Financial Permaculture & Ecosystem Investing

Financial Permaculture& Ecosystem Investing

Gratitude to: Gregory Landua, www.BooyaCacao.comCatherine Austin Fitts, www.Solari.com

Ben Falk, www.WholeSystemsDesign.com

Ethan C. Roland,www.AppleSeedPermaculture.com

G A I A UNIVERSITY

Framing

Converging Crises:

• Water Crisis• Land Scarcity• Nutrient Losses• Energy Dilemma• Damaged Oceans• Inappropriate Technology• Climate Chaos• Economics, Politics, Trade

Food Insecurity

“...an imending crisis of soaring food prices...” - UN/FAO ISFP

African Land-Grab

Project Survival Media

Climate Chaos

50 million climate change refugees by 2010 - UN

Project Survival Media

Miniature Earth

Investing in the US Dollar

WarfareEconomic

Tapeworm Economics

Infinite Growth

Converging Crises:

• Water Crisis• Land Scarcity• Nutrient Losses• Energy Dilemma• Damaged Oceans• Inappropriate Technology• Climate Chaos• Economics, Politics, Trade

Permaculture

“The Problem is the Solution”

- Bill Mollison

Permaculture

EcosystemsLearn Mimic

To meet human needs while increasing the diversity and resiliency

of our eco-social landscapes

FinancialPermaculture

EcosystemsLearn Mimic

CooperateEducate

ActBank Localclaimyourchange.orgmoveyourmoney.info Get Out of Debt

Your Money or Your LifeI Will Teach You to be Rich

Microfinancekiva.org

grameenfoundation.org

FinancialPermaculture

EcosystemsLearn Mimic

Eco-Social Enterprise

Ecosystem Investing

RegenerativeFinance

Double-edged Sword

Eco-Social Enterprise

How to make your farm investable & profitable

Financial Ecosystem Analysis

e.g. Hohenwald

Business Plan (?)

drawwebsite

twitter plan‘the deck’

Eco-Social Enterprise

Enterprise Budgets

Eco-Ag Design Tool

Enterprise Budgets & Eco-Ag Design Tool

Garlic

How to make your farm investable & profitable

Financial Ecosystem Analysis

e.g. Hohenwald

Business Plan (?)

drawwebsitetwitter

‘the deck’

Enterprise Budgets

Eco-Ag Design Tool

FindInvestors

Wide net & good lurese.g. CFC

Eco-Social Enterprise

Carbon FarmingCourse

• September 2009

• The Farm, TN

• $10k capitalization

• 100% ROI

Carbon FarmingCourse

• January 2012

• Stone Barns & Hudson River Valley, NY

• Investors...?

•

Next...

How to make your farm investable & profitable

Financial Ecosystem Analysis

e.g. Hohenwald

Business Plan (?)

drawwebsitetwitter

‘the deck’

Enterprise Budgets

Eco-Ag Design Tool

FindInvestors

Wide net & good lurese.g. CFC

Marketing22 laws

Farm Designefficiency

redundancyresiliency

Eco-Social Enterprise

22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

#1: The Law of Leadership

#2: The Law of the Category

#3: The Law of the Mind

Al Ries and Jack Trout, 1993

It is better to be first than it is to be better.

If you can't be first in a category, set up a new category you can be first in.

The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospect's mind.

Think like a forest: Invest

Ecosystem Investing

Ecosystem Investing

• Invest IN ecosystems

Living Equity

• Hot investment tip:

Living Equity

• Hot investment tip: stock

Living Equity

• Hot investment tip: Livestock

Living Equity

• Tangible vs. Immaterial assets

• Livestock vs. Deadstock

Living Equity

• Measure your wealth in ounces

Living Equity

• Measure your wealth in ounces, acres, and hooves

Invest IN EcosystemsPrinciples of Ecosystem Investing

• Living Equity

INVEST:

Invest IN EcosystemsPrinciples of Ecosystem Investing

• Living Equity

• Permaculture

INVEST:

Invest IN EcosystemsPrinciples of Ecosystem Investing

• Living Equity

• Permaculture

• Eco-Social Entrepreneurs

INVEST:

Ecosystem Investing

• Invest LIKE ecosystems

Invest LIKE EcosystemsPrinciples of Ecosystem Investing

• Diversely - for risk management

INVEST:

Invest LIKE EcosystemsPrinciples of Ecosystem Investing

• Diversely - for risk management

• Intimately - with integrity

INVEST:

Invest LIKE EcosystemsPrinciples of Ecosystem Investing

• Diversely - for risk management

• Intimately - with integrity

• Multi-locally

INVEST:

BooyacacaoJuicy Investment Opportunity 03

Theobroma cacao

• Currency of the Americas

• Money does grow on trees

• “have your chocolate and eat it too”

Multiple cropping

• Resilience in diversity 26%

21%

11%

16%

26%

Cacao CoffeeVanilla Sugar CaneCoconut

Sail Transport

Sail Transport

New York

Nicaragua

8 Forms of Capital

Next StepsFinancial Permaculture Course:

www.financialpermaculture.com

Carbon Farming Course:www.carbonfarmingcourse.com

8 Forms of Capitalwww.appleseedpermaculture.com

What will YOU do?

Financial Permaculture& Ecosystem Investing

Gratitude to: Gregory Landua, www.BooyaCacao.comCatherine Austin Fitts, www.Solari.com

Ben Falk, www.WholeSystemsDesign.com

Ethan C. Roland,www.AppleSeedPermaculture.com

G A I A UNIVERSITY