The Santa Cruz Community Calendar
Santa Cruz County, California
The Santa Cruz Community Calendar
Santa Cruz County, California
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Opening: 7:00 PM
Main Event: 7:00 PM
MOVIE NIGHT - Direct Air Carbon Capture + Concrete In this installment of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome OpenAir's own Na'im Merchant and Chris Neidl to to survey the primary pathways by which concrete can sequester CO2 in concrete, and how direct air carbon capture (DACC) plus concrete represents a scalable CDR solution we can start deploying *today*. Hosted by Sue Dorward and Megha Raghavan ABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUESTS CHRIS NEIDL is the co-founder of OpenAir and in this role works primarily on the collective's different advocacy missions. Chris entered the CDR space following a fifteen year global career in the renewable energy field as a solar installer, educator, policy advocate, researcher and business development manager. Since 2018 he has worked extensively on policies related to concrete decarbonization at the state and municipal level. In this capacity, he led OpenAir's inaugural advocacy mission in support of the Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Leadership Act (LECCLA) in New York State, and currently serves as an industrial decarbonization policy consultant for the Natural Resources Defense Council. NA'IM MERCHANT is a carbon removal consultant helping NGOs and start-ups figure out how to equitably and rapidly scale up carbon removal technologies. Na'im entered the carbon removal space after spending a decade in international development working with governments to improve access to life-saving health care technologies. He has co-authored reports and white papers with organizations like Carbon180 and Clean Air Task Force, and has advised companies like CarbonCure and Joro on supporting carbon removal. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoc-yrqTkjHdZRRsCPFo9o-FRI0IfhFk2U