10 min Summary of the interview with Harrie, Arnout and Koen of Land Life Company
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I interviewed Harrie Lovenstein, Arnout Asjes and Koen Kramer of Land Life Company. An ecosystem restoration company working to reforest hundreds of thousands of hectares. We discussed the technologies they are developing to drawdown as much co2 as possible! And their changing business model, from selling a tree planting tech to offering end to end reforestation services.
Key points of the interview:
- Koen: trees are really fascinating organisms standing on a single place for centuries and having to cope with anything that goes by.
- Koen: It is really necessary to use trees to use forests to sequester carbon to to protect biodiversity to protect areas and soils and to hand them over in a better state to the next generation.
- Koen: I mean the science and the government are not going to do this. That is a too lengthy too inefficient kind of process.
- Arnout: we really went from a product oriented company to an end to end reforestation company
- Arnout: now our clients pay us for either for per hectare or per ton CO2 sequestered
- Arnout: we are engaging in a process called data driven planting where we want to plant as much trees as possible in a planting season we want to do it at the lowest cost possible and at the lowest impact to nature.
- Arnout: these areas are very much of interest to us because there is a lot of erosion going on and nature is not coming back unaided.
- Koen: Scale is really important because you have to really build in a forest. So tens and hundreds of hectares are good at the end of the day you really need to restorate landscapes catchments.
- Koen (where trees don’t have value) the value of the tree is the value of the match
- Arnout: Spain is actually the first European country that really has to deal with desertification
- Harrie: you can eat CO2 credits
- Arnout: each tree we have a G.P.S. lock so lat long which is unique for a tree.
- Harrie followed up after the podcast, in Spain 10M hectares roughly the size of Portugal or Iceland, is degraded
- Koen: diversity it is a kind of risk management approach
- Arnout: I don't think the public can imagine what the impact is
- Arnout: I think this (restoration) is becoming an industry
Land Life Company
www.landlifecompany.com
Technology developed by Land Life company:
landlifecompany.com/technology/
Their project with Lease Plan:
https://landlifecompany.com/case/turning-carbon-into-forests-with-leaseplan/
We covered REDD+ with Mike Korchinsky Investinginregenerativeagriculture – Interview-with-mike-korchinsky
Holm Oak
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_ilex
Project Drawdown
www.drawdown.org/solutions/land-use/afforestation
Deforestation Haiti vs Dominican republic
https://blog.kulikulifoods.com/2015/11/05/deforestation-in-haiti/
Why cities plant trees
https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/why-we-need-trees-our-cities/1100050/
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