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Hi there, I'm Azimosa and this is the Exponential View Podcast.

As regular listeners will know, I make a habit of speaking with those at the forefront of

technical innovation, those who enable transformative change by combining a radical vision with the

technical expertise to turn that dream into reality.

Few people embody that conviction and experience so completely as today's guest, Dr. Jennifer

Jennifer is an industrial chemist who even 20 years ago was advocating for the development

of biofuels and chemicals in the face of considerable skepticism.

Today, she leads a veteran starter if there is such a thing in this field.

Landsatek harnesses bacteria to recycle our polluting greenhouse gases into the basic

chemical building blocks of our modern industrial life.

As they put it, to use nature to heal nature without a fossil fuel in sight,

Jennifer Holmgren, it's wonderful to have you here.

It's my real pleasure, thanks for having me, Azimosa.

Now, you are a chemist by training who has been fascinated by this question of how you turn

waste into something useful.

Did you just help me understand what was it about that problem that piqued your interest?

I've been really interested in how to make all the things we normally make from petroleum and

from fossil resources out of all of the waste carbon that's already sitting above ground.

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