Reversing Climate Change

Do you take having a working sanitation system for granted? What if you didn’t have access to a public wastewater treatment plant? What if you lived with sewage running back into your home? And what if your failing septic system made YOU a criminal? MacArthur Fellow Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder of The Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ) and author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Catherine joins Ross to discuss the neglect of water and wastewater infrastructure in rural America, explaining why septic systems are failing and how that impacts public health. Catherine offers insight on the disparities in access to sanitation for poor rural communities and people of color, describing how corrupt government officials and bad policy can contribute to the inequity. Listen in for Catherine’s advice on collaborating with people who don’t necessarily share your values and find out what CREEJ is doing to design a solution that will allow people to treat wastewater affordably—wherever they are. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori’s book club on Patreon Nori’s website Sign up for Nori’s weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Resources The Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers CREEJ & The Guardian’s Sanitation Self-Report Form Catherine on Twitter Catherine on Facebook Catherine on Instagram American Society of Civil Engineering Report Card for America’s Infrastructure Lowndes Interpretive Center President Biden’s Climate Task Force White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Pamela Rush

If you don’t have access to public transportation or you’re looking for a climate-friendly alternative to Uber, then you may have considered renting one of Revel’s electric mopeds. But do micromobility companies like this actually make money? And how should micromobility fit into the larger ecosystem of getting from point A to point B? Kate Knibbs is a Senior Writer at WIRED and the author of ‘Freedom, Mayhem, and the Uncertain Future of Revel’s Mopeds.’ On this bonus episode of Reversing Climate Change, Kate joins Ross and guest host Radhika Moolgavkar, Head of Supply and Methodology at Nori, to discuss micromobility, describing how mopeds and e-bikes should be a complement to mass transit—not the dominant form of getting around. She offers insight on the potential profitability of a company like Revel, explaining how positioning itself as an electric vehicle company increases its chances of success and why safety issues are its greatest existential threat. Listen in to understand the role of subsidies in making micromobility ventures work and learn how Kate thinks about when to choose public transit, train travel, auto ownership, rideshare, or micromobility options. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori’s book club on Patreon Nori’s website Sign up for Nori’s weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Resources Kate at WIRED Kate on Twitter Kate on Reversing Climate Change S2EP12 ‘Freedom, Mayhem, and the Future of Revel’s Mopeds’ in WIRED Revel Lime Micromobility The Drivers Cooperative Books by Paul Theroux ‘Farewell, Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy’ in The New York Times

Are you missing the experience of eating out at a restaurant? Or maybe you’re itching to travel and revisit the food traditions of the places you love? What if you could recreate these experiences at home, using simple recipes to embark on a culinary journey around the world? Renee Erickson is the James Beard Award-winning chef behind several popular Seattle restaurants including The Walrus and the Carpenter, The Whale Wins, and Bateau. She is also the author of the critically-acclaimed cookbook A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus: Menus and Stories. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Renee joins Ross and Radhika to discuss her latest release, Getaway: Food and Drink to Transport You, sharing what inspired her to design a cookbook around her favorite places. Renee weighs in on why eating locally and seasonally is not just better for the climate but better for us, explaining her decisions-making around what fish to buy for her restaurants and how to avoid wasting beef. Listen in for Renee’s insight on making good food more accessible and get her top recommendations on places to eat out in Seattle as the world reopens post-pandemic! Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori’s book club on Patreon Nori’s website Sign up for Nori’s weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Resources Chef Renee Erickson Getaway: Food & Drink to Transport You by Renee Erickson A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus: Menus and Stories by Renee Erickson Sea Creatures The Walrus and the Carpenter Bateau Tulalip Reservation Bristol Bay Drifters Fish Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden Green Plate Special Musang The Harvest Vine Café Lago Delancey Local Tide Gracia Rachel’s Bagels Saint Bread Books by Dominique Crenn Meesha ‘Three Seattle Chefs on the Challenges of Opening a Restaurant in 2020’ in Crosscut

Data in the music industry is incredibly fragmented. There is no one consistent place to go for information about a work. It’s hard to know where songs are being played or who was involved in creating a piece of music. And this means that a lot of artists don’t get royalties for their work. What if blockchain technology is the answer? Imogen Heap is the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and record producer behind The Creative Passport, an identity management platform for music makers that runs on the blockchain. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Imogen joins Ross, Paul, and Evangeline to explain how the music industry’s challenges around crediting and payment inspired her interest in the blockchain space. She weighs in on why she launched a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to raise funds for The Creative Passport and how she devoted a portion of the proceeds to Nori to offset the carbon emissions associated with minting those NFTs. Listen in for Imogen’s vision of a more diverse commercial music industry where artists are empowered to host their own data and share it with others on the blockchain. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori’s book club on Patreon Nori’s website Sign up for Nori’s weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Resources Imogen’s App The Creative Passport Vinay Gupta at MATTEREUM Vinay Gupta’s Hexayurt Project MYCELIA Endlesss Don Diablo OpenSea Cargo arweave Paul’s Post on Removing Carbon Emissions from NFTs Kelly Garrett on Twitter

Big-ticket investments in carbon removal innovation are newsworthy, but perhaps nothing captures the public imagination quite like a cash prize. And the $100M purse associated with XPRIZE Carbon Removal happens to be the largest in history. So, how does an award of this magnitude translate to meaningful climate solutions? Dr. Marcius Extavour is the Vice President of Energy and Climate at XPRIZE, a nonprofit using large-scale global competitions to crowdsource solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Dr. Extavour joins Ross to discuss XPRIZE Carbon Removal, explaining how Elon Musk got involved in funding the $100M prize purse and what it takes to win the $50M grand prize. He describes how winning an XPRIZE gives a project momentum, offering insight on how the prize model complements traditional investments and sharing historic examples of awards that led to technological breakthroughs. Listen in for Dr. Extavour’s call to maintain a collaborative spirit in the carbon removal space as it evolves and find out how you can get involved in XPRIZE Carbon Removal. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori’s book club on Patreon Nori’s website Sign up for Nori’s weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Resources XPRIZE Foundation XPRIZE Carbon Removal Overview XPRIZE Carbon Removal Guidelines Email carbonremoval@xprize.org CarbonCure on Reversing Climate Change S2EP16 Carbon Upcycling on Reversing Climate Change S2EP60 CarbonBuilt Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel The Orteig Prize Dr. Extavour’s Keynote at the 2021 AirMiners Conference Climeworks Carbon Engineering Global Thermostat Charm Industrial Pachama AirMiners Launchpad

Should we genetically engineer carbon-hungry trees? Can metal-eating trees clean up abandoned mines? Does seaweed have the potential to save the planet? While these ideas might seem outlandish, they are all examples of actual solutions to our environmental issues people are working on right now. Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink, a platform that features the passionate innovators working to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. Prior to becoming a journalist, Teresa was a professional mariner and USCG licensed captain. On this episode of the Reversing Climate Change podcast, Teresa joins Ross to discuss the outside-the-box solutions to climate change she has written about, sharing her particular interest in covering the environment, genetics, climate technology, and carbon removal. She explains how innovators are genetically engineering trees to suck more CO2 out of the atmosphere, offering her take on the debate around GMOs and the impact hybrid breeding might have on local ecosystems. Listen in for Teresa’s insight on the potential dangers of consumer genetic tests and find out what she learned about the process of sequestering carbon in seaweed to generate carbon offsets. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori’s book club on Patreon Nori’s website Sign up for Nori’s weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Resources Teresa on Freethink John Kretschmer on Reversing Climate Change S2EP33 ‘Metal Eating Trees Could Clean Up Abandoned Mines’ in Freethink ‘A Seaweed Diet Could Eliminate Most of Cows’ Greenhouse Emissions’ in Freethink ‘Can Seaweed Save the Planet?’ in Freethink ‘Autonomous Trash-Eating Boats Clean Up Water Pollution’ in Freethink Project Vesta on Reversing Climate Change S2EP23 Dr. Greg Dipple on Reversing Climate Change EP009 ‘Should We Genetically Engineer Carbon-Hungry Trees?’ in Freethink Paul Greenberg on Reversing Climate Change S2EP61 The Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative ‘First Study of All Amazon Greenhouse Gases Suggests the Damaged Forest Is Now Worsening Climate Change’ in National Geographic ‘This Spit Test Will Help Couples Know Their Baby’s Risk of Genetic Disease’ in Freethink

For large, established companies to be sustainable long term, they need to consider how a changing climate will impact what they do. CEOs have got to ask how their businesses can be resilient in the face of climate change and what they can do to help mitigate it. Nicole Systrom is the Founder of Sutro Energy Group, a consultancy working to scale high-impact climate solutions. On this bonus episode of Reversing Climate Change, Nicole joins guest host Alexsandra Guerra to discuss her recent World Economic Forum article, ‘3 Ways CEOs Can Tackle Climate Change and Build a Net-Zero Economy.’ She explains why large, established companies should lend their political capital to climate tech startups and makes the case that every business should make net-zero a part of their business strategy. Listen in for Nicole’s insight on giving innovators a voice in policy creation and learn how large corporations, legislators and climate tech startups can work together to build a net-zero economy. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori’s book club on Patreon Nori’s website Nori on Twitter Nori on YouTube Sign up for Nori’s weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Email podcast@nori.com Resources ‘3 Ways CEOs Can Tackle Climate Change and Build a Net-Zero Economy’ by Nicole Systrom Sutro Energy Group 45Q Tax Credit Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund

60% of the calories in our food supply are alleged to be ultra-processed junk. So, when did we lose our way? When did we go from growing food to feed our communities to growing food for profit? And how do we find our way back to a just food system—and society? Mark Bittman is a former New York Times columnist and bestselling author of 30-plus books, including the well-known How to Cook Everything series. His new release is called Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Mark joins Ross and Radkhika to explain how the food system shaped our history and vice versa, describing how the Enclosure Movement may have turned food into a profit-making political tool and created the health crisis we’re facing. He weighs in on why educating kids about good food is the first step in creating a just food system and advocates for subsidies to support getting good food to more people. Listen in for Mark’s perspective on investing federal dollars in regenerative agriculture and learn how he thinks about making the phrase ‘land reform’ common in our political discourse. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori’s book club on Patreon Nori’s website Nori on Twitter Sign up for Nori’s weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Resources Mark’s Website Subscribe to The Bittman Project Newsletter Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman Jared Diamond Land Enclosure Books by James C. Scott Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Supersize Me Books by Will Durant Books by Marion Nestle Renewable Fuel Standard Program Joel Salatin at Polyface Farms Full Belly Farm The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

Since its founding in 2003, Newlight Technologies’ goal has been to create consumer-driven solutions to reducing carbon in the air. And while that intention has not changed, the Newlight team’s approach has evolved as they consider how to achieve the greatest impact. Mark Herrema is the cofounder and CEO of Newlight, an advanced biotechnology company using greenhouse gas to produce sustainable materials and replacements for plastic. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Mark joins Ross and cohost Radkhika Moolgavkar, Head of Supply and Methodology at Nori, to discuss what Newlight has been up to since his last appearance on the podcast, explaining how they brought a new plant online in 2019 and why the team chose foodware and fashion as its first two consumer foci. Mark shares an overview of the AirCarbon production process, addressing where Newlight’s greenhouse gas feedstocks come from and how Newlight uses the blockchain to track the carbon footprint of its products. Listen in to understand how Mark’s thinking around carbon markets has shifted, why it took two years to get Newlight’s methodology approved, and what marketplaces need to change to make the space more attractive to other ambitious entrepreneurs. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori’s book club on Patreon Nori’s website Nori on Twitter Nori on YouTube Sign up for Nori’s weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Email podcast@nori.com Resources Newlight Technologies Restore Foodware Covalent Fashion Mark Herrema on Reversing Climate Change S1E14 Newlight’s work with IBM Verra Newlight’s Methodology for Greenhouse Gas Capture and Utilization in Plastic Materials ISO 14067 Carbon Footprint of Products ISO 14044 Life Cycle Assessment

Since the first levee was built in New Orleans in 1717, we have been trying to manage America’s rivers. But now our infrastructure is failing. And if we don’t compromise on a plan to restore (or strategically remove) our dams, levees, and locks and give our waterways more space, flooding events will continue to devastate entire communities over and over again. Tyler J. Kelley is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker, among many other national publications. His first book, Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America’s Waterways, was published in April 2021. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Tyler joins Ross to explain why riverboat traffic is still important to the US economy, moving more than 1,000 semi-trucks’ worth of vital commodities daily. Tyler discusses the extensive work we’ve done to manage rivers in the US, describing how much land would be unlivable without levees and why the risks of flooding will only increase with climate change. Listen in for Tyler’s insight on the Dutch Delta Works project to give land back to the rivers and fortify existing infrastructure and learn how we might create a similar comprehensive flood control plan to protect communities here in the US. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori’s book club on Patreon Nori’s website Nori on Twitter Nori on YouTube Sign up for Nori’s weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Email podcast@nori.com Resources Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America’s Waterways by Tyler J. Kelley Tyler’s Website ‘The Fight to Tame a Swelling River with Dams That May Be Outmatched by Climate Change’ in The New York Times Elizabeth Kolbert on Reversing Climate Change S2EP50 Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert Levee Wars on Sny Island Rebuild Pinhook