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"It's not rocket science to do this. We are closer [to the ideal situation] than we think."

Are you interested in urban food forests? What do you think about regeneration as investment with the highest ROI? How can we get even closer to the ideal future of cities than we currently are?

Interview with Louis de Jaeger, award-winning filmmaker, author, and landscape designer. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, regeneration, urban food forests, vertical farming, participation, and many more.

Louis de Jaeger is a Belgian landscape designer, entrepreneur and inspirator on a mission to regenerate 550 million hectares of land - cooling the planet by 2°C, saving biodiversity, ending hunger and fostering world peace. Through wild edible plants, he reconnects people with nature to inspire its protection. CEO of Commensalist and Europe's CEO of the year 2025 in landscape design, he leads global regenerative projects. Award-winning filmmaker, bestselling author and international speaker, he co-founded Ten Lives Festivals, Eat More Trees, ByeByeGrass, European Sleeper and Food Forest Institute.

Find out more about Louis through these links:

• Louis de Jaeger on LinkedIn
• Louis de Jaeger website
• @LouCommensalist as Louis de Jaeger on X
• @louis.de.jaeger as Louis de Jaeger on Instagram
• Commensalist website
• @commensalist.landscape as Commensalist on Instagram
• Commensalist on Youtube
• Eat More Trees - movie about food trees
• SOS: Save Our Soils - book by Louis de Jaeger
• Food Forest Institute website
• @thefoodforestinstitute as Food Forest Institute on Instagram

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.391R - multiple Sebastian Pfautsch articles about being climate smart in cities
• No.392 - Interview with Sebastian Pfautsch about how trees can help decrease the urban heat island effect
• No.400 - Panel conversation with Allan Savory about agriculture being the foundation of cities
• 411R - Is coastal climate adaptatio