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unlearned helplessness | partner @lowercarbon , previously carbon removal @stripe

San Francisco, CA

https://t.co/AcAxBYcpZM

Joined December 2011

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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Ryan Orbuch

2 years

A weird property of the frontier: finding the edge forces a realization that there’s very few people there, the others who’ve found it are tightly clustered and therefore quite happy to see you, and you all can’t help but ask “where is everybody?” in escalating confusion

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3 years

Here's your reminder that the whole idea of a personal carbon footprint was a targeted BP media campaign in 2005 and it worked so well that it seems like we've all forgotten this

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no source, might be fake, don't care, cannot tear my eyes away

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It’s strange that climate is so often framed as “save the planet”. The planet doesn’t care, it’ll be fine on geologic timescales. It’s about saving people.

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4 years

👋 After more than a hundred conversations with experts across disciplines, I wrote an introduction to Negative Emissions Technologies. 📓This is for absolute beginners: it's the primer I wish I'd had when I started learning about the field last year!

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We Need To Take CO2 Out Of The Sky

An absolute beginner's guide to carbon removal

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you guys remember trying to find open conference rooms?

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Some professional news... I'm joining @lowercarbon to lead carbon removal investing! Now I’m ryan @lowercarboncapital .com and I can't wait to learn more about what you're working on.

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I recently met a wooly pig on a Scottish farm and I can’t stop thinking about the fact that they exist

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if you don't tweet during the earthquake they delete your account

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3 years

see also: most of recycling

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How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

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4 years

excited for the new Robinhood growth strategy where you invite your friends to execute a hostile takeover

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Ryan Orbuch

3 years

👋 🗽 personal (physical) news After more than 5yrs in SF, I’m moving to NYC (and continuing to work on Stripe Climate). Very excited to experience a new city coming out of COVID. Looking for new friends and housemates!

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4 years

When I was little I looked at the space race and dreamed the world would rally around a huge science project again. 10+ gigaton scale negative emissions is that! It’s urgent, necessary, hard, dramatic, all of it. It’s the defining project of our generation.

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In parallel with zeroing out emissions, we'll need to remove a trillion tons of CO2 from the air and oceans. We @lowercarbon just raised a new $350m to support the world's best attempts. There's never been a better time to start a carbon removal company!

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Clean Up On Aisle Earth

There has never been a better time to start a carbon removal company.

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3 years

Congratulations @Climeworks on opening your Orca plant today in Iceland. At 4,000 tons/yr, it’s the largest direct air capture facility in the world! Thanks to 5,000+ @Stripe Climate users for contributing to scale technologies like this.

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4 years

my grandma organized a zoom call with all of the cousins and she's realizing that, as the host, she can mute each of us in order and ask us things wild power dynamic

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3 years

This piece goes into the history and here's a 2006 op-ed from a guy who literally worked on the ad campaign acknowledging it

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Opinion | Beyond Propaganda (Published 2006)

Six years ago I helped create BP’s current advertising campaign, the man-in-the-street television commercials.

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4 years

whenever I get sad and doubt experience curves I just look at this masterpeice

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I get that we're distracted by everything right now but in terms of genuinely world-changing innovations holy crap Starlink is amazing and I'm confused why it's not getting more hype

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2 years

Despite some truly cringe names, I still see a tremendous opportunity for a carbon removal company to call themselves Carbonara

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2 years

👋 We've put together a @lowercarbon wishlist of carbon removal ideas, both geochemical and biological. A lot of them won’t work, most will need new research, but they all need ambitious founders to try them!

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Our Carbon Removal Startup Wishlist

You make 'em good, we'll fund 'em well.

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3 years

it’s so cool that GPS is free

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"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." - EB White

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4 years

Giant mining trucks are insane I can’t believe these things are real

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thinking about sci-hub minting each paper as an NFT and distributing the proceeds to the actual authors

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1/ We’re excited to share @stripe ’s latest carbon removal purchases! We selected 6 projects with the help of 14 expert reviewers. These include new approaches to direct air capture and mineralization, as well as novel ocean and electrochemical methods.

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Stripe commits $8M to six new carbon removal companies

Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

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3 years

Here's one of the ads from back then: More in this piece:

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2 years

The fundamental lie of today's carbon markets is that credits are equivalent to each other. They're dressed up as commodity markets, but each unit of the commodity (carbon credit) is not at all interchangeable, and everyone's incentive is to look the other way.

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How should we value carbon that is kept out of the atmosphere temporarily, sometimes only for a year? Our new article explains how an increasingly prominent approach, called ton-year accounting, offers an incomplete answer. (1/16)

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📈 Carbon removal is now a nearly-$1B market, thanks to some of the most valuable and forward thinking companies on earth! Truly wild to see demand grow 1000x in less than three years. Incredible leadership by @nanransohoff .

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Introducing Frontier—a $925M advance market commitment (AMC) to accelerate carbon removal. It’s funded by Stripe, @Google , @Shopify , @Meta , @McKinsey , and the thousands of businesses using Stripe Climate. More details. ⬇️

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We need 100x more carbon removal researchers and founders, which means we need a great canonical introductory text. After 2 years and nearly 40 authors, The CDR Primer is out today. It's a tremendous gift to the field:

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Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer

A new resource on the fundamentals of carbon dioxide removal and its role in addressing the climate crisis.

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4 years

keep thinking about how my friends lives have split into “moved in with partner” or “lives with parents again” just based on their relationship status in february, and it’ll impact our whole life trajectory

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3 years

We’re kicking off @stripe ’s fall 2021 carbon removal purchases. To be considered, request a brief discussion with our team by filling out this form before Sept 17th. We’re looking forward to meeting you and learning more about what you're working on!

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Stripe Climate: Fall 2021 Carbon Removal Purchase [Due by Sept 24th]

Hi there, This is the form to be considered for Stripe's (stripe.com/climate) Fall 2021 Carbon Removal purchase. Please read these instructions in full before getting started. As context, our 2020...

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3 years

Did we ever celebrate that we’ve pretty much fixed the ozone hole? Does anyone throw parties for successful international coordination?

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🧵Since we launched @Stripe Climate in the US last year, we’ve seen a flood of interest from global businesses wanting to get involved. Now, businesses everywhere can join our growing coalition of 500+ businesses.

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Stripe Climate is now available for businesses around the world. Remove carbon as you grow your business: .

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4 years

can never get bored of undersea cable cross sections

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gradually then suddenly! @climatetech_vc

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👋 I’ve been at Stripe for one year now! It’s my first non-founder job. Coming in, I didn’t know what good looked like The biggest thing I learned this year is that I could be motivated by the people I’m around, moreso than the idea of the thing we’re building

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3 years

Is there anything like @3blue1brown for fundamental chemistry? I want to build intuition for what things like pH and electricity *are*, as opposed to static textbook definitions

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@SantoJLeo @micsolana IMO, it's at the very least misleading, given it's obviously not in BP's interest to convince people to reduce their consumption of the product BP sells. It's passing on the guilt instead of making their product better and taking responsibility for the negative externality

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🌲🌎Thrilled to share that I'll be co-leading Stripe's carbon sequestration project! If you're an academic researcher, entrepreneur, or a company looking to co-buy with us, I'd love to speak with you and learn more. orbuch @stripe .com or DM.

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Stripe's negative emissions commitment:

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4 years

For years, carbon removal has suffered from a lack of demand, and therefore been slow to scale. With Stripe Climate, we hope to assemble a coalition of buyers to begin changing this.

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Nan Ransohoff

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Many users have told us they want to take climate action, but don’t because figuring out what to do can be complicated. Stripe Climate makes it easy for businesses of any size to tackle climate change by funding frontier carbon removal: 🧵

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👋🌲 Do you use Stripe? Do you want to make your business carbon neutral (or negative)? I want to talk to you about it! orbuch @stripe .com or DM 🙏

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👋🌎 With guidance from climate experts, @nanransohoff and our team allocated @Stripe ’s money across four negative emissions projects! We focused on storing more carbon outside of the biosphere: 🧵/

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Stripe’s first carbon removal purchases

Announcing our first four recipients and expanding our commitment to support the negative emissions ecosystem.

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4 years

bonsai trees growing full size fruit

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How it started How it’s going

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3 years

still weirded out by the fact that we’re basically just slow burning fires with extra steps and we breathe oxygen for basically the same reason fires do

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7 months

1/ A lot to learn from this story, including some interesting carbon market history on how the Kyoto Protocol laid a (fundamentally flawed) foundation for voluntary carbon markets. The structural problem is simple: the business model of traditional offsets is false equivalency.

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5 years

📈 Excited to share the start of what my team and I have been working on! The 5% (!!) average conversion improvement mentioned in the post is the outcome of only a few months of experimentation -- there's much more coming. A bit on why this matters...

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A new and improved onboarding flow for Express accounts:

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3 years

Trying an experiment... Are you a scientist with an idea for carbon removal but you aren't sure how to commercialize? Are you someone looking to start a carbon removal company but don't have a particular idea locked in yet? Reply here and maybe this thread can help you out

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4 years

😮 The Thai govt gives loans to nationals abroad to open Thai restaurants, and even prefab restaurant plans. "Gastrodiplomacy is predicated on the notion that the easiest way to win hearts and minds is through the stomach." Some other countries too!

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👋 My team @stripe is hiring two fullstack engineers and a product designer! 🌎 We're going to make it easy for our users to have a real impact on climate. It's the most fun thing I've ever worked on. Design: Eng:

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2 years

finally

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2 years

I really hope we can move from a world of carbon credits to a world of radiative forcing credits. Everything from painting roofs white to marine cloud brightening and methane oxidation should be in scope, and the carbon lens makes us blind to the potential value of this stuff.

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@orbuch This is a key point that is so often missed in these conversations about carbon mitigation. Preserving existing forests, and improving ecosystem health, is truly critical--but many folks are indeed losing sight of topline goal of reducing radiative forcing.

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Sun Microsystems would have been such a cool name for a fusion company

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Startup idea: build a really good electric home stove that’s actually fun to cook with. Probably needs new burner tech, new pans, partnerships with famous chefs. Start very high end then go downmarket Tesla-style. Make people happy to remove home natural gas.

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did somebody say Climate Pledge Arena

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I moved back to SF! Excited to see new and old friends and lots of climate folks in person more often. Say hi 👋

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WFH day 4: fuck it I’m making a sourdough starter

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3 years

How do you learn to appreciate classical music? I feel like I… don’t get it, but would like to understand what there is to get “Read GEB” is not the answer I am looking for

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2014-2020 SF was something special despite myriad flaws. Feeling grateful I had the opportunity to experience some of the worlds within it.

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literally last night I had a nightmare about high school, ffs it's been half a decade, how do we still do this to our kids

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If I ever run for office I will offer a distinctive plant for people to plant in front of their houses. We must do better than these plastic yard signs.

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It may seem like carbon removal is a technology problem and carbon removal companies are technology companies. But no -- at scale that matters, it's a logistics problem and they're logistics companies, with enough science and technology to know which logistics they should do.

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4 years

Why is the climate discussion so broken? There’s so much fear and blame, and so little definite optimism. We have an opportunity right now to do the most exciting science project the world has ever seen. We need to start feeling it!

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5 years

“Nostalgia”: a VR app where you walk around your childhood home/town, but see it from your six year old height

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3 years

By mass, how much CO2e is locked up in plastic? (Eg if we solve plastic pollution with some microbe that eats it, how big of an emissions pulse should we expect?)

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5 years

"Yet not everyone wanted change... [they] regarded shipwrecks as god's bounty to the poor, and were resolutely hostile to any measure that might improve maritime safety"

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3 years

The most important thing I've been trying to fix from years of public school is simply to stop lying to myself about whether or not I truly understand something

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Ryan Orbuch

3 years

As we've begun to scale our procurement, it's clear that not *nearly* enough permanent carbon removal companies are being started. With this new partnership with @deepsciventures , we'll be a customer of first resort to encourage ambitious founders.

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Payments Company Stripe Is Kick Starting Market for Carbon Removal

Payments company Stripe is putting up millions to be first in line for carbon-removal technology still being developed.

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4 years

“have you guys seen how the move wind turbine blades” “yeah but there’s no way that thing can turn”

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Suddenly overwhelmed by the concept of sunburns – “damn, yeah, you got too close to the big star”

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@isaboemeke natural reactors exist!

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Ryan Orbuch

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This, combined with the fact that the distance to the frontier is surprisingly short, is a giant mindwarp that might be the strangest thing so far in learning about climate Anyone have similar experiences in other fields? It’s been difficult for me to articulate

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2 years

It turns out the vast majority of potential methane emissions, both human/industrial and natural, are almost entirely unmonitored. You’ll keep seeing this headline.

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Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane

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Ryan Orbuch

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We @lowercarbon are hiring a technical associate focused on carbon removal! You'll work directly with me and the rest of our team to find, evaluate, and support founders building the world's best attempts remove gigatons. Apply here, starting ASAP 👇:

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Ryan Orbuch

4 years

We can all have a good laugh here, but this stuff is really pernicious. Unfortunately you CAN meme people that rearranging deck chairs helps: emails, straws, grocery bags. We need hearts and minds for renewables, EVs, carbon removal, grid infrastructure -- distractions hurt!

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Alec Stapp

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“‘We’ve been looking at research suggesting that if you reduced those emails by just one a day, you would save a lot of carbon,’ said one person involved in COP26 preparations.” I had to triple check that this was not in fact The Onion. Somehow this is a real article in the FT.

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3 years

Applications for @stripe ’s Spring 2021 carbon removal purchases are now open: We accept applicants globally. If you’d like to apply, follow the instructions here. Due by March 21st. We’re excited to learn more about what you’re building!

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[Applicant Name] Stripe Carbon Removal Purchase Application

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we made nuclear energy before we knew how photosynthesis worked love historical examples that just *feel* out of order

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yeah sure your dall-e art is cool but it will never beat the cover of Maersk's 2021 Sustainability Report

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a dating app that pairs you based on mutual remembered wifi networks

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I want a monthly print magazine of everything new from my favorite blogs, nicely typeset

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Ryan Orbuch

3 years

This is an important and correct piece. Carbon removal is *so far* from being permanent, cheap, and scalable! For 10gt/yr removal by 2050, assuming reasonable failure and learning rates, we'd need thousands of CDR companies operating now. Today, there are less than 50.

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James Temple

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It's clear we'll need to draw down huge amounts of CO2, but the noise, news & hype in the space is feeding a perception that carbon removal will be cheap, simple & scalable—none of which we can count on.

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Ryan Orbuch

3 years

So today, we’re kicking off a new round of purchases. If you’re working on a carbon removal project, let us know here:

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Request an application for Stripe's carbon removal purchase

We're looking to purchase from ambitious carbon removal projects. If you'd like to apply for our purchase, submit this form.

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Ryan Orbuch

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We’re testing a new way to share @stripe 's latest carbon removal purchases — sign up here and join us next Wednesday to meet some great new carbon removal companies, hear from scientists, & learn more about how to scale this field.

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This paper will probably get shared a lot, so pointing out: "Non-CO2 effects such as surface albedo decreases associated with reforestation could counter almost half of the climate effect of carbon sequestration."

Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario

Communications Earth & Environment - Temporarily enhanced terrestrial carbon storage through nature based climate solutions can reduce the peak global temperature increase only when...

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4 years

Can't get over how cool this is The white crystal-y stuff on this basalt? It's CO2 that was captured from the air, concentrated... and then injected into a geothermal well until it mineralized as a carbonate where it'll be permanently stored. Geologic sequestration is wild

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Ryan Orbuch

5 years

I am obsessed with early 1900s blimp futurism

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No company in the world has removed more tons of carbon from the atmosphere than @CharmIndustrial . But the reason @lowercarbon is doubling down is that they’re just getting started:

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Charm Industrial

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We’ve raised $100m in Series B funding from General Catalyst, Lowercarbon and more! This comes on the heels of delivering 6,200 tons of carbon removal, and record-breaking new deals with Frontier and JPMorgan Chase to permanently remove 140,000 tons.

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4 years

just saw a hummingbird try to drink from a fake flower and im overwhelmed with sadness

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Ryan Orbuch

4 years

Here's quick list of resources that have helped me over the last few months, it's rough + certainly incomplete: … I'm working on a blogpost intro to negative emissions -- this list is one piece, sharing now in case it's useful!

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Negative Emissions Reading List (Rough/Incomplete!)

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Ryan Orbuch

2 years

London carbon removal hangout v2...we did one of these last summer and it's really cool to see the community growing! Thanks @stripe and @deepsciventures for hosting with us, great to see everyone 🤗

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Ryan Orbuch

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At @lowercarbon , we see the potential for carbon removal to become a massive industry, and I'm so excited to work with @sacca @crystale @claydumas @cleakolster @SexyLikeMeiosis @a_laplaza and team to continue supporting frontier carbon removal companies as an investor. 📈

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4 years

they play language learning tapes in the bathroom at work on Fridays and I’m always confused for a sec and I’ll never know why and I don’t want it to change

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Ryan Orbuch

3 years

We need more scientists starting carbon removal companies, and Activate’s program can be transformative. @Stripe is now a guaranteed first customer for Activate Fellows building permanent CDR, and we’re so excited to see what they create!

@activatefellows

Activate

@activatefellows

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The world needs gigaton-scale carbon removal. We're thrilled to partner with a coalition of climate leaders, including @Stripe & @carbon_180 , to launch The Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Imperative. #ActivateFellows

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@noampomsky the "having preferences is the opposite of depression" fortune cookie continues to be weirdly helpful for me

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Ryan Orbuch

6 years

After a wonderful 9 months of traveling and exploring, I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining @Stripe as a Product Manager!! I'm looking forward to working with and learning from the extremely thoughtful and kind people there.

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Ryan Orbuch

4 years

👀 interesting new Goldman Sachs research report on the economics of climate change: This chart shows the low-hanging decarbonization fruit quite viscerally:

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Ryan Orbuch

5 years

I like things that are real, but which a reasonable observer would absolutely not believe are real I watched a documentary about these caves when I was like ten I still think it's absolutely wild that they are real, e.g. on earth, right now, not fiction

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Ryan Orbuch

4 years

comforting to see that Colorado is still doing its thing

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