
Planetary Regeneration Podcast
Join Gregory Landua as he explores the movement to regenerate our relationship to planet earth and each other on The Planetary Regeneration Podcast. In wide ranging conversations, Gregory and his guests explore the cutting edge technology, philosophies, practices and models disrupting climate change and inspiring hope for a better tomorrow.
Gregory is the CEO of Regen Network Development, Inc., a development company that builds software tools for Regen Network, a blockchain platform for originating ecological assets to fight climate change. He is co-founder of Terra Genesis International and the co-author of Regenerative Enterprise.
You can learn more at www.regen.network.
Latest episodes

Aug 5, 2022 • 53min
050: #BOR - Hannah Simmons and Joao Daniel | Beyond carbon: the world of biodiversity eco-credits
On this episode of Built on Regen, a community voices series of the Planetary Regeneration podcast, host Gregory Landua speaks to Hannah Simmons and Joao Daniel of ERA Brazil. Listen to their conversation about developing eco credits for jaguar conservation in Brazil.
Learn more about ERA Brazil on their website at erabrazil.com, and follow them on Twitter @ERABrazil.
Find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/eraBrazil

Jul 26, 2022 • 53min
049: #BOR - Rex St. John | Edge Computing, ReFi Summit, Proof of Stake
On this episode of Built on Regen, a community voices series of the Planetary Regeneration podcast, host Gregory Landua speaks to Rex St. John, Head of Developer Relations at Saga.xyz. Listen to their conversation about edge computing, validator nodes, and the mechanics behind proof of stake processes.
Find Rex St. John on Twitter @rexstjohn, and learn about Saga at saga.xyz.
Find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/049-rexstjohn

Jul 26, 2022 • 1h 24min
048: #BOR - Cyrus of Eden | Eden Dao: towards a decentralized carbon reward
On this episode of Built on Regen, a community voices series of the Planetary Regeneration podcast, host Gregory Landua talks with Cyrus of Eden, leading the development of Eden Dao: a new form of decentralized economic incentive system for carbon sequestration.
Listen in to learn about how Eden Dao is on a mission to increase the GDP of carbon removal and their innovative approach. You can find Cyrus on Twitter @cyrusofeden, and Eden Dao @theedendao.
Find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/048-edendao

Jul 26, 2022 • 48min
047 : #BOR - Howard Sharfstein | Local multistakeholder regeneration, biochar, carbon trust model
On this episode of Built on Regen, a community voices series of the Planetary Regeneration podcast, host Gregory Landua chats with Howard Sharfstein, co-founder and Board President of Kulshan Carbon Trust: a non-profit that promotes and enables regenerative natural climate solutions. Tune in to learn about carbon trusts, and what it means to take a multistakeholder approach to regenerative agriculture. Learn more at kulshuncarbontrust.org.
Find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/047-kulshanct

Jul 25, 2022 • 1h 24min
046: #BOR - Jonathan Ledgard | Interspecies Money
On this episode of Built on Regen, a community voices series of the Planetary Regeneration podcast, host Gregory Landua chats with Jonathan Ledgard. Jonathan has been a war correspondent, a novelist, a fellow at ETH Zurich, and is now an AI specialist working on a project called Dugong Dao. Tune in to learn more about Jonathan's fascinating life, and the potential to bring economic agency to endangered species like the East African dugong.
Check out Jonathan's novels 'Giraffe' and 'Submergence,' and read his articles on Interspecies Money written for Wired and the Brookings Institution.
Find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/046-JLedgard

Jul 20, 2022 • 49min
045: #BOR - TMO | BasinDAO: real world regeneration
045: TMO | BasinDAO
On this episode of Built on Regen, a community voices series of the Planetary Regeneration podcast, host Gregory Landua chats with TMO, aka Thomas Morgan: chief instigator at basinDAO, a global DAO focused on solving the climate crisis. Tune in to learn more about “out-cooperating the competition” and the exhilaration of building in public in the emerging ReFi space.
TMO has over twenty years and $1.5B worth of experience in commercial and investment real estate. He’s now using this experience to structure and scale institutional grade climate and conservation investments as the founder of basin.global. You can find him on Twitter at @tmoindustries.
Find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/045-TMO

Oct 21, 2021 • 2h 51min
044: Jason Snyder and Matt Pirkowski | Wagmi or ngmi? Hope, doom and metamodern homesteading.
On this episode of the Planetary Regeneration Podcast, host Gregory Landua holds an extended discussion with two kindred Twitter spirits: Jason Snyder, a homesteader and permaculturist, and Matt Pirkowski, Founder of Catalyzing Coherence. Listen to their debate about the future of humanity, technology, and individual responsibility.
Find Jason on Twitter @cognazor
Find Matt on Twitter @MattPirkowski
Find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/44-jasonandmatthew

May 6, 2021 • 2h 4min
042: Kim Stanley Robinson | The Ministry for the Future
On this episode of the Planetary Regeneration Podcast, host Gregory Landua takes a deep dive with SciFi author Kim Stanley Robinson into Stan's writing process, different theories of change, the financial and economic theories behind Stan's most recent book, and the ethical imperatives of our times.
Gregory mentions Regen Network's Discord server; here's where to find it: https://discord.com/channels/684494798358315010/882326958946517103
Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of twenty-two novels including the Mars trilogy and The Ministry for the Future, which Barack Obama named as one of his favorite books of 2020. You can find out more about Robinson's work on his Facebook page, Kim Stanley Robinson, or on Twitter from @ksrinfo.
Find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/ksrobinson

Mar 19, 2021 • 1h 39min
041: Bill Plotkin | Regenerative Culture, Rites of Passage, and the Importance of Becoming an Adult
On this episode of the Planetary Regeneration Podcast, host Gregory Landua interviews Bill Plotkin about his amazingly deep body of work in depth and eco psychology. Bill is a psychologist, author, and the founder of Animas Valley Institute, whose latest book, The Journey of Soul Initiation, discusses personal identity, ego, and the mysteries of the soul. You can learn more about Bill's work at animas.org, or on Instagram @animasvalleyinstitute.
Find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/billplotkin

Mar 4, 2021 • 1h 41min
040: Jason Snyder | The Ethos and Praxis of Localism
On today's episode, Gregory and Jason Snyder explore the ideas of localism, and Jason's path to becoming a metamodern homesteader. Listen to their discussion about bioregions, possible outcomes of global collapse, and different philosophies around human governance.
Find Jason on Twitter @cognazor
And find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/040-jsnyder