# Climate Capital with Tom Chi

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Podcast: [Climate Changers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-changers-1038500)
Published: 2026-05-27T19:35:08+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, Tom Chi—founding partner of At One Ventures and former Head of Product Experience at Google X, where he led the development of Google Glass and self-driving cars—discusses the core insights of his book, *Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future*. Leveraging his extensive background as a physicist and designer, Chi challenges traditional economic models by framing economics as a practical design discipline that must align with the Earth's physical realities rather than theoretical pseudoscience. He moves past the polarizing extremes of blind tech-optimism and immobilizing climate doomism, offering a grounded, evidence-based toolkit that uses nature's highly efficient ecological systems as the ultimate blueprint. Ultimately, Chi outlines tangible, empoweringly realistic strategies that venture capitalists, sophisticated individual investors, pragmatic policy wonks, and environmental activists can deploy together to radically reinvent our industrial economy and ensure humanity becomes a net positive to nature.

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