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Today, Explained

A concrete solution to climate change

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Concrete is one of the world’s biggest sources of carbon emissions. Tech companies, including a startup co-founded by former NBA star Rick Fox, are looking to change that. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Isabel Angell, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Most of the cement used in the United States is Portland cement. It gets its name because it looks like Portland Stone, which is found on the Isle of Portland in England.

0:12.0

And it's made by heating stones to very, very high temperatures. And as we'll explain in today's show,

0:17.0

huge amounts of carbon are then emitted into the atmosphere. It's a problem, but for a long time it's been one without a solution.

0:25.2

There's always been a group of engineers and architects and folks that have been interested in it,

0:30.8

but the thing is it's just, it hasn't been a high priority, you know, for

0:34.1

building designers, for developers and what have you. Except climate change is

0:40.0

making it a higher priority. Today on the show, the visionaries of clean building materials,

0:46.0

one of them is retired NBA player and actor Ulrich Fox. That's double team quickly by Grant.

0:53.0

Fox is open for the great.

0:55.0

That's coming up.

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