The “cold chain” that delivers our food is inconspicuous but vast. The US alone boasts around 5.5 billion cubic feet of refrigerated space; that’s 150 Empire State Buildings’ worth of freezers. Now, the developing world is catching up. On Zero, Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, discusses how refrigeration became so ubiquitous and what our reliance on it means for our palates and the planet. 

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Past episode with Stacey Abrams on how kitchen-table decisions can cut emissions
Past episode with journalist George Monbiot on how the world’s food system needs a radical rethink 
Past episode with two vertical farming companies taking agriculture indoors

Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Aaron Rutkoff and Monique Mulima. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green.

The “cold chain” that delivers our food is inconspicuous but vast. The US alone boasts around 5.5 billion cubic feet of refrigerated space; that’s 150 Empire State Buildings’ worth of freezers. Now, the developing world is catching up. On Zero, Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, discusses how refrigeration became so ubiquitous and what our reliance on it means for our palates and the planet. 
Explore further:
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<li aria-level="1">Past episode <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/fddf36b1-fe60-4500-b30d-b1ab015d2c0b">with Stacey Abrams on how kitchen-table decisions can cut emissions</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Past episode <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/22416264-e35b-4a1b-a261-b03c0110066e">with journalist George Monbiot on how the world’s food system needs a radical rethink </a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Past episode <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/cfa8f1b3-583a-46be-a41b-b07601048a9a">with two vertical farming companies taking agriculture indoors</a></li>
</ul>
Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Aaron Rutkoff and Monique Mulima. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/green">https://www.bloomberg.com/green</a>.

Zero is about the tactics and technologies taking us to a world of zero emissions. Each week Bloomberg’s award-winning reporter Akshat Rathi talks to the people tackling climate change – a venture capitalist hunting for the best cleantech investment, scientists starting companies, politicians who have successfully created climate laws, and CEOs who have completely transformed their businesses. The road to zero emissions has many paths and everyone’s got an opinion about the best route. Listen in.

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How the humble refrigerator changed the world

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Before he founded the geothermal startup Fervo in 2017, Tim Latimer was a drilling engineer for the oil and gas industry — a job he loved. “Honestly, if it wasn't for climate change, I probably wouldn’t have ever changed my career,” he says this week on Zero. Now Latimer is applying his drilling know-how to Fervo’s wells, supercharging their energy production in the process. The company opened its first power plant in Nevada late in 2023, and is now in the process of opening another plant in Utah. Latimer and Akshat Rathi chat about opportunities in geothermal, the infernal permitting process, and why Fervo has its sights on expanding into Kenya, Indonesia, Turkey and the Philippines.

Explore further:
Past episode with the National Grid’s Sanjeet Sanghera about the need to update the grid on the path to net zero
Past episode with Bill Gates about investing in nuclear power and other green energy plants
Past episode with BNEF’s Claire Curry about how clean energy technology startups can succeed in a difficult investment climate

Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim and Monique Mulima. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green.

Before he founded the geothermal startup Fervo in 2017, Tim Latimer was a drilling engineer for the oil and gas industry — a job he loved. “Honestly, if it wasn't for climate change, I probably wouldn’t have ever changed my career,” he says this week on Zero. Now Latimer is applying his drilling know-how to Fervo’s wells, supercharging their energy production in the process. The company opened its first power plant in Nevada late in 2023, and is now in the process of opening another plant in Utah. Latimer and Akshat Rathi chat about opportunities in geothermal, the infernal permitting process, and why Fervo has its sights on expanding into Kenya, Indonesia, Turkey and the Philippines.
Explore further:
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<li aria-level="1">Past episode with <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/4f043f5f-7195-4ac9-9f3e-b1b700a88eea">the National Grid’s Sanjeet Sanghera about the need to update the grid on the path to net zero</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Past episode with <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/5c03674f-ef34-4279-81a9-b19a00c73e8a">Bill Gates about investing in nuclear power and other green energy plants</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Past episode with BNEF’s Claire Curry about <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/926b52ba-1a8f-418d-bfc1-b14e01505119">how clean energy technology startups can succeed in a difficult investment climate</a> </li>
</ul>
Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim and Monique Mulima. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/green">https://www.bloomberg.com/green</a>.

The greenest reason to drill: clean power that's always on

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This week on Zero, reporter Akshat Rathi sits down with Renee Salas, an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a leading expert on the health impacts of global warming. The intersection of health and climate change is a growing area of research, and an increasingly urgent one: Heat deaths among seniors, for example, are projected to increase 370% by mid-century.  But even the young and relatively healthy are at risk. “The take-home I want everyone to go away with is that we all are at risk for this,” Salas says, “especially as we get into more and more extreme conditions.”

Explore further:
Past episode with climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about how higher temperatures results in “global weirding”
Past episode with John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather: A True Story from A Hotter World
Past episode with Eleni Myrivili, Global Chief Heat Officer at UN-Habitat about designing cities to face extreme heat

Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Matthew Griffin, and Jessica Beck. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green.

This week on Zero, reporter Akshat Rathi sits down with Renee Salas, an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a leading expert on the health impacts of global warming. The intersection of health and climate change is a growing area of research, and an increasingly urgent one: Heat deaths among seniors, for example, are projected to increase 370% by mid-century.  But even the young and relatively healthy are at risk. “The take-home I want everyone to go away with is that we all are at risk for this,” Salas says, “especially as we get into more and more extreme conditions.”
Explore further:
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Past episode <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/f1721369-793e-43fd-8754-b18f0127ecbf">with climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about how higher temperatures results in “global weirding”</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Past episode with <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/6c511d5f-ccc9-4570-b8bd-b18d00ef759f">John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather: A True Story from A Hotter World</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Past episode with Eleni Myrivili, Global Chief Heat Officer at UN-Habitat <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/81b3af99-2c56-47d8-b0a1-b00300b1395f">about designing cities to face extreme heat</a></li>
</ul>
Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Matthew Griffin, and Jessica Beck. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/green">https://www.bloomberg.com/green</a>.

Healthy? Extreme heat could still threaten your life

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Upgrading the grid for a net-zero world isn’t just a matter of building new infrastructure. Yes, miles of additional cables will be needed, as will more transformers, more substations and more engineers and technicians. But plenty of existing technology will also need to be updated. On the third episode of Zero’s grid series, TS Conductor founder Jason Huang discusses the material science breakthroughs that have enabled his company to create cables that have twice the conductivity of existing cables — and just as much strength. 

Explore further:
Past episode with grid expert Sanjeet Sanghera about the global challenge of updating the grid
Past episode with Scottish Power CEO Keith Anderson about the kinds of government interventions that can speed the march to electrification 
Past episode with Bill Gates about the tech startup investment landscape

Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Matthew Griffin, and Jessica Beck. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green.

Upgrading the grid for a net-zero world isn’t just a matter of building new infrastructure. Yes, miles of additional cables will be needed, as will more transformers, more substations and more engineers and technicians. But plenty of existing technology will also need to be updated. On the third episode of Zero’s grid series, TS Conductor founder Jason Huang discusses the material science breakthroughs that have enabled his company to create cables that have twice the conductivity of existing cables — and just as much strength. 
Explore further:
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/4f043f5f-7195-4ac9-9f3e-b1b700a88eea">Past episode with grid expert Sanjeet Sanghera</a> about the global challenge of updating the grid</li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/d18ce709-cef2-49fd-84c8-b1bd011e69aa">Past episode with Scottish Power CEO Keith Anderson</a> about the kinds of government interventions that can speed the march to electrification </li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/5c03674f-ef34-4279-81a9-b19a00c73e8a">Past episode with Bill Gates</a> about the tech startup investment landscape</li>
</ul>
Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Matthew Griffin, and Jessica Beck. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/green">https://www.bloomberg.com/green</a>.

Wires carrying twice the power show the future: The Grid Series

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