Maratus unicup by Michael Lun
Summary
In this Q+A follow-up to FE5.6, we're digging even deeper into the practice of Mitigation Banking, where ecosystem restoration (and nature itself) may be a profitable investment at scale.
While that episode was effectively a monologue for storytelling and stylistic reasons, this conversation gets into the weeds of offsetting, how credits are assessed and monitored, land trusts and permanent stewardship easements, intersections with real estate and Indigenous land back, permitting and project impacts, and Adam Davis's philosophy vis-à-vis capitalism.
And of course, you'll hear from Adam (Huggins) in his professional capacity as a practicing restorationist at the Galiano Conservancy Association.
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This episode of Future Ecologies was recorded and produced on the unceded territories of the Musqueam (xwməθkwəy̓əm) Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), and Tsleil-Waututh (Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh) Nations - otherwise known as Vancouver, British Columbia.