From Slopes to Soil: Harnessing Outdoor Enthusiasts and Microbes
From Slopes to Soil: Harnessing Outdoor Enthusiasts and Microbes
Highlights from the My Climate Journey podcast
🎙️ This week on the My Climate Journey podcast…
🏔️ We kicked things off by hitting the slopes with Mario Molina, Executive Director of Protect Our Winters (aka POW). Founded by professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones, POW's mission is to amplify the voice of the outdoor sports community, using their passion for nature to advocate for energy transition and climate change policies. Through compelling stories of firsthand experiences with a changing world, POW is effectively reshaping the cultural narrative surrounding climate change.
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🌱 Our guest in Jason’s Capital Series was Ian Smith, Director of Investments at The Nature Conservancy. TNC is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. As a formidable force in the NGO world, TNC also has a pretty big endowment and they're investing it as good fiduciaries to generate market-beating returns, but they also have this broader mission to reckon with as an organization. This makes for a fascinating conversation about TNC’s investment strategy and approach.
🦠 To wrap up the week, the CEO and co-founder of Andes, Gonzalo Fuenzalida-Meriz, joined us in the Startup Series to talk about the company’s microbial approach to carbon removal. Gonzalo and Cody delve into the company's origins, revealing their initial focus on enhancing crop resiliency, and their transition to carbon removal.
Beyond the concept of microbial carbon mineralization, Andes also harnesses a different microorganism, one they genetically modify, to increase corn's ability to affix nitrogen into the soil and thus reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers. There's a lot to unpack in this one. Enjoy!
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