Marcius Extavour is the Chief Scientist & Executive Vice President of Climate and Energy at XPRIZE. He moved to XPRIZE after over a decade of working at the intersection of science, policy, education, and technology development. He served as Director of Government and Corporate Partnerships in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Extavour is active in science and energy policy more broadly, having held positions at the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resource as the OSA/SPIE/AAAS Congressional Science & Technology Policy Fellow, and at the Council of Canadian Academies, a science policy consultant to the Government of Canada.
In this episode we talk about bridge-building, problem-solving and actions needed to save the world.
Show notes:
0:00 About the podcast
0:20 Why is Marcius vital to the survival of the species?
01:43 When did Marcius discover he was a bridge builder
06:32 What is XPRIZE about
11:23 What attracted Marcius into XPRIZE
15:20 How he started in XPRIZE
16:18 Marcius about his job
21:02 Framing ambition
24:38 Working as a facilitator
31:00 Emissions and carbon removal
37:55 Testing environmental priorities
43:06 Shrinking the footprint
50:09 How can you support Marcius and XPRIZE
56:19 When Marcius realized he has a power of change
58:27 Who has positively impacted Marcius' life
59:01 Three tools that help Marcius do his job
01:00:23 Marcius book recommendations
01:01:47 Where you can find Marcius
01:02:18 Outro
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