E23 Thinking Green: Craig Spinner from Savant Power - Powering Your Smart Home With Clean Energy
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Savant Homes are more than just smart, they have a backup plan when the power goes out. Automate everything from lighting to music to video in every room, while not needing to rely on the grid. Watch as Mo speaks with Executive Vice President of Savant Power about how Savant is transitioning from the Smart Home to the Powered Home. Connect with Craig Spinner: Learn More : ________ Youtube: Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: TikTok: LinkedIn: Listen to this podcast and others from Thinking Green here: ________ Apple Podcasts: Google Podcasts: ...
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E22: Doug Lewin - The State of Today's Struggling Texas Electrical Grid
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Join Mo (@_modalla) as he sits down with Doug Lewin, a nationally recognized energy expert, to dive into the fascinating world of the electric grid, renewable energy, energy efficiency, demand response, utility regulation, and pollution reduction. 🌍⚡ Tune in for an enlightening conversation that explores the future of sustainable energy and the steps we can take towards a cleaner, greener world. 🌱 Don't miss out on this insightful episode - it's a must-listen for anyone passionate about the power of renewable energy! 🔋✨ To learn more about the Texas Electrical Grid Conditions and...
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E21: Joe Ordia from Solar Surge - Creating value on YouTube in the Solar Industry
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Providing free educational resources online for people around the world may not seem like the best way to run a solar business. Today's guest, Joe Ordia, proves that creating value for people in the form of free solar and home battery backup education online is not only a cheap way to get in front of people shopping for solar, but also builds trust which ultimately leads to more inbound solar leads. Watch as Mo interviews Joe Ordia about his journey of becoming one of the most trusted resources in the United States Solar and Storage Community. To learn more about Joe Ordia, check out his...
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E20: Off-Grid RV with Andrew Claudio
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Thinking Green is about teaching the world how it actually is possible to transition to sustainable energy. Today's episode is a great example of how many Americans are choosing to downsize in order to unlock energy freedom as well as energy resilience. Andrew Claudio is a pioneer in the solar and storage space. He was there when solar and batteries were only in their infancy. Now, he lives with his wife and cat in a fully off-grid RV with solar panels, batteries, and an EV charger. He aims to unlock this energy freedom for as many people as possible through education and spreading love and...
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E19: DIY Electric Vehicles with Robert Powell
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Robert Powell is a mechanical and electrical engineer with a passion for electric vehicle technology. After his first DIY project converting an old motorcycle to a fully electric bike, Robert has been hooked on giving used vehicles a new, more efficient life. Now, Robert is an engineer for Arcimoto, working on highly efficient vehicles designed specifically for urban streets. In this episode, Robert envisions a world with electric school buses and delivery trucks, quieter roads, and fewer car owners thanks to fully autonomous rideshare services. Are electric jet skis and sailboats...
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E18: Arch Rao - Smart Panels For Smarter Homes
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Renewable energy should be convenient, resilient, and flexible for your lifestyle– as the Founder & CEO of SPAN, Arch Rao wants to modernize how you power your home by bringing household electric panels into the age of smart homes, so your electric panel can do more for you and your family. SPAN Panels are digital electric panels for the home that easily integrate with both existing electrical systems and modern renewable energy and smart home devices. Traditional electric panel technology has largely gone without updates for decades, but SPAN is developing technologies that...
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E17: Allison Johnson - How to Be a Better Storyteller
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We are relying on centuries-old energy technology to sustain our daily energy practices–but we’re now reaching a point where that infrastructure is starting to fail. In this transitional time, it’s more important than ever to look to companies like Enphase and Good Faith Energy to learn how to generate and distribute our own energy, and to create a clean-tech future. Allison Johnson is the Chief Marketing Officer of Enphase energy, which is a leading global supplier of microinverters and other clean tech products. Last year, they broke one billion dollars in revenue, and they employ over...
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E16: Jason Cortes - It’s Time to Dispense Electrons
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For Jason, environmental sustainability is important. But more than that, personal sustainability is important--that is, finding work that lights your inner fire and makes you want to go out into the world and do good. He’s found that life at Rivian. Since transitioning out of the oil and gas industry in 2017, native Texan Jason Cortes has turned to renewable and rechargeable energies. In between, he worked to help the community install and service clean energy solutions, and, ultimately, future-proof their businesses. He is now the RSM of the start-up Rivian, working on EVs and...
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E15: Appreciate the Journey
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Good Faith Energy is more than just a name--it’s a way of life. Mohammed has put his heart and soul into the company, and is now giving back in more ways than one, from university presentations to philanthropy. Today, you can get a peek into Mo’s personal life, and learn what challenges have driven him to be an entrepreneur who’s invested in the community’s future. Today’s episode of Thinking Green is dedicated to Mo’s father and all that he did to help Mohammed become who he is today. He’s tracing back his father’s history and how he brought his family a secure life in Canada...
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E14: Renee Kuehl And Melissa Schmid - When The Solar Panel Reaches Middle Age
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Recycling isn’t just about the blue bin on the curb anymore. People like Melissa and Renee are connecting renewable companies together so that they can recycle on a massive scale, and limit the amount of wasted equipment. Because of them, many companies have developed their own relationships and helped the industry use every last drop of solar power. Renee Kuehl is the director of sales and marketing for EnergyBin. Melissa Schmid is EnergyBin’s marketing communication manager. EnergyBin is a business-to-business network for solar companies to deal sustainably with their extra stock....
info_outlineWater is life. It sustains us and helps us advance our lives as individuals and as a collective - and in places where safe, available drinking water just isn’t a reality, the whole community suffers from its absence. How, then, do we bring life-giving water to communities like these?
Scott Linebrink is a former MLB player and the stewardship director of Water Mission, a Christian nonprofit based out of Charleston and centered around serving millions of people in dozens of countries worldwide through clean water projects.
In this episode of Thinking Green, Mo and Scott break down the principles and processes through which Water Mission provides clean, stable, and reliable water sources for rural communities and developing countries, what it takes to get functional water systems up and running from start to finish, and how Scott and his team are working to emulate God’s love in every project they do to change lives, one person at a time. Tune in for an enlightening look at the power a little water has in so many places worldwide.
What You'll Learn:
- What clean, dependable water and sanitation have to do with the overall quality of life of entire communities, from infrastructure to healthcare to education and beyond
- How to walk the line between shedding entitlement to serve others and the temptation to “show off” your good deeds (and why the latter mentality is sometimes just a part of the journey
- Why a lot of the current water solutions being installed across the world, no matter how well-meant they are, aren’t sustainable - and how the industry can begin to step up their efforts and their impact
- And much more!
Favorite Quote:
“I think that's the way God wants us to live, knowing that he loves all people, and knowing that he wants us to treat our neighbors - not just the neighbor across the street, but the neighbor across the world, too, somebody that may look very different from us culturally and from a belief standpoint - but, you know, one of the great ways to show love for someone else is to give them a drink of water.”
- Scott Linebrink
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How to Get Involved:
Mohammed Abdalla is the Founder & CEO of Good Faith Energy and its subsidiary companies. He has grossed over $30m in lifetime sales – building his business from a minor, $40,000 loan into the 50+ employee company it is today. He has a lifelong passion and dedication to the pursuit of renewable energy and its social impact.
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