Ep 13. Restoring Nature and Ourselves with Clara Rowe (CEO Restor)

Clara Rowe CEO Restor

My guest on the show today is Clara Rowe, CEO of Restor, an exciting new open-data platform enabling the global restoration movement. Restor was recently named as a finalist in the Earthshot prize for the incredible potential it offers to tackle climate and biodiversity challenges on our planet.

Clara and I chat about how either-or-thinking in terms of restoration, and in our own lives, can be detrimental. We discuss the misunderstanding around the 1 Trillion Trees campaign and how Restor has integrated the lessons learned. We also explore Clara’s leadership journey to develop and establish Restor.

The topics we cover are:

  • How Restor aims to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss through restoration

  • How Clara’s upbringing in Costa Rica influenced her career path

  • The one creative practice Clara makes time for every day

  • Her work on sustainable Palm Oil in Guatemala with the Earthworm foundation

  • Moments of impact that stood out in her work

  • How she came to lead Restor

  • The risk of simplifying issues and proposing single solutions with the example of the 1 Trillion Trees initiative by Restor founder Tom Crowther

  • What it means to do restoration the right way

  • Some of the challenges Clara faced when starting to lead the organization

  • How she deals with overwhelm from navigating such an ambitious project

  • The topic of gender in restoration work

  • What she learned from nature about her own regeneration

Further information:

Restor: https://restor.eco/  

Follow them on:

Twitter @Restor_Eco

Instagram and Facebook @Restor.eco

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/restor-eco/

Clara Rowe: Twitter @clarawrowe

Resources mentioned in the episode:

For more on the 1-trillion-trees debate, check out Tom Crowther’s TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJX1Te0jey0&ab_channel=TED and this recently published Guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/01/ive-never-said-we-should-plant-a-trillion-trees-what-ecopreneur-thomas-crowther-did-next-aoe  and the original Science paper here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax0848

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