（下文为英文中文互译）
15 Young Founders Rethinking Everything (2)
重新思考这个世界的15位年轻创始人（二）凯利·厄哈特和维斯塔计划，从非营利组织到环保公司
Kelly Erhart, 26; Project Vesta
凯利·厄哈特，26岁，她成立的公司叫维斯塔计划，网站如下图。
"I wanted to fully focus on solutions."
她遵从的信条是全力以赴、寻求方案。
Kelly Erhart was environmentally conscious as a kid but made a choice as a young adult: "I wasn't going to let my climate anxiety become apathy," the 26-year-old says. "I wanted to fully focus on solutions."
凯利从小就有环保意识，年轻时决定做些与气候变化有关的事，并决心全力以赴，寻找可以付诸实践并行之有效的方法。
She found her focus one weekend while reading a dense climate report, which noted a particular solution called "enhanced weathering." In short, it encourages a natural process by which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere when water hits certain rocks.
一个周末，她在阅读一份厚重的气候报告时注意到报告里提到一种叫“增强风化”的方法。所谓增强风化，简单地说就是加速岩石的自然风化过程，利用海水对某种岩石的不停冲刷，在加速风化的同时，也能去除空气中的二氧化碳。她意识到这就是她一直寻找的东西。
Seemingly every major report listed enhanced weathering as a crucial tool for reaching climate targets, but nobody appeared to be doing it outside of scientists in labs.
经过更多的阅读，凯利留意到，似乎每一份大的有关气候的报告都提到“增强风化”这个方法，把它视为解决气候变化问题的一个重要方法，但这个方法至今还只是停留在实验室里。
This would become the focus of Project Vesta, which she cofounded in 2019 as a nonprofit and is now a public benefit corporation that has raised $6 million in philanthropy for its side.
她想试试。于是她把2019年与人共同创立的非营利组织“维斯塔计划”变成了一家正式的公司。她要把“维斯塔计划”变成一家能够带来社会效益的公司。她成功地筹集到了600万美元的慈善资金。
Erhart had previously cofounded a waterless toilet company, and learned an important lesson there: Even as the world needs many solutions, nothing gets done unless you build a team that's singularly focused in one direction.
凯利之前还与人共同创办过一家无水马桶公司，从那个公司的经营里她吸取到一些经验教训。针对同一个问题这世上恐怕有无数的方法可以解决，可实际上，没有几个方法最终能被成功地做出来。为什么呢？因为没有一个专注的团队。
To that end, she built an impassioned team who identified why "enhanced weathering" hadn't left the science labs: "Scientists aren't entrepreneurs," she says. "They don't take risks, and this is a risky thing."
于是，她组建了一支团队，团队成员个个激情满满。他们认识到为什么“增强风化”这个方案至今没能走出实验室。因为科学家毕竟不是企业家，他们没有企业经营和生存的风险，可企业家有！
Her company secured significant funding so that scientists with a wide range of specialties — who may not normally collaborate — could together research its use.
如今她的公司获得了大量资金，她可以邀请到各个专业方向的科学家，一起来研究制定和实施这个方案。各个分支的科学家们通常也难有类似这样的合作机会。
This year, Project Vesta launched its first pilot site, where a specific kind of carbon-capturing sand will be spread on beaches.
今年，维斯塔计划启动了它的第一个试点，在一处海滩上撒上一种特定的沙子，这种沙子有助于捕获空气中的二氧化碳。
Several more are in the works, with the hopes of one day removing billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. — Nate Hopper
另外几个也在筹划安排中。她希望有一天他们做的这些能帮助去除数十亿吨的二氧化碳。
原作者：内特·霍珀；原文：
https://www.entrepreneur.com/entrepreneurs/15-young-founders-rethinking-everything-from-artificial/432612
补充：
Enhanced weathering is a process that aims to accelerate the natural weathering by spreading finely ground silicate rock, such as basalt, onto surfaces which speeds up chemical reactions between rocks, water, and air.
“增强风化”是一种加速自然风化的过程，通过将硅酸盐岩石比如玄武岩的颗粒粉末铺撒到物质表面来加速岩石、水和空气之间的化学反应。
It also removes carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, permanently storing it in solid carbonate minerals or ocean alkalinity. The latter also slows ocean acidification.
这种过程同时还能从大气中去除二氧化碳，将它永久地储存在固体碳酸矿物质或海洋碱度中。后者有利减缓海洋酸化。