PMI, TIME Studios spotlight projects delivering climate solutions at scale

TIME Studios and the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading authority for project professionals, have announced Season 2 of The Solutionaries, a documentary series about the project success behind climate solutions that scale and what it takes to move from a solution that works once to one that works everywhere.

All three episodes are available on TIME.com. The series follows the innovators and the project leaders working to validate each solution, prepare it for real-world conditions, and build the operations to deliver Season 2 features Adam Gardner and Lauren Sullivan of REVERB, Alisha Fredriksson of Seabound, and Kate Kallot of Amini.

Together, their work across music, maritime decarbonisation, and artificial intelligence is addressing urgent global challenges. Their stories demonstrate how meaningful change happens when companies connect their vision with the right people, resources, strategy, and disciplined delivery.

The ability to turn ambition into execution has become a defining business capability as organisations face mounting pressure to reinvent and deliver sustainable change. Sustainability is also known to drive resilience while boosting value realisation[1], however a recent PMI® report shows many organisations (59%) are still struggling to fully integrate it at the project and function level. The Solutionaries show how that execution gap gets closed, following three teams as they apply project management discipline to the work of validating, financing, and operationalising a climate solution.

“We need bold ideas to solve the world’s biggest challenges, but ideas alone don’t drive change. Progress happens when people turn vision into action,” said Menaka Gopinath, Chief Marketing Officer at PMI. “Projects are how great ideas become real, and the professionals who lead them make that possible. The Solutionaries are transforming live music, reducing shipping emissions, and building sovereign AI to unlock better climate, economic and social intelligence – demonstrating the power of project management to deliver real, measurable progress.”

Produced in partnership with TIME Studios and Good is the New Cool, and directed by Edward Buckles Jr., The Solutionaries highlights the often unseen work behind transformative ideas. The series explores how innovation moves from concept to lasting value through collaboration, resilience, and determined execution.

Season 2 Episodes

REVERB: REVERB is the music industry’s leading sustainability nonprofit, partnering with artists, tours, festivals, and venues to reduce the environmental impact of live music while engaging millions of fans to take action. Founded in 2004 by environmentalist Lauren Sullivan and musician Adam Gardner of the band Guster, REVERB works alongside artists and their teams to turn sustainability goals into practical solutions across complex live events and touring operations.

To date, REVERB has worked on 400 tours, engaged fans in more than 8.6 million actions, helped eliminate more than 4.6 million single-use plastic bottles, addressed 464,000+ metric tons of CO2e, and raised more than $26 million for environmental and social causes.

Seabound: Seabound is an award-winning startup decarbonizing global shipping with modular onboard carbon capture technology. Seabound’s containerized system bolts onto exhaust stacks to capture up to 95% of CO2 and sulphur emissions from engine exhaust gas. Seabound has completed two world-first pilots with top-tier shipping companies, won 10+ industry awards, and raised over $10 million in equity and grant funding from Lowercarbon Capital, Y Combinator, Collab Fund, the UK Department for Transport, and the European Space Agency.

Amini: Amini builds sovereign AI infrastructure that helps countries in the Global South control their data, run intelligence locally, strengthen local capability, and govern their data locally. Founded in 2022 by Kate Kallot, a former technology executive, Amini began by addressing environmental data scarcity and has since expanded its mission to strengthen the data, connectivity, and compute systems that power economic and social development.

Today, the company works across roughly a dozen countries, has digitized more than 10 million historical and institutional records that were previously difficult to access and use, trained 15,000 data scientists and developers as part of its effort to build long-term AI capacity across the Global South, and in Barbados stood up a national AI stack now used daily by the Prime Minister and her government and serving citizens in more than 90 languages.

All three episodes of Season 2 of The Solutionaries are available on time.com/PMI/thesolutionaries.
(Ends) [1] Morgan Stanley, Sustainable Signals: Corporates 2025

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