Tangelic Talks

About Tangelic Talks

Tangelic Talks, the official podcast of Tangelic, an award-winning NGO combating climate change, expanding clean energy and driving sustainable development. Hosted by Victoria & Jensen, we go beyond the usual, challenging narratives and explore bold solutions to the world’s most pressing climate and equity challenges. 🌍 What to Expect: ✔ Deep dives into climate action, renewable energy, and sustainability ✔ Expert insights on policies and technologies for a just energy transition ✔ Real-world solutions empowering communities Join us as we amplify voices, spark solutions, and drive impact!

Publisher

Tangelic Talks

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jan 2025

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

62 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Transforming Cities: Why Community Input is the Best Market Research w/ Ben Donsky | S05E03

   🎙️ Why do some massive urban developments thrive while others completely fail? It often comes down to one step: community engagement. In this episode of Tangelic Talks, hosts Victoria Cornelio and TJ Omujomolo sit down with Ben Donsky, Principal of Agora Partners. With over two decades of experience, Ben works with developers, governments, and community organizations to transform public spaces into thriving, financially sustainable places. He shares his unique approach to urban redevelopment, explaining why community engagement isn’t just a "box to check" for approval—it is the best market research an investor could ever ask for. Ben breaks down why traditional real estate developers often avoid deep community planning due to fears of delays and uncertainty, and how curating small, individual focus groups can prevent the competitive, chaotic town halls that derail projects. From 1990s waterfront aquariums to post-COVID public health infrastructure, this episode proves that great cities don't happen by accident. In this episode, we cover: 🏙️ The Chattanooga vs. Camden Aquarium Case Study: Why one waterfront project succeeded and the other failed. 🤝 Why developers should treat community engagement as high-level market research rather than a hurdle. 📊 How to map the demographics, cultural backgrounds, and emotional connections of a neighborhood before building. 🗣️ Why town halls fail: The strategy of using small, individual focus groups to prevent competitive screaming matches. 😷 COVID-19's impact on real estate: How parks and community centers proved to be essential public health infrastructure. 🌀 Social resilience: Why community centers are the most vital resource during storms and hurricanes. 🏗️ Overcoming developer fear: Why deep engagement actually *reduces* long-term financial risk. 🏛️ The public sector roadblock: Why government agencies are often the most resistant to new community planning methods. 🔹 About Our Guest: Ben Donsky is the Principal of Agora Partners, specializing in urban redevelopment, public-private partnerships, and community-driven design. He helps developers and governments create sustainable public spaces by building deep social capital and prioritizing community input from planning through operations. 💬 Join the Conversation: Do you feel like your community has a say in what gets built in your city? Drop your thoughts in the comments 👇 ✅ Don't forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe! Your support helps us amplify conversations on energy, equity, and empowerment. 🌍✨ 🌱 Support Our Mission: Check out the extended Q&A with Ben breaking down public sector resistance at TangelicLife.org. 🔖 #TangelicTalks #UrbanPlanning #RealEstateDevelopment #CommunityEngagement #AgoraPartners #SustainableCities #PublicSpaces #UrbanRedevelopment #SocialResilience #ClimateAction #JustTransition

2. 

   29 Jun 2026

   Season 4 Wrap: Climate Finance, Tech & The Conversations That Changed How We Think | S04E15

   🎙️ We came in expecting a technical season. We're leaving angry, more informed, and somehow more hopeful. In this Season 4 finale of Tangelic Talks, co-hosts Victoria Cornelio and Andres Tamez sit down to reflect on everything — every guest, every revelation, every moment that made them stare into a wall for a few minutes. Season 4 asked a deceptively simple question: how do finance and technology drive or distort climate action? What they found was anything but simple. It was a season full of insiders, investigators, entrepreneurs, and innovators — each one pulling back a different curtain on a system that's more broken, more promising, and more consequential than most people realize. This is the recap of a season worth revisiting. In this episode, we cover: 🎙️ How Season 4 turned out far more entertaining — and emotionally affecting — than either of them expected 🔥 Rachel Donald: why investigative journalism makes you angry, not just informed — and why anger is the point 💼 Stephen Shortt: why lifetime careers are a myth and the green workforce is the biggest opportunity nobody's talking about 🌍 Dana Darwish: how the Middle East is dismantling Western preconceptions about women, ESG, and climate leadership 🤖 Chris Carter: fear comes from not understanding — and anger comes from understanding 🌱 Josh Dorfman: filtering anger into action — and why adaptation might be more powerful than mitigation 🏜️ Azdean: what community-centered tourism actually looks like when it's done right — and why they need to go to Morocco 💥 Holly Alpine: the false equation nobody's talking about — AI for sustainability vs AI for fossil fuels, and why Microsoft doesn't want you to compare them ⚡ Patrick Galey: your energy bill, your food prices, your cost of living — all fossil fuel problems, all connected 🌍 Aya Yunis: how a medical lab scientist in Jordan built carbon capture tech and carbon credit infrastructure from scratch 💾 Murphy John: decentralized storage, the blockchain ledger that actually makes sense, and why your data is being held for ransom right now 🛰️ Charles Stromeyer IV: satellites measuring greenhouse gases from space, Jevons paradox, and why the solutions already exist — we just have to use them 🏔️ The Just Transition: where both hosts land — less scared, more angry, and committed to keeping the conversation going 📣 The season's one core message: climate change is a threat multiplier — every crisis you already care about gets worse without climate action 🔹 About This Episode: This is the Season 4 finale of Tangelic Talks — a full recap of every guest, every big idea, and every reflection from a season spent at the intersection of climate finance, technology, and power. No guest. Just Victoria and Andres, honest about what they learned, what broke their spirit, and what gave them reason to keep going. 💬 Join the Conversation: Which episode from Season 4 hit hardest for you? And are you leaving this season more angry, more hopeful, or somewhere in between? Drop your answer in the comments 👇 ✅ Don't forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe! Your support helps us amplify conversations on energy, equity, and empowerment. 🌍✨ 🌱 Support Our Mission: If you believe in the power of storytelling, clean energy access, and climate justice — help us continue this work. ✨ Donate or Get Involved at TangelicLife.org 🔖 #TangelicTalks #Season4Recap #ClimateFinance #ClimateTech #ClimateAction #JustTransition #ClimateJustice #EnergyTransition #ClimateInnovation #GreenTech #AIandClimate #FossilFuels #CarbonMarkets #ClimatePolicy #Greenwashing #DataCenters #ResponsibleTourism #ClimateEntrepreneur #ESGReporting #Season4

3. 

   22 Jun 2026

   AI, Climate Tech & the Investment Gap: What's Actually Worth Funding? w/ Charles Stromeyer | S04E14

   🎙️ AI is accelerating the climate crisis. And it might also be one of the best tools we have to fight it. The question is — which side wins? In this episode of Tangelic Talks, co-hosts Victoria Cornelio and Andres Tamez sit down with Charles F. Stromeyer IV — Principal of Frontier AI and Investment Strategy at Tangelic, with over 30 years of experience in AI and investing — for one of the most wide-ranging, technically grounded, and genuinely optimistic conversations of Season 4. Charles took his first two AI courses in 1992. He's been at the intersection of technology, investment, and climate strategy for three decades. And unlike a lot of voices in this space, he's equally comfortable talking about hyperspectral satellites and what happened to electric taxis in 1911 Manhattan. Because understanding where climate tech is going requires understanding where it's already been. In this episode, we cover: 🛰️ How hyperspectral satellite imaging can measure CO2 emissions before and after a clean energy project — creating a new form of verified carbon reduction 🤖 CLRS — Tangelic's new climate intelligence platform for measuring high-quality carbon credits and ESG impact ☁️ OptiCloud — the first company using AI agents to eliminate digital waste in cloud computing 📊 The three types of climate risk — planetary, economic, and financial — and why banks reneged on their net zero commitments 💡 The impact investing paradox: why it's neither a great house nor a great boat 🔋 Why solar is now the cheapest global energy source — and the myth that it doesn't work when the sun isn't shining ⚡ Why US solar just surpassed coal for the first time — and why AI data centers accidentally caused it 🌍 Why Africa has 60% of the world's best solar potential but only 1% of installed capacity 🚗 How electric taxis were ubiquitous in Manhattan in 1911 — and how WWI accidentally gave us a century of gasoline 💼 The clean tech valley of death — why startups build prototypes that work but fail to scale 🌱 Why there are 36 million clean energy workers globally — and the myth that the transition kills jobs 🏗️ Jevons paradox — why producing more clean energy makes us consume even more 🗳️ Whether governments can ever be trusted to regulate industries they're invested in 🔹 About Our Guest: Charles F. Stromeyer IV is the Principal of Frontier AI and Investment Strategy at Tangelic. With over 30 years of experience in AI and investing — including his first AI courses at Oberlin College in 1992 — Charles brings a rare long-view perspective on what technology can and cannot solve for climate change. He has served as a mentor at Mass Challenge, advised the finance minister of Nigeria on clean energy strategy, and works directly on Tangelic's CLRS climate intelligence platform. 💬 Join the Conversation: Did you know electric taxis were ubiquitous in Manhattan in 1911 — before WWI accidentally gave us a century of gasoline? And if you could fund one thing in climate tech tomorrow, what would it be? Drop your answer in the comments 👇 ✅ Don't forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe! Your support helps us amplify conversations on energy, equity, and empowerment. 🌍✨ 🌱 Support Our Mission: If you believe in the power of storytelling, clean energy access, and climate justice — help us continue this work. ✨ Donate or Get Involved at TangelicLife.org 🔖 #AIandClimate #ClimateTech #ClimateInvestment #FrontierAI #SolarEnergy #NuclearEnergy #CarbonCredits #ESGTracking #SmallModularReactors #CleanEnergy #ClimateFinance #DataCenters #ClimateInnovation #GreenTech #ImpactInvesting #ClimateJustice #EnergyTransition #Fervorit #Oklo #TangelicTalks

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• Jennifer Kalemera
• Amber Amoo Gottfried
• Svetlana Onye
• Kwame Sekyere
• Chibeze Ezekiel

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90

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68

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32

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