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About the Episode:

Heading into 2024, in partnership with our team at www.resourcelabs.co, we are launching a LinkedIn newsletter called "Valence: Content that Connects." Borrowing the term from chemistry, we visualize clean energy community members as 'elements' that, when combined, drive sustainable change. Valence highlights influential people and the stories they tell – within the renewable energy and climate sector.  In our launch editions of the Newsletter, we have featured notable figures like Alessandro Blasi, Katharine Hayhoe, and Daniel Shugar with more to be announced daily through January 6 as part of our 12 Days of Christmas. The newsletter will revert to weekly publications thereafter, highlighting leaders who are re-writing the energy & climate narrative.

Our goal for 2024 is to foster daily connections, converging ideas, and leveraging resources to foster the clean energy transition.

Follow along on LinkedIn and subscribe to Valence for the daily list of influencers. And if you missed it, we’ll have the full list over on www.resourcelabs.co afterward.

Helpful RESOURCES:

• Khan Academy: Valence Electrons
• Katharine Hayhoe’s TED talk
• Subscribe to Valence Newsletter on LinkedIn

Episodes Mentioned:

Episode 660: Why Care About COP28? A Recap With Nathan Jovanelly, Brad Stutzman, Elizabeth Andrews, Tito Jankowski, Steve Anglin

Key Takeaways:

1. "Valence" meaning: the degree of combining power of an element, as shown by the number of atomic weights of monovalent elements such as hydrogen. With Valence, I want to center around this idea of connectedness and the human potential to change the world through improving our storytelling capacity. Better described here.
2. Human Potential: I believe that my job is to connect the human potential, it's the human element of the energy and climate story, and to help tell those stories with greater reach and efficacy. Valence, then, captures the how, why and with whom we connect the dots of the energy & climate narrative.
3. Daily Connections: Goal for 2024 - to forge daily connections, merge diverse ideas, and show YOU how telling a great story can make all the difference in your endeavor.

NOTEWORTHY QUOTE:

“As we unpack this project, I guess, one thing I didn’t share with you is, my commitment for the year beyond launching Valence as a standalone project is that the underlying principle is connecting the dots, and therefore making myself a personal challenge that I will be connecting to people every day, for 365 days, I’m going to try to find meaningful ways to connect to those around me, but also to track the progress and the results.”

— Nico Johnson

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ABOUT THE HOST OF SUNCAST:

Nico Johnson is the creator and host of SunCast, consistently rated a top solar podcast in the clean energy sector. The content of the show is geared towards listeners looking for insights on where the markets are headed, how to position themselves or their companies, and what today's market leaders do to stay ahead of the pack.

Nico is an Investor, Executive Coach, and 16-year veteran of the solar industry, having led development in the US and Latin America for global companies like Trina Solar and Conergy.

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