Reversing Climate Change Podcast
1) 388: The Quest to Engineer the Best Carbon Removal Credits—One Year of Residual Carbon w/ Ted Christie-Miller
Carbon removal used to have technology developers who were also project developers. But oh, the times they are a-changin'...What happens when grizzled CDR veterans pluck technology off the shelf and f...Show More
2) The beautiful uncut hair of graves—Walt Whitman on the equality of death
Sometimes we talk carbon removal. Sometimes we talk poetry. Come let me read you one of my favorite Walt Whitman poems from "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass. We'll also explore why it's okay to lov...Show More
3) 387: Carbon Efficiency vs. Everything Else—Are We Solving for the Polycrisis or Climate Change?
Are we trying to get parts per million of greenhouse gases down as quickly as possible? Or are also trying to solve the nested problems of fertility, toxicity, and resilience as well as the systems th...Show More
4) 386: Why Do We Labor in Carbon Removal?
Content Warning: this episode discusses suicide in literature, specifically Judas Iscariot from the Gospel and Javert from Les Misérables.Why do this work? You could be doing so many different things....Show More
5) 385: Polycrisis, Collapse, Rebirth: Is Regenerative Economics Inevitable? —w/ Eugene Kirpichov, Work on Climate
Are we going to figure out how to get along on a highly stressed planet? Or are we unable to break the patterns that have gotten us here in the first place? Are we too hard-nosed or too woo? A secret ...Show More
6) 384: Graphyte's Strategy Is a Masterpiece of Simplicity—w/ Barclay Rogers & Hannah Murnen
So many people think they need to dream up wild new tech to be successful at carbon removal. But one of CDR's most ascendent companies is relentlessly simple. They're so linear that I scrambled to mak...Show More
7) 383: The Biochar Company Owned by a Data Center Company Owned by Private Equity—w/ Alastair Collier, A Healthier Earth
Are we thinking about biochar financial strategy all wrong? It's not often a good fit for venture capital, but is it actually a great fit for private equity? It might be, at least if you can get the t...Show More
8) 382: Silicates vs. Carbonates: How the 1996 IPCC Report Created Enhanced Rock Weathering Path Dependency—w/ Dr. Tyler Kukla, Carbon Plan
Some decisions we don't expect to have big consequences. And yet, sometimes you wake up thirty years later in a world deeply altered by that little moment. Today's show is about when that happens in s...Show More
9) 381: Carbon Removal's False Peak as mapped by Noah Deich
Life gotten harder recently? You must have just leveled up. We all thought we were doing the very hard work necessary to scale carbon removal, but was this ultimately a false peak? When you climb to w...Show More
10) 380: Ezra Klein's Abundance vs. Paul Kingsnorth's Machine—Wizards & Prophets All the Way Down...
The perennial fight returns... In one corner, there are the wizards: optimists who are betting that technology and economic growth can solve our problems faster than it can create them? In the other c...Show More