Bright IDEAs
This is Bright IDEAs — a podcast where we speak to the best and brightest leaders and innovators within Northeastern University and beyond.
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VC in the Green Transition: Holly Alpine, Enabled Emissions Campaign (opens the original)
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So excited to welcome Holly Alpine, a climate strategist and organizer working to push institutions towards real environmental accountability. She had a decade-long career at Microsoft where she worked on renewable energy strategy and later spearheaded global sustainability programs across datacenter communities. After leaving Microsoft two years ago, she co-founded the Enabled Emissions Campaign, which aims to confront the role of advanced technologies in driving increased fossil fuel productio
VC in the Green Transition: Kara Rodby, Volta Energy Technologies & Lost the Plot (opens the original)
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So excited to welcome Kara Rodby, an expert in battery technologies, techno-economic modeling, and startup strategy. She is a Principal and the Director of Strategic Services at Volta Energy Technologies, a specialist VC firm investing in companies building advanced technologies essential to the electrification and decarbonization of the global energy system. She also created Lost the Plot, a seminar series on the state of the climate, born out of a dissillusionment with the "reframing" of the c
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