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Rolling up our sleeves & digging in to carbon removal with Michael Leggett of Nori.com
Rolling up our sleeves & digging in to carbon removal with Michael Leggett of Nori.com
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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Apr 9, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Michael Leggett was a software designer working for big tech companies like Google and Facebook until the 2016 election spurred him to find a new career tackling the climate crisis. He joined forces with Seattle startup Nori to help build an online marketplace where customers pay farmers to draw CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in the soil. In this episode we chat about what it was like to leave his steady tech job to pursue what he felt called to do, and how he views the role designers play in taking climate action. “There’s so many things designers do that are applicable,” Michael says. “We are storytellers. We are salesmen. These are valuable skills. This is a hard story to tell.” Let’s roll up our sleeves and dig in. Show notes at http://climatedesigners.org/podcast/104
Released:
Apr 9, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (16)
A Designer’s Role in Climate Change: Warning: This Episode Might Get You Fired. Inspired by books like Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro and Throwing Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi by Mark Boyle, we ask: “What can (or maybe should) designers do, in their current jobs, to take a stand and have an impact on climate change?” by We Are Climate Designers