This month, we’ve prepared amazing masterclasses and workshops to help you scale up your nature venture! Each week, an ecopreneur will share their success, secrets, and little mishaps to inspire and guide you along the way.
If you’re into building successful platforms, mastering storytelling to engage your audience, exploring funding strategies and regenerative economic models, or learning how AI can boost your funding efforts, all for nature, these events are made for you!
All masterclasses are live for one hour every Tuesday and are exclusive to Wildya+ members. But workshops, which are 45-min live sessions, are open to all Wildya Community members!
So, if you’re looking to grow your mission with insights from those who’ve been there, done that, join us on Wildya+ Community and get access to these weekly sessions.
Oh, and here’s a little bonus for you: enjoy a 10-day free trial of Wildya+!
Let’s dive in and meet our biodiversity heroes and their awesome topics!
August 5th – From Idea to Impact: How to Build a Scalable Climate Action Platform with Elliot Coad / Masterclass
📅 August 5
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CEST
Back in 2019, Elliot had a simple idea.
A climate subscription that lets anyone take real action.
Fast forward to today, and that idea became Ecologi, one of Europe’s top climate startups. Over 24,000 businesses have used it to fund reforestation, carbon removal, and high-impact restoration projects.
Now, Elliot’s building 30×30 UK, a new nonprofit aiming to protect 30% of land and sea for nature by 2030.
In this masterclass, he’ll take you behind the scenes of how it all started, what he got right (and wrong), and what it takes to turn a big climate vision into something real, funded, and scalable.
💡 Why building a scalable climate action platform matters:
Ideas are easy. Execution is hard. Especially when you’re trying to restore nature at scale.
This is for anyone building digital products, climate solutions, or funding platforms that actually work.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ How to go from a mission-driven idea to your first 100 users
✅ Lessons from building a platform used by 24,000+ companies
✅ How to keep your tech, funding, and impact aligned
✅ How to land corporate clients
✅ How to stay grounded when building at speed
✅ Your chance to ask Elliot your biggest questions
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
Digital climate solutions
Building platforms or funding models
Turning restoration into a business
Going from bootstrap to scale-up
Learning from someone who’s been there
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Elliot Coad is a serial environmental founder. He co-founded Ecologi, the platform that helped make carbon removal and nature funding accessible to everyone.
Now, he leads 30×30 UK, a nonprofit on a mission to protect one third of Britain’s land and sea.
Elliot’s superpower? Turning complex climate goals into products people actually use.
🔗 Connect with Elliot on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Ecologi
🔗 Discover 30×30 UK
August 6th – Nature Impact Scaling Workshop
📅August 6
⏰5 – 6 pm CEST
How to grow your nature venture’s revenue, visibility, traction and impact.
Trump, Omnibus rollback, USAID cuts, corporate disinterest.
Not an easy time for us nature people right now.
Time to put the power back into our hands and focus on what we can control.
Join us for a FREE hands-on 60-minute workshop where we’ll share the 4-part formula we use to help nature founders scale their nature impact in these crazy times.
✅ Why you should join the Nature Impact Scaling workshop:
- Designed for nature-focused NGOs & Businesses
- Understand where you are currently blocked & fix it
- Learn the system we used to help 20+ nature ventures grow their impact
- Build a roadmap to stop spinning & start scaling
- Get honest, real-world strategies (no hype, no fluff)
✅ What you’ll walk away with:
- The Nature Impact Formula
- A self-assessment to identify your biggest scaling bottleneck
- 3 practical tips for each part of the formula you can apply right after the webinar
- Case examples of biodiversity ventures turning visibility into impact
- A chance to ask me your questions & challenges live
August 12th – Storytelling for the Sea: How this Founder is Rewilding the Sea Through Comics with Antoine Erwes / Masterclass
📅 August 12
⏰ 7 – 8 pm CEST
How do you make people care about the ocean… beyond plastic and polar bears?
Antoine Erwes asked the same question and answered it with comics, colors, and coastal economies.
As the founder of Naïa, he turns dense ocean research into unforgettable visual stories. From marine protected areas to kelp farming and sea cucumber trade, Antoine brings the underwater world to life through storytelling that sticks.
But he doesn’t stop there. Through his work with BioMarine, he’s helping coastal communities build resilient, blue economies by connecting science, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
In this session, Antoine will share how visual storytelling can drive real-world impact, help researchers reach new audiences, and create emotional connections with the ocean’s untold stories.
💡 Why rewilding the sea through comics matters:
Ocean innovation is booming but the world isn’t listening.
Scientists, founders, and coastal leaders often struggle to make their work understood, let alone supported.
If we want to restore and rewild our seas, we need stories that land, spread, and move people.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ Why traditional science communication often fails to engage
✅ How Naïa translates complex topics into powerful narratives
✅ Tips for founders, NGOs, and scientists to tell better stories
✅ What ocean storytelling can do for funding, policy, and awareness
✅ How to connect your mission to audiences who’ve never heard of sea cucumbers
✅ A peek into Panic in Pelagos, Naïa’s comic about marine protected areas
✅ Live Q&A with Antoine
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
Ocean conservation, blue economy, or coastal restoration
Making your message stick with funders and the public
Science communication that actually works
Using creativity for environmental impact
Rewilding the ocean with the power of narrative
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Antoine Erwes is a strategist, author, and creative force behind Naïa – Voice of the Ocean, a platform using comic books and visual media to make marine science accessible.
He’s also part of BioMarine, helping coastal communities unlock economic potential from ocean innovation.
From underwater farming to visual storytelling, his work bridges science and society in a way that feels personal, human, and unforgettable.
🔗 Connect with Antoine on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore Naïa – Voice of the Ocean
August 19th – Bootstrapping regeneration: How road trips help restore ecosystems with Rowdy Klein / Masterclass
📅August 19
⏰7 – 8 pm CEST
From idea → to €20K EU grant → to launch
With GoHabitat, Rowdy Klein answering this question, by creating the Airbnb for biodiversity.
Think food forests, regenerative farmstays, community projects, and rewilding sites. GoHabitat is launching with over 50 projects across 9 countries and counting, turning recreation into a reliable revenue stream for community empowerment and ecological regeneration.
What’s more? Each booking isn’t just support, it’s an invitation to reconnect with nature. Join farm-to-table dinners, foraging events, or gather around a fire. These places are living landscapes, where leisure blends with purpose and regeneration is experienced in the heart, instead of the mind.
In this masterclass, Rowdy will share how to be resourceful with little resources.
Similar to the stewards represented, and many ecopreneurs in the Wildya community, bootstrapping is at the core of GoHabitats’ journey.
From ideation to launch, you’ll hear about:
🦊 Hacking his way into a €20K EU Grant
🐒 Navigating early bottlenecks through delicate monkey business
🐴 Leveraging the non-profit booking platform as a Trojan horse for systemic change
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ A grounded understanding of the complexities of small-scale regeneration
✅ Lessons from building GoHabitat: bootstrapping, bold ideas, and belief
✅ Designs for experiences that blend leisure, learning, and regional impact
✅ Why steward-ownership matters for impact-driven ventures
✅ Ideas for NGOs, ecopreneurs, and landowners to diversify income
✅ How to land a EU grant to get first and risk-free funding
✅ A chance to ask Rowdy all your questions
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
Nature tourism or ecotourism
Community-led regeneration
Alternative funding for restoration projects
Regenerative business models & systems innovation
Embedding local communities in bioregions
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Rowdy Klein is the founder of GoHabitat, a soon-to-launch booking platform that supports nature-based projects through tourism.
With 50+ locations in 9 countries already lined up, GoHabitat connects travelers directly to places restoring soil, ecosystems, and community health.
Rowdy’s mission is clear: fund local regeneration at scale, while giving people unforgettable experiences in nature.
🔗 Connect with Rowdy on LinkedIn
🔗 Explore GoHabitat
August 27th – From Pint to Power: How to Build a Global Climate Movement Without a Slide Deck with Adam Bastock / Masterclass
📅August 27
⏰7 – 8 pm CEST
It started with one simple question:
What if climate action didn’t begin in a boardroom, but in a pub?
Fast forward and People, Planet, Pint is now the UK’s biggest grassroots sustainability meetup.
33,000+ attendees, 120 cities, 15 countries.
No lectures. No panels. Just humans connecting over a drink, sharing what they’re building, struggling with, or dreaming of.
In this masterclass, Adam Bastock, the founder behind it all, shares the story of how a simple idea snowballed into a global movement of climate doers. He’ll talk about what made it work, what nearly broke it, and how to build something that people don’t just attend but belong to.
💡 Why building a global climate movement without slide deck matters:
Most people care about climate and nature.
But they don’t always feel invited into the conversation.
Pint by pint, Adam built a model that breaks down silos and builds real-world momentum.
One city, one meetup, one conversation at a time.
💪 What you’ll walk away with:
✅ How to turn a simple format into a movement
✅ Lessons from 1,500+ events across the world
✅ What it really takes to mobilize thousands of people (without burning out)
✅ How to keep events inclusive, fun, and genuinely impactful
✅ The power of local networks in climate action
✅ A chance to ask Adam how to bring this kind of magic into your own work or city
🙋♀️ For you if you’re into:
Building grassroots communities
Hosting meaningful, low-barrier climate events
Growing movements from the bottom up
Bridging everyday life with environmental impact
Finding new energy for your own sustainability work
🤩 Biodiversity Builder behind the session:
Adam Bastock is the founder of People, Planet, Pint. The no-agenda meetup bringing together thousands of changemakers in pubs and cafés across the world.
From his base in the UK, he’s sparked a growing movement of everyday people having not-so-everyday conversations about the future of our planet. No slides. No jargon. Just connection, momentum, and a beer (or tea).
🔗 Connect with Adam on LinkedIn
🔗 Learn more about People, Planet, Pint
Interested in attending these events and starting to scale your nature mission? Join our Wild Community now!
The recordings of the masterclasses & workshops will also be available afterwards for our Wildya+ members, in case you’re too busy rewilding nature!
See you there!
