We guarantee an informal yet highly interesting talk for your morning, afternoon, or evening coffee (or tea if that's your kind of cup).

Breece has a lot of exciting stories to tell!

Breece Robertson has more than 20 years of experience leading collaborative and strategic initiatives that leverage geospatial technologies for land, water, equity, and climate issues. She is a master of community-driven GIS approaches for strategic land protection.

Breece currently holds the position of Director of Impact Assessment and Monitoring at One Tree Planted, a global environmental restoration and reforestation organization. She is the author of the book "Protecting the Places We Love: Conservation Strategies for Entrusted Lands and Parks":

From 2001 - 2019, Breece led GIS, research, and planning teams at The Trust for Public Land that protected 3,000+ places and saved 2+ million acres of land, while serving over 9 million people.

Esri, the world’s leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, has honored Breece twice for innovation in helping communities meet park and conservation goals. In 2006, she was awarded the Esri Special Achievement in GIS award, and in 2012, the “Making a Difference” award.

Breece loves exploring remote Southwest canyons, hiking tall mountains, foraging for mushrooms, snorkeling with marine life, and playing the mandolin. She has two awesome pups and a wonderful partner.

Meet her this November by adding the coffee and geo-transparency talk in your calendar and see you soon!

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In this episode, Food forests feed and store carbon Paul Burgers the Founder and CEO of CO2 Operate B.V. and Gula Gula, will explain and share his experiences of what it takes to build up and scale a community-driven agro-forest project.

Email: p.burgers@co2operate.nl

Projects: https://explorer.land/x/organization/co2/

Website: https://gulagula.org/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/burgerspaul/

In the Interview, Paul will describe how carbon credits bring in the necessary funding to kick-start the on the ground planting activities while growing cash crops such as coffee, cinnamon, and clove build in the long-term revenue component for the farmers.

We will learn what are the practical steps of establishing a sustainable food forest that can take up also a lot of carbon:

• finding a fair agreement with the local farmers
• developing cost-effective establishment and maintenance methods such as Assisted Natura Regeneration methods
• integrating the valuable local knowledge of the farmers
• establishment of nurseries close to the planting sites
• etc.

Further, we hear what has inspired and motivated Paul to end his classical scientific career and to move into active project development with more action research. His new work has enabled him to give back findings and results from research and implement them for a positive impact. We learn, that developing such a project in a developing context requires cultural sensitivity and understanding of local social structures to enable a smooth operation. We learn that challenges, even such as corruption, lack of leadership, and poor tree survival rates, can become lessons to learn from.

We warmly welcome you to listen to this inspirational and insightful episode!

Healthy forest landscapes are a mosaic of different zones: conservation, timber production, and regenerative agriculture. Water, air, nutrients, and energy flows connect these zones. Living organisms, including us, are constantly shaping these landscapes in a good or bad way.

In this podcast, we will be sharing stories of inspiring people and their projects. We learn about their way of thinking, their vision, and their passion. We will try to understand what methods have enabled successful landscape restoration. Restoration of landscapes that inspire, feed, and protect.

Learn more about our work: OpenForests

Tell your project story through your project: explorer.land

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Learning from nature: the successful germination of indigenous timber species surian: https://explorer.land/x/project/vcm/post/uTopi8/

Forest sounds from the Netherlands

https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/465504/

Indonesia forest sounds:

https://soundcloud.com/wild_rumpus/leuser-ecosytem-ache-sumatra-indonesia