CarbonSmart

Join us on an empowering journey with Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, and Aura Cuellar, President of LanzaTech, as they share their remarkable paths from the realms of oil and gas to revolutionizing the clean tech sector. In this episode, we explore the deep convictions and strategic prowess that empowered these two Colombian women to lead monumental projects, pushing the boundaries of what many deemed impossible. Both sto...

Kim Stanley Robinson is an award-winning American writer of science fiction novels and short stories, best known for his Mars trilogy. In fact, “Ministry for the Future” is the only book that LanzaTech CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren has ever asked the team to read. Here, the two discuss the realities of climate change, the acceleration of solutions, and the state of f...

Dr. Julio Friedmann is one of the most widely known authoritative experts in the world on carbon removal, drawdown, and sequestration and storage. He has worked in the U.S. Dept. of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Global CCS Institute, and Columbia University, where led teams that invented and fielded technology to reduce GHG emissions and produce new materials. In our daisy chain the...

Gearah Goldstein is an inclusion, diversity, and belonging consultant, and LGBTQ+ subject matter expert. She founded the global nonprofit The GenderCool Project to help replace misinformed opinions with positive experiences meeting transgender and non-binary youth in the workplace. Jennifer and Gearah discuss why DEI train...

Two highly-recognized names in environmental media, Amy Harder (Cipher) and Heather Clancy (GreenBiz), sit down with Jennifer Holmgren to discuss why they became journalists, how covering climate has changed over the years, what challenges they face, what stories are not getting told but should, and much more. They ask each other powerful questions and leave the daisy-chain hook for Gearah Goldstein,...

The opener to Season 2 features young children in the lives of LanzaTech’s team asking questions on climate change, biodiversity, sea level rise, and more, for responses by our CEO and expert Hunter Lovins. Held annually on June 5th, World Environment Day is the largest global platform for public outreach. This 2022 theme, “Only One Earth,” was the slogan for the first United Nations Conference on th...

LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren calls Jim Messina — the mastermind behind Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign — the world’s most successful political and corporate advisor. Throughout his career, he has merged technology and politics in a way that’s been unpredictable and unprecedented. For over 20 years, Jim served in House and Senate offices, helping pass key legislation. Here, he shares why the publi...

In this segment, we’re thrilled to welcome Nigel Topping. Appointed by the UK Minister, his role is to strengthen collaboration from businesses, investors, cities, and stakeholders — building a global community of champions to halve emissions by 2030 through initiatives such as the Race to Zero and the Glasgow Financial A...

Tune in for an exclusive conversation with the “Hero for the Planet" (TIME). William McDonough is a globally recognized sustainable development thought-leader — characterized at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio as “the mastermind of sustainable design.” Today, he speaks with LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren on his approach to helping organizations embed sustainability into their culture to advance the reg...

What can we do to speed up climate action and close the financing and social justice gaps being left by the public and private sectors? Today, join Dr. MK Dorsey, ​​co-founder of the Sunrise Movement and director of the Michigan Environmental Council, as he explains how climate change is impacting communities differently around the world and how young people are taking matters into their own hands. T...

The global business community must go ‘all in’ for climate action — all sizes, sectors, and geographies included. In the race to ‘net zero’ by 2050 or sooner, corporations are using their influence to ensure that governments also include commitments in their economic recovery plans. In this episode, Jennifer Holmgren talks to Maria Mendiluce, CEO of the We Mean Business Coalition. She answers a daisy chain question from Hunter Lovi...

How are our societal economic models divorced from our finite natural resource base, and how can we best ‘build back better’ in 2021? Today, Jennifer Holmgren talks with Hunter Lovins, a champion of sustainable development from Afghanistan to New Zealand over the past 35 years. An Executive Committee member of the Club of Rome, Time Magazine has recognized Hunter as a Millennium Hero for the Planet. ...

Sir David King has published over 500 scientific papers, and holds 22 Honorary Degrees from universities around the world. He is now the Founder and Chair at the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University — a cross-disciplinary research institution, aiming to develop the solutions that will safeguard our planet from the consequences of global warming. Here, he discusses the realities of the cl...

Ideas are the one natural resource that we will always have more of — and that is what keeps Ramez Naam optimistic in the age of the climate crisis. Ramez is an immigrant, former executive of Microsoft, and founder of Apex NanoTechnologies. Discover what he looks for in potential cleantech investments, and what he believes are the most promising technologies developing today. The cliffhanger is for S...

Climate change is already driving urgency for sustainability in business. Unilever and its brands are leading the transition with major net zero and conservation commitments. In 2020, Unilever announced it will replace 100% of fossil fuels in its cleaning product formulations with renewable or recycled carbon by 2030. The world's first marketplace laundry capsule made from industrial carbon emissions was just launched! The cliffhan...

Today's society has created an overabundance of carbon, and it is affecting our climate, health, and planet. Changing our carbon trajectory will require innovation and policy, with a focus on social and environmental justice. Will we be able to make the necessary changes “in time” at this tipping point? Today, LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren welcomes Jim Messina — former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Obama. The cliffhanger is ...