Yard Stick: Chris Tolles
🌱 Soil health,💡Agricultural innovation, 🤝Humanitarian Aid,🌱Carbon offset, and💥More
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails!
Today, Matt is joined by Chris Tolles, Co-founder and CEO of Yard Stick, an organization that is revolutionizing the way farmers measure their soil by making it accurate, instant, and affordable. While Chris sips on a Gangster Duck, and Matt quaffs both a Sparkle Pony and A Brew Hope, their discussion unearths the importance of soil health, its role as a carbon sink, and Chris’s fascinating journey from humanitarian relief worker to cutting-edge climate tech leader. So, go ahead, grab whatever beverage is calling your name right now, and let’s dig into the dirt together!
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
“There are many more times the amount of carbon stored in soils than the whole atmosphere of the earth. It’s a ludicrous amount of carbon, and that means we don’t want it to leave the soil.”
Chris Tolles, Co-founder and CEO of Yard Stick
What we drank during the episode: 🦆Gangster Duck✨Sparkle Pony 🍺A Brew Hope
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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
🧑💻Adam Neumann
🧑💻Chris Tolles
🧑💻Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
🧑💻Eric Smith
🧑💻Malcolm X
🧑💻Steve Jobs
🧑💻The Indigenous Peoples of West Africa
🧑💻The Biden-Harris Administration
💡ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
📜Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021
🔬NSF
🏫Rhode Island School of Design
🌽USDA
📖The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
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[0:00] Introduction
[0:51] What we’re drinking
[2:55] Home and Family
[5:47] Across the Sea
[10:09] Chris in Liberia and Honduras
[15:51] Humanitarian Work
[19:11] Faith and Entrepreneurship
[26:18] Chris’ soil origins
[27:48] Ayush Gyawali, the ARPA-E Summit, and the Yard Stick Probe
[31:26] The dirt on soil
[37:25] Soil.. a carbon sink
[39:54] A Brew Hope
[41:05] The Farm Bill
[45:44] Yard Stick and soil
[52:33] A farmer’s soil economy
[55:49] The 3 scopes of emissions
[59:06] Yard Stick’s business model
[1:00:01] Emissions regulations
[1:04:06] Consumer behavior
[1:07:13] Tough Tech Summit
[1:08:24] Rapid Questions
[1:15:51] Outro