Our story
Charm’s founders met through Planet, and independently developed an interest in preventing climate change. In 2017 they began working together to find a profitable way to sequester carbon. What started as a “char farm” (charm, get it?) evolved into a concept to turn agricultural residues into renewable industrial hydrogen via fast pyrolysis.
In 2020 our Chief Scientist and co-founder Shaun Meehan had two breakthroughs. First, converting agricultural residues into a bio-oil intermediate made the concept dramatically more economical and second, pumping bio-oil underground was a compelling and cost-competitive way to remove carbon from the atmosphere. We were off to the races.
Within 10 months, we completed our first carbon removal injection and in 2021, we completed more than 5,000 tons of carbon removal for customers like Stripe, Shopify and Microsoft.
We're just getting started, and we need a wide variety of experiences to build an entirely new industry. Gigatonnes or bust!
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Meet Jen — Carbon Removal Geologist
First, Do No Harm
We are here to serve the Earth and all of its inhabitants.
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Like the hippocratic oath and Asimov’s Zeroth Law, we are intentional in our technology development and business decisions to ensure we make a positive impact. We value the safety, health and happiness of our teammates, business partners, family and friends. This is our oath to the planet and its ecosystems.
Gigatons or Bust
In order to solve the climate crisis, Charm must deliver at a massive scale.
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We value taking bold and calculated risks to accelerate our path to gigatons of impact because the climate crisis demands urgency and enormous scale. We must think bigger and keep this concept front-of-mind when making decisions big and small.
Radical Resilience
When the going gets tough, we get going.
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We value persistence in the face of adversity. Not through stubbornness, but through being open-minded, resourceful and adaptable. We put ingenuity to work. This includes learning from our mistakes and wrong turns so that, no matter the circumstances, we finish what we set out to do.
Solve the Right Problem
We heat seek toward the problems with the biggest impact.
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The ‘right problem’ isn’t always the most apparent, most interesting, or the one with the biggest scope, but solving it can unblock a path to success. We avoid getting stuck in the weeds on problems with inflated importance; instead we take a step back and reorient to the critical path.
Weird and Full of Wonder
Never lose a sense of child-like awe and curiosity for the unknown.
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At Charm we are constantly in search of new learnings, opportunities, and discoveries. Even little things can surprise us and make us think in entirely new ways. We love to share those small moments and see the joy and excitement it brings to others. When we look through fresh or even child-like eyes, we can see things more clearly and simply, and have some fun along the way.
You’re Not Alone
We look to others to better ourselves.
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The climate crisis won’t be solved by a single person or entity. There are many people working to solve this problem we face, and while we’re in separate boats, we are all riding the same tides. We look to others for help when we need it and leverage the knowledge of those within the team or in relevant fields to learn from past mistakes, check assumptions, better our work, and ourselves.
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Climate heroes wanted!
The consequences of climate change inherently affect some more than others, and we believe we are going to need a diverse team to help us save our little planet most effectively and justly.
Charm Industrial is an equal opportunity employer with a firm commitment to growing our team in an inclusive way, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, medical condition, age, or veteran status.