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: