CEO Mike Smith on the Taking Care in Business Podcast

Published on:
April 18, 2023
Podcast:
Taking Care in Business

Summary

Want to learn how your business can become carbon neutral? Our guest this week, Mike Smith with Aclymate, talks through how you can shift into carbon neutrality.

Transcript

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Welcome to taking care in business a

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podcast I created out of my passion for using business as a Force for good from environmental practices to social

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impacts and all that follows within the realm of corporate social responsibility I'm always curious about how

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organizations are taking care in business

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[Music] well hello everyone today we are going

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to talk about something that I have been reading a lot about in the news um I think I've shared before that

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Bolson group my company is carbon neutral but I've been getting these I

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don't know emails and reading articles about something called Net Zero and so

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today I've invited Mike Smith who is the co-founder and CEO of a company called

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Aclymate and just so you all know that's spelled AC okay

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a-c-l-y-m-a-t-e right Mike that's right okay and he also which I want to talk

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about this is the co-founder of a company called renew West and this is

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cool the developer of the largest restoration project in U.S history uh

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yeah carbon carbon focused reforestation yeah yeah so cool so cool so I think you

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are really well suited to talk about this so thanks for joining me today Mike

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I really do appreciate it yeah it's it's uh it's great to be here and I'm looking forward to meeting with you today great

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great well so let's just start off with what I already said I really wanted to talk about which is what is the

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difference between carbon neutrality and Net Zero sure uh so just briefly so

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carbon neutrality is the concept of like you know what your emissions footprint is and you buy some offsets in order to kind of make up for that in my

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background as a as in tree planting with renew West and where that company is is continuing to go is uh is broadly we

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were carbon offset project developers it's a space I'm really well familiar with and though carbon offsets have within the marketplace have been coming

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under some increasing scrutiny here recently there's still like a really and importantly they should be they're also

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a really important part of a kind of like our path to the our our future when there is no climate future without us

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doing a lot of these restoration and preservation uh uh projects there's some

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like really big limitations around carbon offsets the first one is is that um with perfect adoption of carbon

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offset projects in the natural world across the entire planet you're still only going to get to about 20 of the world's current emissions

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uh two is the carbon offsets uh have frequently been used by not the most

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forthright players uh in the marketplace um folks that are looking to use offsets as a way to kind of get out of taking

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care of their their bigger responsibilities and so uh some of the pushback that's been around carbon

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offsets is like how do you actually do the harder thing than the more important thing which is to reduce your emissions

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uh the emissions associated with you know uh your work your personal life Etc

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and so um what that introduced was is this requirement that uh in order to avoid

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being seen as a green washing company it's not just enough to do offsets you also need to do the harder thing first

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which is the emissions reductions and so Net Zero is this is the concept of how do you marry these two together

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um which is how do you both cut your emissions year on year to get to this point where

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um you are down to the most essential emissions that like you just can't get away from right now because there's

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limitations in technology Etc um so typically Net Zero is seen as

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trying to align broadly with the Paris climate Accords um and the player the Paris climbed Accords talk about that we need to

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effectively be to 90 reduction of worldwide emissions by the year 2050 in

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order to have any hope of maintaining a 1.5 C uh you know total warming future

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that 90 um they call it Net Zero because at that point there will be enough reforestation

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projects Force preservation grassland soils mangroves you fill in the blank

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that we will have enough carbon capture from the atmosphere that that it will balance out in a way that's meaningful

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um and beyond that that will actually be capturing carbon from the atmosphere will actually more than we'll be

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emitting and slowing it down um but the important part of Net Zero is the pathway

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um and very specifically um you know there's large corporate things like the science-based targets

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initiative or the task force for carbon disclosures and like some of these others but like the general idea is is

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that you can't say like will be Net Zero by 2050 amid all you want till 2049 and then be

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like yep okay we'll magically cut it there's like a harder pathway and so what that looks like is that roughly

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uh humans have to cut 50 of their emissions every decade for the next three decades so we have to get to a

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reduction by 50 by 2030 by 50 of that so

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down 75 total by you know 2040 and then roughly another 50 by 2050.

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um it's maybe actually a little bit faster 55 60 per decade and we're already you know uh

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uh three you know years into this decade and so we're behind the eight ball a little bit on this one and so the goal

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here on Net Zero for any you know small to medium-sized business and why we you know we work on it here at Aclymate is

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is that you got we you have to give people both tools you have to give them the tools to to both reduce their emissions in a way that's meaningful

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they can see it they can move Beyond assumptions and get real data to start doing those things and the responsible

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part of that is is while you're cutting those emissions those essential emissions right now that you just can't quite get rid of yet

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like you need to be offsetting them um but the priority is start with emissions reductions then go to the offsetting

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okay I get it I that makes total sense so okay that just brought up a lot of

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questions so is this a good example I was buying a plane ticket for my daughter to come

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home for another daughter's High School graduation and they asked me as I was ending my purchase if I wanted to offset

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and I thought huh this is so interesting I sort of feel

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like I'm helping them with their carbon neutrality but what are they promising

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to do for for this up front like and and so I

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didn't do it I didn't make the donation or whatever because I wanted to go in and do some more research but to me

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that's green washing yeah you know it's a little bit sometimes it feels like uh you know when

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you uh you're checking out of the grocery store and then they ask you like would you like to give a dollar to St Jude's or something right and you're

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like well yeah I like you know I like kids that are sick and want them to be better I'd want to give a dollar but then you're like you also like when you

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dig down you recognize that they claim that as a charitable contribution and you're like you know hold the phone like

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no no like I'm not doing your dirty work you know like yes that is this is

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that's exactly how I felt like you know it's like a quick a quick you know grab

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without any disclosure you know yeah so um you know that's one of the problems with carbon offsets um and why in our

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Marketplace we try to give you as much selection as possible and you can actually see what you're doing historically there's been a lot of

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opacity to it and that you don't really know what you're getting involved with right you know there are some airlines

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that I've seen that have uh have started I think United for example has a way that you can invest in their

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uh sustainable Aviation fund which is not a carbon offset it doesn't really

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um it's also kind of like well no United like you're a pretty profitable company you should go do this yourself right like but specifically within kind of the

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aviation sector like if you look at like reports from like the Rocky Mountain Institute about like how they decarbonize yeah there's like some big

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like they divided like the quad the four quadrants of like the problem into an

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offsetting scheme known as uh corsia um sustainable aviation fuel uh the

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third quadrant was unspecified future Tech and the fourth was question mark like so there's a lot of ways that like

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this is kind of the essential emissions question for like an airline is is like they've got to start rapidly to carbonizing they don't know how they're

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going to get there yet now you know the world changes a lot in 30 years um and so you know by the 2050 hopefully

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they figured a lot of this out um but in the meantime you know from an individual's standpoint from a business

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owner's standpoint one of the things that you should think about is like what are your substitutes for flying right do

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you have to do this is this truly essential travel you know and if it is essential traveler are there lower carbon solutions to it I mean even

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um just picking from one airline to the next um you may spend more money on one Airline

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but it may be a more carbon efficient uh plane it may be a more carbon efficient route

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um you know eliminating layovers is an important part of that right because most of the fuel is burned in the in the

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the takeoff and climb to altitude yeah so um there's just a lot of things that are kind of in there and it can kind of

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drive you crazy trying to think through all those things yeah it's interesting and I I did notice

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not this time but another time I don't even think I noticed this last time but another time I was buying tickets I

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noticed like a an emissions chart you know so I was I could right there on the

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screen determine which one was the the most environmental purchase of a flight

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and I thought that's kind of cool and I just I wonder there's just I don't know

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that's it I know that flying is one of the main things you know that we can cut back on I'm just as is driving

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um you know and I do want to talk about some of those things that just the everyday person can do to to offset

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carbon emissions but um let's let's skip to this whole thing of so you you buy these offsets right

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um which is I I love how you explained it that you the net zero is actually

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doing things to reduce your emissions and then identifying what you can't change right now and then buying the

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offsets so both group we did this whole analysis with the company we are working

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with where we answered questions about how much we fly how much we travel help

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our commute to work what we eat I mean products we use all kinds of things and

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they came up with our um carbon um footprint and then they

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kept track of it or they gave us an estimate for our our payments or whatever we made monthly payments and at

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the end of the year I asked for an impact report and the thing that really got me was that I I was told how many

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trees we essentially planted or how many cars we got off the road

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but the thing that really was just a little bit of a uh I don't know

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what's a disconnect for me was that where were the trees planted like you

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know what kind of cars did we take off the road it just seems so I don't know like out there in la la land do I would

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imagine people have problems with that unless they know that they are buying

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offsets in one of your restoration you know your reforestation projects so is

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that kind of the disconnect for people that they feel like I feel like you need to know where you're planning your where your trees like what are you what are

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you offsetting specifically yeah absolutely um so the first thing is and like this is a

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common point of confusion is that like so um the standard unit of measurement for uh for emissions is a metric ton of

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carbon dioxide or it's equivalent and like that like the the unit is tco2e

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and like that just makes people's eyes roll back yeah I mean what on Earth is that number right I don't need to know

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that I need to know specifics yeah and so then they try to give you a two unit equivalencies of like that would be like

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the equivalent of X number of trees growing for 50 years well what kind of tree where is it at like you know and so

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like and so like those equivalencies themselves are an attempt at trying to make something

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um uh tangible that is is is is fairly academic and and uh

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uh you know quantitative um one of the ways I like to think about it is um around

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um have you ever heard of like the donut theory of economics

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so the general idea is so it's this new thing like they're like

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the the Dutch in particular are pretty uh avant-garde in this but the general idea is um it kind of lines with like

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the un's like sustainable development goals which is the general idea is is that like um there's this floor of basic human

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rights that everybody has a right to Food Water Shelter Etc but there's also

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this economic this ecological ceiling um that we can't go beyond um and what I like about that um just as

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a way to kind of like to to create illustrations for for like what is your emissions

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footprint is to show like how many earths would it take for if everybody lived this way right is to kind of give you like a real

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sense of like okay this is my shared ownership of it right you you know

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you're living you're living the life of you know to give you like a great example like that makes it like really

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clear your refrigerator here in the United States if it's an average refrigerator

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uh consumes more electricity than the average of three Nigerians right and so like just like to like to

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put into cons context like how much three Nigerians their whole lives

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everything that they do right okay yeah no yeah that really puts it into perspective right so you get to you get

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to those equivalencies I think are like more meaningful than like yeah so many trees right now there's a separate

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problem to what you're also asking there which is like these equivalencies don't mean you're actually planting trees

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right they're just trying to give it to you in a way that like is something that you can kind of like well I know what a tree looks like that's much that much

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tree right um but there's also the offset and usually the offsets are like especially

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if it's a corporate offset they're just kind of like here's uh trust us we're buying this bundle

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right and so there's a lot of reasons for that um

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um but you know generally the they it just helps them in their

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their procurement that if they don't have to like explain too much about that and so

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um our preference um and most of our customers preference is that they get to see where they're buying their offset

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from they get to know the offset project they can actually go find it on a map you know and you can learn the story of

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it and it doesn't have to be just about planting trees it could be about Forest preservation it could be about like

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um like cooked stoves in Africa you know which has like some really strong you know developing world you know

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attributes and then also like women's health issues because it's typically you know women in the developing world that are doing these cooking uh activities

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and so you know just there's a lot more about like an offset project than pure

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accounting of just like what's the you know what's my missions here how much do I need to buy there's also like these I

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call them co-benefits that you really um that resonate you know different amounts of different people

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yeah wow that's that that's helpful what you just explained I would rather know

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that you know the I don't know I I don't want to know that I use

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uh just in the course of using my refrigerator that that that is equivalent to three Nigerian

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people's life of of emissions that is that is like

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that's Overkill like that I just need to unplug my fridge right now and go to a cooler or something well so that's

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that's the tone of theory of Economics which is like the reason they don't use that much electric electricity is

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because a lot of Nigerians don't have refrigerators right and so like the donut Theory here is like no they deserve that like they

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you have a minimum quality of life that they deserve it's like they need a refrigerator right but like just so you don't need to go

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unplug your refrigerator but you know maybe if we could think a little bit about about like some of the things where we do have a lot of waste and just

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be like you know what every time I don't do this wasteful thing like you know I'm doing a little bit more of my part so

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those folks that don't have refrigeration in their lives yeah right

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like we all have to kind of like there's a little bit of a shared responsibility for us all to to make it there

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absolutely I um have tried to commit to 10 new things

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every year that I'm going to do and you know I have to kind of dig deep and get obscure you know like I'm trying to

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think some of them this year I mean kind of the basics you know of making my own

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cleaning supplies um unplugging things when I leave the room which is a hard one to do you know

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um but like there you can really just start digging deep you know and and so

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let's talk about that a little bit I know from the carbon neutral assessment

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that we did to arrive at our you know Carbon neutrality

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um we had to answer questions and my whole team came to me afterwards and was just stunned by the things that we had

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to answer you know so it is kind of shocking um but when you really think about it they make sense you know things like you

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know how much meat are you eating and things like that like you're like what how do I figure that out and why does

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that matter then you think about it like of course it matters and so so there's there's what we eat

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what we dried how we travel how we you know um what work I mean are we driving to

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work working from home tell me some of the other like give a few tips on things that people can do to

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really address the climate yeah absolutely uh so the first one is as you probably have a lot of assumptions but

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you should stress test them a little bit um and so find something that helps to if you've already done a

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climate accounting you you've identified this but you haven't get a baseline figure it out

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um you know one of the things we pride ourselves on Aclymate is having a very affordable you a very approachable

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you don't have to have any climate expertise you just have to show up wanting to to learn and it doesn't take

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very long you know that you know it usually takes about 10 minutes to onboard and then it's about five to ten minutes a month to use the software

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that's a great first step you don't have to solve The World's problems you just need to start to figure out where you

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know what your footprint is as a business and then we're also coming out with an individual calculator as well to help people with that that individual

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calculator will be free by the way too that's super cool

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um so super excited about that um in general

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um one of the big things that an individual needs to think about um is uh Electrify everything

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so one of the places that in our our economy that's decarbonizing the fastest

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now that renewable energy is not only like price competitive but actually price advantaged like it is

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um it's in most cases in the United States now it's cheaper to install new uh solar or wind projects than it is to

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maintain an existing coal plant so because of that rapid decarbonization

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that's happening there all the things that you use for uh that don't use electricity but could you should so

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Heating uh water heaters uh for example um if uh Transportation so if you can

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afford an electric vehicle and they're actually pretty affordable if you look for the right ones I have a little 2017 Chevy bolt and I love it

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like that's a really great way to like immediately get some like big steps in there um even if you were to plug your

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electric vehicle directly into a Coal Power Plant just the if the efficiencies of electricity versus an internal

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combination engine that alone is probably more efficient than the vehicle you're driving um and and electricity is getting

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cleaner every day so that's a really great first step um diet is a big part of it

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um you know and you don't have to you know Go full vegan and like and and worry about that you know but like my

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wife and I we like to think of ourselves as like part-time vegetarians you know we eat meat like three times a week you

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know by the way it's good for my heart so like it's it like it works out really well and like

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yeah you know my blood pressure's down so it's great at a restaurant but only cook vegetarian at home yeah yeah

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exactly or maybe only a week on the on the weekends or you know like I'm still gonna have like a nice ham for for uh uh

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for Easter yeah you know but like most the time like I'm eating vegetables that's okay that's good grow gardening

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yep um so uh diet's a big component of that and then just uh the things that

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you buy have a lot of emissions associated with that and so you know the that old adage from Earth Day in like

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1970 have reduced reuse recycle like that really matters like reduce the things that you're buying try to buy

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things that last you know spend the money up front fast fashion you know for example is a terrible idea buy clothes

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that last for years and and then when they develop a little bit of a tear see if you can repair them you know you'll

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have nicer clothes it'll all work out the long run you'll save money you know as well but um but try to reduce the amount of

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things that you buy uh as well what doesn't matter as much as a lot of people think the carbon emissions of

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your food are not so much about like where they're grown as much as what they are right so Less meat because for example

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it takes 40 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef it's like three to five pounds of grain for every pound of

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chicken right if you can just eat that that is just a huge degree of efficiency

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if you're just eating that grain or vegetable equivalent itself um and so like if you're buying produce

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that's actually shipped to you from Chile um that is probably better than buying

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beef that was grown across the street um you know there's so there's a lot of things that are kind of counterintuitive

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about like yeah you know where where it all comes from um either way what I love

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about what you're doing Vicky is that you kind of pick like a few things to do every year like you don't you don't have to tackle them all like this Net Zero is

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a journey right and so like start with making your own like Net Zero

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commitment start with figuring out what your footprint is it doesn't take that much time and it'll get you to thinking about it and then pick one or two things

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that like are just small behavioral changes yeah and that's that gets you started yeah and you know I I try to

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encourage people to do that because I honestly just it I feel better you know

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I feel better on a daily basis when I go collect you know when I get my dog's water from the rain water I collect or I

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hang dry my clothes instead of using my dryer I mean I sort of feel like a little Pioneer lady over here sometimes

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and I get teased quite a bit but I'm not even that hardcore I have somebody at my office who's going to be editing this

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and uh she is we call her our Homesteader she is she is so committed

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and she gives us all wonderful ideas but it all does matter and it's really scary

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it's really really scary to think what needs to be done and we have to all be we have to all be

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a part of it um okay I want to segue to my final question which is okay so how Aclymate

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works I know you have the free assessment tool which is fantastic I know you can get like a demo and you can

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talk with a person um complementarily to gather information to see if it's a fit for you

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um early in the conversation you talked about how the importance of Net Zero is that you're working to reduce what you

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can while offsetting so what are you guys doing in the net zero space like

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are you Consulting with companies to help them figure out that while they're also you know doing their offsets how

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does that work yeah sure so um the problem that we saw was is that a lot of

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people will spend a lot of money with Consultants um to do just kind of the Baseline accounting um and at the end of the day like there

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are usually several thousand dollars the poor they have a nice little report and maybe they see the consultant a year or later but they have to kind of budget

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for it um and that um there's a couple big problems with that the first one is is that

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um the consultant's doing a lot of things that they that can really be automated and they're smart people that like can actually like like once they

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get like the numbers then they can do the advice uh part of things they don't really love that work um so we thought we could automate that

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and that's what we did with Aclymate is there's a lot of like how can we collect this information in a way that like you

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don't have to have any expertise you don't have to have a consultant come in much much more affordable for kind of

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like your getting started point right yeah um and so we part of that is that

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we've tried to design the software and so a way that we can kind of almost like incept into your brain like where your emissions are coming from in really high

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color like oh okay that's purple that's a lot of office emissions or oops that's you know orange that's a lot of

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operational emissions and so you can look at it without having to like get very quantitative

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right um so uh that's the first thing that we do

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um we will uh we do have a concierge service if people are looking for kind of like that ongoing like kind of

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Consulting aspect still like cheaper than a consultant as well uh but we we

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also see this as something where we can work hand in hand with a preferred consultant you know where this can be their uh their tool you know for you to

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ongoing like see that that fixes the second problem which is the ongoing uh which is like if you say

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okay well we've got to reduce this well you know uh the consultant

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generally is not diving down to like okay who's taking these flights or or who's got the long commute you know like

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actually figuring out where that is and you can start to see like okay well you know uh Jack really you know doesn't

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really need to drive an F-150 40 miles one way you know maybe he can carpool with Anna or maybe he can like it

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actually turns out there's a bus line there we can buy him a bus pass and that's just about as fast you know like there's like things that

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you when you start being able to like pull that apart and look at the data yeah yeah attribute it and then you get

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to see like how that changes you actually can track that and not be like okay well obviously what my auditions

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are next year you can see what it is next month Ah that's super cool you know I would

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imagine too can you pull up your like your progress on a monthly basis is it like a dashboard like that yeah

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absolutely so you can see your progress on a monthly basis um you know you can stack by quarters

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you can you know if you want to dive into the Scopes you can look at it by a scope analysis you don't have to but you

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don't have to know anything about it you just know we prompt you for like what we need and as much as we can we automate

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it well and I just want everybody who's listening to know that as someone who's

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be Corp certified and going through a recertification I'm raising my hand it

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would be wonderful to be able to pull this kind of information because I'm you know contriving it from different

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resources that I have have to measure things um that that's a total benefit of the

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service of Aclymate I sound like a commercial right now um but I mean like seriously like I get

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it and then the second one is just being able to pull reports because investors are looking more and more at investing

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in companies that are measuring their impact um and to be able to do so on a base

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like a regular you know a moment's notice and to follow up with an updated

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report I mean like there's so many things that can be done with this information and it is Affordable because

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I was looking at it and um I think the concierge service was like and maybe

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this is just an end entry level concierge service but it was 500 a month is that what I read yeah so right now we

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charge for access to the software uh if you want to have the ongoing analytics and you don't need any support that's a dollar per employee per month so

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incredibly affordable oh gosh and then if you want the concierge service where we'll do the data entry for you and then

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give you some reporting and uh and some a little bit you know more you know hand holding that's 500 bucks a month so very

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very affordable good Lord one dollar an employee per month yep um it's going to

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be going up soon um so if you're interested you know now yeah

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um so yeah talk to Travis um you know Vicky we'll take care of you um yeah uh one of the things that we

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will be replacing uh or be adding to uh isn't an additional tier in the near future with Integrations where we'll be

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able to pull most of this information in automatically um and so as we access those data

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sources that'll cost a little bit more money um we'll announce that later but um but yeah love love making this like a

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really approachable affordable thing we've helped a ton of B Corps like they're like when we did our initial customer Discovery before we even

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started programming I talked to a lot of e-corps and we love helping that you know helping solve problems for decors

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yeah absolutely well um okay I just I love your company congratulations on such a cool cool and

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much needed platform for so many I mean you're gonna

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be hugely successful I think so thank you very much yeah absolutely you know like one one

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little line that I like to pull from the the ipcc reporter from 2018 is is that like

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um every uh fraction of warming matters every like year matters and every decision matters and I think that's like

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really important for all of us um you know and that was that's kind of the Animus of Aclymate this is like how

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can we give decision making like real honest decision making to the rest of us

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um and so I'd love to help you everybody with that and um your lips to God's ears I hope we're as successful as you want

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us to be Vicky yes well I think you will be I I it's it's important and I hope

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everybody will at least go to your website and check it out um

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a-c-l-y-m-a-t-e.com so that's right without spelled differently very cool yeah unfortunately that URL was taken

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but I really like that verb and so I was like okay we're gonna we'll grow it up a little bit here in order to get a

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discrete URL but uh that's what we do that's who we are okay excellent well

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thank you Mike I really appreciate you coming on and uh just letting everybody know a little bit more about not just

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you know your tool but how what Net Zero is I mean I was just befuddled so I feel

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much much more knowledgeable now and I appreciate it yeah I was uh I enjoyed being here thanks for your uh for having

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me Becky you're welcome

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