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Explore "carbonneutrality" with insightful episodes like "Wednesday, December 13, 2023", "ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Climeworks: Jan Wurzbacher", "The Fight To Keep Climate Change Off The Back Burner", "Apple's promise to be carbon neutral by 2030 | Lisa Jackson and Liz Ogbu" and "Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 12th, 2020" from podcasts like ""The 7", "How I Built This with Guy Raz", "Consider This from NPR", "TED Climate" and "This Week in Startups"" and more!
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ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Climeworks: Jan Wurzbacher
According to the 2022 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world needs to cut carbon emissions drastically to avoid the worst effects of global warming. But that’s not all. In addition to reducing emissions, we also need to remove 6 to 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year by 2050.
This week on How I Built This Lab, Guy talks with Jan Wurzbacher, co-founder and CEO of Climeworks. They discuss how Jan and his team built the world’s largest direct air capture facility, which filters carbon dioxide from the air and stores it permanently underground. Plus, Jan’s optimistic vision of how humans can achieve the goal of reversing climate change.
This episode was produced by Chris Maccini, with music by Ramtin Arablouei.
Edited by John Isabella.
Our audio engineer was Maggie Luthar.
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The Fight To Keep Climate Change Off The Back Burner
The world faces key deadlines for climate action in coming decades. But most of us are more focused on the short term — today, tomorrow, maybe next year. So what do we do about that?
NPR's Rebecca Hersher explains why humans have so much trouble prioritizing climate change.
And Esme Nicholson reports on climate protesters in Germany who are taking increasingly disruptive steps to demand action.
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NPR's Rebecca Hersher explains why humans have so much trouble prioritizing climate change.
And Esme Nicholson reports on climate protesters in Germany who are taking increasingly disruptive steps to demand action.
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Apple's promise to be carbon neutral by 2030 | Lisa Jackson and Liz Ogbu
Under the leadership of Lisa Jackson, Apple's environment and social VP and former head of the EPA, the company is already carbon neutral within their own corporate and retail boundaries. By 2030, Apple hopes to extend carbon neutrality to their supply chain and consumers. In conversation with urbanist and spatial justice activist Liz Ogbu, Jackson shares thoughts on leadership, tech, the environment and building a green economy.
Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 12th, 2020
E1122 featuring Running Tide's Marty Odlin: https://rb.gy/fgg88x
E1123 Jason reacts to the iPhone 12: https://rb.gy/t8ztxz
E1124 featuring RapidDeploy CEO Steven Raucher: https://rb.gy/7ynjqn
E1125 featuring LAUNCH Accelerator 18's top 3 vote getting founders: https://rb.gy/ccglvt
Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis
E1123 Jason reacts to the iPhone 12: https://rb.gy/t8ztxz
E1124 featuring RapidDeploy CEO Steven Raucher: https://rb.gy/7ynjqn
E1125 featuring LAUNCH Accelerator 18's top 3 vote getting founders: https://rb.gy/ccglvt
Follow Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis
Europe’s plan to become the first carbon-neutral continent | Ursula von der Leyen
With the ambitious goal of becoming the first carbon-free continent by 2050, the European Union has committed to creating a greener world for future generations. In this bold talk, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, details the challenges and opportunities that come with transitioning an entire continent to clean energy -- and shows why fixing climate change calls for everyone to take action.
Are you ready for an electric car? From range anxiety, to Tesla’s boom, and how to buy at 40% off
Would you swap your car for an electric one? If the government gets it way, soon many more of us will have to.
The proposed ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars was dragged forward by five years to 2035 this week – and hybrid cars were bundled into the showroom clear-out too.
If that sticks, this means that by 2030 – just a decade from now – it’s highly likely the vast majority of cars being sold new will be pure electric.
For a modern world that has been shaped by the internal combustion-engined motor car that’s quite the change.
On this week’s podcast, we deliver an electric car special. Simon Lambert, Georgie Frost and Lee Boyce look at the logic behind banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars, whether the move can be pulled off and why hybrids are now also on the naughty list.
Charging infrastructure, range anxiety and questions over their lifecycle environmental costs are issues flagged by electric car sceptics, are they right?
Meanwhile, the thing holding many people back from buying them, argues Simon, is cost. Second hand supply of electric cars is thin and choice is limited; and while the pipeline of new models is picking up dramatically, they remain pricey compared to a standard petrol car.
But there could be a game-changer in the form of a salary sacrifice perk combined with a change to benefit-in-kind rules, so should you be badgering your boss to sign the company up so that you can buy a new electric car at 32% or 42% off?
Fittingly, this week the great Tesla adventure tale delivered another riveting chapter. In the first two days of the week, shares rocketed more than 35 per cent and have doubled since the start of 2020. Can Elon Musk’s stock heading for the moon be justified in any way?
Also, on this week’s show we talk about the 5 per cent interest offered by Zeuk – and our exclusive on the Financial Conduct Authority hitting back at adverts.
And finally, why did Lee Boyce take his wife and daughter out to lunch with a set of scales to eat a watermelon steak?
How the La Brea Tar Pits Work
It's surprising that a few 12-feet-deep pools of asphalt have proven to be one of the most significant troves of Pleistocene fossils, but the La Brea Tar Pits, located in the heart of Los Angeles, are giving science a clear picture of a puzzling time.
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