The Twenty First Century Imperative podcast is ad-free and relies entirely on listener support. If you find it valuable please consider becoming a patron.

Since the launch of the this podcast, we have not wanted to have any commercial advertising because we really hated the idea interrupting podcasts to sell stuff (don’t you hate having to listen to advertising during other people’s podcasts?), but more importantly, we didn’t want to have any potential conflicts of interest with our advertisers – real or perceived. So until now we have funded this podcast out of our own pockets. It has been a passion project, because we believe strongly in the value of the content we are producing.

But the costs of production are continuing to rise, so we have decided to set up a donor support page on Patreon to help cover our costs. This podcast is strictly a non-profit venture, and all of your donations will go towards only two things:

First, half of your donation will go to covering our podcast production costs (such as sound editing, transcript production, web hosting, and studio costs).

Second, the other half of your donation will go to planting trees – which we believe is one of the most important things we can do to deal with climate change. For every five dollars you donate, $2.50 will go to plant one tree in either Eastern Canada or in Tanzania, Africa. To do this, we have teamed up with Community Forests International (CFI) who have offices in Sackville, New Brunswick, as well as in Pemba, Tanzania. We know and completely trust the people who run CFI. In fact, Jeff Schnurr, the current Chair and founder of CFI was our first guest on this podcast (Check it out, Jeff was a truly inspiring person to interview).

So if you like and value our TFCI podcasts, please donate to our Patreon Page to help us keep producing these podcasts while at the same time planting trees to make a difference in the fight against climate change.

Note: Sponsorship is in US dollars.