Oct 2022 Collab

3m listen

Acacia Erhardt is a Carbon Finance Associate at CarbonCure, a company that reduces carbon in buildings by injecting CO2 into concrete.

Join Acacia in incorporating sustainability into your home with everyday actions.

Track these actions in Decarbon!

Fix something around your house, whether it be a broken coffee mug or those old pants with a hole in them
Try being vegetarian for a week this month
Hang dry some of your clothes each week

More challenges from Acacia below! If you complete 3 of these challenges, message Acacia at [email protected] to receive a token of climate gratitude from the CarbonCure team.

Discuss and ask questions in r/decarbon.

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My name is Acacia, and I work for CarbonCure Technologies.

CarbonCure is on a mission to reduce and remove 500 Mt CO2 annually by 2030. By leveraging the concrete industry’s 100,000 concrete plants to store massive amounts of CO2, the goal is to make a dent in 7% of global emissions.

I am lucky to use most of my waking life to address climate change. That said, technology is just one facet of the solution to our climate problem. Technology alone can’t fix us. There is political action, and cultural changes that we can leverage to meet the moment.

I realize most people don’t work in climate science or climate tech, but the career you have or the place you live doesn’t have to stop you from joining the fight. We can all have a cultural impact on our community regardless of what we do from 9 to 5.

With that in mind, I wanted to share a bit about my thinking around sustainability at home. I hope that some of my everyday actions can inspire you to be mindful of the endpoints of goods that come in and out of your home.

My grandmother came to the US from Korea with very little; to make it work, she was resourceful and stretched what she had. At the risk of stealing her valor, I can say I have never worked as hard as her nor have I been as resourceful. Watching her turn something I might throw away into an abundant garden or sew my grandpa’s old shirts when I thought they were trash has been my inspiration as I brought mindfulness into my own home.

My grandmother came to the US from Korea with very little; to make it work, she was resourceful and stretched what she had.

I want to share some values my core community, my own grandmother, taught me years before I began working in climate. All of these are centered on being mindful; caring for what you bring into your home and prolonging their life.