AWESome EarthKind

Dirty, unhealthy, and unsustainable energy for our electricity, heating, cooling, and transportation threatens our planet and the lives of everyone we love and know. Once a week - every Monday, we bring in leading environmental activists, entrepreneurs, experts, and everyday people who are transforming homes, workplaces & communities into clean energy power centers that save money and create a healthy, prosperous, just & sustainable planet. The AWESome EarthKind podcast inspires and empowers you with the knowledge of how the Forces of Nature (Air, Water, Earth, Sun, and YOU) – can make the world a better place, and save you money. The fear isn’t that we are powerless, but that we are powerful beyond measure. Find out more at www.AWESomeEarthKind.com.

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Episodes

Clean Energy Jobs, Justice & Community Development – with Soulful Synergy Founders Dwayne Norris and Alex Alvarez

Quantum Quote: “Humanity is the immune system of the planet - we're the only creatures that can adapt to almost every type of environment on this planet and make it healthier.” Dwayne Norris and Alex Alvarez are the founders of Soulful Synergy, LLC , a full service, minority-owned, socially conscious consulting company that takes a multifaceted approach to sustainability, workforce, and community development. Their goal is to empower people, organizations, and communities to thrive, by connectin...

Sep 24, 2020•35 min

Frugal Family Transforms 200-Year Old Home With Efficiency, Solar, Geothermal & a Used Electric Car - With Hydrogeologist Russell Urban-Mead

Are you a homeowner looking for ways to be environmentally friendly and at the same time save money on your heat, electricity, and transportation? Do you want to be inspired by other people’s renewable energy journey? Listen in to this episode and get energized. Russell Urban-Mead is a senior Hydrogeologist at the Chazen Companies who specializes in groundwater supply, remediation, and natural resource management projects for Towns, brownfield site owners, stream and shoreline sites, and urban r...

Sep 21, 2020•30 min

New Solar Model Created For Non-profits & Low Income Communities In North Carolina – with Emerging Entrepreneur Ethan Blumental

Quantum Quote: Margaret Mead “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” “With the greatest crises come the greatest opportunities. It's hard not to see what we can’t accomplish as a state, a country, and globally to put ourselves back on a track and define what clean energy development can be.” Today, we hear how Ethan Blumenthal, a young entrepreneur just a few years out of law school, created Good Solar ...

Sep 17, 2020•29 min

Geothermal Heating & Cooling – and Solar in Suburban Westchester, NY with Sung Pak, My Body Mechanics

Quantum Quote: “When we talk about people who are concerned about the environment and look at the macro scale of what's happening in the world, it can really make you a little bit crazy. The only way to really deal with that is to start within, make your own small impact, and know that you've done your part.” Today, we explore how one family made the transition in their single-family home in a suburb just outside of New York City. Sung Pak is an American immigrant success story. Sung is a renown...

Sep 14, 2020•32 min

Solar, Geothermal, Electric Cars & Resilient Fine Wines with Suzanne Hunt, Hunt Country Vineyards

Quantum Quote: “We have the technologies that we need. The challenge is on the human side. We have to have the political will. That's often harder than the technological side or the financing. Do you want to move to clean energy & save money? Would you like a fine wine that is resilient, organic, and helps fight climate change? Regenerative agriculture with organic farming can provide our food supplies with greater resiliency against extreme weather events - and draw carbon down out of the a...

Sep 10, 2020•46 min

3.4 Million Clean Energy Jobs with Bob Keefe,E2

Quantum Quote: “Though I may not be here with you. I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe” – Congressman John Lewis Are you seeking a good new paying job doing something meaningful? Are your children thinking about “what they want to be when they grow up? 3.4 million Americans now work in clean energy in America - more than all schoolteachers, farmers, or bankers. Clean energy employs three and a half times as many people as work in fossil ...

Sep 07, 2020•38 min

Heating & Cooling with the Energy Under Our Feet with Jack DiEnna, Geo-nii

Quantum Quote: The only thing you don’t need in a geothermal house is a carbon monoxide detector – because there is nothing being burned! Are you a new homeowner looking for ways to save money for your HVAC system? Does your school have an aged heating system and you are looking for ways to save on operating and utility costs? Geothermal may save you money, especially if you heat with oil or propane, are constructing a new home or other building, or are a school with an aged heating system. Buil...

Sep 03, 2020•48 min

Saving $5 Trillion with the “Value of Solar” Karl Rabago

Quantum Quote: “the iPhone has 100,000 times more computing power than an entire Apollo rocket ship that went to the moon” Karl Rabago led renewable energy research and development programs for the United States government, did advocacy work with the Environmental Defense Fund, consulting work with engineering firm CH2M Hill, policy analysis with the Rocky Mountain Institute, ran Regulatory Affairs in 28 countries for AES, and launched a greenhouse gas credit business with GE energy. Karl is the...

Aug 31, 2020•35 min

Building the Business Climate Voice with Bill Weihl

Quantum Quote : “The best way to predict the future - is to invent it”. - Alan Kay, former Xerox researcher. Bill Weihl started his career in computer science on the faculty at MIT, then led climate and sustainability work at Google & Facebook. He founded Climate Voice to empower the workforce to urge companies to go “all in” on climate, both in business practices and policy advocacy. Take the Climate Voice Pledge at climatevoice.org SuperNova #1. Google, Facebook, Apple, Ikea, Walmart, Amaz...

Aug 27, 2020•46 min

Our Children’s Health & Nature with Stephen Cowan, MD

Quantum Quote: Albert Einstein: “Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.” Stephen Cowan MD is a board-certified pediatrician with over 30 years of clinical experience working with children. He has a subspecialty in Developmental Pediatrics and is a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics serving as a member of the AAP section on Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Cowan helped children with chronic asthma get completely off medications within 4 weeks by connecting with their bodies...

Aug 24, 2020•59 min

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