This isn’t planting trees—it’s a return to the wisdom we clear-cut away. In this episode of The Capitalist Hippie, host Marco Pimentel sits down with Shannon, Chief Commercial Officer at Chestnut Carbon to show you what it looks like when someone rebuilds carbon offsets from the ground up—literally. 

While traditional carbon offset projects rely on leased land, unverifiable baselines, and opaque methodologies, Chestnut Carbon is flipping the playbook. Backed by $160 million in funding, they’re buying land outright, planting diverse native forests, and using proprietary MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) tools to ensure credibility at every step.

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