Economic Architecture The Podcast

In this week’s conversation, host Stuart Yasgur sits down with Genny Biggs, Program Director for the Wildfire Resilience Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, to understand how philanthropic capital is accelerating the innovations reshaping how we live with fire. Genny has emerged as a central figure across the wildfire field—her fingerprints are on the work of many of the innovators featured on this podcast—and in this episode she explains why the goal isn’t simply “less fire,” but the right kind of fire, in the right place, at the right time.

Genny and Stuart dig into the specifics of that strategy, from the launch of the FireSat satellite constellation to the harder, slower work of co-developing technology with the fire agencies and communities who will actually use it. Along the way, Genny makes the case for philanthropy’s distinct role in this emerging field—patient, risk-tolerant capital that can de-risk and prove novel solutions before public and private markets are ready to scale them. She closes with a practical roadmap for anyone who wants to get involved, from checking personal wildfire risk to supporting the growing coalition of funders, agencies, and technologists working toward a more fire-resilient future.

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How do we solve the problems that really matter? Join host and founder of Economic Architecture, Dr. Stuart Yasgur, in conversation with pioneers at the leading edge of innovation to understand the concrete actions we can take to address the daunting challenges that are shaping our lives.

Through in-depth conversations with innovators, community leaders, experts, and others most proximate to the issues, the Economic Architecture Podcast brings us closer to understanding how we can redesign the market and our collective capacity to solve the important problems we face.

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Production Team:

Host: Stuart Yasgur

Executive Producer: Becca Rashid

Senior Producer & Research Lead: Jennifer Vogt