Today's guest is Davida Herzl, Co-Founder & CEO of Aclima Inc.
This is the first episode that we're putting pollution front and center. It's an important topic and Aclima is one of the leaders in helping provide more visibility. Through Aclima’s data and reporting, we can better understand, measure and become more aware of the harm that pollution is having in our local communities and the world at large. Enjoy the show!
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In today’s episode, we cover:
- What is Aclima and its mission
- Davida’s journey to working on pollution
- The notion of “ubiquitous measurement” as a way to assess the impact of climate change
- How climate change and pollution are interconnected and impact human health
- The lack of discussion of climate change being a public health challenge
- Davida’s search for experts in the field of pollution and climate change
- Davida’s early-focus on making traditional measurement technology cheaper and scalable
- Aclima’s focus on empowering officials in government, regulators, and big companies with credible data
- Aclima’s technology and deployment to measure hyper-local pollution
- The hyperlocal variability of pollution in a community
- Who are Aclima’s customers and the applications of its data
- Partnership with Google Street View
- The type of pollutants Aclima is measuring
- How data extrapolations enable Aclima to “fingerprint” the source of a pollutant
- How regulation can aid action to curb pollution
- How pollution represents a global health issue and the leading cause of death
- How climate change is fundamentally an economic problem
- How the transportation and energy used by it represents a major opportunity to address climate change
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*Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant