The Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast

Some of the world’s most powerful ideas start in a university lab. These innovations drive humanity forward and make our lives on Earth more sustainable. But how do we get those ideas out of the lab and into the real world? On the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Sam McClure sits down with academics, technologists, and policy leaders at Stanford to understand how they are building a resilient and sustainable future, using the disruptive force of entrepreneurship.

The Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Stanford University, with 7 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Stanford University hosts The Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, a education show with 7 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  Mapping Poverty from Space, Food Security, and the Deep Learning Revolution with Prof. David Lobell

  Dec 18, 202555 minS1

  <p>Stanford Professor David Lobell was using satellites to measure things like crop efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions when he was approached by fellow Profs. Marshall Burke and Stefano Ermon. “Marshall came to me and said, I know you're doing all this cool stuff in agriculture with remote sensing, but I'm trying to get information on poverty, and it seems like you should be able to tell me something about poverty when you're looking from space,” Prof. Lobell recalls. He, Burke, and Ermon went on to found Atlas AI, which applies satellite data and artificial intelligence to deliver insights on food...

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  Episode #5

  Nature’s Financial Value, GEP, and Scaling an Initiative to 75 Countries with Prof. Gretchen Daily

  Dec 11, 202553 minS1

  <p>"Our economic systems are blind to the values of nature," says Stanford Prof. and world-renowned ecologist Gretchen Daily. "We could assume that nature was infinite and that's what was assumed for the most part. But now, everybody's waking up to reality." As the co-founder and faculty director of the Stanford Natural Capital Project, Prof. Daily has redefined how we understand and value nature’s role in human well-being. Her work has united economic thinking and policymaking with the science of conservation, with the goal of transforming society to secure people and nature. In this episode of the Stanford Ecopreneurship Po...

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  Episode #4

  Battery Breakthroughs, Academia-Industry Feedback Loops, and Accelerating Impact with Prof. Yi Cui

  Dec 4, 202552 minS1

  <p>“Usually, it takes the founders — the inventors — really strong faith to say, I believe this is so important,” says Stanford Prof. Yi Cui. “There's many challenges ahead of me, but I'm willing to put in my multiple years of life to be so dedicated to making it into the real world.” Prof. Cui grew up in China but has spent most of his life in the US, where he founded several companies, including the high-energy battery company Amprius, and 4C Air, which uses nanotechnology to filter out hazardous particles. Today, he is the faculty co-director of Stanford Ecopreneurship and a founding d...

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  Episode #3

  A $2T Market, Inefficient Cows, & Great Culture with Impossible Foods Founder Pat Brown & Nick Halla

  Nov 20, 202542 minS1

  <p>"There's just no way I could not do it," says Impossible Foods founder and former CEO Pat Brown. "I felt like there's nothing more important I could do in terms of really having a positive impact on the world." Brown is also an active professor emeritus of biochemistry at Stanford, and the co-founder of the Carbon Ranch in Arkansas. In this episode of the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Sam McClure talks with him and GigaClimate CEO Nick Halla — who was Impossible’s first employee — about: - How Pat's sabbatical transformed into a mission to replace the world's most destructive technology, animal...

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  Episode #2

  Grid Resilience, Pivots, and Radical Collaborations with Magnefy's Debbie Senesky & Joseph Kao

  Nov 13, 202545 minS1

  <p>"I realized that it's not just about the technology. It's also the policy, the business model,” says Magnefy CEO Dr. Joseph Kao. “To really bring impact at a bigger scale to the world, we really need to understand interdisciplinary research and bring together different experts." Prof. Senesky is the co-founder of Magnefy, which uses AI to predict the needs of critical power assets like transformers, switchgear, and generators. In this episode of the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Sam McClure talks with her and Magnefy’s CEO, Dr. Joseph Kao, about: - Why interdisciplinary, “radical” collaborations between engineering labs and business students a...

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