Planetary Regeneration + Tropical Lobsters 🦞 The TILT #20
Diving into the Galapagos + thriving ecosystems with Gregory Landua
In Episode 24 we dive in deep with the exceptionally great human Gregory Landua. Gregory is co-founder and CEO of Regen Network, a blockchain company working on planetary regeneration with Regen Ledger, a blockchain to verify ecological states and offer a new paradigm around the ecosystem services market.
Read a snippet of our conversation below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Gregory has a super diverse background, from studying marine + terrestrial ecology in the Galapagos Islands, translating for Amazonian rainforest guides, fighting wildfires in the wilderness of Alaska, to living and co-creating eco-villages, and founding an ethical cacao company in Ecuador. In this week’s episode we chat to Gregory and explore how his regenerative systems design background led him to found Regen, to ultimately create a more thriving planet.
This episode traverses:
The mission of Regen Network
Ecological Regeneration 🌱
Natural Capital + Ecosystem Services
Carbon offsetting incentive systems
Regenerative NFTs
To ReWild or not to ReWild
And Gregory's time tracking lobsters 🦞 in the Galapagos + cacao in Ecuador…
Podcast 🎙 Snack 🍏
ST: Regen Network tweeted that sequestering carbon into farmlands, wetlands, oceans, forest, and more, is estimated to be a $2 trillion per annum industry by 2025. This was a fricken’ captivating tweet to read and also left me wondering what does this figure (2 trillion) mean? What does this figure mean to you? And why is it so exciting?
GL: Yeah. Well, $2 trillion is roughly the size of the oil and gas industry right now. So… what does that mean?
That means that there will be an entire restorative, regenerative, conservation economy that is built around the public goods that are produced by the ecosystem services that are produced by healthy thriving ecosystems and agro ecosystems. You know, estuaries, agriculture fisheries… the management of these systems, actually, if you think about it, they're invaluable, right?
There's no way that we can quantify the real value of the earth as a biosphere. We can approximate certain forms of value in a way that pretty radically transforms business. And pretty radically transforms society…it's not going to fix every problem in some hand-waving utopian vision of the future, but it can definitely accelerate our ability to adapt and address climate change.
And just transform our economy to be a force for ecological regeneration.
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