This is the first of four episodes we recorded live from the Techonomy Climate conference in Silicon Valley! This episode I drink ☕️ Kahula and coffee with Maddie Hall, Co-founder and CEO of Living Carbon. Join us as we dive into 🌳 treehuggers, 🍃 photorespiration, 🌎 transitioning from tradtech to climatetech, what metals have to do with trees, 🦜biodiversity, 🏕 the trillion trees initiative, and oh so much more!!
Maddie Hall, Co-founder and CEO of Living Carbon, on falling in love with plants:
“Our little portion of human history is small compared to all of the plant life this planet has seen.”
Living Carbon’s mission is to responsibly rebalance the planet’s carbon cycle using the inherent power of plants. Living Carbon is growing genetically modified poplars and pines capable of absorbing much more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than regular trees. Also, They grow faster and produce more durable wood than their natural counterparts. Prior to Living Carbon, Maddie worked on special projects at OpenAI and held various roles in venture capital and product management.
☕️ What we drank during the episode: Kahula + coffee
As always, HUGE shout out to Climate Tech Cocktails official sponsors ☀️Yotta Energy and 💎Aether Diamonds
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