SUMMARY
The Sacred Earth team has developed a regenerative, scalable, profitable, rapid-response solution to the climate emergency that can be mass-produced and globally deployed. Based on proprietary inventions (Carbon Capture Module™, EnviroPlex™, EnviroFarm™, Bailey Synergy Tower™, Spectral Photovoltaic PowerBooster™) the system integrates regenerative organic agriculture, permaculture, direct-air CO2 removal and re-use, agri-voltaics with solar radiation management, soil restoration, re-forestation and sustainable community-based real estate development, including co-housing villages 3D-printed with materials derived from excess CO2 in the air.
Our installations will help countries, states and municipalities reach their UN Sustainable Development Goals while creating thousands of jobs and business opportunities – ultimately generating significant return on investment for our partners and investors.
The project is at an advanced stage of design. It has attracted worldwide interest, ranging from Australia in the wake of the recent fires to various locations in the USA, England, Mexico, South America, the Middle East and Africa. Joint ventures have been suggested with the Vatican and with the UN’s SDG Office. The strategy is under consideration by (1) a global Smart Cities Project and (2) the reconstruction team in post-Hurricane Dorian Bahamas. Our team is participating in Elon Musk’s $100M Carbon Removal XPRIZE competition.
BACKGROUND
The world’s biggest challenges are the world’s greatest opportunities. The trillion tons of “waste” carbon in Earth’s atmosphere is the “mining” opportunity of the millennium. Carbon dioxide is a valuable resource that our Carbon Capture Module™ and EnviroPlex™ will permanently remove from the atmosphere and convert into marketable products such as “green” concrete and other building materials, high-value crops, food, heating fuels, carbon fiber materials for 3D printing, soil amendments and many other products.
In the coming age of extreme weather and unprecedented fires we will increase food security by bringing some of our crop and livestock production indoors, reducing water consumption, insect damage, crop destruction and human and animal stress.
Our large-scale agricultural component (the EnviroFarm™) is a massive investment opportunity in its own right. It is well-tested and is currently operating on 30+ farms in the American Midwest. It restores depleted farmland, turns everything organic, makes farming profitable again and has the potential to avoid billions of dollars in annual human health expenses by eliminating toxic agricultural off-gassing and chemical runoff.
OBJECTIVES
Phase One: 24 – 36 months. A 10-acre not-for-profit proof-of-concept circular farm/demonstration and venture-launch site. We have designed and developed a coherent strategy that combines multiple tried-and-tested technologies into a single integrated system. The demonstration site will allow us to prototype our designs, test and prove our overall concept, launch small revenue-generating operations such as micro-greens and other food crops, develop business infrastructure and worldwide inter-business relationships and prepare for a rapid-deployment global launch. It will require the hiring of numerous employees and contractors, ranging from executives to legal experts to tradespeople, engineers, farm workers and teachers, and enable us to house and train students and interns for lifelong careers upon graduation.
Having accomplished proof-of-concept, our next step will be negotiating manufacturing, sales and distribution of our products, systems and services to municipalities, cities and countries worldwide.
Phase Two: 48 – 60 months. Upon global launch we envision ione of our systems for each million urban citizens. For example, Los Angeles would get ten systems, Mexico City twenty four, Nairobi four and so on. Phase Two calls for $100 million in capitalization and will expand the operation globally over a period of four to five years. The venture will become self-sustaining and then profitable, from sales and management of climate systems, real-estate sales and rental income and the marketing and distribution of organic food and carbon-based downstream products. Numerous other spin-off ventures are likely.
SCOPE
Once the project has scaled it will become very profitable, employ many thousands of people, increase global food security and reduce avoidable health costs. It will provide multiple benefits to the communities it is installed in, and will remove sufficient carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere to make a measurable difference in global temperature and the mitigation of climate damage. It will have a long-term positive social impact on communities which are struggling as a result of climate change and economic disparity.
BUDGET ESTIMATES (Phases 1 and 2))
| Description of Work | Anticipated Costs | |
| Phase 1: (Years 1-3) |
Summary: Design and build a not-for-profit replicable circular farm/prototyping/proof-of concept/research & teaching facility including but not limited to the items below: | $10,000,000 |
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| Phase 2: (starts when Phase 1 is complete) | Launch venture in multiple locations worldwide as rapidly as possible | $100,000,000 |
| TOTAL | Phases 1 and 2 | $ 110,000,000 |