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Reversing Climate Change

Reversing Climate Change

By: Ross Kenyon
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Summary
 Reversing Climate Change is a podcast about carbon removal and climatetech that keeps wandering off into literature, history, philosophy, theology, and geopolitics on the theory that the technical and scientific questions stop making much sense without them. Hosted by Ross Kenyon, who did not go past a year of political philosophy PhD coursework and has visibly not let it go. Paid subscriptions live on Substack @ https://rosskenyon.com.Ross Kenyon Philosophy Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Climate is pitchfork time! Neurodiversity, anger, & candor—w/ Dimitry Gershenson of Enduring Planet

    Climate is pitchfork time! Neurodiversity, anger, & candor—w/ Dimitry Gershenson of Enduring Planet
    Oct 27 2026

    What happens when you ask Dimitry Gershenson how he's doing? He tells you. This confuses people at parties, and by his account it works surprisingly well on investors.

    Today's guest is Dimitry Gershenson, the co-founder and CEO of Enduring Planet, which provides "founder-friendly working capital and financial advisory services to climate startups and SMBs," often lending against a government grant or contract. They recently closed a second fund more than twice the size of their first.

    We get into why so much climate content reads like it went through legal, the op-ed on impact investing in an age of autocracy he held back until his fund closed (a major investor bailed anyway), how much (or how little) of his work runs on anger, and what being on the autism spectrum is like while running a company of almost 120 people.

    And Dimitry tells the story of a field trip with his old Berkeley professor John Harte, who gave the bleakest two-word summary of climate change I've heard in a while, followed by a surprisingly useful second answer.

    Full disclosure: I have a referral agreement with Enduring Planet, so if you go talk to them, tell them I sent you.

    • Enduring Planet
    • Courageous Capital: Impact investing in an age of autocracy, Dimitry Gershenson and Jed Emerson, ImpactAlpha
    • Take risk, act swiftly and seven other tips for deploying catalytic capital the right way, Dimitry Gershenson, ImpactAlpha
    • With $12M second fund, fintech startup aims to pump more cash into climate entrepreneurs, GeekWire
    • Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
    • Radical Candor, Kim Scott


    This episode's page on the web
    Subscribe to the Reversing Climate Change Substack
    Books from the show, at Bookshop
    My other show, Climate Workers Anonymous
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    59 mins
  • The palm nutcracker that became a carbon dioxide removal company—w/ Uzoma Ayogu of Biochar Industrial Group

    The palm nutcracker that became a carbon dioxide removal company—w/ Uzoma Ayogu of Biochar Industrial Group
    Sep 24 2026
    What do you do when none of the machinery you imported works? If you're Releaf, you build your own nutcracker, name it Kraken, and get it working with about six weeks of runway left in the middle of COVID. And once you have a huge pile of palm kernel shells sitting around, why not get really into biochar?Today's guest is Uzoma Ayogu, cofounder and CTO of Releaf and cofounder of Biochar Industrial Group (BIG), which just closed a $1.5 million pre-seed. Releaf cracks palm nuts from smallholder farms in Nigeria, where equipment built for plantations met thick-shelled nuts that arrive wet, dusty and full of rocks. BIG is the carbon dioxide removal side, spun out because Releaf's investors understood agriculture and supply chains and did not understand the voluntary carbon market.They bought their pyrolyzer from a Ukrainian manufacturer during a war, installed it without the manufacturer's engineer, and Uzo slept in the factory on a yoga mat for two weeks. Uptime went from around a third to 87 percent. We also get into cassava yields, what Y Combinator told them when they got in, and my own YC story, which ends with Nori getting in and saying no.This Episode's SponsorEcoEngineers: a full-service advisory and consulting firm focused on carbon dioxide removal, decarbonization, and carbon markets.Listen to the RCC episode I made with David LaGreca from EcoEngineers about how to choose, hire, and fire carbon market contractors.And the one with Rudy Krehbiel, also of EcoEngineers, on which story carbon dioxide removal is actually in and what it costs to be inside the wrong one.2026 EcoForums Training Series: Navigating Global Carbon and Fuel Regulations, Market Mechanisms, and Life-Cycle Analysis FundamentalsResourcesFull disclosure: Uzo, Kenna, and I met in the AirMiners Launchpad Accelerator program and I have worked with them in a few programs since.Subscribe to the Reversing Climate Change SubstackBecome a paid subscriber for bonus content and ad-free episodesMy other show, Climate Workers AnonymousReleafBiochar Industrial GroupBIG raises $1.5m to turn African farm waste into carbon removal, TechCabalAirMinersHow Releaf is scaling Nigerian biochar, my piece for RainbowBooks from the show, at BookshopResourcesThis episode's page on the web: https://www.rosskenyon.com/p/the-palm-nutcracker-that-became-a-86aSubscribe to the Reversing Climate Change Substack: https://www.rosskenyon.com/subscribeBooks from the show, at Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/reversing-climate-changeMy other show, Climate Workers Anonymous: https://www.climateworkersanonymous.com
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Katharine Wilkinson on Climate Wayfinding & why climate work is (unfortunately) spiritual work

    Katharine Wilkinson on Climate Wayfinding & why climate work is (unfortunately) spiritual work
    Oct 15 2026

    I've known Katharine Wilkinson's work for a long time, but only recently got a monkey wrench far enough around my heart to open it up and engage with it seriously. Her new book is Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home, and she says plainly what most of climate work treats as a fluffy nice-to-have: the core of this work is spiritual, and she probably knew it at 16.

    Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson co-founded and leads The All We Can Save Project and co-edited All We Can Save with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. She was lead writer of Drawdown and co-hosts A Matter of Degrees with Dr. Leah Stokes.

    Listen in as she reteaches Ross how to listen to the wisdom centers of his body, and why it is that we have grown so practical that we have lost touch with such a basic skill.

    Links

    • Climate Wayfinding, at Bookshop

    • The All We Can Save Project

    • Human on Earth, Katharine's Substack

    • A Matter of Degrees

    • The Carbon Wave by Leah Stokes, at Bookshop

    • Plum Village

    • Thinking Little with Mary Berry (episode 422)

    Resources

    This episode's page on the web: ⁠https://www.rosskenyon.com/p/katharine-wilkinson-climate-wayfinding⁠

    Subscribe to the Reversing Climate Change Substack: ⁠https://www.rosskenyon.com/subscribe⁠

    Books from the show, at Bookshop: ⁠https://bookshop.org/shop/reversing-climate-change⁠

    My other show, Climate Workers Anonymous: ⁠https://www.climateworkersanonymous.com
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    56 mins
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