Helping 1 billion people in the tropical forests – Drea Burbank

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Today, we are learning from Drea Burbank. Drea is an MD-technologist and founder/CEO of Savimbo, which sells fair-trade carbon credits. Drea lives in the Colombian Amazon. Her international team of 300+ delinquent savants hacks carbon markets to support jungle small-farmers who conserve and reforest. She’s addicted to yoga, passionate about creation, and prone to profanity or poetry — sometimes both. Let's get started... In this conversation with Drea Burbank, I learned: 0:00 Intro 02:25 What we do, stop deforestation and sell climate products. 05:00 The transition for the farmers to using tech. 06:00 Drea explains why deforestation is happening. The credit market is really inequitable. 07:45 Savimbo is about how to save a planet. 08:40 The short version of the backstory of Savimbo. 09:10 She discovered that her IQ was undesirable high. 12:00 Switching career from firefighter to Med school. 13:25 The effect of yoga on the physics. 15:20 The start of Savimbo with the assignment from the local medicine men for Drea. 19:05 The differences between conserving primary forest and optimizing a deforested area. 20:30 The important reasons why it is stupid to ship soy from the Amazon to Europe and the US. 21:20 It is easy to replace palm oil with forest oils. 22:30 One billion people live in tropical forests. 22:55 Three emerging technologies have changed everything in the last couple of years in these areas: satellite monitoring, electronic banking, and WhatsApp. 24:25 The effect of micropayments. 24:50 How we can help Savimbo, growth capital, buy credits, subscribe to a small farmer. 26:15 A better gift for family and friends. 29:35 Testing business partnerships in the Amazon based on consciousness. 31:00 Full commitment to one project. 32:55 Using open data to be transparent about where the money is going. 33:40 The first years of a new company are like having a baby, it's crying all the time. You work all the time. 34:40 The difference in the concept of time. Indigenous people don't work with time. 37:35 Low living cost and low income, everything goes back into the company. 39:05 The three founders started the company to give back. 39:35 The feeling of enough enables you to do amazing work. 40:30 How to stop chasing for more. 42:15 A death and rebirth process, and losing everything that you have. 45:20 Research on giftedness and research on Positive disintegration. Okay with the death and rebirth cycle. 47:20 The death and rebirth cycle as a planet. We are attached to colonialism and restoration and those need to die. 48:35 Indigenous people are cool and this is why. Book: Shaman Gurl: Kundalini, mischief, and a judicious amount of mayhem - Drea Burbank More about Drea Burbank: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dreaburbank/ https://www.dreaburbank.com/ https://www.savimbo.com/ https://www.todreamalife.com/ Other resources: Kazimierz Dąbrowski - Positive disintegration 5 things I would say to my younger self long before I founded Savimbo - Brea Burbank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJo2kDBNLIM Video of the conversation with Drea Burbank https://youtu.be/qi1YqX-bKw4 Watch here https://youtu.be/qi1YqX-bKw4