Eco-Logic Podcasts – 2021

In EcoNet News, V23 #12, 12/21/2021 Ted explores ways to take responsible climate action. He shares his insights on CPUC's proposed decision on NEM and highlights many developments in the EV world and more.

Gary Gero, LA County's Chief Sustainability Officer, recently completed a comprehensive Climate Vulnerability Assessment that identifies communities and populations at risk of climate hazards. His findings demonstrate how social and economic inequality leaves millions at a disadvantage as the climate crisis heats up.

In this episode of Flanigan's Eco-Logic, Craig Ebert, the Executive Director of Climate Action Reserve, presents his perspectives on COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland. As a veteran of 13 COPs, and leader of a 15-state delegation in Glasgow this year, Craig is as frustrated with the slow progress, but optimistic about private-sector movements toward a clean energy economy.

Dave Houghton is a professional engineer that Ted originally hired at Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado. Dave has since had a colorful career as an engineer, educator, and most recently pilot! He discusses the engineering principles of the soft path, as well as one exemplary cooling chimney project.

Ted's reflects on lunch with a childhood friend and their discussion on climate optimism. EcoNet News, V23 #9, 9/22/2021 also delves into Ted's experience at sea aboard the Ramblin' Rose hybrid sailing, the California Clean Air Day movement, accelerating LA's climate pledge and much more.

Father-daughter duo Ted Flanigan and Sierra Flanigan hold a live crash course on microgrids, their genesis and exciting developments. Ted Flanigan explains that today's microgrids combine solar and storage with sophisticated controls resulting in systems that can "island" and operate indefinitely when the grid fails.

Ted presents the ninth part of a 10 part series on microgrids, sharing microgrid perspectives by industry leaders which was first released in EcoNet News, V23 #8, 8/31/2021. He goes on to highlight fascinating stories in the ecosphere, from fossil-free steel and delivery drones to San Francisco's hydrogen ferry and much more.

Join us in a conversation with Bryan Hannegan, the President and CEO of Holy Cross Energy, an electric cooperative high in the Colorado mountains. Hannegan is leading Holy Cross to a carbon-free and distributed energy future, encouraging members to be part of the utility in ways never foreseen before.

Johnny Weiss is the co-founder of Solar Energy International whose mission is to train the global workforce in practical application of solar technology. Johnny's careers and tales range from powering solar systems in the heart of Tanzania to developing training programs for Native Americans throughout the Great Plains.

This issue of EcoNet News, V23 #7, 7/20/2021 celebrates current and upcoming innovations in the EV world. Ted Flanigan delves further into stories on the EU pushing hard on climate protection, General Motors greening suppliers and customers, the Extended Producer Responsibility program in Maine, recycling old wind turbine blades and forming them into blocks for gravitational storage, and the uptick in PPAs being used by corporate America. He also presents the eighth installment of a 10 part series on microgrids, discussing generators.

Michael Shepard headed up E Source, a spinoff of the Rocky Mountain Institute which has had a global impact. Now, Michael is devoting his time to raising awareness about a huge and largely invisible environmental problem… exposure to cooking smoke. Some 4 billion global citizens rely on primitive, “stone age,” cooking techniques with many health, ecological, and social problems

Kirk Stokes provides a seasoned perspective to interconnecting distributed energy resources, notably solar and storage, featuring lessons learned connecting six microgrids in Monterey County to the PG&E grid.

Jonathan Parfrey is founder and Executive Director of Climate Resolve - transforming sustainability from being a virtue to a necessity. His conversation with Ted Flanigan covers his youth, his awakenings, his works with the OC Catholic Worker, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and his time as a Commissioner for Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

In this episode Ted interviews Denis Hayes, the coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 and the founder of the Earth Day Network. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter, Denis discusses his work at Solar Energy Research Institute, now NREL, and brings us up to date with his regional work promoting sustainability at the helm of The Bullitt Foundation in Seattle.

In this episode Ted releases the fourth part of a 10 part series on microgrids which appeared in EcoNet News, V23 #3, 3/18/2021. He recounts the story of EcoMotion’s first adventures with microgrids at the Santa Rita Union School District. There are stories on net negative bioenergy works, all-electric tankers, hydrogen updates on Saudi Arabia and hydrogen goop, energy storage news, and hillside solar and more.

Ted Flanigan interviews Andrew Waddell, EcoMotion's newest addition to the solar team, about his recent findings on hillside solar. They discuss the fundamentals of hillside solar: design and procurement, potential obstacles, and savings outcomes for residential and commercial owners.

Barry Murrey interviews Ted Flanigan about his journey to energy resilience. Ted takes a closer look at what he could do to prepare himself, his clients, and the community. He discusses the fundamentals of energy resilience: what it means, potential residential and commercial solutions, and how to implement those options into our daily routine.

This podcast delves into EcoNet News, V23 #1, 1/28/2021 which included the second part of a 10 part series on microgrids, showcased a video of the largest corporate solar system in Orange County, discussed the popularity of tiny homes, pink greenhouses, Net Energy Metering 3.0 and more.

In this episode Ted presents EcoNet News, V22 #6, 11/10/2020 which features Lyndon B. Johnson’s Climate Briefing, offshore wind floaters, coal-free Oregon, green hydrogen in the west, and more . . .

In this episode Ted digs into EcoNet News, V22 #4, 8/27/2020 which features gardening during the pandemic, Community Choice Aggregators’ world class program designs, the duck curve, California’s microgrids and wildfires, battery-ready homes, black wind turbine blades, South Korea’s hydrogen fuel cell power plant, and French and German electric vehicle sales.

In this episode Ted presents EcoNet News, V22 #2, 5/20/2020 which focuses on the environmental impact of crafting a safe and sustainable post-covid world. The stories feature three climate hero trees, renewable natural gas, a six-junction photovoltaic cell that is 47.1% efficient, and more.

In their new book, California Goes Green: A Roadmap to Climate Leadership, Michael Peevey and Diane Wittenberg show how California built a gold standard environment along with a thriving economy. It’s a very readable and inspiring contemporary account of how to make things happen.

Jonathan Port is an entrepreneur extraordinaire. He considers himself a sustainability designer and planner. He is the founder and CEO of PermaCity Solar, which just finished installing the largest solar rooftop installation in the world – the Westmont Project in Los Angeles.