$333k for Climate! | Gitcoin Climate Round w/ Ben West

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This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round.

Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today!

This segment is with Ben West, Cause Round Lead, from Gitcoin.

Gitcoin Grants is a community-led initiative that allows users and organizations to directly fund the development of their favorite open source projects and #publicgoods.

The Gitcoin Program Alpha Round is a set of 3 Quadratic Funding grants rounds that will allocate a $1M total matching pool to 200 grantees working on Open Source, Ethereum Infrastructure, and Climate Solutions.

The Climate Solutions Round features 40 climate projects from GR15 that were invited because they received the most support based on the number of unique contributors, and ten bundled use cases for the remaining GR15 projects working in Renewable Energy, Carbon Markets, Verification Infrastructure, Oceans & Forest, Agriculture, Community Engagement, Creative Works, Climate Research, Climate Advocacy & Activism, and Emerging Markets and Indigenous Communities.

This episode is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises.

In This Episode:

00:03 Gitcoin Climate Solutions 00:36 Round is funding $333,000 for #climate 00:39 matching funds for climate projects 01:27 climate grants and funding open source software02:09 funding public goods 03:12 “if you haven't heard of Gitcoin, you're doing web3 wrong" 03:48 open source projects 04:33 grants platform 04:54 quadratic funding 05:24 funded $70 million for public goods 06:21 run by the Gitcoin DAO 07:27 UNICEF used Gitcoin Grants 09:42 empowering the wisdom of the crowd 10:09 trusting the community about how to allocate those funds 11:39 using #quadraticfunding to fund land restoration and conservation 13:45 grants round as a service 15:15 Renewable Energy, Carbon Markets, Verification Infrastructure, Oceans & Forest, Agriculture, Community Engagement, Creative Works, Climate Research, Climate Advocacy & Activism, and Emerging Markets and Indigenous Communities 16:57 coordination and cooperation 18:27 directing funds, resources, talent and energy to real on the ground climate projects 19:21 crypto and blockchain 19:57 carbon accounting or for supply chain 21:03 Gitcoin Passport22:06 KYC, know your customer 24:15 120,000 people signed up for a Gitcoin passport 25:51 Snapshot 26:18 zero knowledge proof 28:03 blockchain for climate and real world action 28:30 funding climate solutions 29:24 real people doing mangrove restoration and carbon removal and plastic pollution cleanup 31:45 how not to make mistakes in crypto 39:03 funding grants and voting with your Metamask wallet 39:12 donations add up to large sums of money 39:18 Gitcoin testimonial