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Reversing Climate Change

Carbon Removal Strategies LLC

Reversing Climate Change is a podcast that bridges science, technology, and policy with the richness of the humanities. From the forefront of carbon removal and climatetech to explorations of literature, history, philosophy, theology, and geopolitics, we dive deep into the people, ideas, and innovations shaping a better future for the planet and its inhabitants. If you love the show, please become a paid subscriber on Spotify.

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01:00:40

346: How Structure Climate Financed Carba’s Biochar...

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2025/04/30

In carbon removal, landing a major offtake agreement—like Microsoft’s purchase of 44,000 credits from Carba—is often seen as the holy grail. But what happens next? How does the money flow, and can debt financing bridge the gap between signature and scale?In this episode of Reversing Climate Change, host Ross Kenyon unpacks the deal between Microsoft and Carba, a waste-to-value biochar company turning landfill-bound biomass in Minnesota into durable carbon removal.With credits to be delivered over

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00:48:02

345: Too Many Antiheroes: Climate Chaos, Prestige...

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2025/04/23

Fair warning: this episode spoils a lot of (older) media.Antiheroes make for great television. But why are we obsessed with them? Why are they in nearly all prestige dramas? Is this a result of our cultural beliefs, or is it (re)producing a culture of cynical realism? What impacts might it have for politics and climate change?This ascendancy of the antihero is a trend I've been watching (and often enjoying) since my teen years. Shows like The Sopranos helped bring television to its lofty artistic

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00:25:46

The Optimal Number of Travel Deaths Is Non-Zero:...

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2025/04/15

It's a jarring phrase. There's an even more jarring version of it in this episode. You've been warned.Economists are well-known for gnomic sentences that can sound cruel. For some, that's one of the job's many perks. But that doesn't mean that there isn't some truth in representing decisions as trade-offs.Today is a bonus monologue episode where I am going to unpack this phrase (and its nastier cousin) and explain what it has to teach the carbon removal industry as it grapples with the tension

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01:10:17

343: Two Climate People Talk about Their Feelings:...

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2025/04/08

You should know about my friend Heidi Lim. She's a leading voice of carbon removal on TikTok.She's been making short-form content for ages but today's show is her first foray into long-form. I have the honor of being her first guest and co-releasing the episode.It is my sincere honor to help Heidi launch her new content on YouTube!We get real in this show, talking about the difficult and sometimes unsung work of climate communications, why our world feels so screwed up, and the black

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00:02:44

How I Got Into Climate Work and Carbon Removal

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2025/04/02

If only there were a podcast that broke down all of the ways climate professionals broke into their industry...Michael Gold is a communications expert and consultant at Word Clouds Consulting and the host of the new podcast, Climate Swings. This show traces guests' stories and explains how they landed a job working on one of humanity's most significant problem sets.Check out the episode of Climate Swings I did with Michael retelling my odyssey into climate work here! Be sure to subscribe to

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01:01:19

342: Carbon Removal & Appropriations: The US Budget...

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2025/04/01

Sometimes, we skip right over the life stories of guests. Othertimes, it's everything. Today, it's everything.Returning to the show after several years is Carbon180's Executive Director, Erin Burns.Erin grew up in a coal mining family in West Virginia, got her start in Joe Manchin's Senate office, and has had a long and impactful career in carbon removal.Today, Erin (re)explains how the budgeting process works in the United States federal government and how the appropriations process

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00:26:38

341: The War Below: Critical Minerals, YIMBY for...

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2025/03/25

The clean energy transition sure needs a heck of a lot of mining. What do we do when there are environmental or spiritual costs to getting the materials we need for EVs and batteries? Ernest Scheyder is a Reuters reporter covering critical minerals, and the author of The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives.His reporting strives to let audiences draw their own conclusions about where the line should be on environmental extraction, which is a rarer approach than maybe

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00:13:33

The Keynesian Beauty Contest: Product-Market Fit in...

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2025/03/21

Nearly a decade ago, I was introduced to the concept of the Keynesian Beauty Contest. It is one of those concepts that I keep coming back to time and time again.I recently participated in a two-month Product-Market Fit workshop led by Peter Nocchiero of Alternate Future and Koray Parmaks of Carbon Zero Capital. So I've been living and breathing PMF.Here is a short monologue bonus video episode where I talk about the Product-Market Fit issues of climatetech and carbon removal, a now-outdated

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00:46:12

340: The Outlaw Ocean: Ocean Iron Fertilization,...

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2025/03/18

I first heard the idiom "worse things happen at sea" in Monty Python's Life of Brian, and it's true.Ian Urbina has made a career of telling stories of the ocean. From piracy, illegal fishing, and sea slavery to seasteading and rogue carbon removal experiments, he's covered the gamut.How does one continuously report on topics of concern to relatively intimidating people? As the old line goes, "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."In

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00:55:24

339: A Good Drink: In Search of Sustainable...

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2025/03/11

For fans ages 21 and up!It's often hard to know how sustainable or ethical an alcoholic drink is. Very little disclosure is required on most labels, and many of the recipes are proprietary. What is a conscientious drinker to do?Shanna Farrell wrote A Good Drink: In Search of Sustainable Spirits in order to answer this exact question.She and host Ross Kenyon discuss the strange world of amaros (or "amari" if you're really going for it!), whiskey, agave, and gin, and try to figure out how to even

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00:50:34

338: Carbon Security & the Geopolitics of Carbon...

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2025/03/04

What is geopolitics, and has it returned? Did it ever really leave? And how will this affect the future prospects of carbon removal?Today's guest is Sarah Godek, a Washington DC-based international relations researcher. She and Grant Faber co-wrote an article on Carbon-Based Commentary called, "Carbon security and the geopolitics of carbon removal".We discuss the tension between strategic liberalism and realism, how the world is changing under the second Trump Administration, as well

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00:15:04

I Made AI-Generated Art and Now I’m Wondering What Is...

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2025/03/02

My podcasting editing platform Descript informed me of a new integration with ChatGPT where it would make me a custom video. I complied in perhaps the most annoying and meta way possible.That video exists at the end of this podcast, but first, I have thoughts I'd like to share on what this process made me feel and think about.I've heard so many takes on artificial intelligence and art, and I have several of my own that I don't often hear reflected. Mine pertain to the sociological purpose of art,

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00:54:53

337: Fired from the Department of Energy: Carbon...

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2025/02/24

When you take a major pay cut to work in government, you don't expect unceremoniously fired with a change in administration. But it happened to friend of the show, Grant Faber.Grant Faber was the United States Department of Energy's Direct Air Capture Hubs Program Manager until he was let go as part of the recent firing of probationary federal employees.In today's episode, Grant explains what he was working on, what it was like being at the DoE during this turbulent time, and what it

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00:28:01

Will You Join the AirMiners Buyers Club?—w/ Adina...

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2025/02/20

There are a lot of companies that want to buy carbon removal and don't have the budget to participate in Frontier or Symbiosis. What are they to do?Until now, they either had to pay expensive consultants or vet projects and contracts themselves and stand by their choices alone. No longer!The new AirMiners Buyers Club could not be arriving at a better time. Federal policy for carbon removal is in an extremely turbulent moment. Buying momentum is not growing to the degree that we need to see. The

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00:43:07

336: Will Trees Play a Role in the Future of Carbon...

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2025/02/18

Seemingly nothing generates hotter passions in carbon credits than forestry. Can credits count against fossil emissions? Is there enough of it to make a difference? What is the appropriate way of funding it?Today's guest is Lisett Luik, Co-Founder and COO of Arbonics, an innovative forestry company in the Baltic that straddles the line between carbon removal and other services forests can provide.We discuss if and how forestry can fit into carbon removal, help the planet avoid tipping points,

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01:22:41

335: How Nori Created a Direct Air Capture + Storage...

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2025/02/11

How do registries create carbon removal methodologies? Who should be involved in the process, and to what degree? How does one balance all of the competing attributes and stakeholders?Today's episode is a show in three parts:First, Nori co-founder and host ofReversing Climate Changeintroduces the context for the main segment which was recorded the better part of a year before its airing. He explores whether or not the quasi-regulatory requirement for registries not to also be marketplaces leads

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00:04:45

How You Can Support the Reversing Climate Change Podcast

Reversing Climate Change ·

2025/02/09

Dear listener,Thank you so much for being a fan of the show. You could be listening to anything with your one wild and precious life and I do not take that for granted. From the bottom of my heart,thank you!Now that the show is independent, I am working to make it financially viable. Can I count on you to help supportReversing Climate Changeby doing any of the following?In your podcast app of choice, please give the show a full rating and/or review. The two most impactful areApple Podcasts and

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01:17:23

334: Is Adopting Children a Climate Solution?—w/...

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2025/02/04

It is sometimes claimed that adoption could be a climate solution. After all, if there are kids needing parents and parents wanting kids, adopting might replace the desire to create more children. Is adoption something we should encourage to reduce environmental risk?Today we have four(!) parents of adopted children on the podcast. Each of them tells their story at the start of the show, including: Ross Kenyon, Reversing Climate Change host Lauren Gifford, Associate Director of the Soil Carbon

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01:01:46

333: Coproduction & Additionality: How Do We Draw the...

Reversing Climate Change ·

2025/01/28

Additionality is typically considered a major marker of quality in carbon removal. But what do we do when carbon removal suppliers are producing other types of products and services that make them less dependent upon voluntary carbon market revenue?Perhaps even more importantly, how do we have a productive disagreement on this topic? Bringing up some concerns can open one to criticism. But we also depend upon people thinking differently in order to advance our understanding of the world and the

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00:07:16

Why You Should Listen to the Reversing Climate Change...

Reversing Climate Change ·

2025/01/26

Of all of the world's climate podcasts, here is why you should, with your one wild and precious life, listen to Reversing Climate Change. The tl;dr is I am a long-time carbon removal and climate tech entrepreneur who comes from the humanities (rather than science) and I am programming shows on climate unlike what you're likely to hear elsewhere. Shows with legendary travel writers to worlds that are disappearing? A Vietnam veteran discussing what Jungian archetypes can teach those thinking of their

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