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title: "\"Changing the Climate: Disruptive Innovation, Ethos, and Harnessing Pent-Up Energy\" with Simon Holmes à Court"
description: "Learn how disruptive innovation, social media, cleantech, renewables & climate change activism all converge in a groundswell political movement: the Teals."
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# ["Changing the Climate: Disruptive Innovation, Ethos, and Harnessing Pent-Up Energy" with Simon Holmes à Court](https://www.anderssorman-nilsson.com/blog/changing-the-climate-disruptive-innovation-ethos-and-harnessing-pent-up-energy-with-simon-holmes-à-court)

 Written by [Anders](https://www.anderssorman-nilsson.com/blog/author/anders) | March 14, 2023

In [today’s episode of the 2nd Renaissance](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0AUnNBpbWs89lSFjpyobdS?si=0e813d35eec24efc) I welcome Simon Holmes a Court into the Thinque studio to decode the disruptive innovation movement of the ‘Teal Independents’.

### Preview: Changing the Climate - Disruptive Innovation, Ethos, and Harnessing Pent-Up Energy

We uncover how social technologies combined with a communitarian ethos to win hearts and minds of disenfranchised voters, Simon’s childhood influences on his socially-minded entrepreneurial approach to building a conscious movement, why he asks to be ‘judged by the enemies he has made’ and what it says about him, whether we are reaching a tipping point in the renewable energy mix, how to outpace the competition dollar-for-dollar with a Silicon Valley approach to digital communication technologies, and other good - green - news stories from the vanguard of [Climate200](https://www.climate200.com.au/).

 

### Full Episode: Changing the Climate - Disruptive Innovation, Ethos, and Harnessing Pent-Up Energy

A few words on pedigree…

Simon Holmes a Court is a senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and convenor and founder of Climate200 - a community crowd-funded initiative that supports political candidates committed to: A science-based response to the climate crisis; Restoring integrity to politics; and Advancing gender equity. Simon is also a cleantech investor, climate philanthropist and a director of the Smart Energy Council and the Australian Environmental Grant-Makers Network. Simon is the author of The Big Teal - sharing the story of how enormous change happened at the 2022 Australian federal election. The Big Teal is the story of how a team of inspired young tech-heads and older sages used their real and virtual-world experience to help a cluster of communities get the representation they wanted and create measurable progress towards a Net Zero Carbon economy - in Australia and beyond.

 

### Spotify Audio Podcast: Changing the Climate -  Disruptive Innovation, Ethos, and Harnessing Pent-Up Energy

 

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