T_Turner

CEO - Co-Founder @ Cultivateed Biosciences
1 karmaJoined Oct 2018Working (0-5 years)Zürich, Switzerland

Bio

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Working at the interface between Material, Food and Life Sciences to improve our food system.

Entrepreneur, co-founder of Cultivated Biosciences, a startup working on providing creamy, dairy-free indulgence to the world! 
We use non-GMO yeast fermentation to create a novel fat ingredient for plant-based dairy applications.

How others can help me

Helping scaling our solution for creating a more sustainable, resilient and kind food system.

Thoughts and collaborations in foodtech space

How I can help others

Advice on: alternative proteins, foodtech, entrepreneurship and other

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I do, but not in the view of offsetting, but as an incentive system not to fly.

Like you, I usually have a moral dilemma about whether to fly or not to visit someone. To switch from a super hard and painful moral question I transform it into a money question by putting a price on carbon. I currently put it at around 250 USD/ton ,  an estimated "social cost of carbon", from an academic paper (also discussed by Future Perfect). It is on the upper end, but it serves my purpose and ensures I have a strong incentive not to fly unless really worth it.

Instead of paying this money to classical offsetting projects, I donate it to the most effective climate charities identified by Founder Pledge plus the Good Food Institute