Inevitable
Join Cody Simms each week as he engages with experts across disciplines to explore innovations driving the transition of energy and industry. Inevitable is an MCJ podcast. This show was formerly known as 'My Climate Journey.'
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 570
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Ep 69: David Perry, President, CEO, and Director of Indigo
Today's guest is David Perry, President, CEO, and Director of Indigo Ag,
Indigo Ag is harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet. They improve grower profitability, environmental s…
Ep 68: Jonathan Foley, Executive Director at Project Drawdown
Today's guest is Dr. Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown. Project Drawdown is a world-class research organization that reviews, analyzes, and identifies the most viable global clim…
Ep 67: Barney Schauble, Chairman, Nephila Climate
Today’s guest is Barney Schauble, Chairman, Nephila Climate, the world's largest asset manager dedicated to weather and catastrophe insurance risks.
Barney joined Nephila Capital in 2004 as a Managing…
Ep 66: Marilyn Waite, Program Officer, Climate & Clean Energy Finance at William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Today’s guest is Marilyn Waite, Program Officer, Climate & Clean Energy Finance at William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Marilyn manages the foundation’s grantmaking on climate and clean energy finance …
Ep 65: Gene Berdichevsky, Co-Founder & CEO at Sila Nanotechnologies
Today’s guest is Gene Berdichevsky, Co-Founder & CEO of Sila Nanotechnologies.
Prior to co-founding Sila, Gene was the seventh employee at Tesla Motors where he served as Principal Engineer on the Ro…
Ep 64: Shayle Kann, Managing Director at Energy Impact Partners
Today’s guest is Shayle Kann, Managing Director for Energy Impact Partners.
EIP is an investment firm that invests in companies shaping the energy landscape of the future. It's backed by a broad coali…
Ep 63: Jason Jacobs, MCJ Host (Guest Host = MCJ Listener Remy Evard)
Today’s guest is Jason Jacobs, host of this podcast!
That's right. Enough people were asking me to do an episode where someone interviews me to summarize where I am on the journey, that I finally but …
Ep 62: Sam Fankhauser, Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI)
Today’s guest is Professor Sam Fankhauser, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Director of the ESRC-funded Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, both at The Lo…
Ep 61: Julio Friedmann, Senior Research Scholar & Lead of CaMRI Initiative at Columbia University
Today’s guest Dr. Julio Friedmann, a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
Dr. Friedmann recently served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the…
Ep 60: Ilan Gur, CEO of Activate, Founder of Cyclotron Road
Today's guest is Ilan Gur, the CEO of Activate and the Founder of Cyclotron Road. Cyclotron Road is an entrepreneurial fellowship program that pairs PhD fellows working on promising scientific breakt…
Ep 59: Lara Pierpoint, Director of Technical Strategy at Exelon
Today’s guest is Lara Pierpoint, Director of Technical Strategy at Exelon.
Exelon is America's leading competitive energy provider with one of the cleanest and lowest cost power generation fleets. Its…
Ep 58: Shawn Murphy, Founder & CEO of Titan Advanced Energy Solutions
Today’s guest is Shawn Murphy, Founder & CEO of Titan Advanced Energy Solutions.
Titan is an advanced battery management system technology company, which is revolutionizing the renewable space by lowe…
Ep 57: David Burt, CEO & Founder, DeltaTerra Capital
Today’s guest is David Burt, the CEO and Founder of DeltaTerra Capital and the lead Portfolio Manager for DeltaTerra funds. DeltaTerra provides proprietary financial models, customized portfolio anal…
Ep 56: Melinda Hanson, Head of Sustainability at Bird
Today’s guest is Melinda Hanson, Head of Sustainability at Bird, a micromobility company based in Santa Monica, CA. Founded in September 2017, Bird operates shared electric scooters in over 100 citie…
Ep 55: Ken Kimmell, President of Union of Concerned Scientists
Today’s guest is Ken Kimmell, President of Union of Concerned Scientists, a leading science-based nonprofit that combines the knowledge and influence of the scientific community with the passion of c…
Ep 54: Paulina Jaramillo, Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, & Co-Director, Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Today’s guest is Paulina Jaramillo, Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, & Co-Director, Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Paulina Jaramillo has a bachelor’s in civil and e…
Ep 53: Justin Guay, Director of Global Climate Strategy at Sunrise Project
Today’s guest is Justin Guay, Director of Global Climate Strategy at Sunrise Project, and organization that grows social movements to drive the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy as fas…
Ep 52: Phil Giudice, Current board member at FirstLight, PRIME Coalition, Clean Air Task Force and NE Clean Energy Council and former Board Member at Ambri, FirstFuel and EnerNOC (amongst others)
Today’s guest is Phil Giudice, Board Member at Ambri, FirstFuel, PRIME Coalition, Clean Air Task Force and NE Clean Energy Council.
Most recently, Phil was the CEO of Ambri. Ambri, formerly Liquid Me…
Ep 51: Bill Nussey, CEO & Founder at the Freeing Energy Project
Today’s guest is Bill Nussey, CEO & Founder at the Freeing Energy Project.
Bill Nussey is the founder of the Freeing Energy Project, whose mission is to accelerate the shift to cleaner, cheaper energy…
Ep 50: Kelly Wanser, Executive Director at SilverLining
Today’s guest is Kelly Wanser, Executive Director of SilverLining, a mission organization driving research to ensure safe pathways for climate within a decade.
Previously, Kelly was the director of th…