Legibility for Our Living World

Austin Wade Smith is Executive Director of Regen Foundation. In conversation with Matthew Monahan.

• Regen Foundation: https://regen.foundation/

• Austin's website: http://www.austinwadesmith.com

• Austin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_newcubes_

TOPICS

• 00:00 Intro

• 02:21 What is Regen Foundation and Regen Network

• 04:05 What’s at stake

• 07:26 Austin’s background and passions

• 16:16 Legibility and agency

• 22:56 Rights of nature

• 28:35 Ecosystem services

• 43:35 What web3 enables here

• 52:51 Compensating positive actions

• 57:19 Governance of common pool resources

• 01:08:39 Going beyond carbon

• 01:15:42 Embedding feedback loops

• 01:25:48 Loss and damages

• 01:30:00 On animism

• 01:35:21 Austin’s closing comments

RESOURCES

• Earth Law Center: https://www.earthlawcenter.org/

This interview took place during Eco-Weaving 2023.

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