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Julia Collins: Agriculture is a technology despite market valuation
“Agriculture can be a technology. Although the market doesn't always value it as such. Yes. It is technology.”
Collins: Adopting vegan meals is a top individual action to cut emissions
“One of the best things you could do on an individual basis to reduce your food-related footprint is to adopt more vegan times in your day.”
Collins: Sustainability is rooted in ancestral and indigenous practices
“We talk about sustainability now as if it's like a new concept. But actually, indigenous people and many of our ancestors have been rooted in these practices of really honoring the value of things, and really honoring the value of people.”
Collins: US land functioned as a carbon sink under Native American management
“When Native Americans in the United States were in charge of managing the land, our land was a carbon sink.”
Julia Collins: Food waste causes about half of food-related climate change
“Food waste accounts for about half of food-related climate change.”
Julia Collins: Diet culture is incredibly harmful and creates food tension
“I think diet culture is incredibly harmful, actually. I think it creates a real tension around food, and food becomes about calories, and calories are scary and bad.”
Julia Collins: Carbon is the new calories in food data
“We really believe that carbon is the new calories, and so we work to make that possible through data.”
Collins: Planet FWD uses AI to automate expensive carbon accounting consulting
“We're looking at artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate some of the processes that have been controlled by consultants and therefore very expensive.”
Collins: Venture backers expect a 4x to 7x return in 4-7 years
“You gotta return that money at four to seven x in four to seven years, and it can feel like there's a lot of pressure.”
Collins: Food systems account for over one-third of global emissions
“When we think about global greenhouse gas emissions, people don't often realize that more than a third Comes from land use and food systems.”