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

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 software
02:09 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 Passport
22:06 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