Episodes
Six years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
24 episodes in 2025
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
38m Sage Geosystems' bet on underground energy storage
On The Green Blueprint, Sage Geosystems CEO Cindy Taff explains how the company repurposed oilfield drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies into subsurface pressure geothermal storage…
16 statements 5 featured 6 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
35m Inside Microsoft’s plan to remove 50 years of carbon emissions
Phil Goodman, Director of Carbon Removal Portfolio at Microsoft, explains how the company designs, negotiates, and scales bankable carbon offtake agreements to achieve its ambitious 2030 car…
20 statements 5 featured 5 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
30m Captura's high-stakes gamble
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, host Laura Pierpoint interviews Captura CEO Steve Oldham to explore the engineering innovations, operational pivots, and financing strategies required…
19 statements 4 featured 3 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
37m Boston Metal’s path to carbon-free steel
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, Boston Metal CEO Tadeu Carneiro details how the company is commercializing molten oxide electrolysis to decarbonize primary steel production while tra…
17 statements 6 featured 6 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
40m The thermal battery transforming cold storage for India’s dairy farmers
On The Green Blueprint, host Lara Pierpoint interviews Promethean Power Systems co-founder Sam White about inventing grid-charged thermal batteries to solve rural India's dairy cold-chain bo…
18 statements 7 featured 11 assessments 3 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
48m This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington
Overture co-founder Shomik Dutta joins host Lara Pierpoint to discuss why climate tech venture capital must embrace aggressive political strategy, rigorous return-driven underwriting, and pr…
22 statements 7 featured 6 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
45m Shortening the nuclear development cycle from decades to years
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, Kairos Power CEO Mike Laufer explains how rapid non-nuclear prototyping, passive safety architecture, and innovative commercial agreements with Google…
19 statements 9 featured 6 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
32m The sunk cost dilemma
In this episode of The Green Blueprints, host Laura Pierpoint interviews Eight Rivers CEO Damien Beauchamp about overcoming the sunk cost dilemma, navigating first-of-a-kind project risks, a…
6 statements 3 featured 1 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
34m John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
Senator John Hickenlooper joins The Green Blueprint to discuss defending clean energy progress amidst federal rollbacks, leveraging red-state economic gains, and building bipartisan momentum…
9 statements 2 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
35m The rogue idea that saved a hydrogen startup
Graphitic Energy CEO Zach Jones explains how an internal technical rebellion sparked a breakthrough pivot to fluidized-bed methane pyrolysis, creating an economically resilient pathway to pr…
15 statements 5 featured 2 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
49m The tape that led to a fusion breakthrough
Recorded live at Transition AI, host Laura Pierpoint interviews Commonwealth Fusion Systems CCO Rick Needham on commercializing fusion energy through high-temperature superconducting magnets…
26 statements 7 featured 14 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
41m Frontier Forum: Fixing distributed energy's finance gap
Host Stephen Lacey, Amanda Lee of Banyan Infrastructure, and Rachel Halfacre of the Milken Institute examine how financial standardization, software platforms, and coordinated capital stacks…
13 statements 4 featured 2 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
52m FOAK tales
Host Shayle Kann and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst head Mario Fernandez break down the tactical realities of financing first-of-a-kind (FOAK) climate infrastructure. The discussion outlines c…
17 statements 5 featured 2 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
41m Building Fervo's geothermal giant
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, host Laura Pierpoint interviews Fervo Energy VP of Strategy Sarah Jewett about pioneering enhanced geothermal systems, transferring oil and gas innova…
29 statements 10 featured 9 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
32m Terawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, host Laura Pierpoint speaks with Terawatt Infrastructure CEO Neha Palmer about the company's full-stack approach and billion-dollar capitalization str…
8 statements 2 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
34m The scrappy beginning of Tesla’s energy business
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, former Tesla Senior Vice President Drew Baglino joins host Lara Pierpoint to share the inside story of building Tesla Energy from a scrappy internal s…
16 statements 5 featured 8 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
27m LineVision's quest to win over utilities
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, LineVision's Karthik Rao explains how Dynamic Line Ratings unlock dormant electric grid capacity to support clean electrification while sharing lesson…
13 statements 5 featured 4 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
30m Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
Nextracker CEO Dan Shugar joins host Laura Pierpoint on The Green Blueprint to discuss the engineering innovations, supply chain resilience, and customer-centric strategies that established …
11 statements 3 featured 6 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
34m Electric Hydrogen’s bet on supersized electrolyzers
Electric Hydrogen co-founder and CEO Rafi Garabedian joins host Laura Pierpoint on The Green Blueprint to discuss building 100-megawatt PEM electrolyzers, scaling domestic gigafactory manufa…
22 statements 6 featured 5 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
41m How supply chain chaos sank Sunfolding
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, Sunfolding founder Layla Madrone reflects on the rise and fall of her innovative pneumatic solar tracker startup, detailing how severe supply chain sh…
18 statements 5 featured 4 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
51m Open Circuit: Jigar, Katherine, and Stephen are back
In the premiere episode of Open Circuit, veteran hosts Stephen Lacey, Jigar Shah, and Catherine Hamilton reunite to separate political signal from noise in the second Trump administration. T…
24 statements 6 featured 13 assessments 3 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
31m The first commercial construction project for low-carbon cement
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, host Laura Pierpoint and WS Development Senior VP Yanni Sippis explore the commercial deployment of Sublime Systems' zero-carbon cement at Boston's On…
8 statements 3 featured 5 assessments 1 contradicted
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
31m Pioneering one of the first IRA tax credit transfers
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, Gridstor CEO Chris Taylor joins host Laura Pierpoint to discuss the development, construction, and financing of the Goleta Energy Storage facility, in…
11 statements 4 featured 2 assessments
🎙GREEN BLUEPRINT
33m Building the world’s biggest DAC facility
In this episode of The Green Blueprint, host Laura Pierpoint interviews Climeworks COO Doug Chan about the engineering, financing, and operational hurdles of constructing Mammoth—the world's…
14 statements 4 featured 3 assessments