Podcast Episodes

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

Season 1 Episode 345

Fair warning: this episode spoils a lot of (older) media.

Antiheroes make for great television. But why are we obsessed with them? Why are they in nearly all prestige dramas? Is this a result of our c…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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

Season 1 Episode 344

It's a jarring phrase. There's an even more jarring version of it in this episode. You've been warned.

Economists are well-known for gnomic sentences that can sound cruel. For some, that's one of the …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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

Season 1 Episode 343

You should know about my friend Heidi Lim. She's a leading voice of carbon removal on TikTok.

She's been making short-form content for ages but today's show is her first foray into long-form. I have t…

Published on 5 months ago

How I Got Into Climate Work and Carbon Removal

Season 1

If only there were a podcast that broke down all of the ways climate professionals broke into their industry...

Michael Gold is a communications expert and consultant at Word Clouds Consulting and the…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

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

Season 1 Episode 342

Sometimes, we skip right over the life stories of guests. Othertimes, it's everything. Today, it's everything.

Returning to the show after several years is Carbon180's Executive Director, Erin Burns.

E…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

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

Season 1 Episode 341

The clean energy transition sure needs a heck of a lot of mining. What do we do when there are environmental or spiritual costs to getting the materials we need for EVs and batteries?

Ernest Scheyder…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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

Season 1

Nearly a decade ago, I was introduced to the concept of the Keynesian Beauty Contest. It is one of those concepts that I keep coming back to time and time again.

I recently participated in a two-month…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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

Season 1 Episode 340

I first heard the idiom "worse things happen at sea" in Monty Python's Life of Brian, and it's true.

Ian Urbina has made a career of telling stories of the ocean. From piracy, illegal fishing, and sea…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

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

For fans ages 21 and up!

It's often hard to know how sustainable or ethical an alcoholic drink is. Very little disclosure is required on most labels, and many of the recipes are proprietary. What is a…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

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

Season 1 Episode 338

What is geopolitics, and has it returned? Did it ever really leave? And how will this affect the future prospects of carbon removal?

Today's guest is Sarah Godek, a Washington DC-based international r…

Published on 6 months ago