Rufus Pollock and Jeff Emmett on Regenerative Finance and Web3 for Public Goods
Channel: Life Itself
Date: 2022-07-06

Regenerative Finance (ReFi) is about combining web3 finance tools with regenerative purposes like tackling climate change or cleaning up the oceans. In this episode of our Making Sense of #Crypto and #Web3 series, Rufus Pollock and Jeff Emmett discuss the promises and pitfalls of ReFi for providing public goods and nourishing the commons.

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0:00 Introduction
2:14 How did Jeff come to this area?
5:37 What is regenerative finance?
10:11 Economic permaculture
12:52 What are public goods? What is the commons?
19:30 How can blockchain technology help us sustain public goods?

Jeff Emmett is a Token Engineering researcher and Communications Lead at BlockScience, and co-founder of the Commons Stack.  Drawing inspiration from mycelial networks and biomimetic processes, his goal is a toolkit for customizable regenerative economies that support purpose-driven communities. Author of Rewriting the Story of Human Collaboration and Challenges & Approaches to Scaling the Global Commons.

Explore Jeff's work here: https://medium.com/@jeffemmett 

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