Hi <<First Name>>,

Welcome to the July highlights!

As we are descending deeper into the summer in the northern hemisphere, we are slowing down in the quantity of podcasts, but not in the quality! Two fascinating conversations this month: how to speed up agroforestry and reforestation and how can the deeply extractive dairy industry in New Zealand transition to a regenerative system?

If you are lucky enough to be able to take some time off, enjoy these conversations!

Thanks to everyone in this amazing community, for listening, sharing and getting involved!
Koen

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Using biochar and enhanced weathering to super charge the potential carbon of ecosystem restoration
Interview with Jim Mann, The Future Forest Company

Topic: A dive into the wonders of enhanced weathering co-deployed with biochar and why this experiment deserves billions of dollars of investment.

My thoughts:
We probably all agree more (native and where possible productive) trees in landscapes make a lot of sense. So how can we finance them and make them grow a lot faster? It is very rare you find a company who takes on this challenge and is succeeding! Also, I'm always up for talking about biochar and rock dust, hoping it will become mainstream sooner than later.

Listen to the conversation with Jim

Regenerating New Zealand’s dairy industry focussing on water not carbon
Interview with Nathalie Whitaker and Mike Taitoko, Toha

Topic:
New Zealand's dairy industry has intensified tremendously over the last 20 years and has to change if it doesn’t want to lose its social licence to operate. Consumers and governments are putting pressure to clean the heavily polluted waterways, restore biodiversity and store a lot of carbon. But how? What role does data play and why should we start with water and not with carbon?

My thoughts:
The image of the NZ dairy industry is very green (literally), but the truth is different and disturbing. The sector seems to be in a perfect storm of government regulation around water quality, consumers (far and local) putting pressure and enough successful transition examples to create a potential path. I really enjoyed unpacking the Toha's approach and discuss what we globally can learn from it!