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Robert Pol is 62 years old, married, and the father of thirty-year-old twins. He works as a senior innovator at Van Aalsburg, a family business now in its third generation. “A wonderful title,” he calls it himself. His work? Developing new products based on willow. “When I was six years old, I already wanted to…
Entrepreneurs · Materials · Trees · Willow · Carbon storage · ONCRA · Nature based solutions · Biobased construction
Somewhere off the coast of Mexico, a vessel moves slowly through open water. It’s not fishing. It’s not surveying. It’s hunting seaweed. Why? To take carbon out of the atmosphere, while buying fragile coastlines a little more time. That vessel is the latest chapter in a story that started 25 years ago, underwater. A career…
Entrepreneurs · ONCRA · Seaweed · Ocean · Coastal resilience · Carbon sequestration · Founders
What if the problem is not that we don’t know enough, but that we’ve forgotten how to truly see? For Marie-Claire Greve, photographer and long-time ambassador for Climate Cleanup, the starting point is not urgency, but attention. Not crisis, but connection. And, more fundamentally, a renewed sense of value. “The moment people begin to feel…
Climate Cleanup · Club · Entrepreneurs · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Soil health · Nature connection · Founders
At their farm Horaholm, in the northern Dutch village of Hornhuizen, Erwin Westers and his father have spent over 20 years exploring how to work with nature instead of against it. Their efforts show how farming can heal both the land and the climate. By restoring soil life, inviting biodiversity back, and capturing 5,273 tons…
Agroforestry · Climate Cleanup · Entrepreneurs · ONCRA · Regenerative agriculture · Carbon credits · Soil carbon · Farmers
We’re excited to announce a bold step forward for the timber construction industry: DERIX Group, one of the leading suppliers for the timber construction industry, has officially entered the world of emissions trading. Working with Oncra, our open framework for bio-based carbon removal, DERIX is now having CO₂ certificates created for considerable amounts of CO₂…
Construction Stored Carbon · Entrepreneurs · ONCRA · Carbon credits · Biobased construction · Mass timber · Emissions trading
On May 15th, Carbon Farmers‘ Lars Hillewaere is committing to a crazy project: he will run 100 km along the entire shoreline of Belgium, his home country. With this act on the International Day of the North Sea, he wants to raise awareness for our oceans and their precious biodiversity. That’s why he’s also raising…
Club · Entrepreneurs · Ocean · Marine biodiversity · Ecosystem restoration · Fundraising · North sea
“There’s no feeling like seeing stuff green and alive and fruit starting to form.” – Karim Kouddous Setting up a syntropic farm is like software development, Kareem ascertains while showing us the irrigation system. You have complex systems that interact, parts of the system are developed in sprints, you have to test and see how…
Agroforestry · Entrepreneurs · Syntropic farming · Regenerative agriculture · Soil carbon · Compost · Land
“As large as my fist,” Lovael (8) describes the Tarantula. And his brother Elouan (5) is keeping an eye on it. They found it under a boxing ball, the springy kind mounted on a stand. It is where the spider chose to feel at home here in the Northern part of the Yucatán. Life feels…
Agroforestry · Entrepreneurs · Ecosystem restoration · Reforestation · Land · Carbon finance · Biodiversity
In an effort to introduce our entrepreneurs, ambassadors, and followers to each other, we like to feature one person (or organization) in every newsletter. Today, we’re highlighting the work of Liesbeth van Bemmel, the founder and farmer of Voedselbos Benthuizen. Voedselbos Benthuizen is a food forest that allows members to “come to harvest, plant trees,…
Agroforestry · Climate Cleanup · Entrepreneurs · Food forest · Regenerative agriculture · Land · Founders · Community
In an effort to introduce our entrepreneurs, ambassadors, and followers to each other, we like to feature one person (or organization) in every newsletter. Today, we’re highlighting the work of Heleen Eshuis, the founder of Stichting Bosnodig. Stichting Bosnodig is creating a food forest in the Dutch town of Voorst and has just been certified…
Agroforestry · Climate Cleanup · Entrepreneurs · Food forest · ONCRA · Carbon accounting · Land · Reforestation
Eric Litjens is growing the fastest growing tree on earth – which also makes it the tree that is the fastest to sequester carbon. Join the 66th Double Nature Talk! Language: DUTCH Former fruit tree grower Eric Litjens is removing carbon with Paulownia trees. At the Double Nature Lunch Talk on Tuesday 26 September, he…
Climate Cleanup · Double Nature Talk · Entrepreneurs · Materials · ONCRA · Regenerators · Trees · Paulownia · Reforestation · Carbon sequestration · Timber · Land