AutoPGF Episode 3 - Funding Climate Action with Crypto: How Stablecoins are Powering a Greener Future

Crypto Altruists: Real-World Stories of Social & Environmental Impact with Web3

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 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 episode, we explore how AutoPGF can help climate organizations escape endless grant cycles, lessons from building in Web3, and how the future could look if climate finance scaled with the power of crypto and community.

We discuss:

1. Why traditional climate funding models are falling short—and how Web3 public goods funding mechanisms like AutoPGF could unlock sustainable, scalable climate finance.
2. How Climate Coordination Network has distributed over $4 million to Web3-enabled climate projects and what they’ve learned along the way.
3. 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.

--Full shownotes with links available at--
https://www.cryptoaltruism.org/blog/crypto-altruists-autopgf-episode-3-funding-climate-action-with-crypto-how-stablecoins-are-powering-a-greener-future

Thank you to Glo for their support in bringing this series to life! 🙏

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--DISCLAIMER --
While we may discuss specific web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on potential investment opportunities, or any opportunity, before making an investment. We host a variety of guests on this podcast with the sole purpose of highlighting the social impact use cases of this technology. That being said, Crypto Altruism does not endorse any of these projects, and we recognize that, since this is an emerging sector, some may be operating in regulatory grey areas, and as such, we cannot confirm their legality in the jurisdictions in which they operate, especially as it pertains to decentralized finance protocols. So, before getting involved with any project, it’s important that you do your own research and confirm the legality of the project. More info at cryptoaltruism.org.