Working toward a sustainable tomorrow is a collaborative and mutual effort. We go farther when we go together. Taking a holistic approach to sustainability might mean looking at operations, supply chain, and equipment efficiencies. And linking that up are the engineers who know the market, the technologies, and the systems approach that can magnify impact.

In this episode, we speak Charles Jelen, Sales Leader for Sustainable Systems and Dan Gentry, Applications Engineer at Trane. By day, they’re out there every day talking to customers, educating, and finding solutions, but, by night they are the hosts of the Cool Air, Hot Takes podcast.

We talk about decarbonization strategies, engineering the perfect solutions, and projects that have inspired them, plus the hottest of hot takes.

About Healthy Spaces

Healthy Spaces is a podcast by Trane Technologies where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation are transforming the spaces where we live, work, learn and play.

This season, hosts Dominique Silva and Scott Tew bring a fresh batch of uplifting stories, featuring inspiring people who are overcoming challenges to drive positive change across multiple industries. We’ll discover how technology and AI can drive business growth, and help the planet breathe a little bit easier.

Listen and subscribe to Healthy Spaces on your favorite podcast platforms.

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Welcome to Season 5 of the Healthy Spaces Podcast by Trane Technologies, the podcast where experts and disruptors explore how climate technology and innovation are transforming the spaces where we live, work, learn and play.

This season, hosts Dominique Silva and Scott Tew are bringing you a fresh batch of uplifting stories, featuring inspiring people who are overcoming challenges to drive positive change across multiple industries.

We’ll explore how technology and AI can drive business growth, and help the planet breathe a little bit easier.

Listen and subscribe to Healthy Spaces on your favorite podcast platforms.

To find out more about Trane Technologies and how we're challenging what’s possible for a sustainable world, visit:

• Trane Technologies Website
• Sustainability

Reducing our impact on the climate can seem like an overwhelming task. But the truth is, leaders across sectors and industries are working tirelessly to make a difference – and many of those leaders are women.

In this episode of the Healthy Spaces podcast, women sustainability leaders gather for a “Spilling the Tea” panel discussion during Climate Week NYC. The conversation, which was recorded live from the Tea Room of BG Restaurant inside Bergdorf Goodman, explores the collaborations, partnerships and bold initiatives that are helping chart a net-zero future together.

Listen to the full episode to learn from some of the dynamic women leading the charge on a comprehensive approach to net-zero through climate tech innovation, decarbonization, regenerative agriculture, grid modernization and more.

Episode guests

Keishaa Austin, Acting Principal Deputy Director, U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of State and Community Energy Programs

Roberta Barbieri, Vice President of Global Sustainability at PepsiCo

Heather Clark, Senior Director for the Building Sector, White House Climate Policy Office

Michelle Li, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Women and Climate NYC

Ali Mize, Head of Sustainability, Belonging, Philanthropy, and Associate Relations at Neiman Marcus Group

Denise Naguib, Vice President of Sustainability and Supplier Diversity at Marriott International

Holly Paeper, President of Commercial HVAC Americas at Trane Technologies

Carrie Ruddy, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications and Marketing Officer at Trane Technologies

Net-zero is a large-scale ambition: Developing innovative climate technologies is key, but decarbonization also requires vision and implementation across industries and sectors. So how might partnering with future-oriented academic innovators help companies develop transformational, long-term strategies?

Trane Technologies VP of Sustainability Scott Tew sits down with Dr. Valerie Karplus, Ph.D. of the Scott Institute for Energy and Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the importance of partnerships and research in developing and meeting ambitious sustainability targets.

Listen to the full episode to learn more about how innovations in technology, policy and organizations are transforming the market and our energy systems as we build to net-zero.

Episode guest

Dr. Valerie Karplus, Ph.D., Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, Carnegie Mellon

As companies work to address the challenge of sustainability, they face a secondary challenge along the way: How do they capture and share that work? Effective communications are essential in transforming sustainability from a buzzword into a movement.

In this episode of the Healthy Spaces podcast, host Scott Tew facilitates a conversation between Suzanne Shelton, Founder of Shelton Group and Senior Partner with ERM Shelton, and Carrie Ruddy, Chief Communications and Marketing Officer at Trane Technologies, about the role of strategic communications in addressing climate on a broader, more impactful scale.

Listen to the full episode to learn more from two communications and marketing experts about the stories that connect, the importance of authenticity and audience, and why sustainability communications are at their most effective when they make the complex simple, the abstract tangible, and the global, personal.

Episode guests

Suzanne Shelton, Founder of Shelton Group and Senior Partner, ERM Shelton

Carrie Ruddy, Chief Communications and Marketing Officer, Trane Technologies

Sustainability leaders must balance big picture, aspirational goals with practical solutions that meet customers’ needs. Remarkably, one of the most consistent needs from customers is clean, available water. So what role should water play in sustainability strategy?

In this episode of the Healthy Spaces podcast, Emilio Tenuta, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of Ecolab, joins host Scott Tew for a conversation about the impact of climate change on our water, the importance of including water stewardship in sustainability targets and the ways in which industries can collaborate deliver innovative solutions that are good for business, people and the planet.

Listen to the full episode to learn more about how the power of technology and collaboration are helping build a cleaner and more resilient global water supply – and why it matters.

Episode guest

Emilio Tenuta, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of Ecolab

Ensuring we achieve a sustainable future is a team effort. But it's not just the citizens of today that need to work together - it's those of tomorrow, too. So how can we leverage a team approach to support the next generation of climate innovators?

In this episode of the Healthy Spaces podcast, Deidra Parrish Williams, Global Corporate Citizenship Leader at Trane Technologies; Alyssa Sharpe, CEO of DigiBridge; and Tyler, Texas science teacher Courtney Clague join us for a conversation about corporate citizenship, innovative education, and the importance of connecting future generations with real-world sustainability challenges and action, in their classrooms and their communities.

Listen to the full episode to learn more about how meaningful partnerships are equipping today’s students with the literacy, pathways and inspiration they need to become tomorrow’s climate innovators.

Episode guests

Deidra Parrish Williams, Global Corporate Citizenship Leader at Trane Technologies

Alyssa Sharpe, CEO of Digi-Bridge

Courtney Clague, 8th grade science teacher, Tyler Independent School District, Texas

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