Carbon Removal Newsroom

Ed Smith, VP of Indigo Ag and head of Indigo Carbon, joins the show to talk about The Terraton Initiative: Indigo Ag's new effort to sequester one trillion tons of carbon dioxide through regenerative agriculture. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

On June 1st, 2019, the Future Coalition held over one hundred press conferences around the country to raise awareness of the potential landmark case, Juliana v. United States, in which Our Children's Trust is suing the United States federal government on constitutional grounds to provide a stable climate on behalf of youth plaintiffs. Katie Eder, the Executive Director of Future Coalition, joins t...

Wired's article "What if Air Conditioners Could Help Save the Planet Instead of Destroying It?" piqued Nori's interest. Prof. Roland Dittmeyer, whose work is cited in the article, comes on the show to discuss the possibility of a distributed direct air capture future via air conditioning units and "crowd oil", and how that may play out against a more centralized economy-of-scale refinery-style DAC...

VERGE Carbon conference chair Jim Giles joins the show to tell us all about the event, October 22nd-24th in Oakland, California. Alexsandra Guerra will be speaking, and a fair number of Norinauts will probably be there too. You can register with our 10% discount code V19NORI here:  https://www.greenbiz.com/events/verge-conference/oakland/2019/verge-carbon . Get full access to Climate Workers Anony...

Puro's carbon removal marketplace in Finland has launched with its first auctions taking place. Antti Vihavainen, Business Development at Puro, comes on the show to discuss their progress, how biochar and the other methodologies within their marketplace work, and what they're looking to do moving forward. https://puro.earth Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.su...

The Keeling Curve Prize just announced its twenty finalists across five categories for its second year run. Jacquelyn Francis, Director of the Board of the Keeling Curve Prize, joins the show to discuss the prize and the 2019 finalists in the Carbon Capture & Utilization category. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

2020 Democratic presidential primary contender Andrew Yang discusses his plans for carbon removal and geoengineering if elected United States president. https://www.yang2020.com/policies/climate-change/ Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Olivine is a mineral that can sequester carbon dioxide through weathering. It's also one of the most common minerals in the Earth's upper mantle. A lot of it is just sitting around as waste rock from other mining operations. Project Vesta is working to turn olivine from waste into value, reverse climate change, and deacidify the world's oceans. Project Vesta cofounder Eric Matzner comes on the sho...

Nori's Director of Carbon Economics Aldyen Donnelly shares her thoughts on what's happening with Canada's carbon tax and federal backstop. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6517432688209727488 https://nori.com/podcasts/reversing-climate-change/31-aldyen-donnelly-on-why-carbon-pricing-hasnt-worked-so-far Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.subs...

Ramez Naam discusses his recent article "The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be the Most Disruptive Yet" with guest host, Nori Head of Product, Michael Leggett. We dig into the economics of clean energy, and how that could be a boon to carbon removal. http://rameznaam.com/2019/04/02/the-third-phase-of-clean-energy-will-be-the-most-disruptive-yet/ https://twitter.com/ramez https://www.carbontracke...

Nori advisor and cleantech evangelist Ramez Naam came by the office to fill us in on his great analysis of how the Green New Deal could be successful, and the role of carbon removal within such a plan. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Dr. Heather Price of North Seattle College stops by the office to share her and her family's experience of School Strike for Climate (#fridaysforfuture) at Seattle's City Hall and beyond, and to what degree she's heard talk of carbon removal in these circles. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

General Mills recently issued a $650k grant to Kiss the Ground and Soil Health Academy to train farmers in regenerative agricultural practices. https://www.generalmills.com/en/News/NewsReleases/Library/2019/March/Regen-Ag https://soilhealthacademy.org https://kisstheground.com https://www.facebook.com/kissthegroundCA/ https://www.youtube.com/kisstheground https://www.instagram.com/kisstheground/ h...

Last month, the UN Environment Assembly failed to come to an agreement about governing geoeningeering. But this is a topic that will be brought up more and more as climate change continues. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Carbon180 just launched the first and only startup accelerator for carbontech, hoping to link entrepreneurs to the resources they need, derisk early-stage technologies, and transition them towards their first double-bottom-line investment. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Direct air capture company Carbon Engineering recently closed an investment round having raised $68 million, including investments from the oil and gas industry. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Weather futures contracts show that traders are already building expectations of climate change into the way they invest their money. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Erin Burns of Carbon180 discusses the USE IT Act which has been introduced in both houses of Congress with bipartisan sponsorship. The bill would provide resources for growing carbon removal now, and pave the way for future infrastructure that captures and uses carbon dioxide. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Y Combinator is a renowned startup accelerator in Silicon Valley whose alumni include Airbnb, Dropbox, and Coinbase. They recently put out a call for startups focused exclusively on carbon removal. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Paul stopped by CRN today to talk about Amazon's new goal of getting to net zero carbon on 50% of their shipments by 2030. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Noah Deich of Carbon180 stopped by to talk about his perspective on the Green New Deal outline. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Alexsandra is on to talk about the 2019 State of Green Business Report from GreenBiz. She talks about sustainability efforts undertaken by companies with food in their supply chains like General Mills, Land O'Lakes, Walmart, Monsanto (Bayer), Danone, and more to get more carbon dioxide removed and sequestered in soils. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substac...

Christophe was at the launch for Climeworks's facility in Switzerland in 2017. Now there's a new article in the New York Times about how Climeworks can help push the direct air capture industry forward. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Aldyen and Paul are back in episode 3 to discuss the moves large oil and gas companies are making when it comes to investing in the future of direct air capture technology. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe

Paul and Aldyen discuss the outline for the Green New Deal released by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on February 7th, 2019. They talk about the small references made to carbon removal, and share their opinions on whether this is a good plan for the future of carbon removal. Get full access to Climate Workers Anonymous at climateworkersanonymous.substack.com/subscribe