Climate Tech Cocktails

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.

In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Steve Bennett, co-founder, and chief climate officer of the Demex Group - th…

👩‍✈️Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech on the premise of LanzaTech:

“What we need to come to is a world where there is no such thing as waste.  Where waste is feedstock or the way you make everything…

Inna Braverman, co-founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power:

“Offshore, the waves don’t move in one direction. Your equipment can get hit by waves that are 20 meters in height. Near the shore, there’s a phen…

Episode Notes

Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company on the importance of reaching hearts and minds to combat the climate crisis:

“Imagination is everything.  It’s what moves the world for…

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Trevor Best, co-founder and CEO of Syzygy:

“Not only eliminating emissions but making energy low-cost is very important. So, the fact that we can use low-cost, renewable electric…

Mateo Jaramillo, co-founder and CEO of Form Energy, on the importance of long-term energy storage:

“Lithium Ion will continue to have a very important role to play, but there remains a key function wh…

Brett Thompson, co-founder and CEO of Mzansi Meat, on effective solutions in food systems:

“I think there needs to be a bouquet of solutions. I don’t think plant-based is the only solution; I don’t th…

Raymond Weitekamp, Founder and CEO of polySpectra, on moving towards massless:

“PolySpectra A.R. is our new augmented reality tool to give massless prototypes to people in product development. The mas…

Manik Suri, Founder and CEO of Therma, on Smart Refrigeration:

“As we move into a world where we have more electrification and move off fossil fuels, we’re going to need a lot more utility infrastruct…

Stephane Germain, Founder and President of GHGSat, on the need to address methane emissions:

“95% of what (methane) we detect isn’t acted upon today, and that drives me bonkers.”

GHGSat developed the f…

Tessa Clarke, Co-founder and CEO of OLIO on the size of the food waste crisis:

“If it were a country, food waste would be the third largest source of greenhouse gas emission after the USA and China, a…

Maddie Hall, Co-founder and CEO of Living Carbon, on falling in love with plants:

“Our little portion of human history is small compared to all of the plant life this planet has seen.”

Living Carbon’s …

Arturo Elizondo, Founder and CEO of The EVERY Company, on his life’s purpose:

“I fundamentally believe my purpose on this Earth is to help enable a shutdown of the last factory farm in the world.”

EVER…

Etosha Cave, Co-founder and CSO of Twelve, on the sacrifices she made while launching Twelve:

“I had no money.  I was living out of my car at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.”

Etosha became passionate a…

👩‍✈️Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech on the premise of LanzaTech:

“What we need to come to is a world where there is no such thing as waste.  Where waste is feedstock or the way you make everything…

Kevin Martin, Co-founder and CTO at unspun on the inefficiency of the current apparel manufacturing process:

“It’s a $1.5 trillion dollar industry where 10-15% of everything produced every year gets b…

Raphael Haupt, Founder and Chief Toucan at Toucan Protocol on the need for an all of the above solutions approach to carbon drawdown.

“Let’s unf*ck the environment…the only thing that’s clear is that …

Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company on the importance of reaching hearts and minds to combat the climate crisis:

“Imagination is everything.  It’s what moves the world forward.”  -Greg…

Ryan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Day on how nobody was working on microbe based dairy in 2014:

“I will live and die never again having an idea that you can’t find on the internet.”  -Ryan Pa…

On their creation Tikkun Olunch, based on the Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam, ”These lunches were an opportunity for us to get together once a week and ask, ‘Are you doing the most you can possibly …