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“The tools that consumer brands needed to build climate positive companies just didn't exist. Or they existed if you had a 100,000 dollars to pay a consultant.”

“More than five hundred million dollars.”

“We're a 2.25 billion dollar a year, built a 2.25 billion valuation company. That made me the first black woman to ever become a unicorn.”

“When Native Americans in the United States were in charge of managing the land, our land was a carbon sink.”

“Food waste accounts for about half of food-related climate change.”

“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.”

“So if you're a large food company, your footprint collectively around the supply chain of all of these goods is about 90% of your overall company footprint.”

“Working with Just Salad, what we did was use artificial intelligence to analyze their supply chain. So not doing this in spreadsheets, but really using artificial intelligence to essentially create a digital twin Of that company's supply chain, showing them wh…”

“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.”

“Seaweed has this beautiful ability to draw down carbon. Yes. To deacidify water columns. To act as literal barrier for coastal storms.”

“In this part of Italy, people were not incredibly wealthy, but they lived to be old, and they were healthy, and low incidences of diabetes and obesity, and it was all about just the food system.”