The Climate Crisis in North Carolina: "When I was probably a teenager ish, massive acid rain issues that killed all these beautiful, you know, trees in the Smokies. And that was a wake up call."

Passion and Focus in Climate Technology: "But I think that you know, having that passion and focus, whatever it is, can sort of get you up a curve pretty quickly."

Climate Change Solutions: "I didn't realize just how interrelated and complicated these climate change problems are."

Building Climate Tech in New Mexico: "I feel like we're in the first couple of cranks of the flywheel, which is the hardest. But I'm already beginning to see the fruits of our efforts."

Economy for the Future: "There are other smaller economies around things like wind, solar, geothermal, bioenergy that we can begin to build that will help us transition and become the economy for the future for New Mexico."

Building a Community: "And that's a critical piece is to have a state do what they do best, which is create these packages like we've done in entertainment for the start up community, not just, you know, my role of climate tech, but any new new venture that just has specific requirements."

The Future of Climate Tech Investment: "My hope is that we're successful, and we're able to raise other funds to do things like series a and series b investing."

"The Spirit of Innovation": "And I think the spirit of the place and that openness and energy around building things is just feels, you know, it's it's it's alive. It's it's energetic. It's it's real."

Quality of Life Transformation: "And coming here, it's just you can't even believe how the quality of life improves."

Promoting Kindness in a Mean-Spirited World: "It just feels important, particularly in an environment where there's just a tone and a mean spiritedness to a lot of the news that we see... the more we can do to tamp that down and put more kindness in the world, I feel like that's who we are as a country."