Nate Maynard is an environmental consultant, advisor, and researcher. His focus is on energy, ocean, and waste issues. With eight years of experience working across Asia, he has helped to inform and create new policies with governments and companies alike in the pursuit of wider sustainability measures for a better future. We discuss his personal background where hardships and larger questions of purpose/impact were recurring themes. Nate is committed to reducing carbon emissions. Despite the complexity and scale of making an impact in environmental spaces, Nate remains optimistic that significant advances are being made towards sustainability.