Latin America and the Caribbean are home to the most significant species and ecosystem diversity on the planet: more than 40% of the world's biodiversity, including almost a third of the planet's freshwater and nearly half of its tropical forests. 

The region is home to six of the world's most biodiverse countries (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela) and stores approximately 104 gigatons of carbon, with the Amazon region storing around 10% of global carbon. However, human activities, deforestation and the emission of products and chemicals that damage nature, increase the loss of resources and affect almost 40% of the world's population. But there are positive mechanisms and actions for nature that would help us to combat climate change and biodiversity loss. 

Today in this new episode of IT’S POSSIBLE we'll discuss why and how investing in nature pays off. We will hear firsthand how this agenda is advancing in the region with three expert guests Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, CEO of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), Laura Ortiz Montemayor, Chief Purpose Officer of SVX Mexico, and Mariana Bellot, Senior Technical Advisor at The Biodiversity Finance Initiative, BIOFIN.

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At the Inter-American Development Bank we work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. http://www.iadb.or

It is possible to protect biodiversity and obtain social and economic benefits.

Ecosystem services markets are an evolving landscape with much left to be discovered. Join Brandon Bennett, TALT Director of Additive Conservation and General Counsel, as he gives an overview of who's who in this new world of markets. 

Stay tuned in the coming months as we dive deeper into what opportunities there are for landowners in Texas to participate.

Beyond The Fence Line Episode 37 - Ecosystem Services Markets: Who's Who?

Join host Carry Kim as she welcomes biomimicry expert Anne LaForti to discuss the transformative power of looking to nature for answers. Learn how biomimicry isn't just about emulating nature's aesthetics but understanding its functional mechanisms for survival and thriving. Unpack the principles of biomimicry, its implications for industries, and the ethical considerations of borrowing from nature's playbook.

Biomimicry aspires to create a world mentored and inspired by Nature’s 3.8 billion years of infinite creativity and evolutionary ingenuity. Janine Beynus’s seminal book: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature defines biomimicry as a "new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or draws inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems." Designing, creating, and innovating in a generous and abundant vs extractive way that regenerates and reciprocates life is a fundamental aim of biomimicry. 


Biomimicry and Nature’s intelligence can innovate a wide range of consumer products and services, biodegradable packaging, regenerative design, eco-friendly architecture, and building materials as well as influence social structures and organizations. Snakes and leeches can inspire better detergents, beetle wings, tortoise shells, and sea cucumbers can change the nature of packaging, kingfisher birds can inspire high speed bullet trains, ventilation systems can be modeled after termite mounds, a factory can be designed to function like a forest, arid landscapes can compel industrial development towards a regenerative model. Anne LaForti, Project Manager for Biomimicry 3.8 [http://biomimicry.net], a world-renowned biomimicry consulting group, joins us to illuminate the potential of biomimicry to help us collectively thrive and align with and for Nature.

  
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LINKS

Janine Benyus, from the film Biomimicry https://youtu.be/sf4oW8OtaPY?si=7W26J9cyuTayDTda 

Dayna Baumeister "Learning From Nature" Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
https://youtu.be/2SvltP8IcTk?si=5cqOAduiyyK2M26O 

Janine Benyus, from a TED Talk
https://youtu.be/k_GFq12w5WU?si=4i1ChxIT7q6xe1FR 

Anne LaForti is a soil nerd, myco (mushroom/fungi) enthusiast, and all-around biophile (nature lover). She has a Master's Degree in Biomimicry from Arizona State University, and is a project manager supporting nature-based innovation in the built environment and beyond at Biomimicry 3.8 [http://biomimicry.net]. She is deeply interested in ITEK (Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge), regenerative agriculture and landscapes, and is constantly curious about how to grow nutrient dense foods. Anne was the 2022 Spring Nature, Art & Habitat Residency (NAHR) Fellow [https://nahr.it/] in Santa Ynez, CA, working on "Soil as Pattern Language: Emulating Healthy Soil Communities" and has been a NAHR Ambassador since 2022.


Carry Kim, Co-Host of EcoJustice Radio. An advocate for ecosystem restoration, Indigenous lifeways, and a new humanity born of connection and compassion, she is a long-time volunteer for SoCal350, member of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, and a co-founder of the Soil Sponge Collective, a grassroots community organization dedicated to big and small scale regeneration of Mother Earth.


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Executive Producer and Intro: Jack Eidt
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Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats

Episode 216
Photo credit: Anne LaForti

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

In this episode, Landscape Architecture Professor Rod Barnett based in Aotearoa New Zealand shares his provocative insights on the role of landscape design in the Anthropocene with our host, Carry Kim. With a focus on indigeneity and community sovereignty, Rod delves into the history and future of landscape architecture, its impact on social ecologies, and the necessity of reimagining our relationship with the land. Listen as we unravel the threads of colonization and discover the emergent systems that could redefine our world.

The word landscape derives from Dutch and originally meant “region or tract of land.” By the early 1500s, it came to also reference pictures depicting scenery on land in artworks. In this Anthropocene Era, we are encouraged to consider planetary environments and landscapes as systems that span a wide range of biomes, flora, fauna & funga. Landscapes can reflect regional networks of community empowerment where humans & “more-than-humans” become entangled within shared lifeways that respect and encourage diversity. 


Perhaps landscape architecture or design can be honestly understood as an evolutionary, contemplative and disruptive practice; one that considers the intersections of environmental justice, climate activism, community sovereignty and indigeneity that empowers local peoples and enhances and restores the landscapes in which they live. Indigenous design remains the key to the future of settler nation landscapes in the Anthropocene. 


Rod Barnett, founder of the non-profit landscape architecture practice, Kaihanga Awawhenua [Riverland Design https://www.nonlinearlandscapes.com/] joins us for a compelling discussion on the potential of landscape design to evolve generative landscapes that resonate with the aspirations of the local community. 


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LINKS

Utu in the Anthropocene (placesjournal.org) Utu, the Māori principle of reciprocity, accords all beings the same ontological status. It is profoundly interpersonal.
https://placesjournal.org/article/redesigning-colonial-landscapes/?cn-reloaded=1

Rod Barnett is a professor of Landscape Architecture based in Aotearoa also known as New Zealand. He runs a non-profit experimental landscape design practice, Kaihanga Awawhenua [which translates from the Maori to Riverland Design https://www.nonlinearlandscapes.com/], within the intersection of environmental justice, climate activism and community sovereignty. His aim is always to empower local peoples to enhance and restore the landscapes in which they live. Wherever he works across the world the values and practices of Indigenous peoples are his compass and guide 

Prior to heading the school of architecture at Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka, he served as chair of the graduate program in landscape architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Carry Kim, Co-Host of EcoJustice Radio. An advocate for ecosystem restoration, Indigenous lifeways, and a new humanity born of connection and compassion, she is a long-time volunteer for SoCal350, member of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, and a co-founder of the Soil Sponge Collective, a grassroots community organization dedicated to big and small scale regeneration of Mother Earth.


Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ 
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Executive Producer and Intro: Jack Eidt
Hosted by Carry Kim 
Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats

Episode 217
Photo credit: Rod Barnett

Nonlinear Landscapes & Generative Landscape Design with Rod Barnett

What if the impossible became possible? Can faith break through human limitations? Discover how one man's courage in the face of overwhelming odds sparked a revolution of belief. From the four-minute mile to climbing Everest, learn how seeing beyond our perceived limits can unleash incredible potential. Are you ready to view your challenges through God's eyes?


This message was made available by the Dora Creek Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit https://doracreek.church

The Four Minute Mile - Kevin Petrie - GTAN2446

Desde el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) trabajamos para mejorar vidas en América Latina y el Caribe. Escucha nuestros podcasts sobre políticas públicas para el desarrollo social, económico y sostenible de la región. http://www.iadb.org/es

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EcoJustice Radio presents environmental and climate stories from a social justice frame, featuring voices not necessarily heard on mainstream media.

Our purpose is to amplify community voices, broaden the reach of grassroots-based movements, and inspire action. We investigate solutions for social, environmental, and climate issues with an eye to advance human health, steward wild landscapes, and solve the climate crisis across the USA and the world.

Featured weekly on KPFK Los Angeles and KPFT Houston, and found on all major podcast apps. We are nationally syndicated through the Pacifica Network and PRX and heard on public radio stations across the US and downloaded in over 25 countries.

Co-hosts Jack Eidt, Carry Kim, and Jessica Aldridge present a broad range of perspectives: land defenders and water protectors; Indigenous leaders, front/fenceline community spokespeople; youth organizers; ecosystem and land stewards; regenerative farmers and permaculture specialists; spiritual and faith leaders; environmental health advocates and practitioners; documentary filmmakers; climate scientists; and political decision makers.

EcoJustice Radio [http://EcoJusticeRadio.org] is produced by SoCal350.org since 2017. 

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New tracks tagged #ecosystemservices