Discover how Mast Reforestation is combining project finance, a 130-year-old seed business, and long-term carbon credit integrity to bring back forests that can’t regrow on their own after wildfires.

⭐ My guest today is Grant Canary, Founder and CEO of Mast Reforestation.

In addition, Grant is also a former:

• Maggot farmer (!) – that is, growing industrial-grade insect protein using food waste

• Chess and poker player, and improv enthusiast (these are relevant to his CEO work now)

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🎙️ In this episode, we talked about:

- The nuances of the carbon removal and credit world

- What their new project financing allows them to do

- How they bought a 130-year-old seed company

- Why forests often cannot regrow on their own after a wildfire

- Why they set up 100-year endowments to fund ongoing reporting on forest health and carbon sequestration

- The role of buffer pools to insure carbon credit integrity

- The importance of poly- vs. monoculture in their replanting

- How he took advantage of grad school arbitrage by studying in Bogota

- Why it’s so important to create a compelling future (vs. doom and gloom) in order to mainstream climate efforts

- His favorite startup books

- And lots more

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