The Elephant

Kevin Caners

Welcome to The Elephant! An interview and storytelling podcast investigating up-and-coming solutions to one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. Supported by Climate-KIC

  1. The $100 Million Prize for Carbon Dioxide Removal

    2021-07-06

    The $100 Million Prize for Carbon Dioxide Removal

    Elon Musk this year partnered with The X-Prize to create a $100 million prize for the best solutions for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean. This $100 million represents the biggest incentive prize in history, and likely the biggest single investment made into negative emissions to date. We talk wih the X-Prize's Executive Director Marcius Extavour and Erica Dodds, the CEO of the Foundation for Climate Restoration about the prize and the lay of the land when it comes to developing and executing these processes that would pull CO2 back out of the atmosphere.

    58 min
  2. Peter Eisenberger on The Promise of Direct Air Capture

    2020-06-30

    Peter Eisenberger on The Promise of Direct Air Capture

    In this episode we speak to Peter Eisenberger the co-founder of Global Thermostat - one of the leading direct air capture companies in the world. In the interview we talk about how we could create what Peter calls the renewable energy and materials related economy, how the current Coronavirus pandemic influenced his thinking on climate change, and why he is convinced that all organizations within the direct air capture sector need to cooperate to help accelerate the technology as quickly as possible. Global Thermostat Website: https://globalthermostat.com/ You can find our original series on direct air capture here: https://bit.ly/directairpod

    51 min
  3. 'Scales of Change' - Technosalvation

    2020-06-10

    'Scales of Change' - Technosalvation

    Today we're featuring an episode from one of our favourite podcasts Future Ecologies, and their new mini-series "Scales of Change." In the series, hosts Mendel and Adam take a deep dive into the various "Dragons of Climate Inaction," the psychological barriers which prevent us from collectively responding to climate change with the appropriate urgency. Listen to this episode on "Technosalvation" and subscribe to their series by searching for Future Ecologies, wherever you listen to podcasts. Website: https://www.futureecologies.net/dragons

    36 min
  4. Inside the Plastisphere

    2020-05-13

    Inside the Plastisphere

    It’s the recommendation show! With all the new time many of us have on our hands, we wanted to tip our hat to some of our favourite things we think you should know about. In this episode we speak with Anja Krieger, the journalist behind one of our favourite environmental podcasts called The Plastisphere. In it she investigates the complex nature and hard to solve challenges caused by that most wondrous and durable of materials: plastic. And later on, we feature an episode of the Plastisphere called: “Confused About Bioplastics?” The Plastisphere’s Website: www.plastisphere.earth The Plastisphere on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LpqhWz The Plastisphere on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/plastisphere-podcast Foreign Policy’s Heat of the Moment Podcast: https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/heat-of-the-moment-climate-change/ Music in this episode by Podington Bear and Blue Note Sessions

    1 hr
  5. The "100% Solution" to Climate Change

    2020-04-07

    The "100% Solution" to Climate Change

    Solomon Goldstein-Rose is a climate activist and former Massachusetts state representative. In his new book, "The 100% Solution" he breaks down what it will take in his view for society to come up with a complete systemic solution to climate change, and achieve net negative emissions by 2050.

    53 min
  6. Updates: Exciting News in Direct Air Capture

    2019-08-27

    Updates: Exciting News in Direct Air Capture

    Since we first started looking at the science of CO2 removal with our podcast series on direct air capture, a huge amount has happened. So In this episode, we take you inside all the exciting news and developments that have been announced recently, which are pushing the goal of taking large amounts of CO2 back out of the atmosphere closer to reality.

    44 min
  7. Iceland and the Surprising Science of Turning CO2 into Rock

    2019-07-19

    Iceland and the Surprising Science of Turning CO2 into Rock

    Imagine we overcame the many obstacles and successfully built the giant infrastructure that would be needed to directly capture billions of tons of CO2 back out of the air each year. You might reasonably think that we would have then completely solved the problem. But there’s one big question mark that would still be lingering in the air: Where exactly are we going to safely store all of this carbon dioxide? After all, it’s a gas! if you put it in the ground, it’s going to want to come back up. That’s where an ingenious experiment underway in Iceland called Carbfix comes into play. Nestled among volcanic mountains, a team of scientists are hard at work experimenting with turning large amounts of CO2 into rock. Is this the new alchemy? Or a genuine solution that could end up helping us solve climate change? Listen to this, our final episode in our series on negative emissions, to find out!

    56 min
  8. Envisioning a Future with Large-Scale CO2 Removal

    2019-07-03

    Envisioning a Future with Large-Scale CO2 Removal

    Carbon dioxide removal does already exist, but only at the tiniest of scales. But what could a future where we're successfully capturing billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year, actually look like? Where would all the CO2 be stored? What might the carbon capture machines look like? And how are we going to get this whole carbon capturing business off the ground? We explore these and other questions in this 3rd episode in our series looking at Carbon Dioxide Removal. (Pictured: an artist's illustration from the Canadian company Carbon Engineering depicting what a future carbon capture installation might look like)

    36 min
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Welcome to The Elephant! An interview and storytelling podcast investigating up-and-coming solutions to one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. Supported by Climate-KIC

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  • Creator
    Kevin Caners
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2021
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Clean
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    The Elephant