Heirloom

Achieving net-zero requires enabling technologies today that can scale to remove billions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Heirloom, along with 44 other organizations, joined the Negative Emissions Platform to outline a game plan for embedding high-quality carbon removal into the next EU mandate—a strategic roadmap guiding EU policy for the next five years. Read our full joint letter here: https://bit.ly/4fhRO8i

Happy Carbon Removal Day from California's Central Valley, where we’re removing CO2 at the nation’s first commercial Direct Air Capture facility! You can read more about how we're integrating the natural process of carbon mineralization with the precision of Direct Air Capture here: https://lnkd.in/g48m9Qez

Watch our cofounder, Noah McQueen, on stage at the The Atlantic Festival discussing our rapid journey from lab to commercial scale in our mission towards removing billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. You can check out the full panel here: https://lnkd.in/eFqTaeBd

Interested in connecting with other LGBTQ+ professionals working in climate? Heirloom is partnering with Out in Climate to host a tour and mixer at our Headquarters in Brisbane, CA, on the evening of October 10th! Join us for a night of networking while learning more about how we're restoring balance to our atmosphere through low-cost carbon removal. Event details and tickets here ?? (https://lu.ma/en06atds)!

Capture carbon with your tech. Sell credits with ours. ?? Today Shopify is introducing Carbon Commerce, a new way for climate tech companies, project developers, and brokers to manage and sell carbon credits. Incredible companies like Heirloom, Grassroots Carbon, and Graphyte are already up and selling on Shopify, and ecosystem partners like Isometric, Frontier Carbon Solutions, and Alcove are tackling carbon-specific challenges like registry integration, demand generation, and data management. Shopify is the best commerce platform in the world, powering every conceivable type of transaction. With Carbon Commerce, we're unleashing our software on carbon to power long-term offtakes, monthly subscriptions, and everything in between. To find out more about Carbon Commerce, check out the links in the comments or reach out directly. #Shopify #carbonremoval #climate?

Miami, here I come! ?????? From September 23rd to 25th, I’ll be at the International Air Transport Association (IATA)’s World Sustainability Symposium, talking about how high quality carbon removal can help the aviation sector achieve net-zero with the urgency our climate goals demand. If you’re around, let’s meet up and chat about how we can tackle these climate goals together. See you there or shoot me a note if you'd like to meet! In the meantime, read more about Heirloom's Direct Air Capture technology here: https://lnkd.in/gPjjMi6B

I'll be on the ground in New York for Climate Week from September 23rd-25th! I'll be joining the XPRIZE Panel moderated by Nikki Batchelor alongside Julia Reichelstein, Mike Kelland, and Jim Mann on Catalyzing Carbon Removal Innovation on Monday, September 23rd at Flowcarbon's CarbonSmart Summit (https://lnkd.in/gHxcHirQ). See you there or send me a note if you'd like to meet!

Heirloom's co-founder Noah McQueen has been named to MIT Technology Review's list of 2024 Innovators Under 35! "Noah McQueen, 28, cofounded Heirloom Carbon Technologies in 2020 in a bid to drive down the costs and scale up [carbon removal] facilities.?As an undergraduate at the Colorado School of Mines, McQueen had been searching for ways to use their love of math and science to achieve “an impact that’s bigger than myself.” When they began working with Jennifer Wilcox, a chemical engineering professor who had done pioneering work on capturing carbon dioxide from industrial plants or plucking it out of the air, McQueen finally saw a way to do so." Read the full write-up ?? https://lnkd.in/eFuhUgR3

Thank you to David St. Etienne of the The Louisiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Inc for the warm welcome to Shreveport, where we’ll be harnessing the talents of minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses to power the clean industrial revolution! https://lnkd.in/dqnkMADY

In the two years since the Inflation Reduction Act's passage, we’ve opened America’s first commercial Direct Air Capture (DAC) facility, announced two future facilities in? Louisiana (including a million-ton removal DAC Hub which will create thousands of jobs) and signed some of the largest deals in carbon removal to-date. Thank you to the leaders who secured the passage of this historical legislation. Your votes have put? America on the cutting edge of climate innovation!