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Drawdown Solutions the game

Join the Double Nature Talk of Sam Levac-Levey on Wednesday April 21, 8 pm CEST. Throughout his career Sam worked on rockets, drones, turbines, energy storage, and even electric flying cars – but he never imagined that a board game would be next. Sam created Solutions the game, a game of hope & action for…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Drawdown · Event · Board game · Climate education · Project drawdown · Community engagement · Founders

Agroforestry and community building on island Utopia

The island Utopia in Almere is slowly changing into an agroforestry experience, opening next year April on the occasion of the Floriade 2022. Curator Xavier San Giorgi shows how he doubles nature and grows food by regenerating 1,4 hectare of land in the centre of this Dutch city of 200.000 inhabitants. The Floriade is the Dutch…

Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Uncategorized · Agroforestry · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Community building · Urban greening

Per Espen Stoknes on Tomorrow’s Economy

The Double Nature Talk of psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes Wednesday April 7 will be soon published on our YouTubeChannel. Going beyond the usual pro-growth versus anti-growth debate, Stoknes calls for healthy growth. Stoknes shows that we already have the tools to achieve healthy growth, but our success depends on transformations in scaling innovations,…

Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Healthy growth · Economics · Policy · Behavior change · Systems thinking

Interface on its way to become climate positive

Embodied beauty is what Interface calls its carpet tiles which store more CO2 than ever before. This global flooring company creates interior spaces with a positive impact on people and planet. How does Interface double nature and when is the company going to be climate positive? The recording of our online Double Nature Talk by…

Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Materials · Biobased construction · Carbon storage · Flooring · Climate positive · Embodied carbon

Insetting with PUR Projet

PUR Projet is a worldwide pioneer in the development of insetting with nature based solutions. This breakthrough approach generates multiple benefits for a company and the ecosystems it depends on. It works to transform climate action from a niche activity to an industry standard. PUR project empowers local communities to operate long-term socio-environmental projects and helps companies strengthen their…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Insetting · Agroforestry · Land restoration · Regenerative agriculture · Supply chain

Budget neutraal naar een Nederland met 50% natuur

Doubling Nature in the Netherlands is doable by combining more issues in the same time: the lack of housing, the lack of successors in farming, the loss of biodiversity, the excesses of nitrogen and CO2, the need to retain water and the need for nature in a very densely populated country. We’re delighted two Dutchmen…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Rewilding · Biodiversity · Land use · Regenerative agriculture · Policy

Double Nature Talk about Doughnut Economics

Doughnut Economics is a groundbreaking new economic story that unleashes a lot of positive energy around the world and spurs people into transformative action. Three questions are central in this Double Nature Talk: how come Doughnut Economics inspires so many people? How does it relate to Climate Cleanup and the idea of Double Nature? And…

Double Nature Talk · Event · Doughnut economics · Systems thinking · Community · Education · Policy

ONCRA full carbon accounting biobased building

Since the ONCRA kick-off on September 9th 2020, a lot has happened. We’re delighted to have told you more about our progress at the Double Nature Talk Wednesday February 17 at 8 pm CET. Together with our partners Province of South-Holland, Holland Houtland and NIBE, we’re developing a tool to account for the carbon stored in bio-based buildings….

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Materials · ONCRA · Carbon accounting · Biobased construction · Carbon storage · Open source

Doubling nature with biochar

Student and entrepreneur Marcel Kempers made an agile start of this decade, working with his companies on seaweed (Reef Support) and biochar (Pyro Power). At our Double Nature Talk of February 10 Marcel and his collegues elaborated on the latter one: regenerating soil using biochar. An ancient method used for centuries by indigenous people in…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Soil · Biochar · Regenerative agriculture · Soil carbon · Seaweed · Founders

Biobased building a way to double nature

The benefits of biobased constructions are enormous. For people. For nature. For the climate. People have evolved in nature, in the forests and in the fields. Wooden architecture brings nature back into our artificial built environment. We start to feel better: invigorated, healthier and with an increased sense of well-being. As we know, trees

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Materials · Biobased construction · Timber · Biosequestration · Biophilic design · Land

How Africa Wood Grow doubles nature

Most people are starting their decade of ecosystem restoration right now. The Dutch foundation Africa Wood Grow has already finalized a decade of regeneration in Kenia. During our online Double Nature Talk of January 20 founders Roeland Lelieveld and Daniel Muvali presented the Africa Wood Grow regenerative farms near the Tiva river. How does Africa…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Trees · Regenerative agriculture · Reforestation · Biodiversity · Land · Founders

“Azolla” Bram working on the Sargassum Cleanup

One of our pioneer members is Bram Geers (33), also known as Azolla Bram. Raised in and around greenhouses with all kinds of cactusses (!) in the Westland in the Netherlands, Bram decided to study

Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Seaweed · Sargassum · Ocean · Carbon sequestration · Founders

Our story about Sargassum Cleanup

How to turn a huge problem into a climate solution? On January 13 2021 we presented an update on our Sargassum Cleanup project during our Double Nature Talk at 8 pm CET. Around 40 people attended. In the last decade Sargassum Seaweed has become a plague in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean and Gulf of…

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Sargassum · Seaweed · Ocean · Carbon removal · Ecosystem restoration

Join the ReGeneration

We believe the movement to reverse the climate and nature crises will become the largest movement of the 21st century. But how do we empower a new generation to work on regenerative climate solutions? Our online Double Nature Talk of Wednesday 9 December 8PM CET explored this question together with Tijn Tjoelker (Climate Cleanup)

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · ReGeneration · Regenerative agriculture · Community building · Founders · Education · Drawdown

Commonland regenerates more and more land all over the world

Our Double Nature Talk of Wednesday December 2 was about Commonland. CEO Willem Ferwerda joined and shared his latest experiences with regenerative use of land and building business cases. The recording of the talk will be soon on YouTube.

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Soil · Regenerative agriculture · Land restoration · Commonland · Business cases

Towards carbon drawdown in your region

Climate Cleanup as a co-founder of Drawdown Europe presented an update on Drawdown Europe during the online double nature talk with 1500 club member Roy Straver on Wednesday 18 November to find out what drawdown solutions exist and what you can do to support carbon drawdown in your region. To take a look at recording…

Climate Cleanup · Drawdown · Event · Drawdown europe · Carbon drawdown · Climate solutions · Regional action · Research

Double Nature Talk on European policy

What is happening in the EU? Join the update from Anna Dubowik of the Negative Emissions Platform on the evolving European policy framework on carbon removal technologies and solutions on Wednesday November 11, 8pmCET. The European Commission

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Eu policy · Carbon removal · Negative emissions · Net zero · Carbon accounting

Seaweed life’s building block

It seems like seaweed has almost infinite possibilities. It sequesters CO2 faster than plants and trees. A real carbon sucker and regenerator of the oceans. All kinds of value chains become more and more feasible, like BlueBlocks.

Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Event · Materials · Seaweed · Ocean · Carbon sequestration · Biobased construction · Food systems

The importance of access to land

As George Monbiot so clearly pointed out in the Schumacher lecture on Sunday October 25, access to and ownership of land are pivotal in regenerating the world and addressing the ecological and social problems we face.

Climate Cleanup · Club · Double Nature Talk · Event · Soil · Land access · Land commons · Regenerative agriculture · Community ownership · Events

Club Launch shows window on the future

We’re very proud to announce the launch of our 1500 club on May 27 2020; 1500 people solving the climate and nature crises by regenerating nature.

Climate Cleanup · Club · Event · Imagination · ReGeneration · Watch Party · Regenerative agriculture · Community · Founders · Biodiversity · Events