About

Atmospheric carbon is a resource.

I started in chemistry. Not as a theorist but at the bench. A lab chemist, hands in the work. That training gave me something never lost: comfort at the molecular level, with how atoms behave, with the difference between what a process promises and what it can deliver.

Film taught me the other half of what science communication requires: how audiences receive information, where they open and where they close, how a frame shapes what's possible to believe. The two disciplines together — chemistry and storytelling — turned out to be exactly the combination that climate work needs.

When I met Peter Eisenberger, the pieces clicked. Not because he convinced me climate mattered. I already believed that. But because direct air capture gave me a concrete, engineered answer to a question I'd been circling: how can we get to carbon balance? Peter showed me: it looks like this. A machine. A process. A system that captures carbon from the air, the way photosynthesis does, but faster and at scale.

What I've come to believe is that climate change and poverty are interlinked. Climate will affect everyone, but it will affect the most vulnerable catastrophically more so. And the logical response is to build solutions that address both simultaneously.

That's what brought us to Kenya. Using captured CO₂ to prevent post-harvest losses, protecting farmers' income, soil, water, health and food security. It was a joy to see the farmers' enthusiasm about using dry ice for transport and market display. Atmospheric CO₂ not as a problem, but as a working resource.