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The Climate Cycle

Climate Tech Canada

The companies remaking energy, food, and industry are being built right now. The Climate Cycle goes deep inside Canadian climate tech, talking to the founders, investors, and thinkers building the industries of tomorrow. Hosted by Justin Reist, founder of Climate Tech Canada.

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52 episodes

  1. Heat Pumps, Data Centres, Carbon Removal and More: Our Best Conversations of 2026 41:26
  2. Lessons From Connecting Climate Tech and Indigenous Nations with Chad Rickaby 50:32
  3. Helping Utilities Catch Wildfires Before They Spark with CRWN.ai 55:56
  4. Fixing Canada's Broken Lab-to-Market Pipeline with Dr. Kyle Briggs 1:03:59
  5. Voluntary to Mandatory: Building ESG's Trust Infrastructure with Charles Assaf, Novisto 44:43
  6. Turning Waste Heat into Energy Abundance with Local Energy 55:43
  7. An Insider's Look at Industrial Decarbonization with Dennis Wilson, Saint-Gobain North America 25:11
  8. Is Climate Software Dead? 1:01:27
  9. What It Takes to Make Carbon Pricing Stick in Canada with Clean Prosperity 49:20
  10. Accelerating Climate Innovation with Philanthropic Capital ft. Galith Levy, Climate Solutions Prize 45:32
  11. Closing the Heat Pump Adoption Gap with Stephen Lake, Jetson 54:00
  12. Turning Toronto Into Canada's Climate Hub 35:15
  13. Turning Retired EV Batteries Into Domestic Energy Storage with Moment Energy 40:33
  14. The Economic Case for Carbon Removal with Na'im Merchant 41:03
  15. Low-Carbon Fuels Without the Green Premium ft. Secant Fuel 49:29
  16. Winning The Water Pollution Arms Race with Xatoms 36:35
  17. What A New Auto Strategy Means for Canada's EV Supply Chain 48:40
  18. How Data Centres Are Reshaping the Grid with Sam Hasty, Active Impact Investments 55:51
  19. Can We Scale Critical Minerals Without Scaling Pollution? 43:02
  20. Scaling Climate Tech Inside Heavy Industry: Lessons from the Field 55:18
  21. Backing the Builders: NorthX's playbook for scaling climate tech with Sarah Goodman 39:33
  22. Is Iron The Future of Long-Duration Energy Storage? with Hayden Smith, FeX Energy 51:48
  23. Food Sovereignty and Vertical Farming with Corey Ellis, Growcer 56:03
  24. Rewiring Risk and Return in Climate Tech with Kevin Krausert, Avatar Innovations 48:21
  25. Hunting Gigacorns with Nelson Switzer, Climate Innovation Capital 43:51
  26. Cultivated Fat and the Future of Food with Emily Farrar, Genuine Taste 43:48
  27. Decarbonizing Cement with Apoorv Sinha, Carbon Upcycling 55:04
  28. Commercializing Climate Chemistry with RXN Hub 59:54
  29. Industrializing Mass Timber Construction with OD Krieg, Intelligent City 49:15
  30. Smarter Tools for Scaling Home Retrofits with Arman Mottaghi, Properate 53:36
  31. Turning Rooftop Beehives into Nature Intelligence with Nyla Ahmad, Alvéole 43:25
  32. Deploying drones for wildfire defence with Alex Deslauriers, FireSwarm Solutions 41:39
  33. The Future of Home Energy with Marc-André Forget, dcbel 52:58
  34. Unlocking The Ocean's Carbon Removal Potential with Mike Kelland, Planetary 37:02
  35. Scaling Carbon Removal in Canada 31:31
  36. Next-Gen Nuclear for AI Data Centres with Matt Loszak, Aalo Atomics 47:17
  37. Turning CO2 into Valuable Chemicals with Christine Gabardo, CERT Systems 41:11
  38. Disrupting Menstrual Care with Sustainable Materials with Rashmi Prakash, Aruna Revolution 46:46
  39. Finding Hidden Value in Green Buildings with Christopher Naismith, Audette 49:11
  40. Thriving in an Uncertain World with Dr. Ron Dembo, RiskThinking.AI 50:14
  41. Turning Ocean Waste into Next-Gen Materials with Aaron Guan from Neptune Nanotechnologies 43:08
  42. Building Trust in EV Charging with Benoit Lacroix from ReliON 42:18
  43. On-Demand Transit with Justin Hunt from Blaise Transit 44:10
  44. Micro-Factories and Hyperlocal Food with Wayne McIntyre from Relocalize 44:14
  45. Materials from Mushrooms with Stephanie Lipp, MycoFutures 42:15
  46. Capturing Carbon in the North with Dr. Vida Gabriel from TerraFixing 40:40
  47. Three climate tech sectors we're watching in 2024 11:43
  48. Cultivating Sustainable Dyes with Roya Aghighi & Sarah Graham from Lite-1 50:20
  49. Climate Action at Work with Jack Bruner from Mammoth Climate 34:37
  50. Automating Carbon Management with Alex Todorovic from Arbor 36:02