The Challenge of Environmental Conservation: "At a time, if some of you may remember, the flavor of environmentalists, of the tactical strategy of environmentalists was to protect, was to conserve, was to create oasis. And that didn't really work because how can you create a fence around something the size of the UK?"

Sustainability and Problem-Solving: "To make it simple, what we realized, we needed to work with the people who were part of the problems and turn that group of that those people into part of the solution."

Revolutionizing Agriculture: "When we came back a few months later, he said, you won't believe what happened. I have tripled maize. I have doubled rice, and my onions are 60% bigger than they were before."

Viral Topic: The Power of Biochar in Combating Climate Change: "What we're doing is we can use biochar to take the carbon that plant absorbed through or or develop through photosynthesis and treat it through a technology of this called pyrolysis and take that powder, put it into the ground, and all of a sudden, you have a carbon sink."

Empowering Local Communities: "What you have to do is try to combine a powerful bottom up strategy where people take control over their lives and a top down strategy where there is funding and support for positive activities that they own."

Empowerment through Education: "This allowed for the creation this process allowed for a creation driven by these people of something which was unheard of, which is what would you like your country, your state, your, you know, your region, your village to look like in 50 years for your children's children."

Viral Topic: The Profound Wisdom of Native Approaches

"Even small interventions, positive interventions can bring extraordinary results."

Viral Topic: Mental Health and Climate Anxiety: "I hear from her the whole time about how depressed kids are... unfortunately, the worst case scenario was the most accurate, and sometimes reality was worse than that."

"Revolutionizing the Carbon Market": "So we we moved into a new vision or strategy, which is to we've developed some very proprietary processing. And what we can do is create a kind of biochar, which is which is a bio carbon, which we could that's why, you know, biochar is in itself bio carbon. But what we decided to do is to not to try and find a place in a business which is about $62,000,000 a year in the US, but to actually compete in a business which is about $18,000,000,000, which is a carbon black business."

Decarbonizing the Plastics Industry: "So one of the things we are doing is or want to do is decarbonize the plastic industry, which needs to decarbonize for all kind of reasons, but including, in fact, the Europeans are now putting taxes on carbon."