Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature

By Steve Zwick

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We've entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene, and nothing is as it was. Not the trees, not the seas – not the forests, farms, or fields – and not the global economy that depends on all of these. What does this mean for your investments, your family's future, and the future of man? Each week, we dive into these issues to help you Navigate the New Reality.

Episode Date
99 | Mombasa’s Big Ship: Reviving Urban Mangroves by Raising Communities
Apr 23, 2024
098 | The Case of the Tangled Titles: Unraveling the Legal Complexities of Land Ownership in the Amazon
Apr 16, 2024
97 | The Mosaic, the Minefield, and a Manifesto
Apr 08, 2024
096: Encore Presentation: Tim Mohin on Overcoming Information Asymmetry in the ESG Movement
Feb 29, 2024
95 | "Co" Benefits Vs "Core Benefits:" Geoff Mwangi And His Theory Of Change
Feb 10, 2024
94 | Zimbabwe's Cannabis Queen, Zorodzai Maroveke, AKA "Dr Zoey"
Jan 11, 2024
93 | Zimbabwe's Green Cheetahs, with Chiyedza Heri of the Ubuntu Alliance
Dec 21, 2023
92 | COP 28 Article 6: Expectations for Final Day
Dec 11, 2023
91 | Article 6 Update from Dubai with Kelley Hamrick Malvar of The Nature Conservancy
Dec 08, 2023
90| George Thumbi: Man of a Million Trees (5th Installment, "Carbon in Kenya")
Dec 08, 2023
89 | How Agroforestry is Reshaping the Kenyan Countryside
Aug 09, 2023
88 | The Gospel of REDD+ According to Bees
May 25, 2023
087 | How Ending Deforestation Revived a Major River, Slowed Climate Change, and Saved Lives
May 01, 2023
86 | The Race to Save the Cloud Forests of Kenya's Chyulu Hills
Apr 07, 2023
085 | Can Ghana Leverage REDD+ to Save its Cocoa Farmers? A conversation with Roselyn Fosuah Adjei of Ghana's Forestry Commission
Feb 12, 2023
084 | Treeless Neighborhoods and Poverty: the Deadly Link and How to Address it
Jan 18, 2023
083 | What to Make of COP27, with Jos Cozijnsen of Climate Neutral Group
Dec 12, 2022
082 | Every Tree on the Planet Mapped, with Sassan Saatchi of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.
Nov 22, 2022
081 | How to Build a Methodology, with Max DuBuisson of Indigo Ag
Nov 16, 2022
80 | Forty Years of Sustainability Finance: Making ESG Work
Nov 04, 2022
79 | Clean Water and the Courts: a Pre-History of Sackett vs EPA
Oct 11, 2022
78 | Helping Farmers Save Forests in Guatemala's Caribbean Coast
Sep 12, 2022
77 | Where Does Healthy Critique End and Cynical Denial Begin?
Aug 29, 2022
76 | Six Lessons from 45 Years of Natural Climate Solutions
Aug 08, 2022
75 l Coverage of Climate Solutions Suffer the Same Fate as Coverage of Climate Science?
May 09, 2022
074 |Why the Global South Needs Voluntary Carbon Markets
Mar 08, 2022
073 | Why the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests may be More than Blah Blah, with Frances Seymour
Nov 08, 2021
072 | Investing in Pure Climate Stocks, with Matthias Krey
Nov 07, 2021
071 | The Down and Dirty, Nitty Gritty of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, Part 1
Nov 05, 2021
Climate Quickie 1: Leveraging Restoration for Net Zero Tourism Worldwide
Nov 04, 2021
Climate Quickie 1: Leveraging Restoration for Net Zero Tourism Worldwide
Nov 04, 2021
069 | The False Dichotomy of Reductions vs Removals, with Eli Mitchell-Larson
Oct 16, 2021
068 | Carbon Exchanges and Green Supply Chains: The Future of Natural Climate Solutions
Oct 14, 2021
068 | Carbon Exchanges and Green Supply Chains: The Future of Natural Climate Solutions
Oct 14, 2021
068 | Carbon Exchanges and Green Supply Chains: The Future of Natural Climate Solutions
Oct 14, 2021
067 | Forests and the Billion-Dollar LEAF: New Hope for World Forests
Aug 18, 2021
066| German Floods and the Futility of Adaptation Without Mitigation
Jul 23, 2021
066| German Floods and the Mantra of Mitigate or Die
Jul 23, 2021
065 | Carbon Negative Carpets and Interface's Climate Neutral Journey
Apr 06, 2021
064 | Race to Zero: Meet the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon
Mar 09, 2021
063 | COVID-19 and the 2020 Emissions Chasm Report
Jan 01, 2021
062 | At What Temperature Do Forests Stop Absorbing Carbon?
Nov 02, 2020
061 | Seaweed, Cities, and Mangroves: The Blue Carbon Story
Jul 01, 2020
060 | What The Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Meeting the Climate Challenge (Encore Presentation)
Jun 23, 2020
59 | Why The Sustainable Development Goals Matter (Encore Presentation)
May 31, 2020
Forests, Fires, and Jurisdictional Offsets: A Conversation with Naomi Swickard of Verra
May 01, 2020
057 | COVID-19 and the Value of Resilience over Efficiency
Apr 01, 2020
056 | How Costa Rica Grew Both its Forests and its Economy
Feb 24, 2020
055 | The Citizens Climate Lobby Wants to Spread the Carbon Wealth
Feb 13, 2020
054 | Give Us Ecotopia or Give Us Death
Feb 01, 2020
53: A Marshall Plan for Forests, with Charlotte Streck of Climate Focus
Dec 02, 2019
52: Natural Climate Solutions Explained (ENCORE PRESENTATION)
Dec 01, 2019
051 | Forests in the Paris Agreement, Part 3: a Conversation with Annie Petsonk of EDF
Sep 16, 2019
050| Forests in the Paris Climate Agreement, Part 2: Kevin Conrad
Aug 22, 2019
049 | Forests in the Paris Climate Agreement, Part 1: The Birth of Forest Carbon
Aug 15, 2019
048: Understanding the IPCC’s New Compendium of Science on Climate, Forests, and Farms
Aug 10, 2019
047 | An Accountability Framework For Deforestation
Jun 18, 2019
46| Restoration Economy, Part Two: The Billion-Dollar Foot
Apr 30, 2019
045 | Nature, Paid on Delivery; with Guest Tim Male
Apr 01, 2019
044 | Green New Deal Architect Rhiana Gunn-Wright
Mar 18, 2019
043 | Bees Trees and Burning Bluffs
Mar 06, 2019
042 | The Stealth Plan to Roll Back US Water Protection (First of Two Parts)
Mar 01, 2019
041: ENCORE PRESENTATION: Why the Sustainable Development Goals Really Are a Very Big Bid Deal
Feb 15, 2019
40 | Former Climate Boss Yvo de Boer
Jan 23, 2019
39 | How World's Farmers are Engaging the Global Climate Apparatus
Dec 24, 2018
38 | Natural Climate Solutions at Katowice Climate Talks
Dec 08, 2018
037 Oil Palm, The Prodigal Plant, Is Coming Home To Africa. What Does That Mean For Forests?
Dec 02, 2018
036| Can These Indigenous People Sustainably Log And Still Save Their Forest?
Nov 28, 2018
035 | What The Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Fixing The Climate
Oct 31, 2018
035 | What The Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Fixing The Climate
Oct 31, 2018
034 | Climate Shock Revisited: the Economics of Carbon Pricing
Oct 10, 2018
032 | Indigenous Leader Hindou Ibrahim on Indigenous People and Global Commodity Companies
Sep 11, 2018
032 | How the Trump Administration Is Undermining the Clean Water Act, Part One
Jul 09, 2018
031 How Nature Can Get Us 37 Percent Of The Way To The Paris Climate Target
Mar 01, 2018
030 A Green Deal for the Netherlands
Jan 30, 2018
029 | A Tale of Two Companies
Jan 23, 2018
028: 2017 Year In Review
Dec 31, 2017
027 | Understanding the World Bank's BioCarbon Fund and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
Dec 01, 2017
026| Breakthrough in Bonn: Fixing World's Farms
Nov 15, 2017
025: Trademarks, Gateways, And Global Climate Talks
Nov 15, 2017
024 The Grand Experiment To Save Appalachia’s Forests
Oct 28, 2017
023 Raw Audio From New York Climate Week
Oct 28, 2017
022: Ten Keys To Deforestation-Free Commodities By 2020
Oct 09, 2017
021 AlphaSource: Investing in Forest Carbon
Aug 17, 2017
020 Brazil and Indonesia: Connecting the Climate Dots
Aug 10, 2017
019: Can Europe Tap The Private Sector To Protect Its Environment?
Jul 19, 2017
018 | Why Zoologist Andrew Mitchell Left the Forest to Save the Forest
Jul 13, 2017
How Marks & Spencer Is Helping To Build A Global ‘Sustainability Tribe’
Jun 19, 2017
Bertrand Piccard Wants You (And Your Climate Solutions)
Jun 16, 2017
015: How Garlic Cloves and Orange Peels Cut Cow Burps and Slow Climate Change
Jun 08, 2017
014: One Billion Tons of Voluntary Carbon
May 30, 2017
013 How to Track Climate Laws of the World
May 11, 2017
012 Will Trump "Get Out of the Way" on Climate?
May 08, 2017
011 New Age of Radical Transparency
Dec 02, 2016
010 Climate Change in the Trumpocalypse / Part 2: The Role of US States, Regions, and Business
Nov 27, 2016
009 Climate Change in the Trumpocalypse / Part 1: Initial Reactions
Nov 10, 2016
008 Can New Aviation Agreement Save Forests?
Oct 07, 2016
007 Of Milk and Money / Part One: the CEO and the Subsistence Farmer
Oct 03, 2016
006 Climate, Conflict, and Commodities: The Calculus of Peace on a Changing Planet
Jul 02, 2016
005 Why We Should All Care About the UN's Sustainable Development Goals
Jun 14, 2016