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Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 125 - Ecological Benefits Framework – A new paradigm for global carbon and ecological benefits markets

In episode 125, we’re excited to welcome Douglas Gayeton, Chief Investigator at The Lexicon, a nonprofit that helps people pay closer attention to what they buy, how they live, and where their responsibility begins for creating a healthier and safer planet for all. We discuss their game changing Ecological Benefits Framework, the growing regenerative finance movement, and much more.

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Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 121 - IMPT - Building “The Planet’s Loyalty Programme” with blockchain-powered carbon credits

In episode 121, we’re excited to welcome Denis Creighton, CEO of IMPT, a platform that allows individuals to offset their carbon footprint while shopping for the things they love. We discuss some of the challenges with carbon offsets and how blockchain can help, how their ERC-20 token helps individuals verifiably offset their carbon footprint, building partnerships in Web3, and more.

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10 projects using Web3 tools to boost tree planting and reforestation efforts

The world has lost 1/3 of its forests since the last ice age. If we ever hope to stop reforestation and regenerate the world’s forests, innovative solutions will be required. Blockchain technology has emerged as a leading technological solution, and in this article, we highlight 10 projects using Web3 tools to boost tree planting and regeneration efforts.

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Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 105 - Filecoin Green - Sustainable blockchain and verifiable decarbonization in a net-zero future

In episode 105, we’re excited to welcome Alan Ransil, Project Lead at Filecoin Green, a project focused on building infrastructure that allows anyone to make transparent and substantive environmental claims. We discuss how Web3 can help organizations achieve net-zero emissions targets, building sustainable blockchain protocols, how blockchain can restore trust in carbon markets, and much more.

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Crypto Altruism Podcast Starter Pack - Web3, Climate, and Sustainability

In this podcast starter pack, we’ve bundled together eight episodes highlighting incredible projects using the power of web3 and blockchain to combat climate change, and drive regeneration and conservation efforts. This starter pack includes renowned guests from ImpactScope, Ecosapiens, ReFi DAO, OASA, Kokonut Network, Topl, WheelCoin, and Celo Foundation.

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Is Crypto Bad for the Environment? Here's How Web3 Is Helping Combat Climate Change

Web3 and crypto have the potential to be powerful tools in driving regeneration efforts. By incentivizing conservation and regeneration, funding conservation causes through crypto philanthropy, enabling greater transparency in conservation, and facilitating the creation of natural capital-backed assets, we can make significant strides in protecting and restoring our planet.

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INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Ways blockchain can help end deforestation

The world has lost one-third of its forests, and urgent action is needed to protect the forests that play a vital role in earth’s biodiversity and in mitigating climate change. Blockchain and Web3 tools can help through on-chain monitoring and verification, greater community ownership, new opportunities for climate finance, tokenization of natural assets, and increased accountability.

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Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 90 - EthicHub - Regenerative finance to empower smallholder farmers

In episode 90, we’re excited to welcome Gabriela Change, Co-Founder and CSO of EthicHub, the First regenerative finance protocol connecting people & unbanked smallholder farmers globally using Web3. We discuss how Web3 can support smallholder farmers, EthicHub’s innovative crowdlending model, blockchain as an important tool for building trust, the regenerative finance movement, and much more.

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Crypto Altruism Podcast Episode 89 - Ecosapiens - Merging climate tech and digital assets with the first carbon-backed NFT

In episode 89, we’re excited to welcome Nihar Neelakanti, Founder & CEO of Ecosapiens, the world’s first Carbon-backed NFT project. We discuss how Web3 is a perfect tool to incentivize climate action, how blockchain can improve carbon markets, NFTs as a powerful tool for activists and changemakers, advice for seeking out venture capital funding in Web3, and much more.

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7 web3 projects supporting rainforest conservation

Rainforests play an essential role in maintaining the health of our planet. Unfortunately, the world’s rainforests are in crisis, and urgent action is needed to protect the world’s rainforests. Web3 technology can be a part of the solution, and in this post, we highlight 8 organizations and projects using web3 to support rainforest conservation and regeneration.

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20 web3 projects focusing on the environment, sustainability, and conservation

Despite the bad rap that web3 has gotten when it comes to the environment, there are many projects and collectives with a focus on the environment that are taking tangible action to support regenerative projects and combat climate change. Here, we highlight 20 of these innovative mission-driven web3 projects focusing on the environment.

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Web3 - A Disruptive Tool For Social Impact

Cryptocurrency is more than just an investment. Cryptocurrency, blockchain, and web3 are generational technologies that have the potential to change the world for the better. These ground-breaking technologies will positively disrupt nearly all aspects of our lives in the coming decades: the internet, our financial systems, supply chains, health care, and everything in between. From a social impact lens, blockchain is the single greatest development since the internet.

It has the potential to revolutionize the way aid is disbursed, how funds are raised by non-profits and charitable causes, how communities and collectives organize and engage in self-governance, how CO2 is tracked and managed, how important financial services are delivered to the nearly 2 billion unbanked people around the world, and much more. We are only just scratching the surface of the intersections between web3 and social good.

Crypto Altruism is the leading platform for content highlighting the social impact use cases of web3 and the extraordinary organizations and projects that are using this technology to change the world. Through our blog, podcast, and educational resources, we elevate stories of how crypto, blockchain, NFTs, DAOs, and other web3 innovations are being used all over the world for novel and inspiring use cases.