LIVE podcast recording: Climate Swings interview with Terra.do co-founder Kamal Kapadia
Want to witness the future of climate careers unfold before your eyes? Join host Michael Gold for a live recording of Climate Swings—a new podcast about people working in climate careers—featuring Dr. Kamal Kapadia, the visionary co-founder of Terra.do. Kamal is leading an ambitious mission to empower 100 million people to work in climate this decade. Come hear her speak about what it means and takes to do climate work in this time of multiple, overlapping crises. Learn how everyone can be a climate leader and what heart-centered activism looks like in our scary times. Seats are limited for this intimate conversation that could transform your own climate career journey!
Audience Q&A with Kamal and networking with light refreshments will follow the interview recording.
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ABOUT KAMAL
Dr. Kamal Kapadia is a co-founder and the Chief Learning Officer at Terra.do, a green skilling platform with the mission of getting 100 million people working on climate change this decade. Terra.do combines learning, jobs and community into integrated offerings designed to propel people into climate work.
Kamal has 25 years of work, research and teaching experience in the fields of climate change, clean energy and sustainable development. She started her career in the late 1990s working for solar PV startups SELCO in India and Sri Lanka, and Solarcentury (now Statkraft) in the UK. She has consulted on clean energy planning with the World Bank and managed research and communications for Blue Planet Foundation in Hawaii, the organization that successfully lobbied for the U.S.’s first state-level 100% renewable electricity law.
Kamal was also a research fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, Univ. of Oxford, where she taught extensively on the Master’s program in Environmental Change and Management. She holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.
ABOUT MICHAEL
Michael is a media professional and content specialist with over a decade of experience in top-tier outlets like Reuters and The Economist Group. At Word Clouds Consulting, he helps people and organizations talk about climate change in an authentic, impactful way. From climate-tech startups to established energy companies to educational platforms, his clients are telling climate stories to an audience seeking solutions and tired of the fatalism often associated with this daunting topic.
His decade-plus experience living and working in greater China and fluency in Mandarin has given him a perspective that cuts across cultures. In 2019, he moved back to his hometown of San Francisco, just in time for the devastating wildfires of summer 2020. The day that the sky turned the same color he recalls from his days in Beijing was a turning point. He made up his mind to focus on global warming and contribute a piece, however small, to solving this puzzle.
ABOUT CLIMATE SWINGS
Climate Swings is a podcast about reaching for the next vine of sustainability in your career.
Want to work in climate but don’t know where to start? Climate Swings takes you inside the minds of people who’ve made the leap. From reformed bankers to ex-academics, corporate sustainability chiefs to climate-tech founders, host Michael Gold explores how professionals from all walks of life found their path to meaningful climate work.
Each episode unpacks a unique climate career journey, revealing the pivotal moments, unexpected detours, and lessons learned along the way. Whether you’re a climate-curious professional eyeing a career shift or already working in the space, you’ll discover actionable insights to help navigate your own climate path.
Join us as we swing from vine to vine across the expanding climate career jungle. New episodes drop every other Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube @ClimateSwingsPod.
ABOUT GROUNDFLOOR
Groundfloor is the People's Club, an inclusive community that gathers at our member-driven social spaces to work, experience new things, and make meaningful connections. https://groundfloorclub.com/