AutoPGF Episode 3 - Funding Climate Action with Crypto: How Stablecoins are Powering a Greener Future
Welcome back to AutoPGF: Funding Impact with Glo Dollar—a special podcast mini-series from Crypto Altruists that explores the future of Automatic Public Goods Funding, or AutoPGF for short, and the incredible organizations leveraging this new mechanism to scale their impact.
For Episode 3, we’re honored to welcome Jon Ruth, Co-Founder of Climate Coordination Network—a Web3-native climate impact collective that has distributed over $4 million in funding to climate solutions—and Lana Dingwall, Partnerships Lead at Glo Dollar and an OG in the Regen & Web3 public goods funding space.
In this wisdom-packed and inspiring conversation, we explore how AutoPGF can help climate organizations escape the endless grant cycle, lessons learned from building in Web3, and what the future could look like if climate finance scaled with the power of crypto and community.
We discuss:
Why traditional climate funding models are falling short—and how Web3 public goods funding mechanisms like AutoPGF could unlock sustainable, scalable climate finance.
How Climate Coordination Network has distributed over $4 million to Web3-enabled climate projects and what they’ve learned along the way.
And how holding a stablecoin like Glo Dollar can help fund real-world climate solutions—without donors needing to spend a dime or their time.
Key Takeaways
💡 From Grant Chasing to Impact Creation: Traditional funding models often force impact organizations to focus more on chasing grants than creating impact. AutoPGF flips the script—offering a path to sustainable, unrestricted funding that empowers teams to spend less time finding money, and more time putting it to work.
🤝 Web3 Is About People, Not Protocols: In the regenerative space, collaboration is everything. This episode highlights the shift from competition to community, reminding us that Web3 isn’t a zero-sum game—and when we build together, everyone wins.
💸 Reclaiming the Stablecoin Narrative: Despite the turbulence of the past, stablecoins remain one of Web3’s most powerful tools. Glo Dollar shows how, when done right, they can offer a secure and frictionless way to store value and fund public goods—restoring trust and driving real-world impact.
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Episode Time Stamps:
02:35 - Reflecting back to your journey to Web3 and public goods funding, was there a defining moment that made you realize the potential of decentralized funding models to reshape how we support critical causes like climate action?
09:05 - To date, Climate Coordination Network has distributed over $4M in funding through various rounds. Can you tell me more about some of the causes funded and the impact generated?
12:20 - How did you learn about Glo Dollar and what did you first think about it?
16:35 - To lay the groundwork for the conversation, can you share your thoughts on the concept of AutoPGF? How does the idea of automatically funding public goods, simply by holding a stablecoin like Glo Dollar, change the game for organizations like CCN?
21:40 - Traditional fundraising often requires extensive outreach, complex grant applications, and navigating bureaucratic funding ecosystems, making it feel like nonprofits spend more time raising funds than creating impact. How do you see mechanisms like AutoPGF disrupting this?
25:05 - If you had unlimited funds and no bureaucracy, what’s the first thing you’d change about how climate action is funded today?
29:40 - With traditional philanthropy, and grant funding models, impact organizations often have to compete for limited pools of funding, creating a sort of zero sum game. How does Glo Dollar’s AutoPGF model help break away from this scarcity mindset?
38:20 - Throughout all of your work in the Web3 PGF space, what’s one unexpected lesson you’ve learned about PEOPLE or community?
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