In episode 158, we’re excited to welcome Jimi Cohen, Founder of Treegens, a community on a mission to build a world where anyone can plant trees & get rewarded. Another fun fact about Jimi, is that he recently set a Guiness World Record for most trees planted in 24 hours by a single individual, with over 30,000! In our chat we discuss how Web3 can help coordinate tree planters all over the world to plant hundred of millions of trees, how blockchain can improve monitoring, reporting, and verification in tree planting efforts, growing the regen movement, and much more.

--Three Key Takeaways--

• Mangroves absorb about 8-10x more carbon from the atmosphere than old terrestrial forests and are efficient to plant, making than an ideal fit for tree planting and decarbonizing efforts. This is why Treegens has primarily focused on mangrove trees for their tree planting efforts, including Jimi’s Guiness World Record attempt.
• Decentralized, permissionless tree planting is much more scalable than centralized tree planting, as anyone can support it, and anyone can be rewarded. In one of the communities Jimi has worked in, some of the locals are paid two days a year to plant trees, or simply volunteer their time. Platforms like Treegens, leveraging Web3 primitives, can create an environment where these individuals can turn tree planting into a full-time job where they are consistently rewarded for their efforts.
• If an individual’s first experience with Web3 is being rewarded and receiving crypto for positive impact, it can be a very powerful tool for onboarding individuals and communities to Web3.

--Full shownotes with links available at--
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In episode 157, we’re excited to welcome Daniel Villota, Founder of Unchained Elephants, a community leveraging Web3 technology to promote elephant welfare in Thailand, and to rescue elephants enduring cruel treatment. We discuss some of the challenges facing elephants in the tourism industry in Thailand, how they’re leveraging NFTs to create a community dedicated to elephant welfare, how they raised almost $50,000 to support elephant welfare, and much more.

--Three Key Takeaways--

• In Thailand, there is a large industry built around elephant tourism. Unfortunately, many of the providers engage in unethical and inhumane treatment of their animals. As such, it’s important to work together with NGOs and local authorities to educate tourists and community members, and to build a system centered around sanctuaries and ethical tourism.
• NFTs can be a valuable tool for connecting community members to causes they care about. In addition to giving donors a cool memento for their donation, NFTs can also give community members certain benefits like access to a token-gated community and regular updates on the impact of their donation, helping them feel more connected to the cause.
• Whether it’s humanitarian aid, or donating to causes on the other side of the world, crypto can help make philanthropy much more efficient by cutting out unnecessary intermediaries and the fees that come with them, ensuring more money goes directly to the cause.

--Full shownotes with links available at--
https://www.cryptoaltruism.org/blog/crypto-altruism-podcast-episode-157-leveraging-nfts-to-advance-elephant-welfare-in-thailand

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In episode 156, we’re excited to welcome Ashton Hunt, Co-Founder of Kyoto, a Carbon Negative blockchain built to scale the voluntary carbon market and regenerative finance by harnessing the power of Web3. We dive into the world of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (Aka DePIN), the tokenization of real-world assets in support of climate solutions, leveraging blockchain to bring integrity to carbon markets, how they planted over one million trees in support of their efforts to become carbon negative, and much more!

--Three Key Takeaways--

• To date, Kyoto has planted over one million trees and is aiming to decentralize tree planting efforts by making their technology available to local tree planters. This will help individuals and organizations monetize their tree planting efforts, bringing positive economic benefits to local communities.
• Carbon markets have faced a lot of challenges lately, mostly due to a lack of transparency and traceability around carbon credits. Blockchain can help address this by bringing the assets on-chain, which will increase transparency, produce an immutable record of each credit’s provenance, and make them more accessible to the end user.
• DePIN can be seen as an evolution of DeFi, in that it utilizes the same principles of decentralization and accessibility, while expanding these principles to broader use cases beyond finance including decentralized data networks, energy grids, or carbon markets.

--Full shownotes with links available at--
https://www.cryptoaltruism.org/blog/crypto-altruism-podcast-episode-156-kyoto-leveraging-depin-to-build-a-carbon-negative-planet-positive-blockchain

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While we may discuss specific web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on potential investment opportunities, or any opportunity. We host a variety of guests on this podcast with the sole purpose of highlighting the social impact use cases of this technology. That being said, Crypto Altruism does not endorse any of these projects, and we recognize that, since this is an emerging sector, some may be operating in regulatory grey areas, and as such, we cannot confirm their legality in the jurisdictions in which they operate, especially as it pertains to decentralized finance protocols. So, before getting involved with any project, it’s important that you do your own research and confirm the legality of the project. More info HERE.