Electric Ladies Podcast

Electric Ladies Podcast

Engaging and enlightening interviews with women leaders on energy, climate, sustainability and corporate responsibility -- ESG, environment,social and governance issues. Business, policy and technology, money, the arts and careers. Topics include driving innovation, leadership, communications and career advice. Inspiration, trends and insights. Hosted and produced by Joan Michelson, acclaimed journalist, business leader, coach and speaker, based in Washington, DC.

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January 6, 2026 49 mins

"People care about the diversity because diversity makes teams stronger. And, and this is research based. And so they can say what they want, but those who know that ther...

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"1% for the planet…the way it works is that we have businesses who are our members, and they're actually supporting environmental partners at the level of 1% of revenues….You invest in t...

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"(B)efore we're even thinking about AI, it's actually thinking about how are we using our technology effectively and is it part of our processes? Does it complicate things or does it simplify ...

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"One of the other important things about tech humanism to me is that the three-way relationship between business humans a...

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The World Bank reports that, "today, more than half of the world's population – over 4 billion people – lives in cities." It also estimates that this shift is going to continue, in fact to DOUBLE to nearly 70% – or 7 out of every 1...

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 "Your job isn't to know the answer. Your job is...

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"(Climate modelling)…it's being used in things like insurance companies. It's being used by companies for...

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"Regardless of what's happening with kind of the ESG backlash conversation here, especially in the US, ou...

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"An estimated $124tn is expected to change hands (globally) under the so-called 'great wealth transfer', with women set to inherit nearly 70% of that amount. Combined with rising educational attainmen...

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"We were the first to lightweight our bottles. So, if you think about a typical bottle of soda, it's about 27 grams of plastic. Our bottles, this year, I think they're coming in at 6.6 grams. So it's incredibly lightweight. I always say, you know, it's a Niagara bottle if it crinkles…We've created label-less bottles so they're easier to recycle. …And, we're now running l...

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"What we're seeing is, as the new carbon economy moves forward – and this is critical to businesses to op...

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"Essentially what carbon accounting is doing is it's using a...

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"We did do a study where we shared the story of ...

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"I like to think about ESG not only as a risk management tool, but also as an opportunity. I think the, t...

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"The theme of the expo is 'designing society for future lives.' An...

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"(A.I.) is so energy intensive as a technology, and that's the thing that we have to get, the infrastructure of AI… Right now we do no...

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"Energy efficiency…is doing more, using less. The megawatt not used is the cheapest megawatt and there's so many things, either by using technology, old technology like insulation or digitaliza...

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"For anyone, women especially who are interested in the energy and climate space, I would say that you shouldn't feel that you need to choose between the public sector, the private sector, and the nonprofit sector. I've be...

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"Carbon Recycling International…is converting CO2 into sustainable methanol…(W)e have technolog...

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"There are those individual actions that we can take. But if I can work with my community or work inside of m...

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