Who 
On 
Earth?

Who On Earth?

The TLDR;

Who We Are And Why We're Here
  • Two former humanitarian workers turned startup enthusiasts
  • Two children (each) who'd prefer not to inherit a flaming planet
  • One ridiculous name (Climate Karen) for a deadly serious mission
  • Zero patience for corporate climate nonsense

The TLDR;

Who We Are And Why We're Here

Two former humanitarian workers turned startup enthusiasts

 

Two children (each) who'd prefer not to inherit a flaming planet

 

One ridiculous name (Climate Karen) for a deadly serious mission

 

Zero patience for corporate climate nonsense

The Humans Behind Climate Karen

Josh Elliott: Spent a decade delivering clean water to millions of people across the globe.

 

Known for his adventures—whether it's sharing bourbon with Che Guevara's son or mountain biking with Richard Branson on his island—Josh is a self-described "Sustainability Misfit."

 

Josh lives with his wife Jess, two children, and a small farm of animals (including one notoriously grumpy rooster).
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Aaron White: Spent 10 years in Ethiopia doing humanitarian work before becoming an entrepreneur. 

 

Passionate about human-centered design for major challenges, Aaron co-founded the world's first digital inhaler for kids with asthma and contributed to rare brain cancer research. Now, climate change.

 

Aaron lives with his wife Zayid, two VERY energetic children, and an orange cat named Willis in the mountains of North Carolina.

Two Dad's With a Plan

Meet Our Co-Founders

Josh Elliott: Spent a decade delivering clean water to millions of people across the globe.

 

Known for his adventures—whether it's sharing bourbon with Che Guevara's son or mountain biking with Richard Branson on his island—Josh is a self-described "Sustainability Misfit."

 

Josh lives with his wife Jess, two children, and a small farm of animals (including one notoriously grumpy rooster).
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Aaron White: Spent 10 years in Ethiopia doing humanitarian work before becoming an entrepreneur. 

 

Passionate about human-centered design for major challenges, Aaron co-founded the world's first digital inhaler for kids with asthma and contributed to rare brain cancer research. Now, climate change.

 

Aaron lives in the mountains of North Carolina with his wife Zayid, two VERY energetic children, and an orange cat named Willis.

Why We're Doing This

Our global humanitarian work showed us who gets hit hardest by climate disasters (spoiler: not the people with a Roth IRA and not politicians).

 

Then we had kids who asked uncomfortable questions about the whole "planet on fire" situation.

 

FAAAAAAAAAAAAACK. Maybe we can do something.

Why We're Doing This

Our global humanitarian work showed us who gets hit hardest by climate disasters... 

(spoiler: not the people with yachts and not politicians).

 

Then we had kids who asked uncomfortable questions about the whole "planet on fire" situation.

 

Faaaaaaaaaaaaack. Maybe we can do something.

Our Actually-Pretty-Simple Approach

Enter the ubiquitous 3-Step Plan

1. Be Optimistic: We believe humans can still shut the lid on this dumpster fire. How? Collective action to a) decarbonize our society, and b) scale up carbon removal technology. Ps. this needs to happen like, yesterday.

 

2. Build Community: A single "karen" is offensive and not helpful. But a crowd of Climate Karen's urging government and big corporations to do better? Powerful.

 

3. Be Ridiculous: Because doom-scrolling never saved anything

Our Actually-Pretty-Simple Approach

Enter the ubiquitous 3-Step Plan

1. Be Optimistic: We believe humans can still shut the lid on this dumpster fire. How? Collective action to a) decarbonize our society, and b) scale up carbon removal technology. Also, this needs to happen like, yesterday.

 

2. Build Community: A single "karen" is offensive and not helpful. But a crowd of Climate Karen's urging government and big corporations to do better? Powerful.

 

3. Be Ridiculous: Because doom-scrolling never saved anything

Why "Climate Karen"?

Born on a mountain bike trail in North Carolina, our epiphany was simple: 

what if consumers demanded climate accountability with the same energy Karens demand to speak to managers?

 

Because if there's one thing corporations respond to, it's customers who absolutely refuse to shut up.

 

Absurd? Yes. Necessary? Also yes.

 

Our Advisors

Smart People Who Tell Us Smart Things

David Cuthbert - former Navy Special Forces who (not even making this up) commanded specially trained dolphins to find underwater explosives, took a tech company public before becoming our board chair who listens to our "how does money work?" questions with remarkable patience. 🐬

 

Ilyse Kaplan, 2x startup exit boss, somehow maintains her humanity while regularly inserting some sense into our company with a simple spreadsheet and absolutely zero tolerance for our startup founder delusions. 📊

 

Brent Fewell, the rarest of political unicorns who went from EPA senior official under Bush to environmental law champion, somehow makes policy exciting while translating science-speak into human language. 💧

 

Ryan Boudreau, digital marketing wizard, has launched CPG brands into Amazon's top 20, and now is helping clean up the mess he created. 📦

 

Ross Kenyon, built one of the first carbon removal platforms and knows more about carbon removal technologies than almost anyone. He's also funny, which is equally as valuable.🌱

 

Caterina Lurani, former climate-tech VC (and multi-sport adventurer) helps us escape our daily chaos to see the bigger picture we'd otherwise completely miss. 🌊

 

Seth Bradbury, the guerrilla marketing genius who made America crave Red Bull, outpaces twenty-somethings in ultra-marathons while helping us solve the eternal mystery of "why would anyone actually care about this thing we're making?" 🏃‍♂️

Our Advisors

Smart People Who Tell Us Smart Things

David Cuthbert - former Navy Special Forces who (not even making this up) commanded specially trained dolphins to find underwater explosives, took a tech company public before becoming our board chair who listens to our "how does money work?" questions with remarkable patience. 🐬

 

Ilyse Kaplan, 2x startup exit boss, somehow maintains her humanity while regularly inserting some sense into our company with a simple spreadsheet and absolutely zero tolerance for our startup founder delusions. 📊

 

Brent Fewell, the rarest of political unicorns who went from EPA senior official under Bush to environmental law champion, somehow makes policy exciting while translating science-speak into human language. 💧

 

Ross Kenyon, built one of the first carbon removal platforms and knows more about carbon removal technologies than almost anyone. He's also funny, which is equally as valuable. 🌱

 

Ryan Boudreau, digital marketing wizard, has launched CPG brands and now is helping clean up the mess he created. 📦

 

Caterina Lurani, former climate-tech VC (and multi-sport adventurer) helps us escape our daily chaos to see the bigger picture we'd otherwise completely miss. 🌊

 

Seth Bradbury, the guerrilla marketing genius who made America crave Red Bull, outpaces twenty-somethings in ultra-marathons while helping us solve the eternal mystery of "why would anyone actually care about this thing we're making?" 🏃‍♂️

It's Time We Exposed Ourselves

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How We Use YOUR Dollar

80¢ Removes CO2

Buys permanent CO2 credits. 100% verifiable.

20¢ Makes a Scene

Helps us yell at bad companies and dumb people.

It's Time We Exposed Ourselves

With Transparency (Thanks, Legal)

How We Use YOUR Dollar

80¢ Removes CO2

Buys permanent CO2 credits. 100% verifiable.

20¢ Makes a Scene

Helps us yell at bad companies and dumb people.

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FAQs

Where does my money go?

We take your hard earned money and use it to buy permanent carbon removal credits from trusted climate-tech companies.

These durable (like, really friggin' good) carbon removal credits can cost $500-1,000 per ton... or, as it's known in the biz, a shit-ton.

 

We buy a mix of these to create a portfolio of DAC, biochar, ocean-bound, and ERW removed carbon. We then take this big pie of removed carbon and create little slices for you buy monthly.

 

We add a small (20%) fee to the cost of the carbon removal credit. This goes to helps us amplify your impact and grow this movement.

Can I cancel my subscription?

Do bears shit in the woods? Just login to your account and make the cancel. Or, email us at info@climatekaren.com and we'll take care of it.

What's with the Karen?

We'll answer your question with another question. What if we all got a little unreasonable when it came to climate change and demanded to speak with the manager about this CO₂?

 

We are climate-optimists who believe being a little pushy might just save the planet. And maybe you feel the same.

Who removes the carbon dioxide?

You fund it—we handle the rest. We buy permanent carbon credits from carefully vetted suppliers—the same folks trusted by Microsoft, Stripe, BCG, and McKinsey. (Yeah, we're name-dropping.)

 

Currently, 80% of our carbon removal comes from Climeworks—the biggest, most trusted player in direct air capture (think: giant air purifiers for the planet). The other 20% is from innovators like Octavia, biochar producers, and other cutting-edge projects. Everything is third-party verified, permanent (no sneaky CO₂ comebacks), and helps scale technologies to cut future costs.

 

In short: Your money → Top-tier carbon removers → Less CO₂ → Happier planet.

Why does CO2 removal cost money?

Getting that CO₂ up in the atmosphere was fun (remember that one summer when you fast-tracked a coal-fired power plant through congress? Oh wait. that wasn't you?)

 

Anywho, it was easy to get up there and now it's hard to get back out. That requires some pretty impressive technology to get it out of the atmosphere, all of which is expensive.

That's what your money is doing, removing carbon, and importantly, catalyzing an industry to make the planet less hot.
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