Nan Ransohoff

Today, I’m excited to launch Frontier—an advance market commitment (AMC) that will buy $925M+ of permanent carbon removal by 2030. Build and we will buy: frontierclimate.com. 🛠️

Great read from a deep thinker.

What virtue is undersupplied today? I drafted my answer here and am very curious how others would answer this question! nanransohoff.substack.com/p/what-virtue-…

What virtue is undersupplied today? I drafted my answer here and am very curious how others would answer this question! nanransohoff.substack.com/p/what-virtue-…

'Adaptive reuse' at Arlington Cathedral in Virginia. The community wanted to change the style of their church building, but they chose to retain the structural frame and merely re-dress it with new facing materials and details, saving its embodied carbon.

Arbor removes CO₂ while also producing clean electricity. We're excited to announce a $41M offtake between Arbor and Frontier buyers: frontierclimate.com/writing/arbor

This is a great step forward. Ocean alkalinity enhancement is one of the more promising and less invested in areas of carbon removal.

Planetary just delivered the world's first verified carbon removal tons via ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE). We think OAE is hugely promising. Part of what's made it tricky is the measurement/verification piece. Planetary's delivery represents some big strides forward here:…

New podcast* from two of the greats—@salonium and @JacobTref—just dropped! *at nearly 5 hours, it's really more of an audiobook than a podcast (luckily for us)

🚨New ARIA opportunity space: engineering the innate immune system is an untapped frontier that could be key to tackling everything from chronic disease to pandemics & cancer. Learn more & help shape our approach at http:// aria . org . uk / opportunity-spaces

New piece with @DibRafa applying prioritisation frameworks to science funding. How should a grantmaker aiming at health impact pick areas to fund, when science is so hard to predict? We argue you can get pretty far, because today's spending is weird: blog.jacobtrefethen.com/vaccines/

1 hour of Earth's sunlight contains as much energy as humanity uses in a year. 2 days is more than we've used since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. No other energy source can even compare.

well I asked claude what historical figures he’d set me up with and I.. have never felt so seen? anyway, I’ll be hosting a feynman lookalike party later this year ✌🏼

This weekend I got to see the new David Hockney exhibit and was sort of..awestruck, so wrote down a few reflections. IMO very much worth going if you're nearby! nanransohoff.com/Some-reflectio…

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we made a map! gap-map.org is a tool we built to help you explore the landscape of R&D gaps holding back science - and the bridge-scale fundamental development efforts that might allow humanity to solve them, across almost two dozen fields

Is Romanticism making a comeback in SF? Lately I’ve been wondering if SF is in the early stages of a ‘Romantic Revival’ of sorts. Curious to hear from folks who spend time in the bay if this feels directionally correct: nanransohoff.substack.com/p/is-romantici…

Was just looking for a photo from a recent trip to Paris, and it appears I seem to have spent most of the trip photographing beautiful ceilings? Anyways, we should really bring those back..

💫 We’re launching the Centre for British Progress Our founding essay: Rediscovering British Progress is a case for growth that drives shared progress, rooted in Britain's values and industrial heritage. It all starts with a postcard from 1870 👇 britishprogress.org/articles/redis…