essays

The overwhelming climate relevance of Charlie Chaplin’s speech from The Great Dictator

How a poetry episode for the Reversing Climate Change podcast accidentally ended up as an hour-long riff on Hitler, political comedy, and why we are…

23 hrs ago • Ross Kenyon

Travel writing, climate change, & mistakes I've made in Serbia

Some reflections on the rerelease of J. Maarten Troost's Reversing Climate Change episode—a personal favorite of mine.

Aug 13 • Ross Kenyon

How non-human intelligence will change us and our work in climate

D.W. Pasulka is on the Reversing Climate Change podcast to talk ontology, Marshall McLuhan, AI, & the enduring popularity of the paranormal

Jul 23 • Ross Kenyon

When an avoidance investor makes its first carbon dioxide removal bet

To go forward in CDR, do we need to go backwards into the older carbon offsets paradigm?

Jul 3 • Ross Kenyon

Belief that makes itself true, and what that would mean for carbon removal

Would the future reach into the past to create itself?

Jul 2 • Ross Kenyon

Does simplicity help or harm climate communications and Romantic poetry?

A sally into Romantic poetry by way of "Jerusalem [And did those feet in ancient time]" by William Blake

Jun 22 • Ross Kenyon

Should carbon dioxide removal methodologies be modular?

Modular methodologies are dead. Long live modular methodologies.

Jun 19 • Ross Kenyon

Wittgenstein, family resemblance, and why carbon credit categories aren't stable (but it doesn't matter)

If we created an objectively correct and exhaustive categorization of carbon credits, would it solve everything? Would it solve anything?

Jun 8 • Ross Kenyon

Why distributed biochar needs two methodologies

Gresham's Law can make mischief of carbon credits.

Jun 3 • Ross Kenyon

How Releaf is scaling Nigerian biochar

A new biochar project developer is born when biomass processing experts evolve

May 8 • Ross Kenyon

The farm that accidentally built a pyrolysis boiler company

If no one’s making it, make it yourself

Apr 29 • Ross Kenyon

Why carbon markets need beautiful tools

For carbon removal, beauty matters more than many believe.

Feb 24 • Ross Kenyon

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