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A podcast about the different people, technologies, and organizations that are coming together to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reverse climate change. Support this podcast:...
Martin Freimüller is the co-founder and CEO of Octavia Carbon, a direct air capture company in Kenya. He's been listening to this show since...
Every industry needs a Schelling point. For carbon dioxide removal, it's Carbon Unbound. Unbound Summits' CEO and Founder Oliver Katz joins...
Sometimes you read a poem on a carbon removal podcast and it's goofy. Sometimes you read a poem and people start writing you wanting to shar...
US federal carbon dioxide removal policy is a fragment of its former self. But are rumors of its death greatly exaggerated? (Sorry, Mark Twa...
If the US pulls out of climate action, is there room for China or another country to fill the leadership void? Or without the US, does clima...
I've had a poem stuck in my head, and it isn't one of biophilia and whimsy. It's about liminality, death, and interregna. Let me read for yo...
This is the kind of episode you put on and laugh along with us. This isn't the one where you'll get super quick tech takeaways within 30 min...
Right now, the world's climate policy architecture is under siege. The US has withdrawn from the Paris Agreement and UN Framework Convention...
The foundational assumption of carbon removal has been the "pre-compliance" story—that the voluntary carbon market and early corporate offta...
Is all of carbon removal really just about alkalinity? There's a case to be made for quite a lot of it. Weathering, ocean alkalinity enhance...
Sometimes when people think they are coming at an issue from first principles, they're already pretty far downstream. What if rethinking an...
Carbon removal used to have technology developers who were also project developers. But oh, the times they are a-changin'... What happens wh...
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"...
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 f...
Content Warning: this episode discusses suicide in literature, specifically Judas Iscariot from the Gospel and Javert from Les Misérables. W...
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...
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 re...
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 fo...
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...
Life gotten harder recently? You must have just leveled up. We all thought we were doing the very hard work necessary to scale carbon remova...
The perennial fight returns... In one corner, there are the wizards: optimists who are betting that technology and economic growth can solve...
With a matchup like that, who would win? I love this chapter from Moby-Dick . It so perfectly contrasts sublime beauty of the world and the...
It's that special time of year to put away worldly cares and focus on family, giving, and... carbon removal? Did I read that right? Come han...
Is the voluntary carbon market a club for saints? Or is it a hospital for sinners? Are we meant to understand all and then to forgive all? H...
Gentle wind, sail, and ocean sounds with looped video taken during a trip from Seattle to San Francisco aboard the Statsraad Lehmkuhl for th...
One could fly to the Bay Area in about ninety minutes, but what if it took a week, enormous amounts of teamwork on a 111-year-old Norwegian...
Long a pariah climate solution, Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) is having its mainstream moment. As the climate movement ponders the p...
Wren recently purchased a majority stake in Pacific Biochar, one of carbon removal's most prolific credit deliverers. What led to this deal,...
What if microbes could help us mine responsibly? What if astrobiology—the study of life beyond Earth—held clues for how to fix the way we ex...
World War I profoundly changed the world. Nation-states replaced empires. Russia went communist. Fascism arrived. The West's claim to being...
Adaptation begins at home. But it doesn't end there. What do you plan on doing with your family as climate change gets worse? Are you alread...
Is climate change a fringe and woke distraction in military planning that inhibits lethality? Or is it invaluable strategic context for this...
Much of legacy media is dying. You know what isn't? Live sports. Where the outcome is uncertain, people want to watch. That means bringing t...
What happens when you build a list of very nearly every carbon dioxide removal company in existence? You get access to intriguing data and t...
I came back from New York Climate Week energized. I loved seeing everyone. But many of the conversations I had profoundly scared me. We're s...
We all want to make sure carbon removal works. But who is working to make it beautiful? And could creating beauty be one of the most importa...
Or "project finance", for that matter? Or are these just the current words we say at happy hours? Today, we attempt to nail down some of the...
Are you interested in sailing from Seattle to San Francisco on a sailing vessel older than World War 1?! Well, you can at the end of October...
Raising kids is hard enough. How do we do it now when existential dread is such a major part of youth experience? And how do we keep ourselv...
Is that a noble man rejecting modernity and embracing tradition? Or is it a lunatic with a lance trying to disembowel a shepherd? The Ingeni...
In The Brothers Karamazov , the character Grushenka tells a story about an old peasant woman who never did a good deed in her entire life an...
One of my biggest podcasting regrets is not having been able to interview the anthropologist Dr. James C. Scott before he died in 2024. We h...
If there are so many inhabitable planets in the universe, why haven't we made contact with other civilizations? One terrifying answer is tha...
A $50M Series A?! In this economy? Aircapture recently raised a big round at a time when big raises in climatetech are hard to come by. Thei...
Writing fiction about climate change is notoriously difficult. Some authors have gone for massive ensemble casts to defeat the hyperobject ....
Many hardtech entrepreneurs develop a technology and then figure out how to commercialize it. What happens if you find an industry with pote...
When you finish painting the Golden Gate Bridge, it is time to paint the Golden Gate Bridge. With a subject as interdisciplinary as carbon d...
We primarily talk about pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and ocean and storing it. But there are some places where we should act...
When you think of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, you probably aren't thinking about carbon removal. But should you be? Today's guest is V...
Many a business was launched in carbon credits trying to fix a conflict of interest problem. Has Absolute Climate cracked the code? Should r...