Conservation, getting involved, and how to use your existing skills to change the world are all topics we cover in this episode. Paul goes into a few success stories of conservation X labs, how he got started, how he keeps the spark alive, and a lot of great actionable recommendations for books and resources to learn more!

About Paul Bunje

Scientist and strategic leader working at the interface of societal change by bridging the gap between technology, science, and solving grand challenges. Experience in exponential tools, technology innovation, policy, research, and business creates a unique blend of communication and strategy skills to catalyze current trends in energy and the environment through the integration of complex scientific, political, economic, and social determiners of change.

Specialties: Innovation, scientific research, policy-making, public engagement speaking, clean technology development, environmental education, strategic planning, organizational leadership. Source

About Conservation X Labs

“Conservation X Labs is creating a new model for conservation, built on the exponential technologies & connectivity, coupled with financial and behavior change innovations, and scaled through the private sector, partnerships with conservation organizations, and collaborations with governments and intergovernmental entities. By harnessing the democratization of science and technology, we can finally allow conservation to operate at the pace and on the scale necessary to keep up with and even get head of the planet’s most intractable environmental challenges. There is a clear need to accelerate conservation solutions, harness new technologies, and draw upon new solvers and new solutions through new approaches. Importantly, we also know we can work through the private sector to improve the efficacy, impact, sustainability, and scale of conservation efforts while building sustainable income for communities that rely on those resources. Finally, humans are at the center of conservation problems. Any approach to conservation needs to change the incentive structures, both in biodiversity-rich countries, and in those countries that generate the demand for products and goods that put pressure on those systems. We can apply what we know from behavior and psychology, marketing, and social media to shift demand and incentive structures. Much as humans have created the problems, we have the means to solve them.” Source

XPRIZE – Chief scientist and Vice President, Domain impact strategy

As the Chief Scientist and VP, I led Domain Impact Strategy for XPRIZE, driving strategy for exponential technology to be applied to solving grand challenges. I led the team working across technical, scientific, and social domains to identify and execute core initiatives that will achieve exponential impact, and marshaling subject matter expertise across all of XPRIZE’s work. Leading these initiatives helped enable XPRIZE to drive radical breakthroughs through strategic roadmap development, prize competitions, and scaling global impact source

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