FootPrint Coalition’s Downstream Channel

By: Team Downey LLC
  • Summary

  • Footprint Coalition's "Downstream Channel" is an exploration of the environmental challenges created by our industrial footprint led by Robert Downey Jr. and his co-host and Footprint Managing Director, Rachel Kropa.


    Together, they'll talk through some of the most pressing environmental issues facing the planet and enlist a panel of experts (including executives and founders from some of Footprint Coalition Ventures' portfolio companies) who are finding ways for us to walk a little lighter on the world's stage.


    Each episode includes a brief but informative overview of issues, a mystery box containing surprises related to the theme of the week, quotes to encapsulate the topics up for discussion and featured interviews with fascinating guests.

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Episodes
  • Robert Downey Jr. and Sandeep Ahuja on Sustainable Building | Extended Interview
    Jul 15 2021

    Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss GEODESIGN with Sandeep Ahuja. 

    The co-founder of Cove.Tool, Ahuja has developed software and services that use geospatial data to provide architects and developers with the most sustainable and energy efficient options for commercial building design. The technology has been used in over 11,000 projects in 22 different countries.

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    28 mins
  • Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Dangermond on Reshaping the World | Extended Interview
    Jul 8 2021

    Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss GEODESIGN with Jack Dangermond and Ryan Perkl. As the co-founder of ESRI, Dangermond has spent the last 30 years building a business that everyone from architects and urban planners to city, state and national governments use to understand and monitor the world. His colleague, Ryan Perkl is the head of the company's Geodesign and green infrastructure practice. Hear from how GEODESIGN can reshape the world for the better by building with nature instead of building over it.

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    31 mins
  • Robert Downey Jr. and Bran Ferren on Designing the Future | Extended Interview
    Jul 1 2021

    Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel Kropa discuss GEODESIGN with Bran Ferren. As the former President of research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering, Bran Ferren helped to bring movie magic into the real world. Now as the co-founder and chief creative officer of Applied Minds, Ferren is working on designing and building the future through partnerships and projects with car companies like General Motors, technology companies like Google, defense companies like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Hear how GEODESIGN can reshape the world for the better through making a better built environment.

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    46 mins

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