S13. E20: Dax Dasilva: Echoes From Eden
“I really think it’s a story about the heroes, the conservation heroes. It’s each one of their stories and then it’s about my personal growth story of being absolutely useless in the jungle and how I got decent by the end of it.”
There are moments when you look at the world — at forests collapsing, oceans warming, species disappearing — and you feel a kind of disbelief that we’ve allowed this to become normal. Because what’s happening to the living world isn’t abstract.
It’s ancient ecosystems being stripped bare.
It’s entire islands scarred by erosion.
It’s extinction unfolding in real time — while most of us go about our lives as if the natural world will somehow survive without us changing anything.
This conversation not about doom. It’s about what happens when someone decides: Not on my watch. It’s with Dax Dasilva — founder of Lightspeed — who, after seventeen years as CEO, stepped back… and poured $40 million into frontline conservation projects around the world.
He went where most people will never go — deep into the Amazon, into Haiti and Madagascar where deforestation has pushed ecosystems to the brink… onto beaches where leatherback turtles, older than the dinosaurs, are still fighting to survive.
His new book is called Echoes From Eden, a tribute to the people doing everything they can to save the planet - the local conservation heroes quietly holding the line for all of us.
Please listen and share.
In gratitude,
Elizabeth Novogratz
LINKS:
Echos From Eden
Dax Dasilva
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