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About Michelle

Our Founder, Michelle Li - From Silicon Valley to Saving the Planet

Michelle is the founder of clever carbon. She launched her career in Silicon Valley where she worked for some of the biggest names in tech including Salesforce and DocuSign. A proponent for making sustainability the new norm, Michelle founded clever carbon to help teach people about carbon footprint in a hip, fun, and relatable way because what gets measured gets changed. She is a TEDx, SXSW, and COP27 speaker on the topic of carbon literacy and is a United Nations content contributor. Michelle believes that a carbon literate society will accelerate solutions and actions at the speed and scale required for a thriving planet.

Michelle is also the founder of Women and Climate, a non-profit organization that inspires climate action by creating a joyful and safe space for more women to learn and talk about climate.

Media Highlights

Michelle has partnered with publications, news outlets, events, and corporations on media content and coverage. For more information, please use our speaker request form or reach out to press@clevercarbon.io.

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Public Speaking

Michelle is a professional speaker and available for speaking engagements. Her portfolio of work to date can be found below. For speaking requests, please use the form below.

2023 Calendar

February

2.10: PALO IT Carbon Footprint Workshop | Virtual | Speaker

2.16: SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium | Vienna | Speaker

March

3.7: BOLD with Women and Climate | Virtual | Guest

3.10: Goals House at SXSW | Austin, Texas | Speaker

3.11: The Female Quotient Equality Lounge at SXSW | Austin, Texas | Panelist

3.12: SXSW | Austin, Texas | Panelist

3.16: NAEM EHS&S & ESG Tech Week | Tucson, Arizona | Keynote

April

4.19: Sustainability Live New York | Virtual | Speaker

May

5.19: ClairCon | Virtual | Speaker

5.31: CCUS Forum | Doha, Qatar | MC and Facilitator

July

7.11: SEMICON West | San Francisco | Moderator

7.27: Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit | Singapore | Speaker

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Past Media & Coverage

Video

GreenBusinessImpact | May 2023

Sustainability LIVE New York | April 2023

SXSW 2023 | The Female Quotient Equality Lounge - ESG Strategies

SXSW 2023 | Climate Repair, Ocean Health, Carbon Removal

March8 Getting Girls to go Green

Ticker Insight News: Holiday Carbon Footprint

March8 Interview for January 2023 Edition

Women and Climate: Business for Good using the Sustainable Development Goals

COP27: Blue Planet Alliance Press Conference

COP27 Clever Carbon Pitch with We Don't Have Time

SXSW Panel: Carbon footprint and the future of consumer brands

TEDx: The Carbon Literacy Revolution

WeWork: All the ways Michelle works

Anjuna: Opportunities for sustainability in music events April 2022

Austin B Media SXSW Interview March 2022

SiteGround Earth Day Webinar April 2022

Fairchild TV Interview | 16 mins (Cantonese)

Podcasts

Let’s cut out all the confusion around carbon footprints, and let’s make a carbon literate society. Especially for our world leaders.

And if you want to comprehend carbon in a way that is fun and easy to understand, then definitely go check out https://clevercarbon.io/quiz/

It is so simple on there.

But what Michelle mentions during this interview, and what is even more important is what you do after you find out what your Carbon Footprint is.

Your goal is to reduce it, but how?

During this interview Michelle provides a heuristic for you to use as you are going about your day making decisions, and how to choose something that has less of a carbon footprint. You have to think about the life cycle of the product.

And if you don’t know, some really progressive companies are starting to place Carbon labels on their products to show how much of a carbon footprint it has.

Which is really exciting for expanding the number of people who are carbon literate worldwide. May 2023

YouTube | Podcast

Is there a place for playfulness within the very serious issues of our day? Michelle Li identifies it as critical. When creating Clever Carbon, Michelle deliberately developed a cheeky, hip, playful tone to the teaching of climate footprint. Creating joyful spaces of learning may be a different approach than many in the climate industry, but it just may help us adopt new habits. Tune in here. Mar 2023

The ‘Ready or Not, Change is Coming’ Is a 12-part climate podcast series, aiming to capture the attention of everyday people who might not necessarily associate the climate crisis with their lives, especially when they might be living paycheck to paycheck. We aim to tell and share stories (and science!) through an engaging and open dialogue to explain in laymans terms to help explain what is happening, how people are being affected and what citizens can do about it. In episode 5, Michelle speaks about carbon footprint literacy and why it’s important. Tune in here. Dec 2022

On Gender Day at COP27, our founder Michelle Li joined the United Nations daily round-up podcast for a discussion on Women and Climate.

Tune in on Apple Podcasts or from the UN website. Michelle’s segment begins at 17:20.

Nov 2022

Hosted by Peter Levin, In Good Hands is a podcast that features the most promising solutions for climate change. Peter hopes to craft a new narrative around climate – one that opts for optimism and opportunity over fear and inaction.

Tune into this episode featuring Michelle and clever carbon.