We interview the leaders in the Online Marketing world - discovering where they came from & what's on the horizon
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Reaching the peak. It’s why people climb mountains. We want to reach the peak because it’s a feeling of accomplishment like no other. The same holds true for our careers. It’s why people push to get further and further ahead. We want to reach that peak, that pinnacle of achievement. Getting there, though, remains a problem.
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Stories of often unsung people doing really interesting, really important things around the world. Cooee is a shout used in Australia, usually in the bush, to attract attention, find missing people, or indicate one's own location. When done correctly — loudly and shrilly — a call of "cooee" can carry over a considerable distance. Cooee! Podcasts represent something of a call, a voice in the wilderness. I like the notion that a "cooee" can carry over a considerable distance. There is so much ...
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We talk to the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return.
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313 Jay Albany - Despite the graveyard of D2C companies, it can work in the world’s most remote city
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A conversation with Jay Albany, CEO of Dirty Clean Food, about what it takes to build a successful direct-to-consumer business- basically buying from regen farmers and delivering to consumer, restaurants, etc.- in the regen space and in the most remote city on the planet. Despite all challenges of B2C, Jay makes a passionate case for the contrary. …
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312 Maarten van Dam – How to fund the transition of the first pioneers in regenerative agriculture
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A conversation with Maarten van Dam, founder of Schevichoven Regenerative farm, about numbers when transitioning from conventional to regenerative agriculture and keeping records on inputs, prices, and machinery. Maarten is keeping a lot of records of their pioneering farm transitioning from a mono dairy farm to a diverse agroforestry system. Remem…
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Fireside Chat with John Kempf & Koen van Seijen @ Groundswell '24
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Ever wondered how podcasting can transform the field of regenerative agriculture? This fire side chat with John Kempf and Koen van Seijen, hosts of the most followed and longest existing podcasts in the regenerative agriculture and food space, was recorded live at Groundswell 2024. This is an intimate conversation where we dive deep in the the long…
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311 Henk Mooiweer - If you can get paid now by Nestlé, Shell and Microsoft to change grazing practices, why wait?
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A conversation with Henk Mooiweer, co-founder of Grassroots Carbon, about the current state of carbon markets, high quality soil carbon removal credits, how this company manage to sell 5 million dollars’ worth of them, and where the market is going. Why did Nestlé, Microsoft and Shell start buying? Why does Henk argue that now is the time to sign u…
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310 Jason Hayward-Jones - Corporates paying for low carbon grains and why virtual twins are key in gaming and Scottish whiskey
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A check-in interview with Jason Hayward-Jones, founder & director at REGENFARM Ltd., and Sustainable Agriculture Specialist at Cefitra, about why corporations are suddenly paying for low-carbon grain, the revolutionary impact of digital twins and satellite technology on sustainable farming practices and, finally, why it is connected with gaming and…
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309 Bridget Emmett – Moving over carbon soil compaction is the real issue in agriculture
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A conversation with Bridget Emmett, a principal scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and a board member of the EU Mission Soil. Bridget shares her inspiring journey from a passionate botany student to a leading soil scientist, revealing the critical, yet often overlooked, intricacies of soil health. We explore its complex structure,…
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308 Georg Baunach - More than half of the fish you eat is farmed: basics, potential and risks of investing in aquaculture
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A conversation with Georg Baunach, managing partner and co-founder of Hatch Blue, a knowledge-driven aquaculture and alternative seafood specialist. We discuss what aquaculture is and why it is important; what, where, and how to farm; what are the potential and challenges of regenerative aquaculture, and why is it important to look into it. We end …
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307 Kat Bruce - Going from putting insects in a food processor to raising $27M in 10 years and building the biggest eDNA biodiversity monitoring company
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A conversation with Kat Bruce, founder of Nature Metrics , going from scooping insects with a small net and putting them in a food processor, to analysing the goo with an EDNA machine, to working with lots of large food corporations on measuring their biodiversity, food footprint, and impact. How do you look back at raising 27 million dollars and s…
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306 Fernando Russo - From selling Playboy's to growing coffee, cacao, credit and lots of cows
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A deep dive conversation with Fernando Russo about the reasons why he is going deep into coffee and cacao without being a coffee drinker and how he turned from being a Playboy’s salesman and a travel entrepreneur to an impact investor in the regenerative agriculture and food. We also talk about fashion and heights, the Amazon, deforestation, refore…
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305 Scott Poynton – Crises drive change: stories from within the transformation of Nestlé's palm oil value chain
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A conversation with Scott Poynton, founder of the Forest Trust, now known as the Earthworm Foundation, about supply chains, environmental regeneration and addressing environmental scandals from the forests of rural Australia to his groundbreaking work with major corporations like Nestlé on no-deforestation commitments. Scott’s experiences in Vietna…
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304 Henry Dimbleby - Biodiversity on balance sheet, role and risks of gene editing and AI and the case for less meat
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This is the second part of a wider conversation with Henry Dimbleby, founder of Bramble Partners and LEON Restaurants (please find the first below as episode 303). We continue our deep dive into the three compartment model and we discuss what should we grow where and why, the invisibility of nature and why biodiversity is not on the balance sheet. …
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303 Henry Dimbleby - From designing the National Food Strategy for England to starting a £50M fund focussed on food transition
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A wide range conversation of almost two hours- second episode will follow soon- with Henry Dimbleby, founder of Bramble Partners, a venture capital firm, that invests in businesses seeking to improve food security. Before Bramble Partners, Henry co-founded Leon Restaurants and the Sustainable Restaurant Association and also served deep in the heart…
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302 Jonas Steinfeld – The many shades of green of agroforestry systems
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A conversation with Jonas Steinfeld, a researcher and consultant based in Brazil specialising in agroforestry systems, about the many different levels of complexity in agroforestry. Does complexity lead to more or less work? Does complexity lead to more or less carbon storage, and why? And are complex agroforestry systems more profitable? The scien…
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301 Yasmine Cathell on nutrient quality bio stimulants, microalgae and other random but world changing regen trivia
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A check-in conversation with Yasmine Cathell in which we discuss everything from why we should focus on solutions that work for all farmers, not just regen organic, to the reduction of bio stimulants on farm or off farm, microalgae, nutrient density, and quality. Why does it all start in the soil? And we finish up with a masterclass on smelling soi…
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300 Koen van Seijen's journey into regenerative food and agriculture and introducing the Generation-Re investment syndicate
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Koen van Seijen settles into the guest chair for a special 300th episode celebration and is interviewed by Naeem Lakhani and Antony Yousefian. It's fascinating how a simple curiosity about food led down the rabbit hole into the rich ecosystem of soil, carbon and regenerative agriculture. Starting from a coffee with Tony Lovell of SLM Partners, we r…
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299 Cameron Frayling - Forget biodiversity credits (for now). Regen ag farm land funds and regulation are driving the biodiversity sector
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A check in conversation with Cameron Frayling, CEO of Pivotal Earth, about biodiversity, one of the most important sets of things we should track and measure, and yet it is super difficult and mostly hasn’t been done until now at scale at all. The data is simply not there, so what do we do? With Cameron we check in with one of the leading companies…
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298 Dan Kittredge – Local, regenerative and organic have no connection to nutrient density, soil health does
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A long-overdue check-in interview with Dan Kittredge, founder of the Bionutrient Food Association. We discuss their involvement in the revolutionary beef study, all the research they have been doing and where they have been showing absolutely no connection between the labels, local, organic, regenerative, farmer's market, etc., and nutrient density…
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297 Chris Henggeler - Standing on the shoulders of giants (Savory, Ingham, Provenza) and managing over 77000 hectares in remote Australia
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A conversation with Chris Henggeler, a second-generation high-density, low-duration herder using herds for land management. From one of the most remote places in Australia, we explore big myths like many animals damage the land, to a huge question: can we actually put the new megafauna to work? Farms need to get smaller, and ranches need to get big…
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296 Jojo Mehta - Making ecocide a crime in less than 5 years and for less than 6 million dollars
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A conversation with Jojo Mehta, executive director of Stop Ecocide International, about making ecocide a crime, something you can get arrested for and end up in prison. How do we get it from a discussion in lawyer circles and academic circles into international criminal law? And why is it going much faster over the last 5 years than anyone has expe…
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295 Mateusz Ciasnocha and Maria Virginia Solis Wahnish – From EU Soil Mission to Pope Francis, how to change local and state agriculture and food policies
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A conversation with Maria Virginia Solis Wahnish and Mateusz Ciasnocha, both involved in the Farm of Francesco. Maria Virginia is founder of Drink Matera, while Mateusz is the CEO of European Carbon Farmers and member of the EU Soil Mission board. We discuss why it is so important to connect with policymakers and how to actually do that, the import…
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294 Emiliano Mroue – Raising $7.5 million to scale from working with 20.000 to 100.000 farmers
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A conversation with Emiliano Mroue, founder of WARC, about their recent funding round, being close to the farmers and why he left a corporate job in Germany to start a farmer focussed anti poverty company in Sierra Leone which turned into a company serving today over 20000 farmers, mostly in Ghana, in the transition to more regenerative practices. …
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293 Sonja Stuchtey - Have billions flow into regeneration by having accountants agree that it is an investment, not a cost
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A conversation with Sonja Stuchtey, co-founder of The Landbanking Group, about innovative financial strategies, accountancy standards and rules, reliable sourcing, better quality and lower prices, investing in the value chain and more. Let’s say you are an orange juice or chocolate bar producer: your margins are under pressure because the costs of …
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292 Walking the land with regenerative farmer Matteo Mazzola, Iside Farm
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This is a special episode, the first one ever of the Walking the Land with a Regenerative Farmer, where we walk the land of the farm with a farmer while we talk about regeneration. [On Youtube you can find a video version of this same conversation!] Walking through Iside Farm on the Iseo Lake in Italy, with regenerative farmer Matteo Mazzola, we un…
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291 Adrien Pelletier - Why all farmers or most farmers need to become seed breeders again
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A conversation with Adrien Pelletier, farmer, breeder, and baker, about wheat, seeds, no till organic farming, why all farmers or most farmers need to become seed breeders again, and why it is really difficult to bake sourdough with traditional organic wheat seeds that are not breed for high productive farms. Why Adrien want to start changing the w…
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290 Chris Bloomfield and Daniel Reisman – We need animals outside to feed the planet sustainably
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A conversation with Chris Bloomfield and Daniel Reisman, co-founders of Collie, a provider of virtual cow guidance system for managing production in grazing, about enabling regenerative dairy, how virtually fencing and cow guidance drastically reduce labour and boost production. To feed ourselves and the planet sustainably, we need to include anima…
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