Eric Smith has spent his career working at the intersection of economics and nature.
Most recently he was the director of the venture capital vehicle Neglected Climate Opportunities (NCO) at the Grantham Environmental Trust, where he co-led over 40 direct investments in start-ups across all stages that can remove carbon and GHG at scale.
He was previously with SJF Ventures and worked for BlackRock on climate finance, and currently is Founder/CEO of Edacious, a company working to differentiate food quality and connect the dots between soil and human health.
Eric is also a dear friend and someone with whom I often converse on our shared focus of investing on behalf of nature.
We were both in Mexico for a climate investing conference and caught up, beachside sand rolling in, on everything from:
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Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.
Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd
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