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Ep. 69 – Live from Greentown Labs Houston with Emily Reichert
One year ago, Greentown Labs announced they were expanding to Houston to open their second incubator. Today, we were thrilled to visit their new space in Midtown and host this week’s session live with Emily Reichert, Chief Executive Officer. Their team has made tremendous progress over the past year and we are so pleased to…
Ep. 68 – “Radical Pro-Environment Thinking” Featuring Greg McLean
This week we had the great opportunity to visit with Greg McLean, Member of Parliament representing Calgary Centre in the Canadian House of Commons. In 2020, Greg introduced a bill to create a non-refundable performance-based tax credit for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects. We took great interest in hearing Greg’s story and were…
Ep. 65 – Featuring J.P. Bauman, Kelcy Pegler, and Yann Brandt
For this week’s session, we had the opportunity to visit with a great friend of the firm: J.P. Bauman, Principal at Altira Group. As you may know, Altira Group is a Denver-based venture capital firm that takes earned pride in building companies focused on the technology and software that will underpin the sustainable, vibrant, and…
Ep. 64 – “Sunshine Is The Best Disinfectant” – A Conversation with Dr. Steven Koonin
On this week’s COBT, we were very honored to be joined by Dr. Steven Koonin, author of a new book entitled “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.” The title refers to the central thesis of the book… which is that in the rush to proclaim climate science definitive,…
Ep. 60 – “Consider the Sinks, Not Just the Sources” Featuring the Salk Institute Harnessing Plants Initiative
This week’s session was truly remarkable. We had the honor of hosting the Salk Institute Harnessing Plants Initiative team comprised of some of the brightest minds working to mitigate climate change with perhaps the most genius idea since Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine: harnessing the natural power of plants to rebalance our carbon cycle. The Harnessing…
Ep. 58 – Energy and the Media Featuring Jim Krane, Ph.D. (Rice University) & Chris Tomlinson (Houston Chronicle)
We had a super-unique and stimulating session today all about interactions between the energy industry, the media, public opinion and energy policy. We were lucky to be joined by two experts in the field: Jim Krane, Ph.D., Author and Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute and Chris Tomlinson, Author…
Ep. 57 – “Adapt and Be Adept” Featuring Terry Anderson
You never know who you might meet on the ski chairlift! As you’ll hear, today we had the pleasure of hosting Terry Anderson, a great friend, author and scholar. Terry is the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and is the author or editor of nearly 40 books. Terry…
Ep. 50 – Ranked Choice Voting Featuring Harriet Wasserstrum & Mark Jones, Ph.D
You may already be familiar with the topic of today’s show: ranked choice voting (also known as instant runoff voting). We were thrilled to be joined by two experts on the topic, Harriet Wasserstrum, Co-Founder and Chair of Ranked Choice Voting for Texas, along with Mark Jones, Ph.D., Fellow in Political Science and Chair in…
Ep. 47 – Featuring Gregory Wrightstone (Author, “Inconvenient Facts”)
Welcome to another edition of COBT! There is no shortage of news this week with the inauguration of President Elect Joe Biden and his potential plans for executive orders in early days of his administration. We were pleased to be joined by Gregory Wrightstone, Executive Director at CO2 Coalition and Author of “Inconvenient Facts” to…