Best Reforestation Podcasts (2025)

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E115: Mast Reforestation and the carbon-credit glow-up 30:38

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re talking about one of the biggest blockers to real climate action: amazing solutions that never scale because no one pays for them. My guest is Grant Canary, founder and CEO of Mast Reforestation, a company rebuilding forests after catastrophic wildfires — and reinventing carbon credits so that reforestation…

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Episode 230 - Bioregional Reforestation: How Crypto is Transforming Localized Climate Finance 51:12

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For Episode 230, we welcome Djimo Serodio, Founder of Silvi, and Jon Ruth, Co-Founder of the Climate Coordination Network, two leaders helping reimagine how the world funds and verifies ecological restoration. We unpack the newly launched Bioregional Reforestation Grants Round, the largest blockchain-native, outcomes-based reforestation funding mec…

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Episode 232 - Bread Cooperative - Solidarity Over Speculation: Embedding Cooperative Values into Blockchain Infrastructure 53:00

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For episode 232, I’m excited to welcome Joshua Dávila, a longtime organizer, writer, and builder at the intersection of progressive politics and crypto. Josh is the host of The Blockchain Socialist podcast, the author of Blockchain Radicals, and a core contributor to Bread Cooperative, a worker-owned collective building real financial tools rooted …

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Okhtapus Cofounder Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy Accelerates Ocean Solutions 58:52

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Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. The ocean provides half the oxygen we breathe, absorbs 30% of our carbon emissions, and helps control the planet's climate. By 2030, it's expected to support a $3.2 trillion Blue Economy. Yet 70% of proven ocean solutions, such as coastal resilience, coral restoration, and mar…

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E116: The Narnia box for critical minerals 33:01

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re diving into one of the biggest bottlenecks in the clean energy transition: critical minerals—the lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper, and precious metals we need for EVs, batteries, and the grid. The problem isn’t that we’re running out. It’s that extraction and refining are expensive, polluting, and increasing…

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Episode 231 - Ripple Impact - Building the Rails for Good: Inside Ripple’s $1B Vision for Impact Finance 50:00

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For episode 231, we welcome Eric van Miltenburg, Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Ripple. We explore Ripple Impact’s mission, unpack their most ambitious initiatives including a $25 million RLUSD commitment projected to generate $1B+ in long-term impact, and look at how blockchain is reshaping philanthropy from one-off donations in…

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EarthX CEO Peter Simek on Cultivating Bipartisan Climate Strategies 45:17

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Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. For 15 years, the Dallas-based climate conference the EarthX conference has created space where fossil fuel executives and environmental activists, Republican appropriations chairs and Democratic climate hawks, find common ground. The organization targets three core stakeholde…

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Sustainability In Your Ear: Building The Circular Economy With Glacier CEO Rebecca Hu-Thrams 46:33

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Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. The raw material for a $2 trillion circular economy is already flowing through recycling facilities. But how do we capture and use it? Rebecca Hu-Thrams, co-founder and CEO of Glacier, is deploying AI-powered robotic sorters at material recovery facilities (MRFs) across the co…

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E114: Everrati: electrifying your dream cars 35:42

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re starting in full aspirational mode (with one of my least climate-friendly obsessions) — with iconic classic cars rebuilt as state-of-the-art EVs. Think: vintage Porsches, Land Rovers, Pagodas, even a GT40… all stripped to bare metal, fully restored, and reborn as clean-air electric machines. Yeah, I’m dying…

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Episode 229 - hum.community - From Charity to Shared Agency: Participatory Funding and the Future of Local Impact 42:33

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For Episode 229, I’m thrilled to welcome Mark Pascall, Co-Founder of The Wellbeing Protocol and the newly launched hum.community a participatory funding platform that transforms how local communities allocate funds. In today’s episode, we explore this question and the origins of The Wellbeing Protocol, the lessons learned from 15 pilot projects acr…

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Examining Colorado's First-Of-Its-Kind EPR Oil Recycling Program With David Lawes 35:56

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Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode.Americans dispose of approximately 1.3 billion gallons of used motor oil annually, but only about 800 million gallons get recycled, and most of that is burned as fuel rather than re-refined into new oil. The plastic packaging oil comes in is more problematic: most curbside prog…

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Episode 228 - Beyond the Crypto Hype - 8 Real World Stories of How Blockchain is Driving Global Impact 30:48

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For episode 228, we have something special in store. In Web3, we spend a lot of time talking about potential: what blockchain could unlock for climate, aid, finance, or human rights. And those conversations matter because they help shape the future. But today, I want to cut through the noise and focus on what’s happening right now. All around the w…

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E113: Hyfe: Turning food waste into gold (metaphorically, that is) 30:30

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re talking about one of the least-visible but largest waste problems in the world: food processing waste. Every time fruits or vegetables are peeled, chopped, juiced, or processed, mountains of perfectly good plant material get thrown out or sold for pennies. It’s expensive, it’s inefficient, and it’s a huge c…

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Star's Tech Hando Choi On Inventing A Low-Carbon, Low-Chloride De-Icer Made From Star Fish 33:39

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Read along with our transcript. What if the solution to winter's infrastructure corrosion and environmentally benign home sidewalk de-icing was an invasive starfish being thrown back into Korea's coastal waters? Hando Choi, president of Star's Tech, joins the conversation to explain how one region's invasive species problem can become another's env…

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E112: Sage Geosystems: The clean energy everyone loves 36:36

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, more power, right beneath our feet. Even as the United States has been attempting to stop or divest from renewable energy sources, there’s one kind of baseload power that doesn’t make anyone mad: geothermal. So this week we’re talking not just geothermal, but next-generation geothermal. My guest is Cindy Taff, CE…

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Episode 227 - Sostento’s Crypto Advisory Board - Bringing Blockchain Into the Fight for Healthcare Equity 50:50

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For episode 227, we're excited to welcome Joe Agoada, CEO of Sostento. Joe has spent his career fighting to ensure that no one falls through the cracks of the healthcare system, and under his leadership, Sostento has helped more than 350,000 people access care and supported over 4,000 frontline health workers across the country. We explore today’s …

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Liquidonate CEO Disney Petit On Solving The Retail Returns Crisis 34:40

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Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. What if the solution to the retail industry's $890 billion returns crisis wasn't better logistics, but better logic? Disney Petit, founder and CEO of Liquidonate, is proving that the most sustainable return skips the trip back to a warehouse and goes directly to a community in…

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E111: The Span Plan: grid infrastructure in your garage 35:42

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re examining the seemingly humble—but absolutely critical—piece of hardware that could accelerate electrification, unlock virtual power plants, and save homeowners thousands of dollars: the electrical panel. My guest is Arch Rao, founder and CEO of Span, a company building smart electrical panels that replace …

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Episode 226 - Azos - Better Money for a Better Planet: How Stablecoins Can Fund Climate Action 47:27

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For episode 226, I’m exited to welcome 0xJoshua and Penguin, Co-Founders of Azos, a third-generation DeFi protocol using blockchain technology to turn climate-positive assets into real financial infrastructure. Their stablecoin, AZUSD, is designed to hold a stable value while automatically directing capital toward environmental good. In our convers…

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Luke Purdy, Wieden+Kennedy's Director of Sustainability, on Advertising's Power To Change 47:17

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Can the industry that taught the world to consume help us learn to consume more responsibly? Luke Purdy, Director of Sustainability at one of the world's leading creative agencies Wieden+Kennedy, is betting his career on it. After 13 years working on major accounts like Nike and Corona at one of the world's most influential creative agencies, Purdy…

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Episode 225 - Stellar and Hoops Sagrado - How Basketball and Crypto Are Powering Financial Inclusion in Guatemala 47:13

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For episode 225 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we’re excited to welcome Lindsay Poss, former Hoops Sagrado player and current Campaign Architect behind their groundbreaking new initiative powered by the Stellar network. Through this campaign, Hoops Sagrado is paying basketball camp employees, vendors, and local partners in Guatemala using the Ste…

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E110: Simplifyber and a plastic-free textiles future 36:08

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re rethinking how clothes, shoes—and even car interiors—get made without plastic. My guest is Maria Intscher-Owrang, CEO and co-founder of Simplifyber. Her innovation takes plant fibers + water, then forms finished 3D shapes in a single step—skipping spinning, weaving, cutting, and sewing. We get into: What’s …

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Eat More Trees with Louis De Jaeger 25:31

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How does your dinner table connect to climate change, corporate giants, and the future of life on Earth? Landscape designer and award-winning filmmaker Louis De Jaeger isn't afraid to ask the hard questions. Drawing from his work as an author and international speaker, Louis pulls back the curtain on the fight to save our soils. Follow Louis as he …

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Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres 47:41

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Most Silicon Valley CEOs who cash out their stock options start another tech company. Yishan Wong planted trees instead. After helping build PayPal, Facebook, and serving as Reddit's CEO, Wong concluded that humanity's biggest challenge wouldn't be solved with algorithms or network effects—it would be solved by restoring the planet's forests at an …

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E109: 10-minute EV charging with Adden Energy 30:29

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re talking about one of the biggest hurdles in the clean energy transition — how to make electric vehicles as fast and easy to refuel as gas cars. Our guest is Will Fitzhugh, co-founder and CEO of Adden Energy, a Harvard spinout developing self-healing solid-state lithium metal batteries that could charge full…

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Episode 224 - Pesabase - How Stablecoins Are Transforming Remittances and Empowering Local Economies in South Sudan 45:35

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For episode 224 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we’re excited to welcome Eric Alsop, Chief Technology Officer at Pesabase, a fintech platform using blockchain rails to simplify remittances, empower communities, and make financial access a reality across Africa. In today’s conversation, we unpack what’s new with Pesabase’s latest platform evolution…

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The Climate Action Network's Pre-COP30 Briefing with Rebecca Thissen 47:18

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Ten years after the Paris Agreement, the world's climate negotiators will gather in Belém, Brazil this November for COP 30, a summit many are calling a critical juncture for global climate action. After COP 29 in Baku ended with what developing nations called a woefully inadequate $300 billion annual commitment—far short of the $1.3 trillion econom…

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E108: Cleaning up the textiles industry with Matter filters 36:08

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re talking water — and the invisible pollutants hiding in it. Microfibers from textiles are one of the biggest sources of microplastics in our oceans, choking marine ecosystems and undermining the ocean’s role as the planet’s carbon sink. Our guest is Adam Root, founder and CEO of Matter, who shares his insane…

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Episode 223 - Octant Epoch 9 Special Part 2 - Building a New Creator Economy on Ethereum 1:10:57

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For Episode 223, we continue our celebration of Octant Epoch 9 with part 2 of our Storytelling on Ethereum series where we explore how creators, educators, and storytellers are helping to define Ethereum’s narrative and build the foundation for a new, decentralized creator economy. In part 2, we dive into how creators are using Ethereum to reimagin…

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Buckstop's Alexander Olesen Digs Into Urban Mining 35:24

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Every solar array, battery system, and EV charger installed over the past decade will eventually need to be decommissioned. Yet there's no unifying system to handle that flow of materials—no operating system for the reverse supply chain that the circular economy depends on. While Americans recycle 97% of vehicles, we recycle less than 20% of electr…

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E107: The capital stack for climate, all in one shop 38:14

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re geeking out on money. Because even the best climate solutions won’t scale without serious capital behind them. Our guest is Dawn Lippert, founder of Elemental (a nonprofit investor) and founding partner of Earthshot Ventures (a venture fund). She’s basically building an all-terrain vehicle for climate finan…

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Episode 222 - Octant Epoch 9 Special - Communicating Ethereum's Human Story to the Masses 46:41

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For episode 222 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we kick off part 1 of a short series celebrating Octant Epoch 9. It's called Storytelling on Ethereum; featuring conversations exploring how we communicate Ethereum’s human story to the world, and how Ethereum’s tech stack and community ethos empowers creators to elevate their storytelling. Since thi…

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E106: Wine-making that restores the land 35:19

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re heading to Napa Valley... sadly not literally. This time, anyway! David Pearson, president of Joseph Phelps Vineyards, has spent his career in wine, but he’s now leading a transformation that’s as much about climate solutions as it is about Cabernet. It’s a story about farming, philosophy, and, yes, some re…

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For episode 217 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we’re joined by Ciarán Murray, Founder of Olas, an ownerless, open-source protocol for publishing and reviewing ideas, where accuracy is priced in and reputation is earned, not inherited. We explore how Olas is leveraging blockchain and crypto incentives to challenge centralized media and help rebuil…