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Nate Hagens on the power and peril of new technological innovations.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to Ma Earth Grants Round 2, supporting regenerative land and ocean projects around the world. In addition to the $200k matching pool, 931 donors gave over $30,000 to the 30 selected projects.

We are grateful to Biome Trust, Naia Trust, and Gitcoin for providing the matching pool, and to Gitcoin for hosting the round as part of #GG22, which took place Oct 23-Nov 6, 2024.

Read more:
https://blog.maearth.com/grants-round-2-recap

How can technical advancements, combined with venture capital, help address the drivers of biodiversity loss? This is the aim of Superorganism, the first VC fund dedicated to biodiversity.

We sat down with managing partner Tom Quigley, who started his career in conservation. Tom shares why nature tech could help bring funding at the scale and speed we need for the biodiversity crisis, and the specific focus areas of Superorganism.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CBKl3m4CmjY
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/45lAIgF9dqYFdK5UuPGydx?si=72008b7bb6124386
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regeneration-will-be-funded/id1706728107?i=1000677338576
Ma Earth Website: https://maearth.com/episodes/tom-quigley-superorganism-biodiversity-venture-capital

Karl Burkart is the Deputy Director of One Earth. One Earth’s mission is to accelerate the transition to a net zero and nature-positive future.

In this conversation at NY Climate Week, Karl talks about the development of climate models, the growing focus on nature and biodiversity, defining bioregions, and One Earth’s maps and tools.

https://youtu.be/eDmEI4TCcQY

explorer.land is a map-based communications platform, showcasing hundreds of impactful nature-based projects in conservation, ecosystem restoration, and regenerative agriculture from across the globe.

We spoke with Alexander Watson and Mange Kumarasamy about the vision behind explorer.land and how storytelling, data, and maps can help unlock nature financing and inspire communities for #regeneration.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/AV6kxoAKM9I
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/43H7T9kqqEVJA7roBdFTmg?si=d5ed8a9d49274958
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regeneration-will-be-funded/id1706728107?i=1000676285831
Ma Earth Website: https://maearth.com/episodes/storytelling-maps-openforests-explorer-land

Quadratic funding can unlock multiples of matching, which is why some nonprofits are switching their core fundraising mechanisms, shares @heegs of @endaoment

Full conversation linked below: https://youtu.be/0Qm8VcZvnL8

"Quadratic funding is a different way of allocating matching funds," explains @heegs of @endaoment. Full conversation on maearth.com.

Ma Earth Grants Round 2 is live, and open for contributions!
https://maearth.com/grants

🌐 We’re distributing $200k in total matching funds to 30 regenerative land and ocean projects, using quadratic funding on Gitcoin.

🌎 These projects are doing incredible work restoring wetlands, planting forests, transforming agriculture, regenerating coral reefs, providing ecological education, connecting bioregional efforts, developing tools, and caring for our beautiful planet.

🙏🏽 This round’s matching pool is generously provided by Biome Trust, Gitcoin, and Naia Trust.

📈 Now *you* get to vote for your favorite projects, which determines the matching funds. Every contribution above $5 USD qualifies, and can unlock 5-10X in matching for the community projects you love.

Get started at https://maearth.com/grants

Nicole Taylor is the president and CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the largest community foundation in the world with $14 billion in assets under management.

We sat down with Nicole at NY Climate Week to discuss donor advised funds, priorities at SVCF, community impact, and how to accelerate giving in the environmental sector, which currently only receives about 2% of philanthropic grants.

Watch now: https://youtu.be/wNWqE87s37g

Raviv Turner is a founding partner at NatureX Studio, which is building parametric insurance for nature-based solutions. Raviv shares his thoughts about how insurance can transform the nature markets, by understanding and shifting how we think about risk. Recorded at New York Climate Week, watch or listen at the links below.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/dhXfL9cElSA
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SQXfeA4X1X2qvnLIu6Mly?si=7d6502026a564e8a
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regeneration-will-be-funded/id1706728107?i=1000673889207
Ma Earth Website: https://maearth.com/episodes/raviv-turner-naturex-studio-nature-tech-insurance

Planet Labs recently launched their Forest Carbon Monitoring product, which aims to underpin and advance the carbon markets with more accurate and scalable satellite imagery.

We sat down with Will Marshall, co-founder and CEO of Planet, to discuss this important new milestone. We also discuss the first light images from Planet’s Tanager-1 hyperspectral satellite, which is already assisting in identifying methane leaks.

And, of course, we cover AI.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/C0dhOX8H3DU
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Sh7UTsJeYiqBDVis62BH3?si=8ca78220435b4e52
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regeneration-will-be-funded/id1706728107
Ma Earth Website: https://maearth.com/episodes/will-marshall-planet-forest-carbon-monitoring

Djimo Serodio @djimo is the founder of Silvi, building tools that empower community-driven reforestation around the world.

In this conversation, Djimo lays out the case why trees can become a base asset for the natural capital economy. Djimo shares about frontier technologies to support planting a trillion trees, and why he believes focusing on biodiversity is more important than carbon.

Watch: https://youtu.be/5TpoWExhN9A

How can restoring nature become the preferred economic choice?

We sat down at NY Climate Week with Tom Crowther, chair for the UN Decade of Restoration. He’s a professor of Ecology at ETH Zurich and founder of Restor.eco.

Restor supports land stewards with site mapping and impact stories, backed by measurement tools and scientific data.

Tom shares about the launch of Restor Enterprise, Costa Rica’s nature revival story, the limits of agriculture from deforestation, the paradox of counting nature, and more.

Watch/listen: https://youtu.be/CNewedjDMlE

Matthew Monahan sat down with Holke Brammer from Hypercerts Foundation after New York Climate Week to discuss their reflections from the event, and some emerging initiatives in the web3 regenerative finance space. #ecocerts

Watch: https://youtu.be/zItLlNMeDP0

Ma Earth Grants Round 2 is now open for applications. Learn more here: https://maearth.com/grants

We are saying prayers for those enduring the recent storms around the world. We seek to channel our despair into authentic alternatives. In that spirit, we bring you our recordings from New York Climate Week.

First up is Jojo Mehta, Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International, the advocacy organization and driving force behind the Stop Ecocide movement.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/mNYX8ylikeE
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2eBr2Fm1kW0XYCyWp4CVhR?si=6e6ae58ab30a4d4a
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regeneration-will-be-funded/id1706728107?i=1000671976824
Ma Earth Website: https://maearth.com/episodes/stop-ecocide-international-jojo-mehta-icc

Melanie Mark-Shadbolt is CEO of Te Tira Whakamātaki (TTW), a Māori environmental not-for-profit that translates to “the watchful ones” in English, working with Indigenous peoples and solutions in the fight to protect nature.

In this episode we discuss holistic worldview approaches towards biosecurity, including reconnecting with our stories and mythology, the language and culture around conservation, and community-led approaches to resilience and disaster response. Melanie offers rich perspectives and practical alternatives to the climate change / biodiversity as usual conversation. We hope enjoy this conversation with Melanie Mark-Shadbolt.

Watch: https://youtu.be/w4qNSnEDoEI

Siddharth Sthalekar is the founder of Neighbourhoods, an open source infrastructure project seeking to enable new social coordination patterns. Sid is bringing together his inspiration from Ghandian Economics with a decentralized web approach. He also recently moved to New Zealand. We discuss these topics and more in this recent episode on The Regeneration Will Be Funded.

https://youtu.be/SVf0fY4ZCDQ

Rose Challies is the CEO of Terra Nova Foundation, and host of the Earth Talks podcast in Aotearoa New Zealand.

In this conversation with Rose we discuss: the state of environmental philanthropy, how to find and support change-makers, the value of fellowship programmes, and grounding climate solutions in behavioural change.

https://youtu.be/F_l3CVgcwbg

Barry Coates is the founder of Mindful Money, a New Zealand charitable enterprise that aims to make money a force for good, by divesting from funds that contribute to social and environmental harms.

New Zealand’s retirement scheme KiwiSaver has ~$100 billion dollars under management, most of which is invested overseas, and presents a significant opportunity for impact in NZ.

Latest episode now available on Ma Earth.

https://youtu.be/s8iNtA1BMPo

@maearth is there a place we should update grant progress? Ie karma or hypercerts etc?

Maria English is the CEO of ImpactLab, an analytics company measuring positive social change in New Zealand. ImpactLab uses a data-driven methodology to help make investment work for communities, to improve the SROI: Social Return on Investment.

Learn how it works in this latest episode on Ma Earth’s interview series, The Regeneration Will Be Funded:

https://youtu.be/h7o15b6XWh4

David McConville and Dawn Danby are the co-founders of Spherical, an integrative research studio. They are working to regenerate the LA basin watershed through strategic design and “ontological repair”.

We discuss these efforts and philosophies in this latest episode on Ma Earth. Check it out.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/0Xh71Z_V_7k
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/19OBDXHb5VsfVOHAa9GqYG?si=b33e6621982346cc
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-regeneration-will-be-funded/id1706728107?i=1000668981613
Ma Earth: https://maearth.com/episodes/david-mcconville-dawn-danby-watersheds-ontological-repair

Alex Gyr is the COO of Daffy, a startup donor advised fund aiming to make it easy for more people to be more generous with their giving.

Through features like social campaigns, crypto assets, and a flat fee model, Daffy is bringing tech innovation into philanthropy. Learn more in our conversation with Alex:

https://youtu.be/nn2JhLzzvGk

Stuart Cowan is the Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI). In this conversation, Stuart shares about the work BFI is tackling, including bioregionalism, abundance design, indigenous knowledge systems, and planetary civics.

We explore what it means to honor and learn from the legacy of Buckminster Fuller in this time, and the role of regenerative finance for a brighter future.

Watch: https://youtu.be/vwICa4K8pXY

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