Land Rehydration & Ending Water Scarcity | Will Masters Ogallala Life

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Today we speak with Will Masters from Ogallala Life. Ogallala Life mission is to utilize web3 technologies to design, develop, and implement sustainable water utilization and farming practices that optimize the value and productivity of America’s breadbasket.

Ogallala Life a group of multi-disciplinary professionals who believe in stewardship. Their aim is to destroy the very real and imminent threat of food and water scarcity in America caused by the desertification of fertile land, water depletion, and contamination. Ogallala Life educates farmers on sustainable techniques and incentivize them to ensure these practices are implemented. They fund projects using smart contract-enabled markets and cryptocurrencies.

https://www.ogallala.life/

This episode is part of the RWA x ReFi Report which is made possible by the Climate Collective (https://climatecollective.org) and brought to you by .basin (https://basin.global)

In this episode:

00:00 Real World Assets for Regenerative Finance 01:18 Will Masters Ogallala Life, Horseshoe Capital, Regen Network 01:57 Clean Water, Water Supply Ogallala Aqufifer 03:03 connecting the metaverse to IRL / #RWA 03:30 real property / personal property / mineral interest / water interest 03:40 fractionalized interests 03:54 title insurance / financing 04:10 title expenses 04:20 real estate blockchain 04:45 world's greatest amount of wealth is real world assets / RWA 04:54 DeFi Real Estate 05:12 efficiencies of scale and time 05:45 Horseshoe Capital, private placement memorandums, PPM's 06:06 tokenize real world interests 06:15 Ethereum, Cosmos IBC 06:42 blockchain's determination of ownership 06:51 blockchain and defi have enabled different organizational structures and treasury structures for token issuance and fundraising 07:12 securities laws and tokens 07:21 rule of code to the rule of law 07:33 current legal system or a new system? 07:48 legacy institutions and accounting for human fallibility 08:09 wallets, immutability, transaction history 08:21 governmental bodies that could be supplanted by blockchain 9:03 ownership, leasing and use of real estate 09:24 law and policy 09:36 property liability, casualty insurance, title insurance 10:03 efficiencies of our service industries, AI, law, robotics 10:18 tokenize LLC or tokenize property 11:24 lowering real estate transaction costs and what is the basis of wealth: real property property 11:48 distributed ownership, collective commons 11:54 zoning, local laws, federal laws 12:27 Roman Law / English Law 13:03 collective ownership structure for planetary / landscape scale regeneration 13:42 regenerative services, leasing the land for Regenerative purposes and reconnecting communities 13:57 incentivize people versus the outright ownership exchange 14:03 Usufruct: use of the land and the rights of the of the land versus the fruit of the land or the control of the land. 14:12 stewardship as a service 15:21 hope for defi and refi 15:33 enough data provided about an asset exchange 15:57 unlock the value of natural assets in a way that makes it so that improved land and biological conditions equal improved money 16:18 imperialistic private property concepts 16:24 better governance structures 16:39 Aldo Leopold "what is right? It's what is right for the land" 16:57 incentivize landowners to do better 17:03 harmful subsidies and traditional agriculture 17:18 changing the incentives for better outcomes 17:27 private capital, real property law, tax law, policy, rule of law 18:42 DeFi to ReFi 18:51 internet of blockchains, IBC, Regen Network, $REGEN 19:36 carbon sequestration, incentivize watersheds and wetlands 19:42 Shamba geospatial Oracle, dMRV 20:09 not just carbon, but also everything else, biodiversity, pollination, habitat, etc 20:18 hardware and data 21:15 education is key for regeneration and restoration 21:24 Ecorise 21:36 Terra Luna colapse 22:09 ReFi Punks NFT's, Refi is part of refi Zone 23:03 landscape rehydration focused efforts in the Southern and central Plains 23:51 Ogallala Aquifer: one six of the world's grain is grown here. And it is groundwater mining. 24:01 pumping water to irrigate monoculture, killed the soils, no intact prairie 24:18 income inequality and racial inequality 25:00 the white male problem 25:15 distributed ownership v centralized ownership

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