Data Verifiability to Drive Sustainability

Alan Ransil is Project Lead of Filecoin Green. In conversation with Matthew Monahan.

• Filecoin Green: https://green.filecoin.io

• Alan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-ransil-53573873

TOPICS

• 00:00 Intro

• 02:24 Filecoin, IPFS, and Protocol Labs

• 12:47 Data verifiability for sustainability

• 17:48 Filecoin Green

• 28:36 Sustainable Blockchain Summit

• 35:22 Intersecting with the ESG community

• 38:11 Bitcoin’s energy usage

• 43:42 Data provenance layers

• 52:40 On biodiversity credits

• 01:00:30 Impact certificates

• 01:09:06 Bottoms-up approaches

• 01:14:30 Funding the Commons

• 01:16:59 Alan’s closing comments

RESOURCES

• IPFS: https://ipfs.tech

• Filecoin: https://filecoin.io

• Protocol Labs: https://protocol.ai

• Sustainable Blockchain Summit: https://sbs.tech

• Funding the Commons: https://fundingthecommons.io

• Hypercerts: https://hypercerts.org

• MIT Climate Club: https://mitec-club.org

• MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/sustainability-initiative/welcome

• GainForest: https://gainforest.app/

• BIOrbit: https://www.biorbit.xyz

• SBS Boston Hackathon: https://sbsboston.devpost.com

• Planetary Boundaries: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html

• Schelling Point: https://schellingpoint.gitcoin.co

• Filecoin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Filecoin

This interview took place during Eco-Weaving 2023.

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