Eco-Logic Podcasts – 2026

Matt Harper is the President of Invinity Energy Systems, the maker of vanadium-flow batteries. Matt was on the podcast in 2022 and now provides an update. A strong alternative to lithium-ion batteries, the benefits of flow batteries produced by Invinity are numerous: 30-year lifetimes with 20,000+ cycles; they can discharge 8-10 hours every day; and they have zero fire risk. Invinity's flow batteries have the lowest lifecycle MWh delivered cost for energy storage.

Ben Lochtenberg sees solar as an elegant energy solution, one that will keep on giving for years. His mission as the Founder and Managing Director of Xero Solar is to tap solar as a "perpetual" energy source and to promote a transition to a more resilient world.

Ebenezar Wikina lives in Rivers State, one of six states in Nigeria. His passion is taking national, long-term goals and bringing them to success in local governments where, he believes, change takes root. He formed Policy Shapers to empower young people with knowledge, skills, and tools to engage in public policy.

Dr. Bonnie Nixon is the Sustainability Director for the Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT), one of the world's busiest and greenest ports. The terminal handles 3.5 million, 20-foot containers annually. Its 4,200 foot long wharf can unload three of the largest container ships in the world at once. In 2030 Bonnie completed a net zero strategy for LBCT with a $250 million price tag.

Richard Savoie is the CoFounder and CEO of Adiona Tech, a high-tech logistics company that uses machine learning, and artificial intelligence to help businesses optimize the efficiency of their delivery fleets. Since 2021, his firm has enabled delivery fleet operators to save millions of miles of travel, hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel, and avoid 7.2 million kilograms of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere.

Sammy Roth is a diligent investigator and journalist who has established himself as one of California's leading climate columnists. From an early age he recognized the big voice that one could have as a journalist reaching the masses. He began to focus on the environment and sustainability when he was a student at Columbia University. His guiding principle has been to dig in and find the story, reveal what's accurate, and to report on what's going to make the world work better. It's all about advancing solutions and fixing problems,

Alix Lebec is the Founder and CEO of Lebec Consulting whose mission is to democratize access to capital, opportunity and knowledge. Alix explains that its three pillars are its strategic advisory services, managing its own boutique investment fund, and making funders, non-profits and others aware of innovative finance. Its women-led team has grown into a platform to mainstream and scale innovative finance.