This is CDR

- In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Irene welcome Shopify Head of Sustainability Stacy Kauk who presents the company's recently published CDR buying guide, and discuss the company's pioneering CDR procurement program and how we can scale demand for long-duration CDR. EPISODE LINKS: - https://www.shopify.com/climate/sustainability-fund https://cdn.shopify.com/static/sustainability/Shopify-Ca...

In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Megha welcome CarbonCapture CEO Adrian Corless who overs an overview of Project Bison, the company's ambitious 5Mt planned deployment in Wyoming, and discusses the company's plans to scale beyond that in the U.S. and globally. SESSION LINKS: https://openaircollective.cc/join/ https://www.carboncapture.com/ https://www.carboncapture.com/who-we-are https://twi...

In this episode Toby and Megha welcome Running Tide CEO Marty Odlin back to This Is CDR to tell us what's new at the company since he was last with us in November 2021, and what we can expect to see from Running Tide in 2023 and beyond. About Marty: https://www.runningtide.com/ Marty Odlin is the Founder and CEO of Running Tide, a global ocean health company. A systems engineer and member of a 4t...

In this episode of This Is CDR Toby and Megha welcome Carbo Culture Co-Founder and CEO Henrietta Moon who presents the company's plan to scale biochar production via its patented Carbolysis™ process that converts residual biomass into biochar and heat. Explore Carbo Culture: https://carboculture.com/ Explore OpenAir: https://openaircollective.cc/resources/ About Henrietta: Henrietta Moon has wide...

In this episode OpenAir is pleased to welcome Brilliant Planet Founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Raffael Jovine who discusses how the company unlocks the power of algae as an affordable method of durably and quantifiably sequestering carbon at gigatonne scale. The company’s innovative process enables vast quantities of microalgae to grow in open-air pond-based systems on coastal desert land. This is...

This week OpenAir is pleased to welcome Paebbl Co-Founders Andreas Saari and Pol Knops who will tell us about their new company's innovative method that employs mineralization to combine CO2 with abundant minerals to create carbon-negative industrial raw materials. Learn more about Paebble - https://paebbl.com/ About Andreas: Andreas Saari is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Paebbl, a CO2 repurposing co...

In this episode of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Neustark Co-Founder and Co-CEO Johannes Tiefenthaler who tells us about his company's innovative method of durably sequestering biogenic CO2 in recycled concrete aggregate. Company Link: https://www.neustark.com/ About Johannes: Johannes Tiefenthaler holds a PhD from ETH Zurich, where he developed the next generation of technology for the m...

In this special episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir is excited to welcome Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Dr. Jennifer Wilcox of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) to tell us about her work leading FECM, and what's next for the advancement, deployment, and scaling of CDR in the U.S. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan. About Dr. Wilcox: - https...

This week on This Is CDR, we are pleased to welcome Celina Scott-Buechler from Data for Progress and Dr. Simone H. Stewart from the National Wildlife Federation to present their important recent work on Charting a Path to Just DAC Hubs. LINKS - https://www.nwf.org/Our-Work/Environmental-Threats/Climate-Change - https://www.dataforprogress.org/ - https://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/charting-a-pat...

In this episode of This Is CDR, we are pleased to welcome Boulder County's Susie Strife, the City of Flagstaff's Ramon Alatorre and OpenAir's Chris Neidl to discuss locally -ed CDR and introduce the 4 Corners Carbon Coalition. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan. Guest link: https://4cornerscarbon.org/ About Susie Strife: Susie leads Boulder County’s Office of Sustainability, Climate Action &...

In this episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir welcomes RepAir Carbon CEO Amir Shiner to tell us about the company's novel and energy-efficient electrochemical method of direct air capture (DAC) that is inspired by fuel cell technology. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan. Links - RePair - https://repair-carbon.com/ - OpenAir - https://openaircollective.cc/ About Amir Shiner Amir Shiner brings over...

For our 50th episode This Is CDR welcomes Lithos Carbon Co-Founders Mary Yap and Dr. Noah Planavsky to tell us how the company accelerates mineral weathering by spreading basalt on croplands, and uses novel soil models and machine learning to maximize CO₂ removal while boosting crop growth. About our Guests - https://www.lithoscarbon.com Mary Yap is co-founder and CEO at Lithos, a leading company...

In this episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir welcomes NOAA Research Oceanographer Dr. Jessica Cross to discuss the challenges associated with measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of ocean-based CDR methods, and how we can seek to address them in a climate-relevant time-frame. About our Guest. - https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/dr-jessica-cross Dr. Jessica N. Cross is a research oceanographer...

In this episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir welcomes Travertine CEO Dr. Laura Lammers to present the company's innovative electrochemical process that enhances the Earth's natural carbon cycle to precipitate carbonate minerals from carbon dioxide in the air, permanently storing carbon in the solid phase -- while also recycling sulfates from mine tailings and generating green Hydrogen! ABOUT OUR GUEST...

In this episode of This Is CDR OpenAir welcomes InterEarth founders Howard Carr and Simon Avenell to tell us about the company's novel method of CDR via sustainably cultivating native wood biomass and securely burying it in saline aquifers on degraded lands in Western Australia. About our Guests: https://www.inter.earth/ Dr. Howard Carr is InterEarth's inventor, founding CEO and deep technical exp...

In this session of This Is CDR, OpenAir welcomes Carbyon Founder and CEO Hans de Neve to present the company’s novel, X-Prize Milestone Award winning “fast-swing” DAC process that employs a continuously rotating drum that consists of activated carbon fibers functionalized with amines. ABOUT OUR GUEST - https://carbyon.com/ - https://twitter.com/carbyon Hans de Neve founded Carbyon in 2019 as a spi...

In this episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir is pleased to welcome Carbon Drawdown Initiative Founder and CEO Dirk Paessler, and geologist Ingrid Smet to tell us about Project Carbdown, a long-term field enhanced rock weathering (ERW) field trial, with a focus on the Project's efforts to develop effective and practical measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of ERW as a method of durable carbon...

In this episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir welcomes Climate Robotics CEO Jason Aramburu to tell us about the company’s mobile, autonomous pyrolyzers that leverage advanced robotics and artificial intelligence to convert waste biomass to biochar and durably sequester atmospheric carbon in the soil while improving the economics of commercial row-crop agriculture. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan...

In this episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir co-hosts Chris Neidl and Megha welcome DrawDAO co-founder Charles Van Tassel. DrawDAO is a new Web 3.0 initiative that aims to accelerate the advancement of key carbon removal technologies. DrawDAO partners with prominent mission-aligned artists to raise funds for early stage, opensource carbon dioxide removal & storage projects through the creation and sale...

In this episode of This Is CDR, we are pleased to welcome Seafields Co-Founder and Director John Auckland and Chief Science Officer Dr. Mar Fernández-Méndez to tell us how the company removes CO2 from the atmosphere and durably sequesters it in the deep ocean via open-sea cultivation of sargassum. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Irene Polnyi. ABOUT OUR GUESTS - https://seafields.eco/ John Auckland is an...

In this episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir's Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan are pleased to welcome Soletair CEO Petri Laakso to tell us how the company’s DAC technology turns buildings into carbon sinks – and improve building occupants’ health, perception, and productivity – by integrating with HVAC systems to capture CO2 directly from the building’s internal air flow. ABOUT OUR GUEST - https://www.so...

In this episode of This Is CDR OpenAir welcomes Dr. Zeke Hausfather, Climate Research Lead for Stripe to tell us about Frontier Climate and advance market commitments (AMCs), as well as to walk us through the underlying carbon math that both necessitates and constrains CDR. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan ABOUT OUR GUEST - https://stripe.com/climate Zeke Hausfather is Climate Research Lead...

In this Episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir is pleased to welcome Captura CEO Steve Oldham to tell us how the company employs established electrochemical concepts to remove CO2 from the atmosphere via direct ocean capture, using only seawater and renewable energy, producing no byproduct. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan ABOUT OUR GUEST - https://capturacorp.com/ Steve Oldham joined Captura as C...

In this episode of This Is CDR OpenAir is pleased to welcome Carbin Minerals CEO Paul Needham and Chief Science Officer Dr. Greg Dipple to tell us how the X Prize Milestone Award-winning company’s science and technology accelerate natural mineralization processes to unlock the enormous carbon removal potential of mine tailings. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan. ABOUT OUR GUESTS - https://ca...

In this episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir is very pleased to welcome Puro.earth co-founders Antti Vihavainen and Marianne Tikkanen to tell us about the company’s carbon removal marketplace, standard, and registry, and discuss how the voluntary market for durable carbon removal can effectively scale in the coming decade. Puro.earth in partnership with Nasdaq recently released the Puro Registry, the f...