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21. The Venn Diagram of Climate and Biology is a Circle: Kristin Ellis of Lowercarbon Capital

Grow Everything Biotech Podcast

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The Impact of Urban Machine on the Construction Economy

Carvin: 23% of the entire US national waste stream is construction and demolition debris. Over 80% of it goes straight to landfill, that nets out to right around 40 million tons of potentially salvageable wood waste sent from demolition pipes into landfills every single year. "We get excited about that both from an impact perspective and from a entirely new market perspective," Carvin says. The fund has invested in companies such as Urban Machine which builds recycling robots.

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