Co-founder & CEO @CascadeClimate | market shaping for climate tech | exec coach to climate tech founders | prev @Nova_Pioneer @KeplerHQ @chai_health
Joined February 2011
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Many don't believe we can build a gigaton-scale CDR market from scratch in a quarter century. Here's the 2nd in my series on lessons from global health for CDR market shaping. Pneumo AMC inspired Frontier but biggest insights lie elsewhere in global health greatunwind.substack.com/p/a…
Spread the word! Love this approach to crowdsourcing more hypotheses about where we might find promising alkaline feedstock sources that we can harness for large-scale carbon removal. nitter.cf/nanransohoff/status/18…
We’re interested in finding the most accessible deposits of highly reactive rock that could collectively get the world to teraton scale carbon removal over the next century at the cheapest possible cost.
To that end, we’re launching an Alkalinity Sourcing Challenge. We'll award $5K honoraria to the 10 best submissions: frontierclimate.com/alkalini…
(FWIW I’m especially interested in whether anyone knows of any massive magma intrusions with a brucite halo—these formations aren’t well documented but the brucite tends to be very high grade...)
Feeling lots of pride and gratitude - to the Cascade team and the Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) community - for the immense amount of work and insight that led to today's release of this touchstone guidance on quantifying carbon dioxide removal via ERW! nitter.cf/CascadeClimate/status/…
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Its been a big week for enhanced rock weathering!
First a major study was released by the @theNASciences finding strong positive results from a 4-year field trial in the US corn belt:
➡️ ~2.5 tons CDR / hectare/yr
➡️ Higher yields and lower N2O emissions
pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn…
If you're interested in learning more about what it might be like to work @CascadeClimate (whether now or down the road aways), come join our info session tomorrow!
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Interested in working in the frontiers of durable carbon removal? Want to make an impact by addressing climate challenges on a global scale?
Join us for our information session tomorrow (January 17th, 2024) from 5:30PM - 6:30PM ET.
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Thoughtful, balanced piece by @jongertner on one potential ice sheet stabilization strategy. Other strategies also worthy of accelerated research; pursuing inquiry has huge benefit of helping us better understand fundamental dynamics of these systems nytimes.com/2024/01/06/magaz…
Our post dives deep on two things are especially crux to that virtuous cycle -- rigorous MRV and data access -- and how these connect to our main initiatives at Cascade. cascadeclimate.org/foundatio…
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A collective mindset of learning-by-doing and transparency is the fastest way forward for ERW. It's what @JigarShahDC calls “deployment-led innovation": the very act of deploying at growing scales is what drives the most important learning.
We've learned a lot from @davidtlang in working on an industry standard for CO2 removal via enhanced weathering -- and he's done the world a big favor by publishing what he learned through months of a deep dive on the under-appreciated magic of standards nitter.cf/davidtlang/status/1735…
I spent the summer researching technical standards and their (underrated) role in shaping civilization.
The results of that exploration are being published today:
Standards Make the World
summerofprotocols.com/resear…
To follow along with our work + writing and to learn more, you can subscribe here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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We’re hiring! Please help us spread the word widely about these 4 exciting opportunities to join our team at Cascade. jobs.lever.co/cascade-climat…
We’re excited to publicly launch Cascade Climate today - and we’re hiring! Cascade is a global nonprofit accelerating progress with interventions that harness Earth’s natural systems—from soils, to oceans, to glaciers—to help stabilize our climate. A 🧵 cascadeclimate.org/
The ERW market is hitting an inflection point, kickstarted by Frontier’s big offtake announcement last week. Our new blog post reflects on how we might build a healthy learning-by-doing ERW market cycle, founded upon rigorous MRV and data access. cascadeclimate.org/foundatio…
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Today over 80 scientists and leading market participants are publicly signing on to the Core Principles that serve as the foundation for developing the Community Quantification Standard, underscoring the ERW community’s commitment to quality.
cascadeclimate.org/core-prin…
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Cascade’s first flagship initiative is coordinating the development of a Community Quantification Standard to ensure rigor in quantifying carbon removal via ERW. As a true industry standard, this will be a first of its kind within durable CDR. cascadeclimate.org/introduci…
Our initial focus is enhanced rock weathering (ERW), a promising pathway for durable CDR. Visit our website to learn more about our mission, major initiatives, and founding team. And for a deeper overview, check out our appearance last week on This is CDR. youtube.com/watch?v=87wrw4fI…
Exciting day for CDR and enhanced rock weathering— Frontier announcing $57M offtake agreement w @LithosCarbon to deliver an estimated ~150K tons of CDR. Congrats to all our friends @ Frontier + Lithos! Brief thread w some reflections 1/9 nitter.cf/heyjudka/status/173274…
📢Announcing that Frontier buyers signed $57M in CDR offtakes w/ @LithosCarbon.
Lithos will deliver 154,240 tons of CDR in the next 2-6 years. ~100K of that comes before 2026.
‼️ That’s 10X more than all CDR delivered to date across all pathways ‼️
frontierclimate.com/writing/…
We need to build on that mindset, deepening and broadening it across the ERW industry. If we succeed in that collectively, we can turn ERW market activity into an engine for the powerful cycle of learning-by-doing that Jigar Shah has called deployment-led innovation.
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