NFTs to fund fire prevention, forest stewardship and land back

Speaker
Eric Bear, winner of the 2022 Wildland Fire Challenge
Thule Horton, winner of the 2022 Wildland Fire Challenge
Date
Wed February 22nd 2023, 12:30 - 1:30pm
Event Sponsor
The Bill Lane Center for the American West, the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford Sustainability Data Science, and the Woods Institute for the Environment
Location
Online via Zoom. See link below.
An orange sky filled with wildfire smoke with mountains in the background and dark pine trees in the foreground.

Over 100 million acres of land across the West need conservation, stewardship, and restoration work to reduce wildfire risk, improve forest health, and increase climate resilience. A lack of funding prevents land-management organizations and tribes from growing stewardship and climate resilience efforts to scale in acreage and impact. Yet there currently exists no decentralized, low-barrier-to-entry investment mechanisms for laypersons to collectively impact these lands. Although Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have unique potential to meet climate and conservation goals, the environmental and web3 worlds have yet to meaningfully collaborate. Moreover, the web3 space suffers from a lack of mission-driven climate impact projects and indigenous representation, insulating investors from real people with honed expertise tending to the land. Above all, this takes relational, collaborative partnership to orient the Stanford and Bay Area environmentalist communities toward indigenous leadership in wildfire resilience & land stewardship. 

This is the sixth seminar in the winter 2023 Wildland Fire Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the Bill Lane Center for the American West,  Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford Sustainability Data Science, and Woods Institute for the Environment. In the series, we will hear from a spectrum of researchers, decision makers, and industry experts on some important issues and challenges related to wildland fires. 

These seminars are also intended as a springboard for students interested in participating in Spring Quarter's Big Earth Hackathon: Wildland Fire Challenge.  Attendees can expect to hear about some of the most pressing wildfire related problems requiring innovative solutions.

WILDLAND FIRE SEMINAR SERIES
Winter Quarter 2022-23
Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. - Seminars via Zoom 

  • January 18: What the Clean Air Act needs to get right about wildfire
    Michael Wara, Climate and Energy Policy Program, Stanford Woods Institute
  • January 25: Altering the course of wildland fire through analytics and shared stewardship
    Jason Kuiken, US Forest Service
  • February 1: Can we really address the wildfire problem?
    Bob Roper, Chair of the CA Fire Safe Council and Policy Advisor to the Western Fire Chief's Association
  • February 8: Is climate change redefining your health?
    Mary Prunicki, Sean Parker Center for Asthma and Allergy Research
  • February 15: Wildfire influence on recent US pollution trends
    Marshall Burke, Environmental Change and Human Outcome Lab
  • February 22: NFTs to fund fire prevention, forest stewardship and land back
    Eric Bear and Thule Horton, 2023 Wildland Fire Challenge winners
  • March 1: Utilities' efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and partnerships needed to ensure success
    Bob Messner, Wildfire Mitigation and Resiliency, Portland General Electric
  • March 8: Indigenous led fire management
    Amy Cardinal Christianson, Canadian Forest Service / Parks Canada Agency

 

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