As Deputy Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Kim drove key  initiatives to improve safety, mobility and encourage innovation for our Nation’s highways, bridges and tunnels. 

Now as Senior Vice President and Principal at WSP, Secretary Kim focuses on collaborating with senior transportation executives in the public and private sector to support transportation projects under the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. He also guides the delivery of transportation capital projects, including strategic planning and policy, environmental process, funding and finance, and capital delivery. 

Join the conversation where Keith and Secretary Kim cover:

• How recent landmark legislation can build a more sustainable and equitable transportation future–and how cleantech innovators stands to unlock it
• Engaging key state and municipal stakeholders–from transit agencies to public utilities commissions–on local infrastructure investments 
• The future of electric vehicles and how the federal government can support a national charging system 
• The tech innovations that could reshape the long-haul trucking industry, increase efficiency and improve the driver experience

The BlackBerry is now just a distant memory to some, and a fruit to others (ehm, Gen Z) but in 2022, it represented the cutting edge technology that brought AI to your fingertips, one keyboard “click-click” at a time. What does the BlackBerry phone have to do in the context of climate action? New, disruptive technologies are analogous to the type of transformative change Utilidata is leading when it comes to equity, affordability and reliability in America’s energy system. And, Utilitdata’s President and Chief Operating Officer Jess Melanson isn’t shy about drawing the comparison in this edition of Raising Your Antenna. 

Today, the U.S. experiences more blackouts than any other developed country, and the electrical grid loses power 285 percent more often than in 1984 when data collection efforts on blackouts began. True grid transformation therefore means doing more than simply monitoring the sustained outages utilities currently track. It requires the integration of new technologies that leverage data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning at the grid edge for a more reliable and flexible power system. 

Join Keith and Jess as they dive into the needed acceleration of grid edge technologies in light of landmark federal investments, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Join the discussion on:

• Why BlackBerries have more in common with new grid technologies than you think
• Transformative AI solutions to help meet energy system demand and a growing network of advanced distributed energy resources 
• How a decentralized grid is critical for the U.S. to meet promise of the Inflation Reduction Act 
• Ushering in a new era of collaboration amongst investor-owned utilities, developers, regulators and climate tech innovators

Follow Utilidata here and subscribe to Raising Your Antenna to listen to the rest of our Inflation Reduction Act series.

This week on Raising Your Antenna, we welcome Mayor of Truckee, CA and Head of Market Strategy for Resource Innovations Courtney Henderson, alongside her colleague Kelly Helfrich, Vice President of Resource Innovations’ Electric Vehicle Practice. Resource Innovations is a women-led and controlled organization making clean energy more accessible and affordable for everyone. 

Both Mayor Henderson and Kelly have committed to careers in sustainability to ensure solutions are accessible and equitable – both in the public and private sectors. This work, however, is not without its challenges. 

Tune in for the discussion where we cover: 

• The rollout of electric vehicles at scale and the transformative market technologies needed to get there
• The development of an intelligent transportation-electrification ecosystem
• Mobility justice and the transition to sustainable energy and transportation solutions in light of the Inflation Reduction Act
• Marketing and communication challenges as we move forward in the energy transition to an Age of Climate Tech Adoption

Follow Resource Innovations here and listen to the rest of our series on the Inflation Reduction Act by subscribing to Raising Your Antenna.