Better Worlds

Syd Harvey Griffith

Co-Founder, Permatours

Operations Circle, ReGen Garden

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are usually associated with art and collections, but how do we use NFTs for real life, tangible purposes in applications that heal the Earth, bring people together and educate others on how to use Web3 tech?  #IRL

Syd Harvey Griffith, co-founder of Permatours and part of the operations of Regen Garden, talks with Better Worlds about the work they are doing with new economic tools to create and incentivize regenerative practices.

Permatours is a permaculture action and sustainable construction tour of events kicked off by SEEDS to provide a currency, Seeds tokens, to buy goods and services from each other in a circular economy. The group, which has on-boarded hundreds of players across the country, has traveled the Northeast and is now working in the midwest. Their time is spent not only in construction and action on land projects and food production, but also in educating people on Web3 tech, how they can participate in SEEDS and create their own circular economies and tokenomics.

Regen Garden is one Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)  using “In Real Life” (IRL) NFTS for tangible purposes. Regen Garden helps mission-driven projects fundraise and co-create with their community by providing blockchain infrastructure that offers transparent value distribution.

Syd joined SEEDS about two years ago to begin to live out her own dreams for a better world.

She focused on events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills needed to survive and thrive, including regenerative food production and construction (using permaculture and natural farming principles).

This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S..

Contributors of Permatours’ regenerative projects are rewarded Seeds cryptocurrency for their efforts, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished over 40 projects and the tour has expanded to include serving throughout the midwest and internationally.

A native of Boston, currently Syd is residing and working with the LaLa Gardens Cooperative to support its membership development, marketing, and sales, Web3 integration (tokenomics and NFTs), website copy, forming strategic partnerships, and event planning, production, and hosting.

How do we enhance the human experience in a world moving from a 2D space to a 3D with new AI tools, and not be owned by tech as it is in the 2D world? 

It’s the the latest tech renaissance that will give us more time for our own lives, more spaces to communicate and experience new places in a better world.  Co-founder & CEO of Stockholm-based Warpin Media Emma Ridderstad joins Better Worlds’s host Julian Guderley to explore the social impact Web 3 tools have on our own welfare. An avid gamer in her teens, Emma brings a new perspective to the podcast this week with her views on a still male-dominated metaverse and her work to bring in more women creators to Web 3.0 tech.  

Before founding Warpin, Emma was the CEO of Familjeliv Media AB, Sweden’s largest online parenting site, reaching over half of all mothers with children from newly born to six years old. Prior to serving as CEO of Familjeliv, she was CEO of Modern Women Media which is the owner of some of Sweden’s leading websites for women between 16-40 years old. Through their various digital platforms, they reached approximately 2 million unique visitors each week.  Warpin is a strategic partner to innovative brands entering the VR and AR platforms. They create a real brand value through VR/AR content, distribution, and context. Warpin is an early developer to Magic Leap. 

Other clients include H&M, AMB, Trygga Barnen, SPP, KRY, Childhood, Disney, Ferrarri, Clarion & Magic Leap, Migrations, Miljonbemanning, Uppsala Firebrigade, Facebook & Postnord. #web3women #AR #Warpin #WomeninMedia #Familjeliv 

# 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.

How do you prepare for disruption? More importantly, how do you become not just prepared for change but become a changemaker yourself as a leader who foresees opportunities to make positive impacts in business for society and for the planet? How do you show people a better world? Mic Mann is a storyteller, futurist, entrepreneur and speaker on  exponential technologies and to discuss how they will democratize industries and improve lives. Mann has 19 years of experience in the media, marketing and eventing industry. His family’s Sandton-based, award-winning experiential brand agency works with top Fortune 500 companies. 

He is the co-founder of Africarare Metaverse, which is expected to have exponential impact on Africa shared ecosystems.   Mann’s family business Mann Made, which established the Singularity University Executive Programme  in South Africa, modeling the same program in Silicon Valley. The program curriculum is designed to help entrepreneurs think like futurists and empower more people with the ability to innovate and implement solutions for Africa’s – and the world’s – greatest challenges. 

This long term investment for SingularityU South Africa makes possible custom education, innovation and impact programmes that help businesses and individuals leverage rapidly accelerating technologies to unlock solutions that can positively impact millions of lives. Mann Made’s goal is to #futureproofAfrica into the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The 4th Industrial Revolution is ushering a whole new array of technologies that are working into personal lives, as well as professional ones.    

# 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.

For about 11 years, Unit Ventures has been driving the idea of a token economy, made simple to be sustainable and to more equally distribute wealth. Unit co-founder and CEO Michael Healy, talked to Better Worlds about tokenomics as a platform to generate capital more easily and set up tokens that are sustainable and more meaningful to people who have not participated in the market for coins such as bitcoin, ethereum, polkadot and others.  It connects providers and customers, as well as allows businesses and individuals to issue tokens for specific uses.

He predicts that in this decade tokenomics and DAOS will become the norm, with more projects and businesses becoming successful with tokenization, leading to equitable wealth distribution and reducing poverty.

The tools exist to make tokenization very simple, it takes seconds to build and it costs nothing

Healy is focused on social impact and positive change through education, entrepreneurship and empowering individuals.

A self-taught full-stack web developer and mobile engineer for iPhone and Android, Healy has digital design and video expertise that has supported products. Alongside starting and growing businesses, Healy has advised and supported startups, investors and corporates in Asia, Europe, Middle East and Latin America. An entrepreneur-in-residence at top pan-European Venture Capital firm, Wellington partners, Healy has performed work for Google, KPMG, Founders Forum, Saatchi & Saatchi, L’Oreal, Imperial College, Unilever, London Business School and others. He was a finalist of the Thiel Fellowship by Peter Thiel and also awarded the Silver medal in the Mathematics Olympiad.

Lucia Gallardo is a digital nomad who is joyfully living out of her suitcase while building companies out of her love for experimentation. Her significant and multiple accomplishments as a serial entrepreneur follow her around the world. Lucia is a Future of Goods 21 Founders to Watch, one of MIT Technology Review’s 2020 Innovators under 35 for her work with Blockchain, and she is a Royal Bank of Canada's Entrepreneur of the Year nominee.  Lucia is the Founder and CEO of Emerge, an end-to-end solutions development lab that has consistently merged public and private sectors in projects related to digital identification for displaced persons, food traceability, financial inclusion for inconsistent income earners, rainforest protection, loyalty rewards programs, and more. Emerge has been nominated for the 2018 Global SDG Awards and Newsweek’s 2019 Blockchain Impact Awards.   

Lucía’s impact on social causes is advanced through her board activities with:  Penta Network, a company building foundational blockchain infrastructure; Crypto Kids Camp, a non-profit organization that connects kids from lower income households to emerging technologies; Rainforest Partnership, a non-profit organization promoting the protection of the world's tropical rainforests; the Caribbean Blockchain Alliance, a regional organization promoting the adoption of decentralized technologies across the region; and, WE Global Studio, an innovation studio supporting the world's female entrepreneurs. Lucía is an Advisor to Metis, a Layer 2 solution focused on the decentralized future of work.  Prior to starting Emerge, Lucia co-founded Dona un Libro, Cambia una Mente, a Honduran education focused non-profit and 2016 recipient of President Obama’s Young Leaders of the Americas Fellowship. Lucia has past experience in both the public and private sectors, ranging from immigration and trade relations on diplomatic missions to AI-enabled mobile tech and early-stage investments.   

Lucia is a 2017 Venture for Canada Fellow, a 2018 RBC Future Launch Fellow, a 2018 Money 20/20 Rise Up Fellow, and a certified UN SDG Advocate. She was listed as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators under 35 and a Royal Bank of Canada's 2019 Women of Influence.   

# 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.

An entrepreneur since the age of 14, Sander Gansen is the Co-founder and CEO of Estonia-based WOF Labs, a blockchain research and engineering company building Supplain protocol & World of Freight NFT ecosystem.

Sander believes that every child should start their first business at the age of  four and no later than their teen years in order to have enough time to learn the necessary skills and still have the power to start something extraordinary when they are adults.  Sander is fascinated by science and experimentation to change the course of humanity for the better, but his main goal is to help speed up the adoption of emerging technologies.

Sander graduated in 2015 from Draper University with a non-academic degree in business and startup building. He has studied Law and Business Administration at the University of Tartu.

A passion for African art landed Phakama Sibanda into NFT trades, using his IT background as well as beginning to cultivate a blockchain knowledge base in Africa that he believes will help not only artists, but multitudes of Africans. Born in Zimbabwe and currently based in Botswana, Phakam is a multidisciplinary artist and  social entrepreneur with a dream to educate, empower and develop African communities through sustainable NFT projects foundered NFTsAFRICA a corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm of DawuTech an Data, Web and Design startup based in botswana with a mission to Build Communities In the Metaverse plug-in to sustainable ecosystems for Real-world Experiences using emerging technologies with goal of bridging the gap in Africa.

Phakama believes NFTs should be accessible to all and strive to build African artists and communities alike in a modern sort of ‘Ubuntu.’  The NFT enthusiast community working together for the betterment of the whole and eventual improvement of African livelihoods. If there is anything I have learned in this space so far, it is that this improvement needs to be tangible before it is even fully realized.

Join us on this journey with Phakama as we discuss how Web 3, particularly NFTs, can create better worlds.

Kyle Gordon took a deep dive into the NFT space two years ago to bridge web2 creators into the newer web3 applications. Kyle is the co-founder and head of creator relations at DoinGud. He has sourced 200 social causes to support using art and NFTS on his platform https://doingud.com/. Doingud is a platform for creating and building upon “Until every expression of human creativity builds a better world.”

On this episode of Better Worlds Social Impact Series, Kyle talks about the process to build a network and the legal challenges he’s faced. He provides listeners with the benefits of his own experiences creating NFTs for social impact, and outlines the direction of DoinGud to add value to the community experience.  He has participated in NFT fundraisers including CarbonDrop,  OceanDrop and the Coachella Regen Experience.

An award winning multidisciplinary artist and creative director, Kyle spent the better part of the last decade creating audiovisual experiences, multidimensional video installations, brand identities, light-work experiments, and animated content for internationally acclaimed musicians, music and cultural festivals, social entrepreneurship/ nonprofit organizations, and globally recognized brands. Kyle resides in San Francisco.

Civic Ledger is winning awards building next generation marketplaces with blockchain technology and smart contracts to create auditable ecosystems in government and tracking natural capital.  Drawing from her years of experience in regional and local governments in Brisbane, Australia, Sociologist Katrina Donaghy co-founded Civic Ledger to build better solutions for customers and citizens. She also began to work across sectors to create opportunities for sharing data, particularly for women through the organization of the Brisbane Women in Blockchain Meetup. Civic Ledger is instrumental in taking blockchain technology to the next level for water commodities, working around the world to improve accountability.   Since 2016, Civic Ledger received multiple awards for its groundbreaking progress, including the honor of winning the Excellence in Blockchain/DLT award at the Australian FinTech Awards in 2022.   

#womenincrypto #web3 #accountability  

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$20 billion a year expected on blockchain technical services by 2024. Why interoperability matters and how can multi-chain-as-a-service help?

Interoperability & Multi-Chain as a Service hosted by Vivi Lin (S01E13)

It is expected that by 2024 blockchain technical services will account for $20 billion dollars annually (1) as mass adoption continues and the transition from Web2 to Web3 accelerates. The transition is anticipated to include many bottle necks including network congestion and cross-chain bridging. Custom bridges between chains pose security risks and are prime targets for attacks e.g. hackers made off with $540M worth of Ethereum (2) most recently. Join Vivi Lin and Aaron Ting of  @Octopus Network the team responsible for substrate inter-blockchain communication (IBC) pallet (3) in collaboration with  @Cosmos to explore multi-chain-as-a-service built on  @NEAR  direct bridging to solve usability challenges with wrapped assets, and novel applications in gaming and the metaverse.

#web3 #multichain #bridge #cosmos   

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