097: Arbor Day Carbon: Reforestation projects and the voluntary carbon market with Jeremy Manion
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Arbor Day Foundation's mission is simple: we inspire people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. As Director of Forestry Carbon Markets, Jeremy Manion leads strategic partnerships, demand activities, market leadership, and future horizon planning at Arbor Day Carbon, a wholly-owned venture of the Foundation. Our vision is to accelerate reforestation by investing in people and partnerships. Jeremy has rapidly enhanced the development of existing and new forestry carbon projects, is a trusted resource for corporate sustainability leaders, and serves on many influential carbon market-shaping collaborations.
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Arbor Day Carbon supports and accelerates reforestation by investing in people and partnerships. By buying and selling forestry carbon credits, Arbor Day Carbon invests in new and expanding carbon projects across the globe. Learn more about investment and reforestation opportunities at arborday.org/carbon
In this episode Marjorie and Jeremy discuss:
- The history of Arbor Day and what role Arbor Day Carbon plays in their work
- What the voluntary carbon market is and what role do land stewards and carbon credit investors play
- The principles Arbor Day Carbon uses to select appropriate reforestation projects and how they invest in communities
- Information for land stewards, what are the considerations before starting the process, the requirements, benefits, and overall process
Resources mentioned in today's episode:
- Brene Brown
- Project Drawdown
- Arbor Day Carbon Corporate Partner Resource Center
Connect with Jeremy and the Arbor Day Carbon Team:
- Website: https://www.arborday.org/carbon/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arborday
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arbordayfoundation/
- Jeremy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremymanion
- Jeremy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremymanion/
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| 0:00.0 | The second is what is the common land use type in that particular area where that piece of land exists? |
| 0:07.0 | And so, for example, we work in the Mississippi River Valley right along the river, basically from southern Illinois down to Louisiana. |
| 0:15.0 | And that was a 25 million acre forest before really World War II. After World War II, the incentives for large |
| 0:25.6 | agriculture for soy production, cotton, corn really took that that 25 million acre forest down to about |
| 0:33.6 | 8 million acres. And so now the common land use type in that region |
| 0:38.7 | is agriculture, not forestry. |
| 0:40.7 | And if it's not forest, how do we incentivize forest |
| 0:43.9 | to come back there again? |
| 0:44.8 | And we're typically again looking at historical forest |
| 0:47.0 | landscapes that have had some type of conversion to agriculture. This is a sustainable mind where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental change makers of tomorrow. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander. |
| 1:16.6 | The Arbor Day Foundation's mission is simple. They inspire people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. |
| 1:23.6 | As Director of Forestry Carbon Markets, Jeremy leads strategic partnerships, demand activities, |
| 1:30.7 | market leadership, and future horizon planning at Arbor Day Carbon, a wholly owned venture of the |
| 1:37.5 | foundation. Their vision is to accelerate reforestation by investing in people and partnerships. |
| 1:46.5 | Jeremy has rapidly enhanced the development of existing and new forestry carbon projects, is a trusted resource for corporate |
| 1:52.3 | sustainability leaders, and serves on many influential carbon market shaping collaborations. |
| 1:59.1 | Jeremy, welcome to the show. Thanks, Marjorie. That bio is a mouthful. |
| 2:05.5 | Yeah. So I am so excited to have you on the show today. I have my own experiences with the Arbor Day |
| 2:12.3 | Foundation, which I'll drop in as we go along in the conversation today, but it's been a really positive experience |
| 2:19.6 | over the last few years. So I was really excited to get a chance to interview you and hear about |
| 2:25.9 | this new offering from the Arbor Day Foundation. So before we get into all of that, Jeremy, I want to |
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