Climate Tech Cocktails

Guest bio Dr. Staff (Stafford) Sheehan is an American scientist and serial entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Project Omega, a nuclear recycling company rebuilding the US nuclear fuel cycle. Project Omega recycles spent nuclear fuel into long-duration, high-density power sources and critical materials for the advanced reactor industry, working with the Department of Energy's Idaho National L...

Norma: Mónica Larrazábal ☁️🔋Direct Air Capture, ⚡️Supercapacitors, 🥖Baguettes and more! Fellow Hope Dealers, welcome to another episode of Hope Dose. In this episode, we head to Paris to grab a drink with Mónica Larrazábal , Co-Founder and CEO of Norma . Mónica walks us through Norma’s radically different approach to carbon capture — one that treats direct air capture not as an energy- consumin...

☕ Climate Tech Coffee: Robin Langtry, CEO of Avalanche Energy   Fellow Climate Warriors, this is a replay of our Climate Tech Coffee episode with Robin Langtry of Avalanche Energy— this was the shorter, usually sober version of Climate Tech Cocktails.   We are re-releasing a few coffee episodes as we prepare to evolve transition to Hope Dose.   🍾 This episode marked the announcement of FUSIONWER...

🔋Batteries, ⛓️ Supply Chain Innovation, 🌍 Energy Transition, 🤺 Olympic Fencing, and More⚡ Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails ! Get ready for some shrewd global insights with Vivas Kumar , CEO of Mitra Chem , here today! Swapping cocktails for hydrogen water, Vivas shares his journey from Singapore & Tesla's supply chain to innovating iron-based cathod...

🌱Alternative Proteins, 🌱Fungi Powered Nutrition,⚡️Infrastructure, and 💥More Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails ! Celebrating the poetic irony of sustainable protein rising from the ashes of Chicago's meatpacking past, Thomas Jonas , CEO and Co-founder of Nature's Fynd , joins Matt for today’s stop on the "Here We Are" tour. Together, they unveil the m...

🚲 E-Bikes, 🏭 Manufacturing, ♻️ Circular Economy, 📍Detroit, and  More Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails ! Coffee, E-bikes, the resurgence of American Manufacturing in Detroit, and a deep dive into the circular economy are all on the menu today as Justin Kosmides , co-founder and CEO of Bloom joins Matt for a chat. A trailblazer in the electric mobility...

🪩Disco,⚡️Energy Efficiency, 🚗EV Grid, 🎤Karaoke, and 💡More Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails ! Climate Tech Cocktails is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.  It’s all 🍸 Bombay Sapphire ,🍸 Citadelle Gin , disco-balled cocktail shakers and Karaoke with Apoorv Bhargava...

🌱 Soil health,💡Agricultural innovation, 🤝Humanitarian Aid,🌱Carbon offset, and💥More Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails ! Climate Tech Cocktails is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.  Today, Matt is joined by Chris Tolles , Co-founder and CEO of Yard Stick , an organiz...

🌱 Vertical Farming⚙️Construction Automation,💡Innovative Disruption  and 💥 More! Joining Matt and his Athenaeum Whiskey today is the man, the myth, the legend - and Matt’s dear friend and mentor - Jack Oslan . This fantastically successful co-founder of the two blockbuster start-ups, Plenty and Diamond Age , comes armed with some Maker's Mark Reserve to discuss both his personal and professional...

Matt welcomes Stacy Flynn , CEO & Co-Founder at EVRNU , to the podcast this week to enjoy some impressive Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs , and to discuss everything from Happy Gilmore and Prince to the ways in which her company is reshaping fashion's environmental impact. Together, they review Stacy’s unique career trajectory and how it has her led to co-founding EVRNU - an industry leader “convert...

We’re in a Manhattan state of mind this week as John Felts , Co-founder & CEO of Cruz Foam , bends an elbow, sharing the waves Cruz Foam is making in the sustainable packaging. Propelled by a deep connection with the ocean, powerfully forged in childhood, John’s journey from surfer to scientist and entrepreneur has inspired a mission to provide a natural, sustainable, and easily integrated alterna...

In this episode, we’re kicking back with a couple of diet cokes (one with gin 😜)  as we dive into the life history of Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Hydrogen , Tony Pan .  From Taiwan to Scotland to Harvard, the brilliant Tony Pan shares the path that led him to Modern Hydrogen. After working for Goldman Sachs, Tony springboarded into the world of climate technology. Tony and his colleagues are tra...

In this episode, we drink Bill Alebrton’s version of the sneaky pete (rose + lager) with Cody Finke , co-founder and CEO of Brimstone .  Cody's chemically charged adventures will react with your curiosity.  He shares his time spent on a commercial lobster boat, living in his car and a tent, hiking the country’s mountains, and working on solving India’s wastewater treatment challenge. A chemist by...

In this episode, we drink a couple beers with with Toby Kraus, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightship.   Toby, an EV OG, walks us through his love of the outdoors, his journey from Wall Street to Tesla, and how he helped build the first electric travel trailer. So pack a bag and join us as we hit the road to explore how Lightship is forging the future of the electric mobility industry.

In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Niyati Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Fork & Good. Ever wondered how cultivated meat can help combat climate change? Or how hydroponics can revolutionize the way we look at food safety? This episode, we sit down with Niyati Gupta , the co-founder and CEO of Fork & Good, a startup pioneering new ways to address food safety and meet protein demands innovati...

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to a very special episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.  It’s been a minute since the first episode of Climate Tech Cocktails was released, 1,051,200 minutes to be exact (2 years).   To celebrate this milestone, Team CTC asked Matt if he’d be willing to sit down and chat with his climate tech colleague and close friend,   Ryan Kushner.  We’ve grown so much over the pa...

In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Anastasia Volkova, co-founder and CEO of Regrow.  Regrow’s mission is to make resilient agriculture ubiquitous. On every acre. Globally. Our vision is for agriculture to be driven by science and technology to restore the environmental balance globally to nourish the population and be equitable for everyone. Environment. People. Equity. In that order.

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Jeff Nobbs , co-founder and CEO of Zero Acre Farms. Zero Acre Farms is on a mission to remove destructive vegetable oils from the food system. And we’re not going to stop until restaurant deep fryers, home pantries, and packaged foods around the world are finally free of thes...

Fellow Climate Warriors,  ICYMI:  🎥 Check out our very first Climate Not Too Late Show with Matt Myers on the YouTubes HERE featuring guests Darko Mandich , Paul Robertson and Maricel Saenz ! 🎧We’re happy to announce that the audio version of the show is now also LIVE to listen to wherever you get your podcasts.  📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify , Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music , Google Podcast...

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Edward Shenderovich, co-founder and CEO of Synonym… “Synonym is accelerating the world's biological future by developing, financing, and building commercial-scale biomanufacturing facilities. We provide synthetic biology (synbio) producers – from startups to the Fortune 500 –...

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Bessie Schwarz, co-founder and CEO of Floodbase  (Formally known as Cloud to Street)… “Floodbase has pioneered the field of satellite flood tracking, with our science appearing on the cover of Nature in 2021. Our Flood Intelligence Platform has enabled the United Nations and...

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Allison Wolff, co-founder and CEO of Vibrant Planet. “Vibrant Planet harnesses data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change. Our goal is to help planners, and policymakers save lives, avoid...

🌊🍤 Shrimp, Stem Cells, Star Trek 🚀 Orange Juice 🍊 and more!   In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Sandhya Sriram, co-founder and CEO of Shiok Meats. Shiok Meats is the world’s first cultivated crustacean meat company, and Southeast Asia’s first cultivated seafood company.  “Shiok” is a local slang that means fantastic, delicious, and simply, pleasure. Their mission is to bring delicio...

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Steve Bennett, co-founder, and chief climate officer of the Demex Group - the first company to offer comprehensive solutions for assessing and transferring climate risks at scale. Demex uses modeling to evaluate weather risk and helps clients transfer that risk to maintain th...

👩‍✈️ Jennifer Holmgren , CEO of LanzaTech on the premise of LanzaTech: “What we need to come to is a world where there is no such thing as waste.  Where waste is feedstock or the way you make everything else.” Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in the energy sector including a proven track record in the development and commercialization of fuels and chemicals technologies. Prior to LanzaTec...