EcoRestoration Alliance Town Hall Meeting Wednesday, 2026.04.15 3 pm ET. Mangroves and A big new initiative: CCQ.
Jon Schull
EcoRestoration Alliance Town Hall Meeting
Wednesday, 2026.04.15 3 pm ET
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Agenda: Mangrove Extravaganza...and Cooling Climate Quickly!
Neal Spackman Longtime ERA member Neal Spackman has finally obtained substantial funding for an Aquaforestry Project in Baja. He'll tell us about the project and perhaps the secret of his fund-raising success (besides obvious perseverance and determiniation)
RAFT Co is a bioremediation and biotech company that intercepts high-nitrogen and high-phosphorous wastewater, and uses it to grow a constructed wetland / mangrove aquaforestry system that produces high-value goods. This eliminates devastating pollution streams, harmful algae blooms, and dead zones in the ocean, enabling the rehabilitation and recovery of mangrove, seagrass, coral, and kelp ecosystems, while turning waste into significant value. We are starting with nutrient-dense runoff from shrimp farms, but envision expanding to treating municipal wastewater & ag runoff.
Tapas Kumar Mollick Bangladeshi Ambassador to the UNEP Green Earth Action Foundation program and founder of Mangroves4Life
will present on his youth-training and mangrove restoration projects
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Andrew Dudley CEO of Earth PBC
Has a new system for combining satellite data from Planet.com with an easy-to use mobile-phone app for ground measurements, and for payments to those who do the work. He will demonstrate the product and, in keeping with today's theme, focus on mangrove measurement, reporting and verification (MRV).
Jon Schull and collaborators (human and artificial) will introduce Cooling Climate Quickly (and the making of)
Building on our 2024 whitepaper, leveraging work by our community, and deploying new processes enabled by artificial intelligence, this 5-week-old project is already gaining momentum with co-authors and allied organizations on multiple continents. It's time to introduce it...and its contributors...to the ERA. We need your input, and we need your support!
jsc...@EcoRestorationAlliance.org cell: 585-738-6696
Co-Founder EcoRestorationAlliance: Restore ecosystems to restore climate.
Co-founder, e-NABLE: volunteers worldwide making free, 3D printed prosthetics
Innovation Fellow, JMK Innovation Fund