Episode 268 - From World Records to a Billion Trees: How Web3 & AI can Scale a Global Movement of Regenerators, with Jimi Cohen of Treegens

Crypto Altruists: Real-World Stories of Social & Environmental Impact with Web3 · Sep 17, 2026 · 47m · transcript

For Episode 268 of the Crypto Altruists podcast, we're thrilled to welcome back Jimi Cohen, founder of Treegens and a world record tree planter. Jimi first joined us back in Episode 158, and so much has happened since.

But Jimi's story doesn't start with world records, or even with Web3. It starts with a love of trees. Environmentalism runs in his family, and that passion showed up early. In his university days, he went door to door in his dorm, raising money for environmental causes one conversation at a time. But he began to envision something much bigger. That vision led him to set a…