CleanTechnica Interview with Bill McKibben

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At the recent Hawaii Sustainability Expo, I got a chance to sit on stage and do a “talk story” session with one of my personal heroes, Bill McKibben. Bill’s book Deep Economy changed my life and turned me from an angry young environmentalist into an effective sustainability professional. In some ways, you have Bill to thank for the existence of CleanTechnica. I would not be on the journey I’m on if not for Bill McKibben. I had the privilege to be the Executive Producer of the Expo, meaning I got to slot myself a chance to interview McKibben on stage.

In the interview (video embedded below), we talk about nations around the world shifting away from fossil fuels, some mind-blowing technological developments, Hawaii’s exploration of new fossil fuel infrastructure, and a lot more, including McKibben’s prognostications on what the next 2–3 years will be dominated by in the energy landscape. But more importantly, I decided to talk story — a phrase we use in Hawaii to describe getting to know someone and learning more about an individual’s personal development and philosophy, with no agenda, just … because.

Here’s the video recording. Enjoy, share, and spread it! And, of course, don’t forget to subscribe to both the CleanTechnica substack and the Hawaii Sustainability substack.

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Scott Cooney

Scott Cooney (LinkedIn) is a serial eco-entrepreneur focused on making the world a better place for all its residents. Scott is the founder of CleanTechnica and was just smart enough to hire someone smarter than him to run it. He then started Pono Home, a service that greens homes, which has performed efficiency retrofits on more than 20,000 homes and small businesses, reducing carbon pollution by more than 27 million pounds a year and saving customers more than $6.3 million a year on their utilities. Scott wanted to contribute to native ownership of the clean energy revolution, so he gifted Pono Home to a long tenured employee with native Hawaiian roots for just the liquidation value, turning down a mainland company interested in purchasing the company. In a previous life, Scott was an adjunct professor of Sustainability in the MBA program at the University of Hawai'i, a consultant at Saatchi & Saatchi S, where he worked with a team to educate and empower millions of employees to live healthier and more sustainably. He is the author of Build a Green Small Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur (McGraw-Hill) , and Green Living Ideas. Scott is an occasional investor, currently he has investments in Rivian (RIVN).

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