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If you’re trying to do the right thing as a consumer to reduce your carbon footprint, Carbonauts may be a lesson you want to explore. 

On this episode of Better Worlds, Host Julian Guderley asked Graham Hill, co-founder of Carbonauts, about the big six things he says can be done individually to reduce your own personal carbon footprint, in addition to carbon offsets.  What percentage of the living population would have to adopt these suggestions to lower their footprint to reach a tipping point, to create an inverse climate crisis. Personal change is just as important as corporate and government solutions, to create the tipping point, or the flipping point - the point in which the global climate will begin to flip, and then rapid change will come with that movement.  Graham offers Carbonaut sessions for individuals who want to take personal responsibility for the climate crisis and ensure they are making their contributions to reach that tipping point in the relatively short amount of time we have to reach the flipping point from 5 percent to 25 percent.  

Before COVID spawned a whole generation of Van LIfe digital stories, Graham, also CEO of LifeEdited, provide through his love of architecture that a person or two can design and live in a 350 or 420 square foot micro apartment, transforming rooms for multiple functions with various furniture hacks such as Murphy beds over a couch, folding tables with leaves and stacking chairs, for example. For 12 years he has designed space-efficient buildings, products and lifestyles to yield more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy. Check out LifeEdited for more.   

Join us for more about these issues and Graham’s views on Web 3.   

#LifeEdited #carbonauts #carbonfootprint

Carbonomics: John Hoopes

How do we use trading for good? How do you go from the dark side to the light side?

Neil Cohn, founder of CodeGreen.org whose career first began with Glencore, now the largest commodity trading house, is a man of many questions. Each question leads to a new endeavor, now with the new nonprofit, CodeGreen, of which he is founder.

Fortunately Neil asked the questions about carbon trading, leading to a life of problem-solving for climate change. Introduced to global warming at COP 3, the Kyoto Protocol Climate Change Conference, Neil began to see the impact and question how to go into fields where trading can be leveraged for good.

Neil discusses with Better Worlds Host Julian Guderley his own consciousness struggle at the time early in his career, when he asked: How do traders start to change commodities to not be about the financers but to be more empowerment, and how to flip the trading on its head, because even though the countries have resources, they were not going to become rich countries because of governance.

By the time Neil attended COP 6 in Den Hague, he had to face the reality and the hatred from those on the ground as environmentalists splattered his carbon trader team with fake blood as they left the conference. He understood the needle had to move all the way from corporations to the other side to find something that would work for change.

As research is now showing that CO2 is also starting to affect human brain power, to think and to produce, Neil, who has experienced bodily harm due to the polluted environment himself, has developed the latest iteration of solutions through CodeGreen to respond to the climate crisis, now at a Code Red for humanity.

CodeGreen.org is a blockchain-agnostic non-profit with a focused mission to deliver open source, interoperable, and scalable solutions to address the climate crisis and other global challenges. The team has deep interdisciplinary capabilities in computer science, carbon trading, climate policy, and financial market, using distributed ledger technology to overcome trust barriers and enable inclusive collaboration.

Neil is an innovator in blockchain and sustainable finance who was instrumental in developing early markets for carbon, renewable energy, and biodiversity. He is passionate about leveraging decentralized finance to deliver on the best intentions of blockchain – sustainable growth and inclusive prosperity.

Learn more now on this episode of Better Worlds’ Carbonomics series

Founder of CodeGreen

https://codegreen.org/

Hosted by Julian Guderley, Greenplanet-blueplanet.com

How does the Healthcare sector impact climate change?  

Frederik Van Duers, CEO of Green Innovation Group, tells Better Worlds that global Healthcare accounts for 4 to 6 percent of carbon emissions.   Why? The usual suspects, but also single use devices, drug production and waste. incredibly   “When drugs and devices are purchased by hospitals they enter Narnia and nobody knows where they go when they are disposed of, how many are wasted or how many are put to use.”  

What helps? Delivering preventive service independent of material consumption that can be delivered through telemedicine, for instance.   Can we advise people to do some of the habitual changes that are associated with better health outcomes, such as smoking?   Prevention and preventive healthcare are the biggest opportunities to go to the inner circle of the circular economy.   

Speaking with host Julian Guderley, Frederik provides his impression of blockchain, land use technology and gives an overview of the Web 3 landscape in the healthcare sector.   Green Innovation Group is a global boutique management consulting firm that promotes green tech companies. They work on projects they believe will decarbonize the healthcare sector, with some of their biggest sectors being Farming, meta and the healthcare sector at large, including insurance companies. 

Their mission is to work with organizations that want to be more sustainable, formulate and deploy their strategy, or to help executive strategies already in development. Green Innovation also focuses on capacity building, training staff who may not have sufficient knowledge about the circular economy to integrate into industrial processes.

Frederik Van Deurs CEO, Green Innovation Group Decarbonizing the Health Sector   

John Palmisano

Head of Climate & Risk, Changeblock

What lessons have been learned that now set the stage for creating carbon markets in the right way, for a better world?

John Palmisano, Head of Climate & Risk at Changeblock,  and our Better Worlds guest host Aldyen Donnelly of Nori talk technicalities and rules on global trades during this episode of our podcast.

The discussion surrounds tracking trades correctly; using double entry bookkeeping to reduce two entities receiving the same credits, to follow and report credits properly ensured through the use of blockchain.

John surmises that Web 3 exhibits the power of enhanced tech that allows the maximization profits and trades, while blockchain tools will help developers in nations with less sophisticated property right structures in place that will be able to show attributes of their transactions. Hear more about how these tools will be used to counteract greenwashing and John’s thoughts on a one-size-fits-all regulatory program and the tools important for establishing efficient solutions for big social problems due to their worldwide track record and benefits seen since the Kyoto protocol.

Why would we switch to another worldwide regular regime where it's more difficult and sysyphisian, John asks.

“It takes billions of dollars and hundreds of millions of person hours to  create a worldwide trading program. When it started back in 1976 there were a handful of people who understood the offset interpretive ruling. Now there are 100,000 working on aspects of greenhouse emissions trading. Changing that would be futile. Look at the human capital, systems, history, thousands of transactions, culture, MRV, This concept has traction and it will and should be extended to other environmental commodities because we need these markets to reflect the price we are paying for destroying our habitat.”

More about John:

John serves as Head of Climate & Risk for Changeblock, a smart contract trading platform focused on facilitating trades of greenhouse gas related assets such as emission reduction credits and greenhouse gas allowances.

An expert in environmental and energy matters, he created the first emissions credit brokerage firm and several others. He has advised governments, trade associations, companies, and NGOs on environmental management issues, energy and environmental trading, environmental auditing, sustainability, “green-energy” and climate change policies. Managed emission brokerage and environmental consulting offices in Athens, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Kiev, Moscow, San Francisco, and Washington DC.

Currently, he is developing an autonomous brokering methodology using blockchain-based smart contracts, developing an event-futures exchange, and developing blockchain-based supply chains to help companies demonstrate compliance with sustainable development commitments.

More on Aldyen

Aldyen Donnelly is a cofounder of Nori, and has been a small business developer and consultant for over 40 years. In the mid-1990s, Aldyen started to work on market-driven strategies to reduce atmospheric carbon concentrations. Having gathered together an "emission reduction credit" or "ERC" buyers group, Aldyen developed and executed the world's first major forward ERC purchase agreement to finance carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, as well as the first ERC sales-financed carbon capture and storage project.

How can Web3 lower the personal carbon footprint by creating financially attractive, cheaper systems aligned with social utilities to encourage more consumers to have a positive carbon impact?  Nihar Neelakanti talks with host Julian Guderleyon this podcast episode about Eco-Sapiens,  carbon removal start up designed to build a better world. Nihar and co-founder Garrett Kane have received funding to develop a strategy to create the world’s first carbon-backed NFT to make it easier for anyone to have impact on the planet.   

Nihar speakers about the plan for the NFT, how it will be priced and the incentives tied to it to give each buyer the ability to move the needle on CO2 removal. The consumer rate of carbon emissions is about 13 tons per year. The NFT is backed by 20 tons of carbon, so with each unique digital NFT purchase, the buyer also contributes to the sequestration of 20 tons of carbon dioxide. The mission is to make it "1-click" easy for consumers to make a difference in a way that aligns with their interests. The NFT, which Nihar describes not as an expense, but a commodity, is the first step in Eco-Sapiens vision for consumers.   

The company is also creating the Eco Card, a fundamental product that applies to the holistic approach to carbon through a sustainable loyalty rewards program. Yet to be designed, Nihar talks about what the market for the cards could look like and how they may also serve to lower carbon lifestyles.  Prior to co-founding Eco-Sapiens, Nihar was Head of Investment for Menlo Ventures across consumer, fintech and climate sectors. Menlo Ventures provides capital for seed through growth technology companies in the consumer and enterprise sectors. Notable research areas of investment include Mobile (Siri, Uber, TeleNav), Enterprise Storage (3PAR, Spinnaker Networks, Coraid), Communications (Acme Packet, Cavium Networks), and Consumer (Fab, Tumblr, Carbonite, Roku).  Nihar’s previous work has been working for investment houses.  

Ecosapiens will launch with an exclusive carbon-backed NFT limited to just 250 Ecosapien avatars in December 2022. To become a member of the community, you may register for early access at www.ecosapiens.xyz or follow @ecosapiensxyz on Twitter, and join the community on Discord. 

Nihar Neelakaniti Co-Founder & CEO of Eco-Sapiens  

#carboncredits #nfts #fintech    

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What is a holistic approach to Mangrove reforestation that addresses social impact, habitat development, global warming mitigation, positive climate change, bringing together technologies with community stakeholders to create prosperity?

Working in the carbon market since 2011, mangroves are finally getting the attention they should have as a climate solution.  In an interview with Better Worlds host Julian Guderley, Dr. Irina Fedorenko noted that the emerging market is still messy and not transparent because it didn’t receive enough attention in the past few years. At first an underdog, she is now on point with the trends in the carbon market, working with VlinderClimate and Caux Dialogue, and other organizations in unison to democratize the market.

Through a  holistic approach, these organizations build teams and strengthen partnerships for mangrove reforestation projects, helping communities manage mangroves as a barrier between land and sea to protect land from increasing climate-change storms and the damage they bring. But they have a multitude of other benefits and through their efforts, communities see direct benefits that mangroves have on shoreline communities in social impact, habitat development and positive climate impact, and their own prosperity.

Mangroves, which Irina refers to in this podcast as “magical trees” due to their vast ability to create better ecosystems. Specifically, mangroves stabilize the shores, protect land from sea, holding rich nutrients in the soil, and sequester five times the carbon dioxide of the Amazon rainforest, the most important carbon sink in the world.

Irina talks with Better Worlds about how communities are benefiting from new mangrove-related business opportunities as well, citing new projects in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal.

Irina discusses how the shoreline communities are the key stakeholders in any mangrove effort. To help keep them engaged as stewards of their own environment, the partnership with these organizations brings to them 50 percent of the carbon revenue. Irina explains how this creates prosperity for community stakeholders and the roles of each partner, from upkeep to technological mapping to show sequestration in “almost” real time.

BIO

For the past seven years Dr. Federenko has been the Managing Director of Caux Dialogue on Environment and Security leading the conference team and organizing the dialogue on links between desertification, land restoration & conflict in the context of climate change. Advising on strategies and planning for the future content of the Caux Dialogue on Land & Security, in partnership with UNCCD & IUCN.

Irina co-foundedd the Kindness Collective 6 years ago. The Collective is a brand of natural detergent launched by the Oxford students social enterprise. It aims to provide a reliable source of livelihood to some of the rural and communities living in and around particular forest areas in India. Totaling over 100 million, the indigenous people are insulated from the technological, social and economic advancements of the modern world. While many of these people have never been to a school, they spend most of their time on the farms to grow enough for themselves or forage through the forests for food, fuel and medicinal herbs. Thanks to living in the lap of nature, the forest communities have accumulated a great knowledge system in utilizing herbs, fruits, flowers, seeds, nuts and barks of the forests in their lifestyles. Adding business skills and education to this knowledge, Kindness Collective promotes the use of these organic forest products and helps the local communities.

How do we, as planetary stewards, get carbon generators to remove more carbon?

Where in the current carbon offset markets is the incentive to pull out more carbon?

Nori is a company on a mission to reverse climate change by removing enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to lower the overall concentration of CO2 below 300 parts per million.

Paul founded Nori in 2015 when carbon removal not even a topic of discussion. Paul tells Better Worlds host Julian Guderley that he couldn’t find anyone who was pulling greenhouse gas-generating CO2 out of the atmosphere at that time.

Nori began its journey to create a sustainable system that will remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide a year and create stewards of the carbon cycle.  Nori is not an ag company, but it is focused on regenerative agriculture to move more carbon is the only method capable of scaling to millions of tons right now.  Nori is focusing on the supply side to make it easier for suppliers to generate projects and sell projects through standardized pricing across the different types of carbon removal.

In this Better Worlds podcast, Paul talks reversing climate change as an achievable goal once the core problem of organization and financing are addressed.

#climatechange #carbonreversal #Nori

nori.com

Why are we not growing food instead of lawns, and really radicalizing our food system? 

How do we make decisions and act faster with consensus governance? 

Better Worlds guest Rieki Cordon explores these questions and more.   

Rieki was a catalyst and Map Maker with SEEDS and the Regenerative Renaissance in the co-creation of a new economic system, and he worked with Hypha.earth to build tools for DAOs. His experience and focus is in tokenomics, decentralized governance, facilitation, holding space and co-creating through inspiration.  

Currently he is working with the Regenerative Civics Alliance, a global decentralized alliance of organizations and place-based pilot projects focused on supporting global transition to regenerative cultures.  These efforts are focused on circular economies and communities that take care of each other and the planet through decentralized governance, and to move beyond capitalism to create better worlds. Rieki discusses the launch of SEEDS 2.0, and the distribution of the seeds currency.  

#consensus #web3 #governance  

https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/the-regenerative-renaissance 

https://joinseeds.earth/ 

https://hypha.earth/  

# About Better Worlds Better Worlds is a communication and community building platform comprised of weekly podcasts, engaging international conferences and hack-a-thons to encourage and support the development of Web3 solutions. Our programs celebrate voices from every continent to forge a shared and abundant future.

Sarah Porter, Director of Innovative Philanthropy for Hope for Haiti, turned this virtual reality experience into a question. If it feels this real and has this much impact, what could it do on the social side of things? Sarah joined Better Worlds to talk about Hope for Haiti's first Virtual Reality project and experiential app that was modeled off of a partner school in rural Haiti. Sarah has created partnerships with the NFT community and launched numerous NFT Auctions to support earthquake response in Haiti.   

As a Director of Development and Partnerships, Sarah’s got her start as a volunteer in the Peace Corp., and currently serves as Board President of the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of New York City. Her strengths are in Policy & Advocacy, Gender Issues, Human Rights, Community Organizing, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and Corporate Philanthropy. She has a Masters in International Affairs from Brooklyn College.   As a fundraiser seeking new opportunities for innovative tools, Sarah turned to the virtual world and Web 3 envisioning an experience where potential funders could meet students inside a virtual Haitian classroom and nonprofits could work together to create an impact metaverse.  

Links Hope for Haiti  ECPAT-USA Peace Corps of NYC  

#impact #nfts #VR #zombies #fundraising #haiti #peacecorps  

# About Better Worlds Better Worlds is a communication and community building platform comprised of weekly podcasts, engaging international conferences and hack-a-thons to encourage and support the development of Web3 solutions. Our programs celebrate voices from every continent to forge a shared and abundant future.