{"podcast":{"title":"Business for Good Podcast","slug":"business-for-good-podcast-641837","podcast_index_feed_id":641837,"rss_url":"https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.businessforgoodpodcast.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/b/9/6/2b963ca360081ecfd959afa2a1bf1c87/B4G_Green.jpg","author":"Paul Shapiro","episode_count":201,"summary":"Join host Paul Shapiro as he talks with some of the leading start-up entrepreneurs and titans of industry alike using their businesses to help solve the world's most pressing problems. Whether it's climate change, unsustainable agricultural practices, cyber threats, coral reef die-offs, nuclear waste storage, plastic pollution, or more, many of the world's greatest challenges are also exciting business opportunities. On this show, we feature business leaders who are marrying profit and purpose by inventing solutions to both build a better world and offer investors a bang for their bucks.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T04:23:17.883096+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837"},"episode":{"title":"Turning Waste Biomass Into Carbon-Negative Buildings with Allison Dring","slug":"turning-waste-biomass-into-carbon-negative-buildings-with-allison-dring","published_at":"2026-06-15T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837/turning-waste-biomass-into-carbon-negative-buildings-with-allison-dring","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837","url":"https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/turning-waste-biomass-into-carbon-negative-buildings-with-allison-dring","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/Ep_192_Made_of_Air_-_Allison.mp3?dest-id=761849","summary":"Right now, roughly 40% of global emissions come from the built environment. Most of those emissions are hidden deep within the materials themselves, in the concrete, steel, and plastics that are mined or extracted from underground at enormous energy costs. What if that model could be reversed entirely? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Allison Dring, CEO of Made of Air, to explore how waste biomass can be converted into carbon-storing building materials through a process called pyrolysis. Instead of mining resources from underground, the company uses sawdust and wood waste that would otherwise go to landfill, bakes it in a high-temperature, low-oxygen oven, and produces biochar, a stable form of elemental carbon that locks atmospheric CO2 away for roughly a thousand years. The conversation covers why the built environment is such a massive source of emissions, how biochar-based cladding panels can replace steel, cement fiber board, and fossil-based plastics at competitive prices, and why the real bottleneck is not the technology but industry adoption. Things You Will Learn: Why roughly 40% of global emissions come from the built environment, with about half of that embedded in the materials themselves. How pyrolysis converts waste biomass into biochar that locks carbon out of the atmosphere for approximately a thousand years. Why no building on earth today has achieved a fully carbon-negative life cycle, and what it would take to change that. How Made of Air's cladding panels replace steel, cement fiber board, and fossil-based plastics with carbon-negative alternatives. Why the company is targeting price parity with conventional building materials by the end of 2027 without any green premium. Tools & Frameworks Covered: Biochar Through P…","meta_description":"Right now, roughly 40% of global emissions come from the built environment. Most of those emissions are hidden deep within the materials themselves, in th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2439,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/business-for-good-podcast-641837/episodes/turning-waste-biomass-into-carbon-negative-buildings-with-allison-dring/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837/turning-waste-biomass-into-carbon-negative-buildings-with-allison-dring.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}