Manuel Piñuela Has a Big Goal: Regenerating Land Equal to the Size of Texas, Twice

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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As CEO of Cultivo, Manuel Piñuela wants to regenerate carbon on 1% of the planet. That’s no easy task. In fact, achieving that goal would require signing up enough farm and forest acreage to cover Texas twice. On this episode, Zach and Mitchell continue trying to unpack the complex world of carbon markets and Mitchell has strong opinions.

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0:00.0	Let's rock and roll, Zach. Let's do it. Welcome back once again to the fieldwork
0:08.3	podcast. This season of the podcast is made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation.
0:14.2	I am Zach Johnson. And I'm Mitchell Hora. You know, last year on the podcast, we talked a lot
0:20.5	about carbon markets. and we covered everything.
0:24.2	We talked a lot about this from the scrutiny that they're under to what could they become,
0:29.0	and it was kind of like, and it still kind of is, like, what exactly is going to happen here with these things.
0:33.8	Yeah, sorry for pushing on a lot of that, Zach, and having us continue to talk about it. But it is a really important topic and a lot of people have interest in it. So we got to talk about it. And we're going to talk about it some more here today. Yeah, we have talked with an egg lender. We've talked with the Iowa Secretary of Agriculture about this. We talked a lot about it at your field day, actually,
0:55.8	there in Washington, Iowa. I mean, it's just, it's such a big, big topic. Yep. So we're going to
1:01.3	talk about it again today. And we've got the CEO of a company that specializes in selling
1:06.1	carbon offsets. And so we're going to dive into this on what's happening and, you know,
1:12.0	kind of what is the promise for farmers, especially as we're being looked to to help with
1:17.2	climate issues. Yeah, to me personally, this is a big deal. It continues to be more and more
1:23.8	interesting, I think, as we're kind of evolving and starting to see where this might
1:28.1	go. So our guest today is Manuel. Penuela. Did I say that, Manuel? Did I say that correctly?
1:34.7	Perfect. Excellent. Okay. He is the chief executive officer at Caltivo in California. In 2017,
1:42.0	he was named to MIT Technology Reviews list of innovators under 35,
1:48.2	and in 2019, he co-founded Caltivo.
1:51.9	So, Manuel, thanks for hopping on the show.
1:55.4	Excited to dig further into this, but first explain, you know, what the heck is Caltiva?
2:00.5	What do you guys actually do?
2:02.1	Thank you so much for the invitation to be here, guys. So Cultivo is a climate-focused fintech,
2:09.1	and everything that we do is to accelerate capital into natural capital. So in essence, what that
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