Breakthrough Dialogues Podcast
1) We Made Wind and Solar Cheap, Now What?
Breakthrough has long argued that fighting climate change is mainly a matter of making clean energy cheap, and — thanks in large part to federal deployment subsidies — this is precisely what we've don...Show More
2) Agriculture in the Time of Coronavirus
Kyle Bridgeforth is a fifth-generation farmer at Bridgeforth Farms, a row crop operation headquartered in Tanner, Alabama. We sat down with him in the fifth week of coronavirus quarantine — and after ...Show More
3) Deployment-Led Innovation
When it comes to innovative technologies, which comes first: deployment, or the ability to financially compete? Jigar Shah – a seasoned podcast host himself and founder of clean energy financing compa...Show More
4) For Decarbonization and Economic Recovery, Start with the Low-Hanging Fruit
At Breakthrough, we’ve long viewed climate as a problem that would be addressed obliquely with other challenges — making clean energy cheap, building modern infrastructure, growing affordable food, an...Show More
For Decarbonization and Economic Recovery, Start with the Low-Hanging Fruit
43:38 | May 4th, 2020
5) Electricity Makes the World Go Round
Rehena Jamadar, a 44-year-old woman living in a small Indian village, has only had electricity for the last 14 years of her life. If she had been able to have the lights on earlier in her life, she sa...Show More
6) Avocado Politics
Nils Gilman has a warning for us: watch out for the coming Avocado Politics. It’s a term the Berggruen Institute president uses to describe a (Brown Shirt) fascist politics wrapped in a (green) enviro...Show More
7) "You can’t put a band-aid over an open artery."
Leah Stokes is the author of the new book Short Circuiting Policy, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, and a widely-known voice on energy issues. We sat down with her right after Super Tuesday 2020 for h...Show More
8) What went wrong with big nuclear?
A more innovative nuclear sector will require tilting the playing field away from large, incumbent firms and toward small, entrepreneurial startups. Today we sit down with Lenka Kollar, director of st...Show More
9) Tasting is Believing
The Impossible Burger launched in 2016, with celebrity chef David Chang at Momofuku. Since then, the product has exploded: now available nationally at Burger King, soon to hit the grocery shelves, on ...Show More
10) A Former Congressman on Republican Climate Action
We’re thrilled to welcome Carlos Curbelo for our season opener. Carlos is a former Republican Congressman from Florida's 26th congressional district. While in Congress, he co-founded and co-chaired th...Show More