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Plan Sea: Ocean Interventions to Address Climate Change

Mar 1, 2023

Dr. Franziska Elmer and John Auckland join Wil Burns and new cohost Anna Madlener on the podcast to discuss the startup company for which they work called Seafields. 

Seafields uses compressed sargassum bales to function as natural “carbon batteries.” The bales are sunk into the abyssal plain of the ocean, which...


Feb 13, 2023

Host Wil Burns and producer, Andrew Lewin, welcome Mowgli Homes to the podcast to discuss the measuring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of carbon sequestration in the future. Mowgli is the CEO of Submarine, which is hoping to help the industry navigate the shoals of MRV in a cost-effective and...


Jan 20, 2023

Arin Crumley and Christian Robinson join Wil Burns and guest host (and producer), Andrew Lewin on the podcast to discuss their business called Pull to Refresh. The idea was borne out of a number of interactions on Clubhouse to help people and businesses reverse the effects of climate change.

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Jan 3, 2023

Wil Burns speaks to Romany Webb, an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Law School and Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, about local legislation around coastal and ocean carbon removal. Romany recently authored a paper entitled "Permitting seaweed cultivation for carbon sequestration...


Dec 20, 2022

Our inaugural episode is a critical one and one in which host Wil Burns explores often throughout this podcast how we qualify, verify, and report claims of carbon sequestration from ocean-based approaches. Wil is joined by two experts in the field, Steve Crooks, who is the co-founder at the consultancy Sylvestrum...