Best Carbon Sequestering Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 6 - Jason Grillo 26:37

5h ago26:37

26:37

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Episode 5 - Benjamin Schulz 33:23

14d ago33:23

33:23

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Episode 4 - Ben Rubin 25:47

28d ago25:47

25:47

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Episode 3 - Greg Nemet 34:23

1M ago34:23

34:23

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Episode 2 - Robert Höglund 25:24

2M ago25:24

25:24

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Episode 1 - Marian Krueger 24:33

2M ago24:33

24:33

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Series Explainer 2:59

2M ago2:59

2:59

Join The CDR Procurement Guide Community! We want to invite you to connect with us on WhatsApp and help co-create the content that will be most helpful to you and others in the CDR buyer community. We need your feedback on what we produce and your suggestions on what we need to produce to help us help you. Engage in conversations on topics from the…

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Neal Denton and Sustainability in Santa Fe 56:50

5M ago56:50

56:50

Neal Denton, who was the Sustainability Officer for the city of Santa Fe, gives us a peek behind the curtain in to what Santa Fe is doing to promote sustainability. We get in to details of what sustainablity means, some of the city's programs, and what are some of the challenges we face.By Sandra West and Peter Heald

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Community Solar Update with Christian Casillas 49:36

6M ago49:36

49:36

Christian Casillas from the Coalition of Sustainable Communities walks us through the current status of community solar in New Mexico, describes the progress that has been made, and the amazing potential the future holds! A few links from the show: https://www.coalitionscnm.org https://www.coalitionscnm.org/community-solar https://csnewmexico.com h…

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Composting to Engage Youth, Improve Soil Health and Sequester Carbon with Carol Ann and Mike Fugagli 58:20

10M ago58:20

58:20

Carol Ann and Mike Fugagli join us to discuss their impressive project of using Johnson-Su composting method to Engage Youth, Improve Soil Health and Sequester Carbon. They share about the educational components of the project, working with the local school system, how the Johnson-Su composter works. Some useful links: Johnson-Su composting overvie…

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Investing in agrifoodtech since 2017: Astanor's Eric Archambeau reflects 23:54

10M ago23:54

23:54

From the heady days of the dot com boom -- and subsequent bust -- Eric Archambeau cofounded Astanor Ventures with George Coelho in 2017 as an impact venture capital fund for food and agriculture. "We founded it with a vision that the agrifood market was going to go through a deep disruption that was needed to move from a system that was delivering …

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Ableism, Disability and Climate with Naomi Ortiz 49:12

12M ago49:12

49:12

The wonderful and thought provoking Naomi Ortiz joins us to educate Sandra and myself about a very important topic that isn't discussed very much, specifically the intersection of disability justice and climate justice, and how inclusion in climate activism could look. Keep reading to learn more about Naomi's work and content Naomi mentioned in the…

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Dr.Stan Atcitty talks with about energy and energy sovereignty among indigenous communities in the US. 1:01:19

1+ y ago1:01:19

1:01:19

Dr.Atcitty is a senior scientist at Sandia National Labs where he works on renewable energy systems. He is also a member of the Navajo Nation, and is deeply engaged with bringing renewable energy and energy sovernty to Navajo communities and indigenous communities across the country. He shares with us many great stories of his work, and of life in …

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2023 Legislative Roundup with Tom Solomon 52:55

1+ y ago52:55

52:55

Tom Solomon from 350newmexico.org joins us to discuss the climate related bills that did, or didn't make it during the 2023 legislative session. We also discuss how NM compares to other states, some of our greatest successes and some areas that could really use improvement. Plus the lightening round!…

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Recycling in NM with Sarah Pierpont 52:41

1+ y ago52:41

52:41

Sarah Pierpont is the Executive Director at New Mexico Recycling Coalition and stops by to discuss the 5 Rs (refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and rot) with us, and shares some inspiration, practical tips for reducing your waste, and some of the worst things people try to recycle.By Sandra West and Peter Heald

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Environmental Journalism with Judith Polich 37:48

2y ago37:48

37:48

Judith Polich writes a climate change column for the Albuquerque Journal, and covers a wide variety of climate related topics. We talk to her about how to engage people in climate action, how readers respond to her articles, and of course the lightening round!By Sandra West and Peter Heald

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From What’s Your Problem?: The Quest for the Perfect Avocado 25:09

2+ y ago25:09

25:09

In this preview, Jacob talks with Katherine Sizov, founder of Strella Biotechnology. Her problem: Tons of food is wasted before it ever gets to the consumer. Katherine started working on this problem in 2018, when she was a junior in college. Her idea: imitate the natural world and build a device that detects when fruit is ripening. It worked. Now …

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Childhood development with Dr.Genesis Arizmendi 52:49

2+ y ago52:49

52:49

Genesis Arizmendi is a speach language pathologist who talks with us about how environmental polution impacts border communities, especially children in those communities, as well as climate change and the global south.By Sandra West and Peter Heald

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Sustainability and Post-Sustainability with Melinda Morgan 50:32

2+ y ago50:32

50:32

We talk with Melinda Morgan who has a long resume, including the current Director of the Sustainability Studies Program as well as the author of The End of Sustainability. We have a lot of fun and learn a lot discussing things including how communities can be resilient, what it means to move past sustainability, and how to define the Anthropocene. …

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Gabe Pacyniak explores GHG emissions and NM 48:14

3y ago48:14

48:14

We speak with Gabe Pacyniak about NM and greenhouse gas emissions, and how best NM can move towards a low emissions future. Gabe teaches climate change law and policy seminar at the UNM School of Law, and specializes in climate change mitigation policy. Prior to UNM, Gabe managed the climate change mitigation program at the Georgetown Climate Cente…

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Soylent's CEO on shift towards middle America and the future of plant-based 35:37

3y ago35:37

35:37

A somewhat controversial category, during my hot or not rounds on this podcast, most guests have responded negatively to the concept of replacing meals with a drink - and perhaps Soylent took this on board as in more recent years it's started calling itself a nutrition company with a small but growing number of product lines not just focused on mea…

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How 'cool' fertilizers can sequester carbon and more, with Amy Yoder 30:17

3y ago30:17

30:17

Amy Yoder is CEO of Anuvia Plant Nutrients, a company that's converting waste to help crops uptake fertilizers more efficiently, and even help them to sequester carbon in the soil. She is a trailblazer being one of the best-funded women in agtech on record, raising $103 million in Series D earlier this year. For those of you who aren't knowledgeabl…

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Environmental Justice with Cliff Villa 46:54

3y ago46:54

46:54

Cliff Villa, a Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, shares wisdom gathered from his extensive experience, including 22 years as an attorney for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His clear stories and compassionate advice illuminates a variety of ways we can improve our communities and ourselves.…

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Climate Change and Health with Heidi Honegger Rogers 50:51

3y ago50:51

50:51

Heidi Honegger Rogers from the UNM Health Sciences Center is here to talk with us about health and how it is impacted by climate change, both in NM and nationally. She also has lots of great tips for preparing yourself for these impacts. You can find papers that her students have written listed here.…

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Diving deep with Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafood 40:05

3y ago40:05

40:05

Since Sriram co-founded Shiok Meats three years ago, the startup has gone from strength to strength. According to AgFunder's most recent ASEAN Agrifoodtech Investment Report, it was Southeast Asia’s highest-funded startup in the ‘Innovative Food’ category in 2019. It raised $4.6 million for its April 2019 seed round, which saw Y Combinator make its…

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Future Food News Review #5: Food system cyber-attacks, Avoiding alt protein’s unintended consequences, Cashierless checkout's growth 1:20:34

3y ago1:20:34

1:20:34

The Future Food News Review is part of a collaboration between AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect to host meaningful conversations about the future of our food system on Clubhouse and other platforms. The Future Food News Review features leading journalists in foodtech and agtech sharing and discussing their top headlines of the week, hosted on Clubhou…

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Future Food News Review #4: Regenerative agriculture's reckoning, Questions for cell-cultured meat, Right-wing coffee, more 1:35:42

3+ y ago1:35:42

1:35:42

The Future Food News Review is part of a collaboration between AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect to host meaningful conversations about the future of our food system on Clubhouse and other platforms. The Future Food News Review features leading journalists in foodtech and agtech sharing and discussing their top headlines of the week, hosted on Clubhou…

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Up, up and away! Irving Fain on building Bowery's biggest vertical farm yet 36:50

3+ y ago36:50

36:50

Bowery has just launched FarmX, its new vertical farm for R&D that's 300 times larger than the first. It's also building a new, bigger than ever commercial farm in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania which will enable it to sell over 20 million clamshells of leafy greens and produce each year. While that's still the equivalent of just 115 acres of outdoor farm…

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From chemicals to soil microbes: Bayer's former CEO joins AgBiome 48:14

3+ y ago48:14

48:14

Crop protection is a serious business; each year a farmer battles a range of different pests, weeds and diseases trying to kill their harvest. It's complicated too, with timing and weather other forces to contend with. Since the Second World War and the Green Revolution of the 1960s, the playbook for managing pests, by and large, has revolved aroun…

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How do you make the world's most ambitious cheese? 36:09

3+ y ago36:09

36:09

The Stockeld Chunk will be the first in a series of cheese products from Stockeld Dreamery this year and I really enjoyed it! Listen in to hear my thoughts about the cheese, why Sorosh Tavakoli, an advertising tech entrepreneur got into foodtech, how to build the most ambitious cheese company in the world (his phrase, not mine), without cows, movin…

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Community Solar Bill Passage Review 29:51

3+ y ago29:51

29:51

The Community Solar bill was passed in to law, but is this a good thing? Sandra and Peter discuss the amendments that happened to the bill prior to being passed, how those amendments impacted the bill, and give their take on if the final bill is better or worse than the original version.By Sandra West and Peter Heald

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Future Food News Review #3: Amazon's new private label food brand, Unabated meat consumption, SPACs for foodtech 1:31:31

3+ y ago1:31:31

1:31:31

The Future Food News Review is part of a collaboration between AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect to host meaningful conversations about the future of our food system on Clubhouse and other platforms. The journalists joining this week are: Ximena Bustillo - POLITICO (https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-agriculture) Sam Silverstein - Grocery Div…

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Future Food News Review #2: Impossible's $10bn IPO, Vegan Cheese, CRISPR Tomatoes 1:15:31

3+ y ago1:15:31

1:15:31

The journalists joining us this week were: Joe Fassler - The Counter (https://thecounter.org/agrivoltaics-farmland-solar-panels-clean-energy-crops/) Sarah Mock - freelance (https://sarah-k-mock.medium.com/no-your-great-grandfather-did-not-know-how-to-fix-our-food-system-83775d4f1852) Larissa Zimberoff - Bloomberg and freelance (https://technicallyf…

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Reaching net-zero emissions by 2040 with PepsiCo 30:35

3+ y ago30:35

30:35

PepsiCo started the year with a bang by pledging to more than double its climate goal, targeting a reduction of absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its value chain by more than 40% by 2030. It also pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040, one decade earlier than called for in the Paris Agreement. But how exactly is the company goin…

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Interview with Arté Romero y Carver 46:28

3+ y ago46:28

46:28

Arté is one of the co-founders New Mexico based Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA), and speaks with about why climate justice is a racial and human rights issue, and how ending environmental racism is a requirement to ending climate change.By Sandra West and Peter Heald

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