Episode 12 - Happy Halloween! 🎃 I trust you're all wrapped in the eerie ambiance of Halloween festivities, with pumpkins glowing and skeletons sipping ghostly coffee. Today, we're diving into something as intriguing as the mysterious shadows of Halloween night - the challenges that Enhanced Rock Weathering is facing and the innovative solutions people are conjuring up to overcome them!

Links:

Enhanced weathering in the U.S. Corn Belt delivers carbon removal with agronomic benefits
AirMiners Panel Engages the Challenge of Verifying Carbon Removal for Enhanced Weathering

https://www.reykjavik-protocol.com/

Episode 11 - When I first stumbled upon the concept of Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), it felt like science fiction. Rocks, rain, and CO2 – how do they intertwine to combat climate change? Let's explore this topic today.

Link: PURO.EARTH on ERW

Episode 10 - Today's bonus session is all about coffee. Do you know that there's a Seatle-based coffee company making coffee without coffee beans? Spoiler alert, you can find their coffee in New York now.

Let me know how you think about their coffee by email me at [email protected]!

Link: https://www.atomocoffee.com/pages/beanless-coffee

Episode 9 - "We're really founding a new industry." Jan Wurzbacher, the CEO of Climeworks told New York Times. How did the biggest DAC company achieve this and do you know how much air we need to capture 1ton of CO2?

Links:

https://climeworks.com/

Episode 8 - Just like Frontier, NextGen is an industry initiative established with the goal to establish a demand for high quality CDRs. They have commited the largest advance purchase of around 200k tons in May this year.

Link:

cdr.fyi -> check out all the buys and sells of CDRs here!

Episode 7 - Frontier is an Advance Market Commitment founded by Stripe, Meta, McKinsey &Co. and Shopify, to address the issue in the innovative CDR field, sending a signal to the researchers and project developers that they are building a market for CDR.

Links: https://frontierclimate.com/

Episode 6 - In this episode, we will unveiled the titanic strides made in the world of DAC, from regulatory advancements to global initiatives and corporate efforts stepping up to the challenge. 🌍✨

Episode 5 - Today we are going to talk about something really cool Direct Air Capture (DAC). It's the technology literally can claim as 'out of thin air', let's siscover the magic behind Solid DAC and Liquid DAC, as we unveil the challenges and fun facts of this revolutionary approach.

Links:

IEA - Direct Air Capture

Episode 4 - Is it truly our environmental superhero, or is it surrounded by hype? Today, we embark on a journey through the world of carbon removal. We'll unravel the controversies, explore existing methods, and go into principles for higher quality CDRs.

Episode 3 - Today we're taking a delightful detour from our usual deep dives into serious topics. Welcome to our very first bonus episode, a Sunday tradition where we pause the serious discussions and embrace a lighter perspective.

In this episode, I stumbled upon a gem that brightened my day: an article and video from ⁠Heatmap.news⁠ highlighting Apple's climate efforts.

Links:

Apple_Environmental_Progress_Report_2023.pdf

2030 Status | Mother Nature | Apple

https://www.ted.com/talks/hannah_ritchie_are_we_the_last_generation_or_the_first_sustainable_one