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  1. Catalyst · 14 May 2026 Inside the global fertilizer crunch with Josh Linville, vice president of fertilizer, StoneX The Strait of Hormuz has been shut for about ten weeks. What is that doing to the global fertilizer market, and when does it turn into a food problem?
  2. Catalyst · 13 Nov 2025 Driving down the cost of green hydrogen with Raffi Garabedian, co-founder and CEO, Electric Hydrogen Green hydrogen’s hype cycle collapsed because the stuff cost far too much. What would actually make it cheap enough to beat the fossil-derived molecule it is supposed to replace?
  3. Catalyst · 25 Sep 2025 Ag residue and carbon removal with Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO, Charm Industrial Crop residue is abundant, expensive to collect and a poor fuel. What is it actually good for, and what would it take to get it off the field economically?
  4. Catalyst · 27 Feb 2025 Cultivated meat industry faces ‘trough of disillusionment’ with Isha Datar, executive director, New Harvest A decade of venture-funded companies later, why is there still no cultivated meat on the shelf, and what would actually change that?
  5. Catalyst · 23 Jan 2025 The climate-ag grab bag with Mike Grunwald, journalist and author of the forthcoming book ‘We Are Eating the Earth’ Food and land are about a third of global emissions and are on track to consume far more land by 2050. What actually fixes that?
  6. Catalyst · 2 Dec 2024 From biowaste to ‘biogold’ with Julio Friedmann, chief scientist, Carbon Direct There is only so much biomass, and every use of it competes with every other use. What should we actually do with it?
  7. Catalyst · 29 Jan 2024 Tech solutions for solving the cow burp problem with Charles Brooke, program manager for enteric methane, Spark Climate Solutions Can technology actually stop cows from burping methane, and how much of the problem can it realistically reach?
  8. Catalyst · 23 Jan 2024 The pitfalls of sourcing biomass for carbon removal with Dr. Bodie Cabiyo, senior forest scientist, Carbon Direct If we are going to use plants to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, where should the biomass come from, and how would anyone know whether a given batch is actually doing good?
  9. Catalyst · 11 Jan 2024 2023 climate tech venture investment trends with Kim Zou, co-founder and CEO, Sightline Climate Climate tech venture funding fell about 30% in 2023. What did that drop actually measure?
  10. Steel For Fuel · 21 Dec 2023 What’s the best use for our ‘waste’ biomass? by Andy Lubershane, Partner and Head of Research, Energy Impact Partners Of all the things that could be done with the biomass agriculture, forestry and food systems throw away, which is the best?