Green Success Stories sat down with Champion Olatunji, sustainability consultant and co-founder of LiteOn. Champion discusses his sustainability journey, participating in cleanup efforts in his native Nigeria, and increasingly gaining understanding of the negative impacts on rural communities there as a result of oil exploration. He describes his deep experience, including vast and diverse work in sustainability, helping clients navigate complex regulatory landscapes, improve governance structures, and adopt sustainable practices that align with emerging global standards. Champion further describes the efforts of the startup he co-founded, LiteOn, that provides affordable and sustainable energy solutions for homes and businesses.

Green Success Stories sat down with Jason and Jaime Curtis, co-founders of Option Zero, a climate-focused software development consultancy they run as a husband-wife team. They describe their journey growing their skills at a variety of companies from climate-focused to not, and from tiny startup to Fortune 500, while struggling with life balance. Having developed their unique sets of skills, they realized that their traditional jobs weren’t making the best use of those skills towards climate impact, or their time as a family.  Developing and running Option Zero has enabled them now to lead a life of enhanced connection, meaning, and impact.

Green Success Stories sat down with John Hoffman, Co-CEO of SunGreen Systems, Inc. John describes his path from a coal mining locale to leadership of a major commercial solar engineering, procurement and construction firm in Southern California. He shares how high-quality, sustainable energy systems help businesses reduce their carbon footprint, achieve energy independence, and contribute to a greener future.

Green Success Stories sat down with David McDougall of McDougall Energy Advisors. We discussed the challenges and opportunities he has undertaken to effect meaningful change and bring about a low carbon future. David discusses his efforts to help organizations reduce consumption of fossil fuel and move toward renewable energy, and points to smart planning as the means toward future payback of a zero carbon future.

Green Success Stories has a lot to be thankful for, especially when we see how many people are doing great things in the fight against climate change. But as Thanksgiving approaches, there’s some sadness in the air. So we present a few sad Thanksgiving truths and what to do about them (and one happy ending!).

Green Success Stories sat down with Dr. Sotiria Anagnostou, Board Director of AZ CleanTech. We discussed her mission to make corporations more sustainable, her excitement at heading Arizona’s first platform uniting the entire climate community, and her vision for a future surge in clean technology.

Hey Atlas, whatcha got there? Need some help? Thoughts on doing our share in the fight against climate change (and earworms).

Green Success Stories puts Abhiri Khisty, Project Manager for Sustainable Buildings at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), in the Green Spotlight. Abhiri describes her excitement at finding eco-friendly solutions with sustainable design, and her efforts at JLL to collaboratively deliver challenging sustainability projects related to new construction and existing buildings.

Does character matter? Some election night-mare thoughts.

Can the Count be counted on to tackle climate change?

Green Success Stories features a Green Leader Profile interview of Maksym Suschuk, PR lead for EOS Data Analytics. Maksym describes his role of crafting stories of impact that go beyond the surface, talks up big wins for his sustainability driven satellite data-firm, and expresses his belief that every action for the environment has the potential for tremendous impact.

How does an earth-friendly company save 90,000 hectares of sugar cane from soil-borne pest and weed infestations without applying massive amounts of pesticides indiscriminately? With EOSDA’s satellite-based data-driven Crop Monitoring platform.

Green Success Stories sat down with Simonas Valadkevicius, Founder and SEO of Lavastream, a Lithuanian renewable energy company that develops geothermal power production and electricity storage assets in Lithuania and Poland. Simonas describes his dramatic turnaround from oil and gas to renewable energy, and the enormous potential of geothermal as a zero-emission climate-friendly energy solution. He looks forward to a time when coal and natural gas are remembered as an archaic way of generating energy, and invites others with oil, gas, and commodity trade experience to join him on this meaningful journey.

Green Success Stories shines the Green Spotlight on Matt Macunas, co-founder of Weather Trade Net. Matt describes his north star sustainability instincts from early on, his work in energy policy, in financing climate tech, in consulting and in leading Weather Trade Net from the US side. He describes the many use cases of the climate risk data analysis his firm provides, from helping firms comply with regulatory requirements through helping them develop sound financial and risk transparency and mitigation planning. Matt stresses the far-ranging involvement of sustainability in all our futures, and the openness of the field to people from all backgrounds and levels of prior knowledge who are ready to help our world in the fight against climate change.

Green Success Stories puts Kelsey Alexander, Sustainability Manager at RE Tech Advisors, in the Green Spotlight. We discussed her journey from sustainable agriculture and providing food to people without access, through her efforts to helping with sustainability in the built environment, particularly with holistic ESG strategy and implementation for global real estate funds. Noting that the built environment accounts for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions globally – the shelter we need is destroying the planet that shelters us – Kelsey calls for a systemic integrated approach to achieve sustainability in the industry, with supporting real estate funds right now in improving their ESG performance being of paramount importance.

Attention sustainability and climate tech folks. Please keep swinging. Even if you’re in a slump. For losers shall be winners, and green (diamond) successes are sometimes one pitch and one swing away.

Green Success Stories puts Ashley Besic, Thermal Energy Networks Senior Associate at the Building Decarbonization Coalition, in the Green Spotlight. Ashley shares her passion for implementing neighborhood-scale building decarbonization solutions, using thermal energy networks (TENs) as a holistic sustainability solution, and merging expertise in real estate, collaboration, and technology to foster resilient, equitable communities across the country.

Green Success Stories puts McQuillen Martinez, Sustainability Analyst at WAP Sustainability Consulting, in the Green Spotlight. We discussed the sadness McQuillen felt at the disappearance of white Christmases and the muting of autumn colors in his native Boston area, and how it led him to working toward fighting to protect the natural world. We discussed the wide range of consulting, carbon management, ESG, Life Cycle Assessments and other services his team offers, as well as his role in providing comprehensive support for clients carbon management and ESG efforts. He described the joy he feels at leading clients’ evolution from reluctant participants to passionate advocates for meaningful climate action.

Green Success Stories sat down with Ashutosh Deshpande, Environmental Manager of California Facilities of Grifols. We discussed his growth in sustainability awareness, education, and action, his sustainability professional certification, and his efforts to help companies get ISO certified. Per Ashutosh, journeys begin with small steps and, over time, accumulate to great (green) successes.

You may have heard us say it before. Green Success Stories highlights leaders in sustainability and climate tech. That’s what we do. We highlight green giants. We show off your giant green footsteps. We get others to follow in your lead. So be a part of our community. And let us shine that green light on you and what you do.