Green Success Stories puts James Ayer, Founder and CEO of Siamang Solar, in the Green Spotlight. James shares his journey from soul-sucking corporate America to the challenges, successes, and meaningful efforts of starting and running a climate startup. Siamang Solar offers solar, storage, EV charging, and other energy products to homeowners, businesses, non-profit organizations, and municipalities, and likewise ensures that contributions are made to the recipient’s favorite cause. James stresses optimism in the fight against climate change and encourages those thinking of starting work in this field to just do it!

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Green Success Stories sat down with Tory McBrien-Vranken, Connecticut Program Coordinator for WasteZero. Tory described her sustainability journey, including her shift from individual actions to a systemic approach. As Connecticut Program Coordinator for WasteZero she is leading the way on initiatives that transform how we manage waste—recycling, trash, and food scraps—at a community-wide level, including the Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) solution that can reduce waste by 44%! Tory hopes readers learn that small, systemic changes can have a huge ripple effect in the fight against climate change.

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Green Success Stories shines the Green Spotlight on Inna Braverman, CEO and Founder of Eco Wave Power. We discussed her post-Chernobyl mission to make this world a better place, the role of wave energy as a largely untapped source of renewable energy, and the innovations of EWP that make wave energy cost effective, reliable, insurable, and particularly eco-friendly. 

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Green Success Stories puts Dave Edlund, Founder and CEO of Element 1 Corp, in the Green Spotlight. Dave describes his sustainability awakening upon realizing that 1/3 of the global population has no steady access to electricity. He details the unique solution Element 1 Corp provides, developing and commercializing machines that convert water with methanol (a simple alcohol) into high-purity, green hydrogen, ultimately providing sustainable, clean, accessible and affordable electrical power.

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Green Success Stories sat down with Daniel Kashmir, CEO and Co-Founder of Momentick, a company providing accurate and autonomous capabilities for identifying and quantifying methane and other greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale. Daniel describes the vast extent of existing methane leakage and the climate and financial damage that causes. He points to the need for enhanced monitoring his firm provides, as well as the larger need to increase awareness regarding global warming on a global scale.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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