Climate Tech Cocktails

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to a very special episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.

It’s been a minute since the first episode of Climate Tech Cocktails was released, 1,051,200 minutes to be exact (2 years).

To celebrate this milestone, Team CTC asked Matt if he’d be willing to sit down and chat with his climate tech colleague and close friend, Ryan Kushner.

We’ve grown so much over the past two years, both online and in IRL. We wanted to provide an opportunity to learn more about Matt and his own founder journey.

“Right now the process is so inefficient to make a steak. It takes two years to make a steak and the greenhouse gases from a cow is equivalent to a car. So it’s hugely more inefficient than it needs to be. It’s way past time to be redone, for us to figure out new ways to do it. We’re focused at Air Protein on making meat in a matter of hours and not days. Making it using the most sustainable processes on the planet. Making it highly nutritious and of course still delivering the flavors that my husband, a meat eater, wants to experience when biting into a juicy steak. ” -Lisa Dyson, Founder and CEO, Air Protein

Lisa Dyson is Founder and CEO of Air Protein (@AirProtein). Air Protein is a Bay Area based company that is working to reverse climate change and address food scarcity by making meat from elements of the air. Using a technology inspired by NASA, Air Protein makes the world's first air-based meat - using less land, water and other natural resources for the most sustainable meat on the planet. Lisa has a PhD in Physics from MIT, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, where she received an MS in Physics with an emphasis in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces, and has degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Brandeis University.

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Etosha Cave, Co-founder and CSO of Twelve, on the sacrifices she made while launching Twelve:

“I had no money. I was living out of my car at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.”

Etosha became passionate about energy and climate change while growing up in Houston, and she went on to receive her PhD from Stanford University focusing on electrochemical approaches that could be used to convert CO2 and water into useful plastics and household cleaners. While at Stanford, Etosha co-founded Twelve, a startup pioneering a new market category called carbon transformation with its proprietary catalyst technology that transforms CO2 into critical chemicals, materials and fuels that are conventionally made from fossil fuels. Using Twelve’s technology, industry brands can meet emissions targets faster while creating essential products–from the foam in running shoes, to the polymers in automobile dashboards, to aviation fuel, to laundry detergent–all while maintaining the same or higher quality as conventional products made from petrochemicals.

🥃 What we drank during the episode: Gin n’ Tonic

As always, HUGE shout out to Climate Tech Cocktails official sponsors ☀️Yotta Energy and 💎Aether Diamonds

Enjoy the show!

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This episode is brought to you by ☀️Yotta Energy ! We all know energy storage is key to deploying renewables at scale. I’ve seen many energy storage solutions for commercial buildings over my years in climate tech, but none as impressive as Yotta’s.

Yotta Energy’s unique "PV-Coupled" ecosystem of solar+storage solutions simply integrates within the standard solar installation process. Even better, their integrated storage technology can enable up to 60% more solar to be deployed on commercial buildings. With commercial buildings consuming 35% of US electricity that means Yotta is making a serious dent in CO2 emissions. With the electrification of everything revolution underway, Yotta Energy is poised to meet the growing demands of electrification by sizing solar+storage resources to recharge electric vehicles as they future proof buildings into distributed energy sites powering the grid of the future. Find out more at YottaEnergy.com and follow Yotta on Twitter @YottaEnergy.

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This episode is also brought to you by 💎 Aether Diamonds. If you’re planning to propose, or purchase a timeless gift for your partner, I couldn’t think of a better purchase than Aether Diamonds.

Aether Diamonds are the world’s most sustainable diamonds, and the only diamonds that are actually GOOD for the planet! Aether creates the world's first positive-impact diamonds made from captured CO2. In fact, every carat of Aether Diamonds offsets your personal carbon footprint for over a year. These are 100% real diamonds with a real impact. They’re some of the highest quality diamonds you can buy, and are certified by IGI, the world's largest independent laboratory for testing and grading gemstones and fine jewelry.

Now you’re no longer stuck having to choose between mined and regular lab-grown diamonds, both of which harm the environment. Aether offers the only truly sustainable diamonds on the market, requiring no ethical or environmental trade-offs... in other words, they're the only guilt-free diamonds available in the world.

To learn more about these revolutionary diamonds from air, visit their website at aetherdiamonds.com and follow on Twitter @aetherdiamonds

Interested in sponsoring Climate Tech Cocktails (CTC)? Please reach out to [email protected]

For show notes and past guests, please visit the CTC Substack.

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“(in 10 years) The grid is a decarbonized, decentralized, and digitized network taking full advantage of the network effects that we all enjoy in a modern technology stack.” -Gregg Dixon, Co-founder and CEO of Voltus

Gregg Dixon (@gregg_dixon) is the Co-founder and CEO of Voltus (@voltusinc), connecting customers, investors, teammates, and the world with Voltus value, ensuring that the vision for the company, and its culture, is meeting their expectations. Gregg is a world-renowned expert in commercial and industrial energy management and has pioneered many of today’s innovations that unlock the economic and environmental benefits of “intelligent energy.” Prior to co-founding Voltus, Gregg was the Senior VP of Marketing and Sales and a founding executive at EnerNOC, a leading provider of demand response, energy procurement, and energy intelligence software.

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Climate Tech Cocktails (CTC) is a bootstrapped project. Interested in sponsoring? Please reach out to [email protected]

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Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company on the importance of reaching hearts and minds to combat the climate crisis:

“Imagination is everything. It’s what moves the world forward.” -Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company

@Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of @Air Company, Air company’s priority is to utilize as much CO2 as possible to slow the momentum of climate change, using consumer goods in the near term as an educational tool to show the world what is possible.

Since launching Air Company, Constantine and his team have won awards from NASA, The United Nations and XPRIZE. Air Company was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Products (2019) and Most Innovative Companies (2020), and was named one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2020. Constantine’s patent product design has won the highest design awards from Dieline and the Pentawards, and in 2019, Constantine was personally named The Spirits Business’ Young Achiever of the Year. He brings expertise in the arts with an undergraduate degree from The University of Sydney and a wealth of business acumen from the Executive program at Harvard Business School.

As always, HUGE shout out to Climate Tech Cocktails official sponsors ☀️Yotta Energy and 💎Aether Diamonds

Enjoy the show!

🤝

This episode is brought to you by ☀️Yotta Energy ! We all know energy storage is key to deploying renewables at scale. I’ve seen many energy storage solutions for commercial buildings over my years in climate tech, but none as impressive as Yotta’s.

Yotta Energy’s unique "PV-Coupled" ecosystem of solar+storage solutions simply integrates within the standard solar installation process. Even better, their integrated storage technology can enable up to 60% more solar to be deployed on commercial buildings. With commercial buildings consuming 35% of US electricity that means Yotta is making a serious dent in CO2 emissions. With the electrification of everything revolution underway, Yotta Energy is poised to meet the growing demands of electrification by sizing solar+storage resources to recharge electric vehicles as they future proof buildings into distributed energy sites powering the grid of the future. Find out more at YottaEnergy.com and follow Yotta on Twitter @YottaEnergy.

🤝

This episode is also brought to you by 💎 Aether Diamonds. If you’re planning to propose, or purchase a timeless gift for your partner, I couldn’t think of a better purchase than Aether Diamonds.

Aether Diamonds are the world’s most sustainable diamonds, and the only diamonds that are actually GOOD for the planet! Aether creates the world's first positive-impact diamonds made from captured CO2. In fact, every carat of Aether Diamonds offsets your personal carbon footprint for over a year. These are 100% real diamonds with a real impact. They’re some of the highest quality diamonds you can buy, and are certified by IGI, the world's largest independent laboratory for testing and grading gemstones and fine jewelry.

Now you’re no longer stuck having to choose between mined and regular lab-grown diamonds, both of which harm the environment. Aether offers the only truly sustainable diamonds on the market, requiring no ethical or environmental trade-offs... in other words, they're the only guilt-free diamonds available in the world.

To learn more about these revolutionary diamonds from air, visit their website at aetherdiamonds.com and follow on Twitter @aetherdiamonds

Interested in sponsoring Climate Tech Cocktails (CTC)? Please reach out to [email protected]

For show notes and past guests, please visit the CTC Substack.

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