ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Jamie Beard, founder of the Geothermal Entrepreneurship Organization, about why geothermal energy could help solve the climate crisis—but only if environmentalists and the oil and gas industry cooperate.
Learn more about Jamie Beard’s work in our June cover story by Maria Streshinsky. Plus, check out all our climate change coverage, from growing threats to promising solutions.
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Note: This is an automated transcript, which may contain errors.
Gideon Lichfield: I’m going to the barbecue in Berkeley this Saturday—Saturday.
Lauren Good: [Laughs] That was good.
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Lauren Goode: Hi, I'm Lauren Goode.
Gideon Lichfield: And I'm Gideon Lichfield. And this is Have a Nice Future, a show about how terrifyingly fast everything is changing.
Lauren Goode: Each week we talk to someone with big, audacious, often unnerving ideas about the future and how we can all prepare to live in it.
Gideon Lichfield: Our guest this week is Jamie Beard, founder of the Geothermal Entrepreneurship Organization. And she argues that in the rush to renewable energy, we've completely overlooked the biggest and possibly the greenest energy source on—or rather in—the planet.
Jamie Beard (audio clip) : It's not sexy at all, right? But it just so happens that it would be really freaking impactful. [Laughs] So, I think this is a marketing problem.