Zach Cockrum
@zachcockrum.bsky.social
VP of Policy and Partnership @ Vesta, a public benefit corporation providing coastal protection and ocean-based carbon removal.
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It is deeply hilarious that the Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 and chugged along for three and a half centuries and Private Equity finished it off in like five years.
After 355 years, the Hudson’s Bay Company has closed its doors.
Remembering The Bay
After 355 years, the Hudson’s Bay Company has closed its doors.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It is deeply hilarious that the Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 and chugged along for three and a half centuries and Private Equity finished it off in like five years.
What we need isn’t a spokesperson for the Dems but a leader to build a movement that is entirely adjacent to it (a progressive MAGA) The party is incapable of saving itself from within. The first talented politician not busy in office (ahem, Pete) to realize this will control the fate of the party.
I would do it exclusively in red areas. Go where minds can be changed. Not where the choir already stands behind you !
Good idea. But why not have him do it from Main Street, USA? Go on location and deliver the news to the people outside the DC bubble. Interview people the news would affect.
Don’t make it a press conf. Make it a sales pitch that happens to be a news/entertainment show with direct distribution.
Don’t make it a press conf. Make it a sales pitch that happens to be a news/entertainment show with direct distribution.
February 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
What we need isn’t a spokesperson for the Dems but a leader to build a movement that is entirely adjacent to it (a progressive MAGA) The party is incapable of saving itself from within. The first talented politician not busy in office (ahem, Pete) to realize this will control the fate of the party.
We need more of this! Stop trying to sell policy outcomes to a dwindling number of supporters and start winning hearts and minds!
Guess what - our Science Moms climate ad made this top ten best (upcoming) Super Bowl ads list! The only nonprofit ad on the list!
Warning: do not watch without a tissue
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...
Warning: do not watch without a tissue
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...
ByTheTime
YouTube video by Science Moms
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February 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We need more of this! Stop trying to sell policy outcomes to a dwindling number of supporters and start winning hearts and minds!
We’re gonna have to bail out the AI industry aren’t we?
January 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
We’re gonna have to bail out the AI industry aren’t we?
Findings on impacts to oysters from Vesta's first olivine-based Coastal Carbon Capture deployment in Long Island are now available via preprint!
Very excited to share our first preprint of results from the mERW/OAE field trial that Vesta deployed back in 2022! Important implications for understanding co-benefits and environmental impacts of this strategy!
Limited impact on oysters in first-of-its-kind field trial of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) strategy. cdrxiv.org/preprint/326
January 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Findings on impacts to oysters from Vesta's first olivine-based Coastal Carbon Capture deployment in Long Island are now available via preprint!
This is alarming, but it's also a good example of how, despite the flurry of EOs, they're not as strategic as they pretend to be. Every large research university in the country is a political powerhouse across the political spectrum. These little fractures matter.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is alarming, but it's also a good example of how, despite the flurry of EOs, they're not as strategic as they pretend to be. Every large research university in the country is a political powerhouse across the political spectrum. These little fractures matter.
This should be a cautionary tale to everyone in the marine carbon removal world. Trump's first DOI Secretary, Ryan Zinke, supported offshore wind, and here we are 8 years later. No "pro-growth/pro-US leadership/common sense" idea survives a populist backlash from the right constituencies.
ICYMI last night trump ordered the government to completely stop all permits to wind projects
its a worst case scenario for the wind industry
heatmap.news/sparks/wind-...
its a worst case scenario for the wind industry
heatmap.news/sparks/wind-...
Trump Orders End to All Wind Energy Permits
The worst case scenario for the wind industry is here.
heatmap.news
January 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This should be a cautionary tale to everyone in the marine carbon removal world. Trump's first DOI Secretary, Ryan Zinke, supported offshore wind, and here we are 8 years later. No "pro-growth/pro-US leadership/common sense" idea survives a populist backlash from the right constituencies.
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We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
shatterzone.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
Great piece from @thenation.com Totally tracks with my climate advocacy experience. Millions upon millions chasing flawed metrics. Nobody stopping to question if we are changing anyone’s minds.
The progressive left did not push Harris to be more “woke” than voters want. But it’s true that our organizations are weak, and fail to truly represent the multiracial working class. That is what we must honestly grapple with now.
Left Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why.
Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term.
www.thenation.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Great piece from @thenation.com Totally tracks with my climate advocacy experience. Millions upon millions chasing flawed metrics. Nobody stopping to question if we are changing anyone’s minds.
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Report Launch: A more scaled carbon removal industry could employ 130,000 Americans in the coming decade, according to a new Rhodium Group analysis. www.carbonremovalalliance.org/policy-work/...
Carbon removal could employ 130,000 Americans in coming decade
An assessment of the sector's economic opportunities, published by Rhodium Group
www.carbonremovalalliance.org
January 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Report Launch: A more scaled carbon removal industry could employ 130,000 Americans in the coming decade, according to a new Rhodium Group analysis. www.carbonremovalalliance.org/policy-work/...
How you know BlueSky has reached the mainstream: my Dad is now on here and saw this post 😂
A surprising battleground with an aging father(late 30s and early 70s): who drives the rental car?
Especially in a foreign country where I speak the language, you’d think it was an easy decision…
Especially in a foreign country where I speak the language, you’d think it was an easy decision…
January 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
How you know BlueSky has reached the mainstream: my Dad is now on here and saw this post 😂
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In a strange and surprising twist, I just wrote something *almost* hopeful about international governance of #mcdr. See for yourself but, please, don't burst my bubble too violently. It's nice to have at least a fleeting glimmer of hope these days. blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
International Governance of mCDR: Small Steps Forward, but Much More Work to do - Climate Law Blog
Late last year, members of the international community convened in London to discuss issues relating to implementation of the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes...
blogs.law.columbia.edu
January 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
In a strange and surprising twist, I just wrote something *almost* hopeful about international governance of #mcdr. See for yourself but, please, don't burst my bubble too violently. It's nice to have at least a fleeting glimmer of hope these days. blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
I worked on Klamath River dam removal a while ago. This is a great example of how anything vaguely progressive can be thrust into the culture war, no matter how long it was debated and planned, how much economic sense it made, or how irrelevant it is (this particular dam was actually in Oregon)
Jesse Watters says “the Indians” in California are responsible for “tearing down western civilization” and spreading fires
www.mediamatters.org
January 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I worked on Klamath River dam removal a while ago. This is a great example of how anything vaguely progressive can be thrust into the culture war, no matter how long it was debated and planned, how much economic sense it made, or how irrelevant it is (this particular dam was actually in Oregon)
Before working for a climate start-up, I spent most of my career working for and alongside major national enviro NGOs and this is a key source of frustration about how they've handled climate advocacy. No, they should not deploy disinfo; but they should mimic the tactics. 1/5
a dynamic worth getting used to: american climate deniers/skeptics are much more adept in internet disinfo tactics than american climate activists, who’ve built a lot of their movement on Actual Truth
People keep telling me that X is a better platform to follow the LA Count fires on and, well, these are the top hits on the top trending topic
January 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Before working for a climate start-up, I spent most of my career working for and alongside major national enviro NGOs and this is a key source of frustration about how they've handled climate advocacy. No, they should not deploy disinfo; but they should mimic the tactics. 1/5
A surprising battleground with an aging father(late 30s and early 70s): who drives the rental car?
Especially in a foreign country where I speak the language, you’d think it was an easy decision…
Especially in a foreign country where I speak the language, you’d think it was an easy decision…
December 16, 2024 at 3:28 PM
A surprising battleground with an aging father(late 30s and early 70s): who drives the rental car?
Especially in a foreign country where I speak the language, you’d think it was an easy decision…
Especially in a foreign country where I speak the language, you’d think it was an easy decision…
My three-year-old’s go to excuse for not wanting to go to Pre-K is “I don’t need to go to school, I already know everything.”
As far as excuses go it is creative, if not convincing. He still says “aminals”, after all.
As far as excuses go it is creative, if not convincing. He still says “aminals”, after all.
December 16, 2024 at 3:24 PM
My three-year-old’s go to excuse for not wanting to go to Pre-K is “I don’t need to go to school, I already know everything.”
As far as excuses go it is creative, if not convincing. He still says “aminals”, after all.
As far as excuses go it is creative, if not convincing. He still says “aminals”, after all.
Anyone’s prediction what the carbon market will do. But co-benefits and value that doesn’t depend solely on credit sales will be invaluable anyway you look at it.
New substack post asking: is winter coming in the voluntary market for #carbonremoval credits? ❄️
And how can railroads and professional wrestling (!) offer paths forward? 🛤️💪
Read on, and feel free to comment and share! 🙌
climagination.substack.com/p/is-winter-...
And how can railroads and professional wrestling (!) offer paths forward? 🛤️💪
Read on, and feel free to comment and share! 🙌
climagination.substack.com/p/is-winter-...
Is Winter Coming?
How reframing carbon removal can be a throughline to a prosperous industry
climagination.substack.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Anyone’s prediction what the carbon market will do. But co-benefits and value that doesn’t depend solely on credit sales will be invaluable anyway you look at it.
All climate solutions community outreach conversations should end with open invitations to go feral hog hunting.
December 6, 2024 at 6:04 PM
All climate solutions community outreach conversations should end with open invitations to go feral hog hunting.
The email "congrats on 17 years on LinkedIn" doesn't give me warm fuzzies. It just makes me feel old 😂
And reminds me that in 2009 I was just going to "help get a climate bill passed in DC" and then become a fly fishing guide.
And here we are, 17 years later. But at least I made it out of DC!
And reminds me that in 2009 I was just going to "help get a climate bill passed in DC" and then become a fly fishing guide.
And here we are, 17 years later. But at least I made it out of DC!
December 3, 2024 at 3:43 PM
The email "congrats on 17 years on LinkedIn" doesn't give me warm fuzzies. It just makes me feel old 😂
And reminds me that in 2009 I was just going to "help get a climate bill passed in DC" and then become a fly fishing guide.
And here we are, 17 years later. But at least I made it out of DC!
And reminds me that in 2009 I was just going to "help get a climate bill passed in DC" and then become a fly fishing guide.
And here we are, 17 years later. But at least I made it out of DC!
Good opportunity with an institute that is doing great things in carbon management R&D. And I'm pretty sure the team at the Wrigley Institute would be a blast to work with.
Please help spread the word: I'm hiring a #postdoc to work on carbon management and #climatechange with a start date of Sp2025. And coming soon, a second #postdocjob on #plasticpollution. https://www.joearvai.org/all-cup-of-joe/help-wanted-11-2024 #academicjobs
November 26, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Good opportunity with an institute that is doing great things in carbon management R&D. And I'm pretty sure the team at the Wrigley Institute would be a blast to work with.
A great step forward for creating a more level playing field for all carbon removal approaches.
Today, we were proud to work with U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to introduce important bipartisan legislation to stimulate the carbon removal market in the United States. www.bennet.senate.gov/public/index...
Bennet, Murkowski Introduce Bill to Support Wide Range of Carbon Dioxide Removal Approaches
U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced the Carbon Dioxide Removal Investment Act to establish a new production tax credit designed to jumpstart the United Stat...
www.bennet.senate.gov
November 21, 2024 at 5:14 PM
A great step forward for creating a more level playing field for all carbon removal approaches.
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It's finally here!
"Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is releasing a national strategy to advance research on the benefits, risks, and tradeoffs of marine carbon dioxide removal [mCDR], an innovative technology that could help address the climate crisis." 🌊
"Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is releasing a national strategy to advance research on the benefits, risks, and tradeoffs of marine carbon dioxide removal [mCDR], an innovative technology that could help address the climate crisis." 🌊
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Releases National Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Research Strategy | OSTP | The White House
Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is releasing a national strategy to advance research on the benefits, risks, and tradeoffs of marine carbon dioxide removal, an in...
www.whitehouse.gov
November 12, 2024 at 6:22 PM
It's finally here!
"Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is releasing a national strategy to advance research on the benefits, risks, and tradeoffs of marine carbon dioxide removal [mCDR], an innovative technology that could help address the climate crisis." 🌊
"Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is releasing a national strategy to advance research on the benefits, risks, and tradeoffs of marine carbon dioxide removal [mCDR], an innovative technology that could help address the climate crisis." 🌊