Mission Matters Innovation with Adam Torres
Oct 2, 2026 · 12 min · 10 segments
In this Mission Matters episode, Adam Torres interviews Mark Bernstein, President &…
Adam TorresHost
Do people, when they first kind of come up, come across this and it's the opposite of, let's just say the gloom- the doom and gloom that's normally out there, are they, are they kind of surprised? Like, I feel like people are usually pretty refreshed.

Am I off on that? Like, they're like, "Whoa, there's some, there's another way to look at this, uh, issue."
Sometimes they're really surprised, like, "You mean this stuff really exists?"

Um, so let's think about this from the, uh, um, not only young people, but when we think about how people just in general or young people in particular feel hopeful about the future, like how should we be looking at this, at this question as it relates to, to climate change?
We need to look at it the fact that the things we can do about changing the climate, about reducing energy use, about renewables, the technology is here.
You know, when I started this in the game 30 years ago, the technology wasn't here.
Clean technologies are better, cheaper, and more efficient than the alternatives.
And you don't really have to care about climate to realize these technologies are better.

Do people, when they first kind of come up, come across this and it's the opposite of, let's just say the gloom- the doom and gloom that's normally out there, are they, are they kind of surprised? Like, I feel like people are usually pretty refreshed.

Am I off on that? Like, they're like, "Whoa, there's some, there's another way to look at this, uh, issue."
Sometimes they're really surprised, like, "You mean this stuff really exists?"

Um, so let's think about this from the, uh, um, not only young people, but when we think about how people just in general or young people in particular feel hopeful about the future, like how should we be looking at this, at this question as it relates to, to climate change?
We need to look at it the fact that the things we can do about changing the climate, about reducing energy use, about renewables, the technology is here.
You know, when I started this in the game 30 years ago, the technology wasn't here.
Clean technologies are better, cheaper, and more efficient than the alternatives.
And you don't really have to care about climate to realize these technologies are better.
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