This is CDR

This week on This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Professor Holly Jean Buck to talk about her important new book Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough, and discuss how we can make carbon removal policy and deployment just and equitable.

Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Holly Jean Buck is a geographer and environmental social scientist studying rural futures, the politics of platforms, and how emerging technologies can address environmental challenges. She works as an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, and has a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University. She is the author of After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration and Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough.

LINKS

- Prof. Holly Jean Buck's website - https://www.geo.design/

- Book - Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3879-ending-fossil-fuels

ABOUT THIS IS CDR - www.openaircollective.cc/this-is-cdr #ThisIsCDR

This Is CDR is a weekly online event series that explores the ever-widening range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and contextualize them for policy proposals under development for New York, and other states and localities.

ABOUT OPENAIR - www.openaircollective.cc Twitter: @openaircollect

OpenAir is a distributed volunteer network dedicated to the advancement of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions essential to solving the climate crisis. Our growing global community collaborates on shared “open source” missions in the areas of research and development, policy advocacy, and activist market development.

Please join us! - https://openaircollective.cc/join/

In this installment of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome OpenAir’s own Na’im Merchant and Chris Neidl to to survey the primary pathways by which concrete can sequester CO2 in concrete, and how direct air carbon capture (DACC) plus concrete represents a scalable CDR solution we can start deploying *today*.

Hosted by Sue Dorward and Megha Raghavan

ABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUESTS

CHRIS NEIDL is the co-founder of OpenAir and in this role works primarily on the collective’s different advocacy missions. Chris entered the CDR space following a fifteen year global career in the renewable energy field as a solar installer, educator, policy advocate, researcher and business development manager. Since 2018 he has worked extensively on policies related to concrete decarbonization at the state and municipal level. In this capacity, he led OpenAir’s inaugural advocacy mission in support of the Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Leadership Act (LECCLA) in New York State, and currently serves as an industrial decarbonization policy consultant for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

NA’IM MERCHANT is a carbon removal consultant helping NGOs and start-ups figure out how to equitably and rapidly scale up carbon removal technologies. Na’im entered the carbon removal space after spending a decade in international development working with governments to improve access to life-saving health care technologies. He has co-authored reports and white papers with organizations like Carbon180 and Clean Air Task Force, and has advised companies like CarbonCure and Joro on supporting carbon removal.

ABOUT THIS IS CDR - www.openaircollective.cc/this-is-cdr #ThisIsCDR

This Is CDR is a weekly online event series that explores the ever-widening range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and contextualize them for policy proposals under development for New York, and other states and localities.

ABOUT OPENAIR - www.openaircollective.cc Twitter: @openaircollect

OpenAir is a distributed volunteer network dedicated to the advancement of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions essential to solving the climate crisis. Our growing global community collaborates on shared “open source” missions in the areas of research and development, policy advocacy, and activist market development.

Please join us! - https://openaircollective.cc/join/

In this session of This Is CDR we welcome Mike Kelland, CEO of Planetary Hydrogen to discuss the company's patented Ocean Air Capture (OAC) technology, which uses renewable electricity to produce carbon-negative green hydrogen.

Hosted by Megha Raghavan and Irene Polnyi.

ABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUEST

Mike Kelland is CEO of Ottawa-based Planetary Hydrogen (www.planetaryhydrogen.com) , having transitioned from a long career in software back to his environmentalist roots. In addition to being a seasoned entrepreneur, Mike is an avid canoeist, fisherman, and hiker.

ABOUT THIS IS CDR - www.openaircollective.cc/this-is-cdr #ThisIsCDR

This Is CDR is a weekly online event series that explores the ever-widening range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and contextualize them for policy proposals under development for New York, and other states and localities.

ABOUT OPENAIR - www.openaircollective.cc Twitter: @openaircollect

OpenAir is a distributed volunteer network dedicated to the advancement of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions essential to solving the climate crisis. Our growing global community collaborates on shared “open source” missions in the areas of research and development, policy advocacy, and activist market development. Please join us!

In this session of This Is CDR we welcome Dante Simonetti, PhD and Gaurav Sant, PhD from SeaChange to tell us about the company's novel electrochemical CDR process that leverages the ocean's natural carbonate cycle to sequester CO2 at scale.

Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Dante Simonetti is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Co-Founder of SeaChange Inc., the Grand Prize Winner of the Temasek Foundation’s 2021 Liveability Challenge. Prior to his appointment at UCLA, he was an R&D project leader at UOP-Honeywell where he led the development of several new technologies for multi-contaminant removal from industrial process streams. Dante’s expertise is in the area of catalytic reaction synthesis, adsorptive separation processes, and process integration and intensification.

Gaurav N. Sant is a Professor and a Samueli Fellow in the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also the Director of UCLA's Institute for Carbon Management. Gaurav is the Co-Founder of SeaChange Inc., the Grand Prize Winner of the Temasek Foundation’s 2021 Liveability Challenge, the Co-Founder of Concrete-AI Inc., and the Founder of CarbonBuilt Inc., a Grand Prize Winner of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, and a GlobalTop10 Innovation selected at The International Cool Earth Forum 2018. Gaurav has served as an expert providing: a) testimony to the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and the California State Senate, and b) strategic consulting, core R&D, and innovation support to Fortune500 corporations, government agencies, philanthropic foundations, and industry organizations across the world.

LINKS

• https://www.seachangeinc.co/

• https://icm.ucla.edu/

ABOUT THIS IS CDR - www.openaircollective.cc/this-is-cdr #ThisIsCDR

This Is CDR is a weekly online event series that explores the ever-widening range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and contextualize them for policy proposals under development for New York, and other states and localities.

ABOUT OPENAIR - www.openaircollective.cc Twitter: @openaircollect OpenAir is a distributed volunteer network dedicated to the advancement of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions essential to solving the climate crisis. Our growing global community collaborates on shared “open source” missions in the areas of research and development, policy advocacy, and activist market development. Join us!

https://openaircollective.cc/join/

In this session of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Josh Santos CEO of Noya (www.noya.co) to tell us about his company's novel approach to distributed direct air carbon capture (DACC) that leverages existing commercial cooling towers.

Hosted by Toby Bryce and Chris Neidl

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER

Josh Santos (@joshsandtoes) is the co-founder and CEO of Noya, a company that’s reversing climate change by capturing CO2 from the sky using existing commercial cooling towers. Prior to Noya, Josh was a Project Manager on the Model 3 program at Tesla, and then the first EV Program Manager for Harley Davidson. Josh studied chemical engineering at MIT, and outside of the office, you can find him reading or sailing in the San Francisco Bay.

ABOUT THIS IS CDR - www.openaircollective.cc/this-is-cdr #ThisIsCDR

This Is CDR is a weekly online event series that explores the ever-widening range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and contextualize them for policy proposals under development for New York, and other states and localities.

ABOUT OPENAIR - www.openaircollective.cc Twitter: @openaircollect

OpenAir is a distributed volunteer network dedicated to the advancement of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions essential to solving the climate crisis. Our growing global community collaborates on shared “open source” missions in the areas of research and development, policy advocacy, and activist market development. Please join us!

In this special session of This Is CDR the OpenAir Advocacy team unboxes the collective’s newest and most ambitious legislative mission to date. The Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act (CDRLA) is soon to be introduced legislation in New York and other states that, as law, would establish a transparent, standards-based and equitable carbon dioxide removal state procurement obligation. Such a program will ramp up investment in market-ready but early stage CDR solutions, helping accelerate cost reduction in the process through scale.

The policy concept was conceived, researched, drafted and is now being advocated for by OpenAir members

This overview is led by CDRLA mission members Megha Raghavan, Toby Bryce and Chris Neidl, with special guest Assemblymember Patricia Fahy, the assembly sponsor of CLRA in New York.

Campaigns in New York and other states are kicking off in late 2021. We need advocates everywhere, and anyone can contribute. Join our mission today! - https://openaircollective.cc/join/

LINKS

- CRLA Legislative Brief - shorturl.at/rstQ2

- Assemblymember Pat Fahy - https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Patricia-Fahy

ABOUT THIS IS CDR - www.openaircollective.cc/this-is-cdr #ThisIsCDR

This Is CDR is a weekly online event series that explores the ever-widening range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and contextualize them for policy proposals under development for New York, and other states and localities. ABOUT OPENAIR - www.openaircollective.cc Twitter: @openaircollect OpenAir is a distributed volunteer network dedicated to the advancement of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions essential to solving the climate crisis. Our growing global community collaborates on shared “open source” missions in the areas of research and development, policy advocacy, and activist market development. Please join us!

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In this session of This Is CDR we welcome Peter Reinhardt to tell us about Charm Industrial’s industry-leading and highly permanent carbon removal process, which generates bio-oil via fast-pyrolysis and pumps it for sequestration deep underground.

Peter Reinhardt is CEO and co-founder at Charm Industrial, where they are developing novel carbon removal and renewable industrial syngas technology. He is also CEO and co-founder at Segment, a SaaS customer data platform which grew to 600 people before it was acquired by Twilio in 2020. He previously studied aerospace engineering at MIT.

LINKS:

- www.charmindustrial.com

- Meet The Startup Producing Oil to Fight Climate Change. Emily Pontecorvo, Grist, May 18 2021. https://grist.org/climate-energy/lucky-charm/

ABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUEST

Peter Reinhardt is CEO and co-founder at Charm Industrial, where they are developing novel carbon removal and renewable industrial syngas technology. He is also CEO and co-founder at Segment, a SaaS customer data platform which grew to 600 people before it was acquired by Twilio in 2020. He previously studied aerospace engineering at MIT.

ABOUT THIS IS CDR - www.openaircollective.cc/this-is-cdr #ThisIsCDR

This Is CDR is a weekly online event series that explores the ever-widening range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and contextualize them for policy proposals under development for New York, and other states and localities.

ABOUT OPENAIR - www.openaircollective.cc Twitter: @openaircollect

OpenAir is a distributed volunteer network dedicated to the advancement of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions essential to solving the climate crisis. Our growing global community collaborates on shared “open source” missions in the areas of research and development, policy advocacy, and activist market development. Please join us!

In this episode of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Marty Odlin of Running Tide. Marty tells us about Running Tide's approach employing automated systems to grow and deploy kelp for permanent carbon sequestration in the deep ocean.

Moderated by Toby Bryce (@wtbryce) and Megha Raghavan

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER

Marty Odlin is Founder and CEO of Running Tide, a Maine-based company seeking to harness, accelerate, and scale the most impactful restorative processes naturally at work in the ocean to build a climate positive future. Marty studied robotics at Dartmouth, was a Director at Columbia's Center for Sustainable Engineering, managed a fleet of five fishing boats, and his family has been in the offshore fishing business for generations.

LINKS

Running Tide - www.runningtide.com

ABOUT THIS IS CDR - www.openaircollective.cc/this-is-cdr #ThisIsCDR

This Is CDR is a weekly online event series that explores the ever-widening range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and contextualize them for policy proposals under development for New York, and other states and localities.

ABOUT OPENAIR - www.openaircollective.cc Twitter: @openaircollect

OpenAir is a distributed volunteer network dedicated to the advancement of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions essential to solving the climate crisis. Our growing global community collaborates on shared “open source” missions in the areas of research and development, policy advocacy, and activist market development. Please join us!

In this session of This Is CDR is pleased to welcome Kelly Erhart and Tom Green from Project Vesta to tell us about Coastal Carbon Capture as a CDR solution, and provide an update as to where Project Vesta are in terms of research, development, and deployment of “carbon negative sand.”

Moderated by Toby Bryce (@wtbryce) and Megha Raghavan

ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS

Kelly Erhart is Co-Founder and Director of Development for Project Vesta. Kelly has a multidisciplinary background and is committed to reframing complex issues into scalable, holistic solutions. She has commercialized sustainable technologies, provided strategic direction to multi stakeholder initiatives, managed disaster relief projects, produced large scale international events, and consulted for climate change mitigation projects.

Tom Green is Executive Director of Project Vesta. Tom began his career as a biologist, then spent 20 years in various corporate roles at Capital One, Lending Club, Bain & Company, and Averon, spanning marketing, data analysis, communications, product, strategy, project leadership, and general management. He is co-founder of UK climate change non-profit We Are Ancestors and has advised The Nature Conservancy on strategy. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

ABOUT THIS IS CDR - www.openaircollective.cc/this-is-cdr #ThisIsCDR

This Is CDR is a weekly online event series that explores the ever-widening range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and contextualize them for policy proposals under development for New York, and other states and localities.

ABOUT OPENAIR - www.openaircollective.cc Twitter: @openaircollect

OpenAir is a distributed volunteer network dedicated to the advancement of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions essential to solving the climate crisis. Our growing global community collaborates on shared “open source” missions in the areas of research and development, policy advocacy, and activist market development. Please join us!

In this installment we are pleased to welcome Aaron Fitzgerald to tell us about Mars Material’s (http://realizemars.com) efforts to develop a new pathway for carbon fiber production using captured CO2 as a raw material, and discuss his experiences with New York’s carbontech ecosystem as part of Venture for ClimateTech and the C2V Initiative’s inaugural cohorts.

Moderated by Toby Bryce (@wtbryce) and Megha Raghavan

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER

Aaron Fitzgerald is CEO and Co-Founder of Mars Materials, a certified B-corp that sequesters captured CO2 into plastics and carbon fibers by converting it into acrylonitrile that can be used to create a wide range of long-lived products. Mars Materials was incubated while Aaron was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Carbon180.

ABOUT THIS IS CDR - www.openaircollective.cc/this-is-cdr #ThisIsCDR

This Is CDR is a weekly online event series that explores the ever-widening range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and contextualize them for policy proposals under development for New York, and other states and localities.

ABOUT OPENAIR - www.openaircollective.cc Twitter: @openaircollect

OpenAir is a distributed volunteer network dedicated to the advancement of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions essential to solving the climate crisis. Our growing global community collaborates on shared “open source” missions in the areas of research and development, policy advocacy, and activist market development. Please join us!