Climate Tech Cocktails

“The overview effect is an example of being exposed to something, perhaps one of the largest things  possible, which is the entirety of the Earth all at once.  It’s “awe” in one of the grandest scales imaginable.”  - Benjamin Grant , Founder, Overview Benjamin Grant is Founder of Overview ( @DOverview ).  Overview uses satellite and aerial imagery to demonstrate how human activity and natural forc...

“Right now the process is so inefficient to make a steak.  It takes two years to make a steak and the greenhouse gases from a cow is equivalent to a car.  So it’s hugely more inefficient than it needs to be.  It’s way past time to be redone, for us to figure out new ways to do it.  We’re focused at Air Protein on making meat in a matter of hours and not days.  Making it using the most sustainable...

“Spotify tells you the music you’re gonna like, Amazon tells you stuff you’re gonna buy, Netflix tells you which movies you’re gonna watch.  All this is doing is saying ‘Hey, scientist, you tried these things and they didn’t work, you tried these things and they did work, here’s something you probably never would’ve thought of, but we think it’s gonna work.” - Austin Sendek , Founder and CEO, Aion...

“My hope is that bio-fabricated materials are not just going to be the province of luxury handbags years from now, but they’ll also be materials for our every day.  They’ll be in our footwear, our apparel, and our furniture.” -Andras Forgacs, Co-founder and Director, Modern Meadow. Andras Forgacs is the Co-founder of Modern Meadow , a company working to transform the world of materials by unlockin...

“We’re building a machine we call Spark, where you show up and you push a button.  This thing turns on and it makes hundreds of megawatts of thermal energy from effectively nothing.” -Bob Mumgaard, Co-founder and CEO, Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Bob Mumgaard is Co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (@CFS_energy), where Bob leads the strategic vision for the company.  He received his P...