Podcast appearances and mentions of kathleen alexander

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we're still diving into the choices that you can make as a consumer, in our Earth Month of personal climate action! And this one is a biggie: food. We love a climate entrepreneur with a vision to solve a big problem who goes looking around and lands on one you might not have thought of. Savor founder Kathleen Alexander did her research and landed on fats and oils, which are detrimental in all kinds of ways, from the way we practice agriculture to deforestation to energy use. Her company uses molecular construction to create replacement versions of fats and oils, starting with a butter that's good enough to be in the chocolates of a Michelin-star restaurant. Taste test within!LINKS:savor.itKathleen AlexanderAll episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about Everybody in the Pool! Send feedback or become a sponsor at in@everybodyinthepool.com! To support the show and get an ad-free listening experience, please jump in and become a member of Everybody in the Pool! https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if the fat in your butter, cheese, or even burger could be made without animals, without plants, without fermentation, and without agriculture at all? That's exactly what Savor is doing. Using a groundbreaking process that transforms compounds like CO₂ and elements like hydrogen into rich, animal-free fats that can mimic what animal fat does, this California-based startup is rethinking how we produce and consume one of the most essential ingredients in food. In this episode, I sit down with Kathleen Alexander, cofounder and CEO of Savor, to dive into the science behind their innovative fat production, why alternative fats could be the next big breakthrough in food tech, and how their approach could help fight climate change while making all types of foods, including plant-based meats and dairy, taste even better. So far the company has raised more than $30 million in venture capital, including from Bill Gates, and is now gearing up to start selling its new fat in restaurants and bakeries within 2025. Will humanity be able to divorce food production from agriculture? If Savor succeeds, that just might be the case.  Discussed in this episode Katheeen co-authored the paper Food Without Agriculture. Savor was incubated by Orca Sciences. Our past episode with Pivot Bio president Lisa Nunez Safarian. Kathleen and Paul both recommend Alchemy of Air and Not the End of the World. Kathleen recommends Long Life, Honey in the Heart. Smitsonian story on Savor's technology. More about Kathleen Alexander Kathleen Alexander has a strong background in materials science and engineering. She has worked in various roles, including as a CTO and CEO at Savor, a Project Director at Orca Sciences, and a Climate Solutions Consultant at KCA Research, Inc. Kathleen has a proven track record of designing and implementing innovative projects for climate solutions, with a focus on greenhouse gas reduction technologies. She has also conducted extensive research and modeling in the field of materials science, particularly in areas related to electrochemistry and battery performance. Kathleen's academic background includes a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, further showcasing her expertise in the field.

What You Will Learn: How the IRS is handling our traditional tax due date Tax savings tips Strengthening profit and loss statements How to manage cash flows Keeping better accounting records to apply for grants and credits About Kathleen Alexander Kathleen joined Sax in 1988 and is a Partner with the firm providing accounting, tax planning and business advisory solutions to clients across a wide range of industries. Kathleen is a hands-on professional and her clients rely on her strong knowledge of account controls and best practices. She focuses on establishing good tax strategies to maximize business and personal taxes which provides increased cash flow. Kathleen is the Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s expanding Food and Beverage Practice while also remaining heavily active in the firm’s Manufacturing and Distribution Practice. In addition, Kathleen is Director of Technical Training and Continuing Professional Education at the firm, and a Co-Chair of the Women’s Initiative Committee. Kathleen is a Certified Public Accountant in New Jersey and is Named an Ovation Award winner by the NJCPA in the category of IMPACT, 2020. Kathleen is also named one of NJBIZ’s Best Fifty Women in Business, 2013 and was awarded “Top Big Apple Entrepreneur of 2016” by Manhattan Magazine. In 2015 Kathleen was awarded Top 10 Public Accounting Professionals by the Academy of Public Accounting Professionals. Resources: Website: www.saxllp.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kathleen-alexander-cpa

Today my guest Kathleen Alexander, Associate Professor of Wildlife in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, and I discuss One Health and her work at Virginia Tech and in Botswana. “One Health” is the notion that the complex problems facing our local and global communities can only really be addressed with an approach that encompasses societal, animal, and environmental components in an integrated manner. It is no longer enough to evaluate the health status of an individual in isolation. We must engage the complexity of the systems- land use, disease and other complex changes occurring in our water and air, with consideration as to where the patient lives, interactions with animals and other humans, water and food, and household responses. When combined, science, technology and imagination, we have the tools to collectively and collaboratively create critical and crucial Wholistic solutions: To Invent The Future

A new solution is being tested against birds getting stuck in airplane engines or picking a farm field clean. John Swaddle says the “sonic net” is like a digital audio scarecrow, and it doesn’t disturb people or harm the birds. Plus: In the 1940s, a Swiss chemist took a close look at the burrs in his hunting dog’s fur and noticed the hook and loop phenomenon. That led to the development of Velcro. Brook S. Kennedy uses the same method of nature-inspired design for his own inventions, including the Macronaut, a smart phone-compatible magnifying lens he designed to help us zoom in on the wonders of natural phenomena all around. Later in the show: If you’re poor in Botswana, lions and elephants aren’t cool wildlife—they’re threats to your crops, your herds, and your family. But protecting a robust wildlife population is high priority for a country whose wealthy and middle classes rely on tourism. Kathleen Alexander is working in Botswana to bridge the gap between conserving wildlife and helping impoverished communities. Also: Could creating an imbalance between the sexes in a mosquito population help solve the Zika problem? Zhijan Tu says it might be possible to slow the spread of Zika and other viruses like dengue and chikungunya by making female mosquitos scarce

Today my guest Kathleen Alexander, Associate Professor of Wildlife in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, and I discuss One Health and her work at Virginia Tech and in Botswana. “One Health” is the notion that the complex problems facing our local and global communities can only really be addressed with an approach that encompasses societal, animal, and environmental components in an integrated manner. It is no longer enough to evaluate the health status of an individual in isolation. We must engage the complexity of the systems- land use, disease and other complex changes occurring in our water and air, with consideration as to where the patient lives, interactions with animals and other humans, water and food, and household responses. When combined, science, technology and imagination, we have the tools to collectively and collaboratively create critical and crucial Wholistic solutions: To Invent The Future

No doubt about it, this Ebola frightening. This outbreak has already claimed thousands and it isn't over and the outlook by the W.H.O. and C.D.C. and the news can be confusing. Today, Dr. Kathy Alexander, of the Virginia Tech Bio-informanics Team and part of the global effort in modeling the analytics and massive interactions between the biosocial and technical to map and be pro-active to adapt and find effective measures that improve human health, habitat and well being. Kathy gives us perspective on the scope of Ebola and provides us with very direct and simple ways each of us can help. Wildness still holds many surprises, and the biggest lesson we are learning from this outbreak is, that what we do in our personal lives does eventually come round and connect to the larger picture, that Our Wild World has everything to do with us, and that we have everything to do with what happens ‘out there'. Learn more: http://www.vbi.vt.edu

Join special guest, Dr. Kathleen Alexander PhD, DVM of CARACAL Biodiversity Center, Botswana and Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech who has been selected as one of three, African regional experts by World Health Organization and the Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat to participate in a regional workshop in Mozambique to present to national health and biodiversity experts from various African countries on integrating health and biodiversity into policy and planning. The objective is to contribute to the implementation of the Convention on the Biological Diversity in the WHO African Region, by providing a forum to national health and environment/biodiversity experts from African Parties to the CBD on actions to be taken in their respective countries. LINKS: http://www.vt.edu, www.Facebook.com/caracalbotswana, www.caracal.info, www.blogspot.healthbotswana.com