Climate Tech Cocktails

“I like to say we’re not a mission driven company.  We’re not a company with a mission.  
We’re a mission with a company.”  -Ryan Shearman, Co-founder and CEO of Aether Diamonds

@RyanShearmanNYC, Co-fo…

“How is everyone not working on climate change?...In my understanding of the science, I would say it will define the lives of people in my generation.”  -Kathy Hannun, Founder and President of Dandel…

“If the next 4 billion ACs are all heat pumps, they can also decarbonize heating while we’re expanding access to AC. If they have low carbon refrigerants we can solve the refrigerant problem.  Lastly…

“Globally we’re emitting about 5 Gigatons of CO2 from Diesel engines every year...so you’re looking at about 15% total emissions coming from that fuel in particular.”  -BJ Johnson, Co-founder and CEO…

“(in 10 years) The grid is a decarbonized, decentralized, and digitized network taking full advantage of the network effects that we all enjoy in a modern technology stack.”  -Gregg Dixon, Co-founder…

“The more I looked into it, the more broken the pet food industry was.  It accounts for 25-30% of meat consumed in the U.S...it just makes no sense because we can make protein out of yeast, out of fu…

“We need to make poop the new gold.  We need to give new ways for poop to become the input, and for antibiotics to become the output...or for polymers or for bioplastics to become the output.  That j…

“The overview effect is an example of being exposed to something, perhaps one of the largest things  possible, which is the entirety of the Earth all at once.  It’s “awe” in one of the grandest scale…

“Right now the process is so inefficient to make a steak.  It takes two years to make a steak and the greenhouse gases from a cow is equivalent to a car.  So it’s hugely more inefficient than it need…

“Spotify tells you the music you’re gonna like, Amazon tells you stuff you’re gonna buy, Netflix tells you which movies you’re gonna watch.  All this is doing is saying ‘Hey, scientist, you tried the…

“My hope is that bio-fabricated materials are not just going to be the province of luxury handbags years from now, but they’ll also be materials for our every day.  They’ll be in our footwear, our ap…

“We’re building a machine we call Spark, where you show up and you push a button.  This thing turns on and it makes hundreds of megawatts of thermal energy from effectively nothing.” -Bob Mumgaard, C…