Vibrant Planet: Allison Wolff

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 trillions of dollars in infrastructure loss, and restore the ability of natural systems to store carbon, deliver clean water, and support biodiversity, local economies, and recreational habits.”

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📝  Show Notes Below👇

🎧 New podcast episode: 

“We play out the Lorax, right? We literally cut every tree in North America; we deforest it like we’re deforesting the Amazon right now to build towns and railroads and mines.” 

Allison Wolff, founder, and CEO of Vibrant Planet. 

Find Allison on LinkedIn, and check out Vibrant Planet’s website here. 

🥃 What we drank during the episode: Tequila hot toddy (Matt) and tequila hot toddy ☕(Allison).

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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

🌲Vibrant Planet

🌲Casamigos

🌲George Clooney

🌲Netflix

🌲MTV - TRL (Total Request Live)

🌲Blockbuster

🌲Hollywood Video

🌲Amazon Web Services

🌲SYPartners

🌲McKinsey & Company

🌲eBay

🌲Google Green

🌲Facebook

🌲Open Compute

🌲Formerly known as Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance

🌲The Nature Conservancy

🌲Funga

🌲Dendra

People/places/things mentioned during the show:

🧠CDs/DVDs 💿

🧠Carson Daly

🧠Reed Hastings

🧠Neil Hunt

🧠Alexia Kelly

🧠Netflix Net-Zero + Nature

🧠Keith Yamashita

🧠Bill McDonough

🧠Cradle to Cradle

🧠Anthony Ravitz

🧠Bill Weil

🧠Bob Inglis

🧠Katherine HeyHoe

🧠Paul Hawken - Drawdown

🧠Amanda Ravenhill

🧠Truckee Tahoe

🧠Senator Feinstein

🧠California Fires

🧠California Forest Observatory

🧠Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

🧠Salo Sciences

🧠Gretchen Daily

🧠Planet

🧠Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station

🧠Native Americans Forest Management

🧠COP 15

🧠The Dixie Fire

🧠The Bureau of Land Management

🧠Julia Butterfly Hill

📚Cradle to Cradle - William McDonough

📚The Weather Makers - Tim Flannery

📚Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

📚The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert

-TIMESTAMPS-

[00:00] Intro

[02:10] Drink of the Show

[05:02] Allison’s time at Netflix

[09:00] “Green” the global supply chain

[11:45] SYPartners

[13:51] Allison going on her own and takes on eBay

[15:34] Google Green

[18:30] What Worked

[19:40] Bob Inglis - progressives and conservatives on science

[21:15] Katherine Hey Hoe (Faith and Science)

[23:43] Allison’s upbringing and love of nature

[25:21] Paul Hawken and Drawdown

[27:41] Matt’s introduction to Drawdown

[28:36] Trail Running, bears, and mountain lions

[31:10] Truckee Tahoe 

[32:43] Allison process, forming Vibrant Planet

[34:55] California Forest Observatory

[40:54] What can we do to protect forests

[42:24] Native Americans and forest management

[45:20] The value of ecosystem services

[46:18] What it takes to restore forests 

[49:19] The Dixie Fire

[51:55] Collaborations to deal with fires

[55:44] Clarifying the use of Allison’s tool

[59:00] Matt gets controversial 

[01:02:44] Co2 of California wildfires

[01:05:37] How to unlock billions of dollars

[01:08:55] The insurance play to invest in forest resilience

[01:10:00] Having a teenage daughter and running a startup

[01:12:14] Book recommendations

[01:14:47] Loved startups and founders

[01:16:33] Final Thoughts

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