All Episodes

Removals, avoidances, and what Wendell Berry thought of making tonnes fungible

The scariest current parallel from Hitler's Mein Kampf

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way—Hitler, Chaplin, & The Great Dictator on climate

J. Maarten Troost on Kiribati's atolls, climate change, and what travel writing is for RERELEASE

411: Why I love Poppy Russell of Counteract VC's CDR analysis

410: remove's new Latin American carbon dioxide removal accelerator program—w/ Hans Westerhof & Marian Krüger

409: D.W. Pasulka on AI, the religion of UFOs, & the future of being human

408: The impossible taxonomy of carbon dioxide removal

407: Charles C. Mann on the wizards & prophets of climate change

Climate Workers Anonymous, introducing a new podcast + collective art project I am curating

406: Hyperstition, Dialectic, & Carbon Dioxide Removal

405: Does Managed MRV imply the existence of Unmanaged MRV?!—w/ Varsha Ramesh Walsh, Offstream

And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?—"Jerusalem" by William Blake

404: When will insetting work for carbon dioxide removal?—w/ Tom Mills, Stripe Climate Fellow (former)

403: How to get max value from carbon market consultants—w/ David LaGreca, EcoEngineers

402: Reform vs. Revolution from Microsoft to the Salvage Yard—w/ Drew Wilkinson, Climate Leadership Collective

401: Emotional startup lessons from Nori cofounders—w/ Alexsandra Guerra of Calming Chaos

400: What kind of leader does my CDR company need me to be?—w/ Julia Reichelstein, Vaulted Deep

399: How to Pitch Terraset (and other carbon removal buyers)—w/ Taylor Insley, Terraset

398: Scientists vs. Engineers, & the Commercial Pressure on Carbon Dioxide Removal—w/ Erica Dorr & Samara Vantil, Rainbow

397: Should Carbon Dioxide Removal Rejoin the Mainstream Carbon Market?—w/ Martin Freimüller of Octavia Carbon

396: Why We All Keep Going to Carbon Unbound—w/ Oli Katz, Unbound Summits

Meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same: "If—" by Rudyard Kipling

395: Bright Spots in US Federal Policy? Carbon removal as essential American infrastructure—w/ Eli Cain, Carbon Removal Alliance

394: Will China Stand Up for Climate Policy & Carbon Dioxide Removal?—w/ Sarah Godek

Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle—The 2026 Horror of W. B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"

393: Emily's Language Chat: Storytelling, Silliness, & Surviving the Climate Space—w/ Emily Swaddle, The Carbon Removal Show

392: What Will Happen to CORSIA & Carbon Dioxide Removal?—w/ Lev Gantly, partner at Philip Lee LLP

391: How Carbon Removal Loses: The End of "Pre-Compliance"

390: The Endless Pursuit of Alkalinity—w/ Omar Sadoon, Planetary Technologies

389: How to Grow Regen Ag without Carbon Credits—w/ Emma Fuller, Cofounder of Fractal Agriculture

388: The Quest to Engineer the Best Carbon Removal Credits—One Year of Residual Carbon w/ Ted Christie-Miller

The beautiful uncut hair of graves—Walt Whitman on the equality of death

387: Carbon Efficiency vs. Everything Else—Are We Solving for the Polycrisis or Climate Change?

386: Why Do We Labor in Carbon Removal?

385: Polycrisis, Collapse, Rebirth: Is Regenerative Economics Inevitable? —w/ Eugene Kirpichov, Work on Climate

384: Graphyte's Strategy Is a Masterpiece of Simplicity—w/ Barclay Rogers & Hannah Murnen

383: The Biochar Company Owned by a Data Center Company Owned by Private Equity—w/ Alastair Collier, A Healthier Earth

382: Silicates vs. Carbonates: How the 1996 IPCC Report Created Enhanced Rock Weathering Path Dependency—w/ Dr. Tyler Kukla, CarbonPlan

381: Carbon Removal's False Peak as mapped by Noah Deich

380: Ezra Klein's Abundance vs. Paul Kingsnorth's Machine—Wizards & Prophets All the Way Down...

The universal cannibalism of the sea vs. one insular Tahiti—My favorite chapter of Moby-Dick

379: Another Side of Sebastian Manhart...

378: When Bad Companies Buy Good Carbon Removal

ASMR: Your one-hundred year-old Norwegian tall ship is sailing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

377: One Week Before the Mast—A Climate Sailing Travelogue from Seattle to San Francisco

376: The Tragedy of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection—w/ Dr. Shuchi Talati of The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering

375: This CDR Marketplace Bought a Biochar Company. Now What?!—w/ Josiah Hunt of Pacific Biochar & Sophie Westover of Wren

374: Mining with Microbes: Biomimicry in Copper Extraction—w/ Liz Dennett, PhD, CEO & Founder of Endolith

We are the Dead—Why I Love Armistice Day

373: Crucial Questions We Must Answer about Adapting to Climate Change—w/ Dr. Susannah Fisher, author of Sink or Swim

372: Climate Change on the Battlefield: New Missions, New Kit, New Theaters—w/ Erin Sikorsky, Director of The Center for Climate and Security

371: Can Carbon Removal Grow with Sports? Why Athletic Media Goes Up and to the Right—w/ Aidan Preston of Milkywire

370: This CDR Legend Just Catalogued (Nearly) All Carbon Removal Companies—w/ Grant Faber

369: I See a Darkness—The Climate Movement Expects Deep Overshoot

368: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: Carbon Removal's Feature Film Debut, LEGION 44—w/ Leila Conners, filmmaker

367: Is CDR Even Using "Bankability" Correctly?—w/ Ryan Covington, Attorney at Philip Lee LLP

I'm sailing from Seattle to San Francisco. Want to tag along?

366: Raising Anti-Doomer Kids & Processing the Many Feelings of Climate Change—w/ Ariella Cook-Shonkoff, MFT; author of Raising Anti-Doomers

365: Is Climate Action "Quixotic"?: Don Quixote's Psychosis & the Misuses of Political Nostalgia

364: Lowering the Onion into Hell: Strategic Realism vs. Christian Pacifism

363: Carbon Markets & The Art of Not Being Governed: Legibility vs. Complexity in James C. Scott—w/ Grant Faber

362: Will Humanity Pass Through the Great Filter and Become a Permanent Civilization?

361: Carbon-to-Value's Long-Awaited Vindication—w/ Matt Atwood, Founder & CEO of Aircapture

360: Jon Raymond's excellent new climate fiction novel, God and Sex

359: Why Is the Pulp and Paper Industry So Great for CDR?—w/ Natalie Khtikian & Jon Rhone, Cofounders of CO280

358: A Beginner's Mind for this Bizarre Moment in Carbon Removal—w/ Marian Krueger, Coauthor of Race to Zero: How Companies Can Lead the Way to Climate Neutrality

357: Making Graphite from Carbon Removal for Lithium-Ion Batteries—w/ Makoto Eyre, Founder & CEO of Homeostasis

356: The World's First International Transfer of Carbon Removals Between Countries Under the Paris Agreement—w/ Victoria Harvey, CDR Strategy Lead at ClimeFi

355: Is a Carbon Credit Registry Creating Methodologies an Inherent Conflict of Interest?—w/ Peter Minor, Co-Founder & CEO of Absolute Climate

354: Why You Should Fill Out the 2025 CDRjobs Salary Survey: Tales of HR, Compensation, & Paradoxes of Fairness

353: Winning the Carbon Removal XPRIZE: Mati’s Enhanced Weathering in the Global South—w/ Shantanu Agarwal, CEO & Founder of Mati Carbon

352: How Cities Will Lead on Carbon Removal: Embedding CDR in Sub-National Political Units—w/ Christiaan Gevers Deynoot, Founder of City CDR Initiative

351: The Virgin Earth Challenge & the Early Days of Carbon Removal: Lessons of Curiosity, Discipline, & Grace—w/ Dave Addison, Founder of Planetary Practitioners

350: Robert Höglund Presents: The Many Perils of Being Catalytic in a Carbon Accounting World

349: How Will Carbon Dioxide Removal Fit into Compliance Markets?—w/ Mike Azlen, Carbon Cap Management LLP

348: Is a Lack of Open Science Holding Carbon Removal Back?—w/ Freya Chay & Tyler Kukla of CDRXIV & CarbonPlan

347: This Entrepreneur Holds the Record for Two Exits in Carbon Removal. What Does He Think Is Next for CDR?—w/ Jim McDermott, Rusheen Capital Management LLC

346: How Structure Climate Financed Carba’s Biochar Offtake Agreement with Microsoft—w/ Andrew Jones of Carba & Matt Schmitt of Structure Climate

345: Why Too Many TV Antiheroes May Be Bad for the Climate

344: The Optimal Number of Travel Deaths Is Non-Zero: Carbon Removal Trade-Offs in Scale & Quality

343: Two Climate People Talk about Their Feelings: Heidi Lim’s New YouTube Channel

How I Got Into Climate Work and Carbon Removal

342: Carbon Removal & Appropriations: The US Budget During Trump 2—w/ Erin Burns, Executive Director of Carbon180

341: The War Below: Critical Minerals, YIMBY for Mining, & the Trade War—w/ Ernest Scheyder, author & journalist

The Keynesian Beauty Contest: Product-Market Fit in Climatetech & CDR

340: The Outlaw Ocean: Ocean Iron Fertilization, Seasteading, & the Chilling of American Journalism—w/ Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean Project

FULL VIDEO of 339: A Good Drink: In Pursuit of Sustainable Spirits—w/ Shanna Farrell, author

339: A Good Drink: In Search of Sustainable Spirits—w/ Shanna Farrell, author

338: Carbon Security & the Geopolitics of Carbon Removal—w/ Sarah Godek

I Made AI-Generated Art and Now I’m Wondering What Is Art Even for?

337: Fired from the Department of Energy: Carbon Removal's DOGE Night of the Soul—w/ Grant Faber, Carbon-Based Consulting

FULL VIDEO of 336: Will Trees Play a Role in the Future of Carbon Removal?—w/ Lisett Luik, Co-Founder of Arbonics

Will You Join the AirMiners Buyers Club?—w/ Adina Mangubat & Tito Jankowski, AirMiners

336: Will Trees Play a Role in the Future of Carbon Removal?—w/ Lisett Luik, Co-Founder of Arbonics

335: How Nori Created a Direct Air Capture + Storage Methodology: A Case Study—w/ Radhika Moolgavkar & Rick Berg, Supply at Nori

How You Can Support the Reversing Climate Change Podcast

334: Is Adopting Children a Climate Solution?—w/ Lauren Gifford, Brandon Bowersox-Johnson, & Chris Tolles

333: Coproduction & Additionality: How Do We Draw the Line for Carbon Removal?—w/ Grant Faber, Carbon-Based Consulting

Why You Should Listen to the Reversing Climate Change Podcast: A Reintroduction!

When Heat Makes Us Angry: Free Will, Determinism, and Compatibilism Under Conditions of Stress

332: If Climate Change Can Impact Behavior, How Much Agency Do We Actually Have?—w/ Clayton Aldern, author of The Weight of Nature

331: The Future of Wildfire Prevention: Data, Insurance, & The Los Angeles Disaster—w/ Allison Wolff, CEO of Vibrant Planet

330: Frostpunk 2: Climate Video Games and Humane Storytelling at 11 bit studios—w/ Maciej Sułecki of This War of Mine, Frostpunk 1 & 2

329: The “Faustian Bargain” in Climate Rhetoric: Goethe’s Faust & Modern Occultism—w/ Daniel Backer, author

328: Building a Biochar Startup on a Podcast: Grounded Takes Over Reversing Climate Change—w/ Tom Previte, founder of Restord & host of Grounded

327: Carbon Removal & the Philosophy of Science: Kuhn's Paradigms & Feyerabend's Anarchism—w/ Anu Khan & Dr. Holly Jean Buck

326: Confronting Our Shadow: Jung, The Vietnam War, & Climate Change—w/ Karl Marlantes, author

325: Literally Redoing the Oregon Trail: An Eccentric Environmental History—w/ Rinker Buck, author and adventurer

324: My Octopus Teacher: How Rewilding Ourselves Could Heal the Planet—w/ Craig Foster, Oscar Winner and Author of Amphibious Soul

323: Is the Rise of a Global Middle Class Good for Climate?—w/ Dr. Homi Kharas, author of The Rise of the Global Middle Class

322: On Being a Climate Hypocrite—w/ Amie Engerbretson, pro skier and filmmaker of The Hypocrite

321: Metalplant's Debut! Enhanced Rock Weathering, Coproducing Nickel, & Additionality—w/ Eric Matzner, Cofounder of Metalplant

320: Why We Die: Living Longer's Impact on Climate Change—w/ Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate and author of Why We Die

319: How Nori Rebranded: A Case Study—w/ Heidi Sloane, Nori's Senior Marketing Manager

318: Is the Climate Cooking Craze Missing the Point?—w/ Tamar Adler, author of An Everlasting Meal

317: Will Space Settlements Save Us from Climate Calamity?—w/ Zach & Kelly Weinersmith, authors of A City on Mars

316: How Animals (and Nutrient Pumps!) Make Our World—w/ Dr. Joe Roman, author of Eat, Poop, Die

315: What Is Regenerative Agriculture? An Introduction!—w/ Jada Dormaier, Supply Account Manager at Nori

314: Will Catholic Integralism Be a Force in World Politics?—w/ Dr. Kevin Vallier, Author & Associate Professor at BGSU

313: Can Carbon Removal Be Insured?—w/ Racheal Notto & James Kench, Kita

312: Nori's collab with the Texas Climate-Smart Initiative—w/ Dr. Julie Howe, Professor of Soil Science & Project Director of TCSI

311: Carbon Removal 101: What is CDR?!—w/ Radhika Moolgavkar, Head of Supply and Methodology at Nori

310: The Role of Product Leadership at a Climatetech Company—w/ Patrick Tsao, Head of Product at Nori

309: Will Harris's Legendary Regenerative Agriculture Journey, AKA A Bold Return to Giving a Damn

308: Surviving and Thriving in a Disaster Situation—w/ Bill Fulton & Jeanne Chilton Devon, authors of Survive and Thrive: How to Prepare for Any Disaster Without Ammo, Camo, or Eating Your Neighbor⁠

307: The Rise of Corporate Insetting?!—w/ Lia Nicholson, Head of Sustainability at Terrascope

306: Carbon removal boots on the COP28 ground—w/ Tito Jankowski, CEO of AirMiners

S3E64: Disease and Health Risks of a Changing Climate—w/ Zoya Teirstein, staff writer at Grist

S3E63: Radical Honesty & Alan Watts w/ Ed Begley, Jr.—a Hollywood climate veteran and author of To the Temple of Tranquility...And Step On It!

S3E62: The Subtle Beauty of a Tiny Life—w/ Helen Rebanks, shepherd and author of The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days

S3E61: Climate Prepping: How Should Your Family Adapt?—w/ David Pogue, author of How to Prepare for Climate Change

S3E60: Are carbon credits more like bonds or precious metals?—w/ Tommy Ricketts of BeZero Carbon

S3E59: Should you be a hunter? A vegan? Somehow both?—w/ Bruce McGlenn of Human Nature Hunting

S3E58: Can gifting carbon removal help spread awareness of our nascent industry?—w/ Thanks a Ton's cofounders

S3E57: Is direct air capture an energetic dead end?—w/ Paul Hawken, author of Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

S3E56: Could there be a just solar geoengineering?—w/ Shuchi Talati, Founder of The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering

S3E55: Could Biomass Materials Science Create Regenerative Supply Chains?—w/ Wendy Owens, CEO & Founder of Hexas Biomass

S3E54: Building Commodity Scale Infrastructure for Carbon Removal—w/ Matt Trudeau, Nori's new CEO

S3E53: Are you coming to the Global Direct Air Capture Conference?!—w/ Jason Hochman of the Direct Air Capture Coalition

S3E52: Climate baking returns! Can we bake our way out of oblivion?—w/ Caroline Saunders, pastry chef and writer of Pale Blue Tart

S3E51: The Heat Will Kill You First—w/ Jeff Goodell, author and contributing editor of Rolling Stone

S3E50: The Culture of Carbon Removal—w/ Jason Grillo, Director of Partnerships and Operations at AirMiners

S3E49: How Could an Automated Electric Tractor Change Farming?—w/ Carlo Mondavi of Monarch

S3E48: Buy early & risky CDR credits; sell later for profit? The AirMiners Kiloton Fund—w/ Tito Jankowski

S3E47: The state of blue carbon in carbon markets—w/ Kevin Whilden of SeaTrees

S3E46: Methane removal?! AKA Methane is having a moment—w/ Erika Reinhardt of Spark Climate Solutions

S3E45: Mixing Fast and Slow Carbon: The Nori Blended Tonne—w/ Radhika Moolgavkar, Nori's Head of Supply & Methodology

S3E44: Is it time for Second-Generation Direct Air Capture? —w/ Sampo Tukiainen of C-Fix

S3E43: How to get your garden ready for climate change—w/ Sally Morgan, coauthor of The Climate Change Garden

S3E42: Carbon removal funding and dealflow in the XPRIZE/Circular Carbon Network report—w/ Nikki Batchelor & Ongeleigh Underwood

S3E41: Whole animal butchery, nose-to-tail eating, & climate—w/ Kevin Smith, butcher & owner of Beast and Cleaver

S3E40: PlantVillage is working to scale biochar in Africa–w/ Dr. David Hughes

(A Spotify video podcast!) What goes into making a carbon removal meme?—w/ Nori's Memelab

S3E39: Wyoming's Project Bison: Carbon Removal in Fossil Fuel Country—w/ Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News

Wide Sargassum Sea (and carbon removal robots!)—w/ Seaweed Generation's Mike Allen & Patricia Estridge

S3E38: Where are the campy cli-fi series? Why do we only have literary climate fiction?!—w/ Daniel Backer, author

S3E37: Sandor Katz on Fermented Foods & Climate Change—w/ Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation

Financial Innovation within Carbon Removal (& ERW!)—w/ Peter Olivier, Head of New Markets at UNDO

Carbon Capture & Carbon Removal: Friends or Foes?—w/ Gagan Porrwal of GE Gas Power's Carbon Solutions

S3E36: Why We Need More Sh*tty First Drafts in Carbon Removal—w/ Adina Mangubat & Tito Jankowski of AirMiners

How to Get Carbon Removal Startups the Support They Need!—w/ Neesha Mirchandani of Impact Stars

S3E35: Climate Change vs. Artisanal Cheesemaking—w/ Andy Hatch of Uplands Cheese

S3E34: The Environmental Impact of WWII in the Pacific Theatre—with Ian W. Toll, author of The Pacific War Trilogy

S3E33: Time to Think... Small? Not Everything Must Scale—w/ Todd Myers of the Washington Policy Center

S3E32: Tax-Deductible Carbon Removal?!—w/ Alex Roetter of Terraset

S3E31: Loving Cheese in the Age of Climate Change—w/ Liz Thorpe, author of The Book of Cheese

S3E30: The Cleantech Bubble Burst. What About Climatetech?—w/ Joel Makower, Cofounder and Chairman of GreenBiz

Supporting Early-Stage Climatetech Startups—w/ Jennifer Wagner of Breakthrough Energy

Permitting Reform, Property Rights, NIMBYism, & Carbon Removal—w/ Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition

S3E29: Funding for Crypto-Enabled Climate Solutions—w/ Ben West, Head of Causes at Gitcoin

Alternatives to Venture Capital for Carbon Removal—w/ Dr. Marcius Extavour of XPRIZE

S3E28: Mutualism: Cooperation, not Competition in Nature—w/ Kristin Ohlson, author of Sweet in Tooth and Claw

Turning Biomass into "BBQ Sauce" for Carbon Removal—w/ Peter Reinhardt of Charm Industrial

S3E27: Climate Industrialism, aka Why Is It So Hard to Build Anything?—w/ Lyn Stoler & Sonam Velani of Parachute

Techno-Economic Assessments of Carbon Removal Startups–w/ Grant Faber of Carbon-Based Consulting

S3E26: Why Is Moving Grain Easier than Moving Money?—w/ Dane Braun, VP of Product at Bushel

How to Link Carbon Removal to Travel—w/ Christina Beckmann of Tomorrow's Air

Carbon Removal in Local Government: The Four Corners Carbon Removal Coalition—w/ Susie Strife, Ramón DC Alatorre, & Chris Neidl

S3E25: Make Your Own Biochar!—w/ Lottie Hawkins & Connor Lascelles, Cofounders of Earthly Biochar

S3E24: When to Quit Your Climate Startup—w/ Annie Duke, author of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

Climate art can be a beautiful thing—w/ Nicole Kelner, Artist-in-Residence at My Climate Journey

S3E23: Can You Price Carbon with Crypto?—w/ Chris Burniske of Placeholder VC

ReFi, forestry, and distributed MRV—w/ Jeremy Epstein of Open Forest Protocol

Is the DAC stock image a good Halloween costume?—w/ Jack Andreasen of Breakthrough Energy

How to Pursue a Career in Carbon Removal—w/ Asa Kamer & Siobhan Montoya Lavender of Nori's Meme Lab

The Inflation Reduction Act and its downstream memes—w/ the Nori Carbon Removal Meme Lab

S3E22: Keep Cool and Cover Climatetech—w/ Nick Van Osdol of the Keep Cool newsletter

Does CO2 want to be free or stored snugly? Which is funnier?—w/ the Nori Carbon Removal Meme Lab

S3E21: Direct Ocean Capture or Direct Air Capture?—w/ Steve Oldham, CEO of Captura

Hey! It's a carbon removal meme writers room happy hour!—w/ Siobhan Montoya Lavender

S3E20: Advancing Direct Air Capture, One Meme at a Time—w/ Jason Hochman of the DAC Coalition

S3E19: How a large winemaker thinks about sustainability—with Steve Lohr of J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines

S3E18: Carbon Removal Memes for Climate Restorative Teens—w/ Siobhan Montoya Lavender & Asa Kamer

S3E17: Black holes, climate change, & ... Christianity?—w/ Dr. Heino Falcke, astrophysicist

S3E16: How to save vanishing foodways and why!—w/ Dan Saladino, author of Eating to Extinction

S3E15: Will NFTs Go Carbon-Negative?—w/ Alexander Salnikov, cofounder of Rarible

S3E14: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times—w/ Mónica Guzmán

S3E13: Why genocide and war can follow an extreme weather event—w/ Scott Carney & Dr. Jason Miklian

S3E12: The bleeding edge of regenerative agriculture—w/ Jesse Smith of White Buffalo Land Trust

S3E10: How a Warming Climate Is Changing Wine—with Paul Wagner, wine educator and lecturer

S3E9: Carbon Removal Newsroom: the people behind CDR's panel news show—w/ host Radhika Moolgavkar & producer Asa Kamer

S3E8: Kelp: Foraged, Farmed, and Delicious!—with Matt Kern, Cofounder of Barnacle Foods

S3E7: Do compliance markets work? If so, how much?—w/ Mike Azlen, CEO of Carbon Cap Management LLP

S3E5: The roots of indigenous agriculture—w/ Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson of the documentary Inhabitants

Hauntologies of carbon removal—w/ Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University of Buffalo: RCC S3 bonus

S3E4: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough—w/ Dr. Holly Jean Buck, author of Ending Fossil Fuels

S3E3: Farms for sale: what's wrong with the financialization of farmland?—w/ Dr. Madeleine Fairbairn

Paul Greenberg returns to discuss his new podcast, Fish Talk!

S3E2: A Brief History of Ethereum and web3—w/ Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians

S3E1: Aldyen Donnelly on climate-crypto, COP26, and carbon accounting rules

Will Dessert Survive the Climate Crisis?—w/ Caroline Saunders of The Sustainable Baker

The Road to COP26— w/ Brock Benefiel of The Climate Pod

Solutions: The Climate Change Board Game—w/ Samuel Levac-Levey, Founder and Game Designer

S2E74: Sanitation and EJ concerns grow with climate change—w/ Catherine Coleman Flowers, MacArthur Genius

Freedom, Mayhem, and the Uncertain Future of Revel’s Mopeds—w/ Kate Knibbs, Senior Writer at WIRED

S2E73: The challenges of being a chef/restauranteur in climate change—w/ Renee Erickson of Sea Creatures

S2E72: NFTs, carbon removal, & the music biz—w/ Imogen Heap, Grammy-winning artist

S2E71: Elon Musk's Carbon Removal XPRIZE—w/ Dr. Marcius Extavour, VP Energy & Climate at XPRIZE

S2E70: What scares a wizard?—w/ Teresa Carey, journalist at Freethink

Why CEOs should support climatetech startups—w/ Nicole Systrom, Sutro Energy Group

S2E69: Mark Bittman on the political economy of junk food

Replacing plastic with captured carbon: an update from Mark Herrema of Newlight Technologies

S2EP68: What would happen if our rivers ran wild?—w/ Tyler J. Kelley, author of Holding Back the River

S2E67: The Carbon Takeback Obligation & carbon removal—w/ Margriet Kuijper

S2E66: Build your own DIY direct air capture machine: Cyan!—w/ Dahl Winters of OpenAir Collective

S2E65: How to start learning about carbon removal—w/ John Sanchez of Carbon Removal Academy

S2E64: How to Be Animal: a guide for confused humans—w/ Melanie Challenger, author

Grounded: A Fierce, Feminine Guide to Connecting with the Soil—w/ Dr. Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow, author

S2E63: Carbon removal in the Biden Administration—w/ Dr. Jan Mazurek, ClimateWorks Foundation

S2E62: The Oxford Offsetting Principles & carbon removal—w/ Eli Mitchell-Larson

S2E61: Paul Greenberg on The Climate Diet: 50 Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Footprint

S2E60: Art out of thin (carbontech) air—w/ Madison Savilow of Carbon Upcycling & Expedition Air

Rebuilding trust in a polarized world—Dr. Kevin Vallier, philosopher at Bowling Green State University

S2E59: Is endless growth Crazy Town?—w/ Dr. Jason Bradford of the Post Carbon Institute

S2E58: Oceans and climate, Waves and Beaches—w/ Kim McCoy, oceanographer and author

S2E57: Farming While Black: race and regenerative agriculture—w/ Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farms

S2E56: Celebrating your very own Climate Passover Seder—w/ Sarah Tuneberg of Geospiza

S2E55: Gather: Reclaiming indigenous foodways—w/ Twila Cassadore, Nephi Craig, & Sammy Gensaw

S2E54: Survivorman in an age of climate trouble—w/ Les Stroud, survival expert

A jaunt to the climate crises of deep time—w/ Peter Brannen, author of The Ends of the World

S2E53: Paul Kingsnorth on the shared roots of climate crisis, transhumanism, & immortality

What makes an online climate community work?—w/ Evan Hynes of Climatebase

S2E52: Using captured carbon to make art—w/ Annalee Levin of Captured Carbon Studio

S2E51: Kim Stanley Robinson chats The Ministry for the Future, blockchain, & macroeconomics

S2E50: Under a White Sky: Elizabeth Kolbert's new book on humanity's ecological & climate interventions

Grist's intersectional climate fiction contest—w/ Tory Stephens of Fix, the Grist solutions lab

S2E49: At the feet of a modern hermit—w/ Markus Torgeby, author of Under the Open Skies

Climate fintech, neobanks, & banking for good—w/ Ravi Mikkelsen, cofounder of ATMOS

S2E48: Damn the Absolute! On pragmatism and climate change—w/ Jeffrey Howard, Editor-in-Chief of Erraticus

S2E47: Being a "witness" to climate change—w/ Dr. Evan Kuehn of North Park University

S2E46: Ecosystem restoration on a planetary scale—w/ John D. Liu, scientist & filmmaker

S2E45: Synthetic biology & the holy grail of ag—w/ Mike Miille, CEO of Joyn Bio

S2E44: Can permaculture scale?—w/ Mark Shepard, author of Restoration Agriculture

S2E43: Salmon, the Earth, & their common fate—w/ Mark Kurlansky, author

S2E42: The national security implications of climate change—w/ Dr. Rod Schoonover

How do you tell a good story about the climate?—w/ Jess Miles, writer

S2E41: Climeworks & European carbon removal—w/ Christoph Beuttler, CDR Manager at Climeworks

S2E40: Much talk of CO2, but what about methane?!—w/ Olya Irzak of Frost Methane

Brian von Herzen returns to chat marine permaculture & the documentary 2040

S2E39: The cost of climate repair vs. COVID-19—w/ Sir David King & Rick Parnell

S2E38: Carbon-negative carpet?! How Interface trailblazes—w/ Erin Meezan, VP & Chief Sustainability Officer of Interface, Inc.

S2E37: The New Yorker's new climate anthology, The Fragile Earth—w/ coeditors David Remnick & Henry Finder

S2E36: YIMBY for forest fires? Fire tornadoes?!—w/ Daniel Duane, author of November's WIRED cover story

On losing everything to the climate crisis except for hope—w/ Diego Saez-Gil of Pachama

S2E35: Matthew Yglesias tells us why climate people should root for One Billion Americans

VERGE 20 is going virtual! See you there!—w/ Jim Giles, Conference Chair of VERGE Food & VERGE Carbon

S2E33: Sailing in the age of climate change—w/ John Kretschmer, author and sailor

S2E32: Chasing a Job with Purpose (in carbon removal)—w/ Heidi Lim, Chief of Staff at Opus 12

S2E31: Kiss the Ground doc live on Netflix!—w/ Gabe Brown, regenerative farmer and rancher

The Electric Election 2020 Roadtrip w/ Benji Backer of The Conservation Coalition

S2E30: How to "think little"—w/ Mary Berry, Executive Director of The Berry Center

S2E29: Jonathan Safran Foer on meat, & his book We Are the Weather

S2E28: How many jobs will a direct air capture industry create?—w/ John Larsen of Rhodium Group

S2E27: Are grasslands overshadowed by charismatic megaflora?—w/ Chris Kerston of Savory Institute

S2E26: How to Burn a Goat: Farming with the Philosophers—w/ Dr. Scott H. Moore, author

S2E25: The DAC-up plan for climate change—w/ Dr. Jen Wilcox of Worcester Polytechnic Institute

S2E24: Black Americans Care About Climate Change (But It’s Complicated)—w/ Jared DeWese of Third Way

How to Decolonize the Atmosphere (with carbon removal)—w/ Dr. Holly Jean Buck

S2E23: Can green sand beaches sequester carbon at scale?—w/ Kelly Erhart & Tom Green of Project Vesta

S2E22: The unexpected order in the global "waste" trade—w/ Adam Minter, author of Junkyard Planet & Secondhand

The promise & peril of blockchain governance—w/ Dr. Nick Cowen, University of Lincoln

S2E21: Buildings grown by bacteria?! and other frontiers in architecture—w/ Dr. Wil Srubar, CU Boulder

S2E20: Beyond markets and states: an intro to Elinor Ostrom—w/ Dr. Nick Cowen, University of Lincoln

S2E19: A current tour of The Future Earth with author Eric Holthaus

S2E18: The conservative answer to the Green New Deal—w/ Quillan Robinson, American Conservation Coalition

S2E17: How does clean energy policy work?—w/ Dr. Leah Stokes, author of Short Circuiting Policy

S2E16: Can we cure concrete's emissions problem?—w/ Rob Niven of CarbonCure

BLM, climate justice, and carbon removal—w/ Mellina White

S2E15: Are you a wizard or a prophet?—w/ Charles C. Mann

S2E14: Is it time to regulate fashion like oil?—w/ Dr. Elizabeth Segran of Fast Company

Do you want to work in climatetech?—w/ Evan Hynes of Climate.Careers

S2E13: How Koen van Seijen invests in regenerative agriculture

S2E12: The Hottest New Literary Genre Is ‘Doomer Lit’—w/ Kate Knibbs, Senior Writer at Wired

Making fabric from bamboo?!—w/ Phoebe Yu & Kat Dey of ettitude

S2E11: Can capitalism be regenerative?—w/ John Elkington, author of Green Swans

Geology Cage Match! The Sapiezoic vs. the Anthropocene—w/ Dr. David Grinspoon, astrobiologist

S2E10: Getting transpartisan with the hosts of Political Climate, Julia Pyper & Shane Skelton

S2E9: Travel writing a disappearing Oceania—w/ J. Maarten Troost

Regenerative farming & (re)discovering your heritage—w/ Ethan Soloviev of High Falls Farm

S2E8: Commoditizing Forest Carbon and Its Discontents—w/ Dr. Lauren Gifford

The latest on managed mine tailings & enhanced weathering—w/ Dr. Greg Dipple of UBC

S2E7: Why is soil carbon measurement so tricky?—w/ Dr. Jane Zelikova of Carbon180

Wired releases its climate solutions issue!—w/ Maria Streshinsky, Wired's Executive Editor

S2E6: California's big negative emissions opportunity—w/ Dr. Roger Aines of Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab

S2E5: Ayahuasca, shamanism, & the climate crisis—w/ Sophia Rokhlin, author of When Plants Dream

S2E4: A climate change prequel—w/ Nathaniel Rich, author of Losing Earth: A Recent History

S2E3: We ask Vox's David Roberts if we're naive about conservatives and climate

Citizens' Climate Lobby's carbon fee and dividend bill—w/ Conservative Outreach Fellow Daniel Palken

S2E2: Open Borders: immigration, climate change, & economic growth—w/ Dr. Bryan Caplan

S2E1: What can carbon removal learn from cleantech?—w/ Jigar Shah of Generate Capital

Have humans earned the Anthropocene?—with Peter Brannen

CarbonWA's pivot from a carbon tax or fee to regenerative agriculture

Is the Climate Crisis a Secular Eschatology?—with Dr. Evan Kuehn

Jimmy Jia's new book, "The Corporate Energy Strategist's Handbook"

107: A dedicated introduction to communitarianism—w/ Jeffrey Howard of Erraticus

106: Maritime trade with wooden ships?!—w/ Danielle Doggett of SAILCARGO

105: Should you have children in light of climate change?—w/ Darrell Bricker of Empty Planet

104: How tech can help save the Amazon—w/ Diego Saez Gil of Pachama

103: The critical left & carbon removal—with Dr. Holly Jean Buck of UCLA

101: If California were engulfed in flames—w/ Allison Wolff of Vibrant Planet

100: An Ecomodernist Podcast-o—with Ted Nordhaus of The Breakthrough Institute

99: Nuclear, GMOs, & the importance of being rigorous—with Nathanael Johnson of Grist

98: Getting your feet wet in water markets—with Richael Young of Mammoth Water

97: Where reforestation & carbon markets meet—w/ Mike Smith & John Cleland of RenewWest

96: Poetry + Science = Conservation—with Hannah Birge & Nelson Winkel of The Nature Conservancy

95: Bill McKibben on the once and future climate movement

94: Who's Afraid of Water Management?—with Chris Peacock of AQUAOSO

93: Finding Wonder in Waste—with Tony Bova & Jeff Beegle of Mobius

92: How prices and data can communicate climate risk—Sarah Tuneberg of Geospiza

91: Love, Capital, & Regenerative Ag—with Dr. Philip Taylor of Mad Agriculture

90: Restoring Community & Climate Through Place-Based Economics—with Eric Kornacki

89: Bioreactors, deploy! Turning nutrient runoff into fish food—with microTERRA

88: How Slow Money Works...and when not to say "fiduciary"—Woody Tasch

87: The Ends of the World—with Peter Brannen

86: For what shall it profit a congressman to act on climate but lose his seat?—Bob Inglis of republicEn

85: The Gang Learns about Permaculture—with Blacksheep's Joshua Hughes, Sara Czarniecki, & Amanda Wilson

84: Good Biomass, Bad Biomass: Giant Reed Edition—Wendy Owens of Hexas Biomass

83: Thaddeus Russell vs. environmentalism

82: Better Farming Through Data—with Dr. Emma Fuller of Granular

81: The Business of "Waste"—with Lindsey Engh

80: 2020 Presidential candidates and their climate plans—with Zoya Teirstein

79: Biochar or: Using Fire to Cool the Earth—with Albert Bates

78: Turning CO2 waste into a profitable commodity—with Apoorv Sinha of CUT

77: Using Drones to Fast-Track Reforestation—with DroneSeed

76: Innovations in Carbon Beneficial Building Materials—with Chris Magwood & Jacob Deva Racusin

75: A Chicago Lullaby (All About the Green New Deal)—with Rhiana Gunn-Wright

74: A Conservative Approach to Climate Solutions—with Benji Backer

73: Using De-extinct DNA to Restore Grasslands in Pleistocene Park—with Nikita Zimov & George Church

72: Biomimicry, Politics, and Lunatic Farming—with Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms

71: Creating Carbon Beneficial Fashion Through Fibersheds—with Becky Porlier of the Upper Canada Fibreshed

69: Fighting US Energy Policy with the Youth Climate Lawsuit—with Andrea Rogers of Our Children’s Trust

68: One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Biofuel—with Stephen Johnson of Illinois Clean Fuels & Mark Fitz of Star Oilco

67: Advancing the Campaign for a Climate Nobel Prize—with Helene & Raoul Costa de Beauregard

66: Building a Business Around Cleantech Innovation—with Tom Ranken of the CleanTech Alliance

65: Translating Climate Data into Art—with University of Washington Doctoral Candidate Judy Twedt

64: Restoring Soil Health for Resilient Farms—with Louise Edmonds of Intuit Earth

63: Reading Nutrient Density to Improve the Quality of Our Food—with Dan Kittredge of the Bionutrient Food Association

62: The Shift to Perennialization in Agriculture & the Broader Culture—with Fred Iutzi & Tim Crews of The Land Institute

61: Leveraging the Life Cycle Assessment for Useful Carbon Accounting with Professor Kate Simonen

60: Connor Birkeland, Renewable Energy Research Fellow

58: Ryan Anderson of Delta Institute

57: Clean Tech Entrepreneur Jimmy Jia

56: Kyle Murphy, Executive Director of CarbonWA

54: Gillian Muessig of Sybilla Masters Fund

53: Dr. Charles Massy, Farmer and Author

52: Todd Myers, Environmental Director at Washington Policy Center

51: Joseph Majkut, Director of Climate Policy at Niskanen Center

50: Jimmy Daukas of American Farmland Trust

49: Ethan Steinberg, Harry Greene, & Jeremy Kaufman of Propagate Ventures

48: Risalat Khan, Climate Activist

47: David Grinspoon, Astrobiologist

46: Hunter Lovins, Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions

45: Paul Polizzotto, Founder of EcoMedia & GiveWith

44: Lorraine Smith, Sustainability Consultant

43: Anne Biklé, Biologist and Environmental Planner

41: Gaya Roshan, CEO of Dashboard Earth

40: Jon Connors, Community Development at Starfish Mission

39: Peter Fiekowsky, Founder of Healthy Climate Alliance

37: Ben Kessler, Holistic Grazing Specialist

36: Greg Rock of Carbon Washington

35: Ramez Naam—Author, Futurist, and Nori Advisor

34: Brian Von Herzen, Founder of Climate Foundation

33: Roderick Jones, Co-Founder of Rubica

32: Joseph Williams & Brian Young of the WA Department of Commerce

31: Aldyen Donnelly on Why Carbon Pricing Hasn't Worked So Far

28: John Elkington, Chairman & Chief Pollinator of Volans

27: Mark Stevenson, Author and Futurist

26: Gregory Landua, CEO of Regen Network

25: Dr. Keith Paustian, Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University

23: Dr. Klaus Lackner of ASU’s Center for Negative Carbon Emissions

22: Stacy Smedley, Director of Sustainability at Skanska USA

21: Joe Quirk, Managing Director of Blue Frontiers

20: David Hodgson, Addressing barriers to large-scale ecological restoration

19: Amanda Ravenhill, Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute

18: Chad Frischmann of Project Drawdown

17: Noah Deich and Giana Amador of the Center for Carbon Removal

16: Dr. Julio Friedmann, CEO of Carbon Wrangler

15: Sean Hernandez, Energy Economist

14: Mark Herrema, CEO of Newlight Technologies

12: Dr. David Montgomery, Geomorphologist at UW

11: Andrew Himes of Carbon Innovations

10: Dr. Hadi Dowlatabadi, Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at UBC

9: Dr. Greg Dipple, University of British Columbia

7: Dr. Klaus Lackner of ASU’s Center for Negative Carbon Emissions

6: Michael Denby, Arizona Public Service

5: Jane Flegal of UC Berkeley, and Dr. Andrew Maynard of Arizona State University

4: Dr. David Goldberg, Lamont Research Professor at Columbia University

3: Jeremy Kaufman and Ethan Steinberg of Propagate Ventures

2: Sophia Mendelsohn, Head of Sustainability at JetBlue Airways