Get Guardian on GoogleProject Management Institute (PMI) and TIME Studios have unveiled the second season of The Solutionaries, a documentary series highlighting businesses and innovators translating climate ambitions into scalable solutions across different industries.
The three-episode series, now available on TIME.com, examines how organisations move beyond innovative ideas to develop commercially and operationally viable solutions capable of delivering measurable environmental and economic impact.
Produced in partnership with Good is the New Cool and directed by Edward Buckles Jr., the new season features Adam Gardner and Lauren Sullivan of REVERB, Alisha Fredriksson of Seabound, and Kate Kallot of Amini.
Their projects span sustainable live music, maritime decarbonisation and artificial intelligence, demonstrating how strategic planning, investment, collaboration and project management can help scale climate-focused innovations.
According to PMI, the series comes amid growing pressure on businesses to integrate sustainability into their operations and investment decisions. However, the institute’s recent report indicates that 59 per cent of organisations still struggle to fully integrate sustainability at project and functional levels.
PMI said the gap between sustainability ambitions and implementation highlights the importance of project management in validating innovations, securing resources and building operational structures that support long-term delivery.
Speaking on the initiative, Chief Marketing Officer of PMI, MenakaGopinath, said innovative ideas alone could not deliver meaningful change without effective execution.
One of the featured organisations, REVERB, founded in 2004 by environmentalist Lauren Sullivan and musician Adam Gardner, works with musicians, festivals and venues to reduce the environmental impact of live entertainment.
The organisation has supported more than 400 tours, engaged fans in over 8.6 million environmental actions, eliminated more than 4.6 million single-use plastic bottles and addressed over 464,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. It has also raised more than $26 million for environmental and social causes.
Another featured company, Seabound, is developing modular onboard carbon-capture technology to reduce emissions from global shipping. Its containerised systems are designed to capture up to 95 per cent of carbon dioxide and sulphur emissions from vessel exhaust.
The startup has completed two pilot projects with major shipping companies and raised more than $10 million in equity and grant funding from investors and development partners, including Lowercarbon Capital, Y Combinator and the UK Department for Transport.
The third organisation, Amini, founded by Kate Kallot in 2022, is building sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure to help countries, particularly in the Global South, control and utilise their data locally.
Through the three case studies, PMI and TIME Studios seek to demonstrate how disciplined project execution can help businesses turn sustainability commitments into scalable solutions, strengthen resilience and unlock long-term value.
