What is $Earth ?

It is a digital currency backed purely by climate solutions, ecosystem services and solarpunk values.

Our goal is to -

• Mobilize over $ 5 Trillion/yr for the next 30 yrs to provide primary finance to projects in clean energy, regenerative agriculture, clean transport , ecosystem conservation and solarpunk sanctuaries that will build the necessary infrastructure for a net zero world.

• Appropriately value natural ecosystems and their services while creating a monetary system that is backed by climate/ecology positive projects.

• Seed the Solarpunk paradigm

$Earth has been designed to make this happen by -

• Incentivizing users to purge their petro $$$ to mint $Earth directly at the protocol and use those $$$ to fund projects in renewables, permaculture, Ev charging stations, electric buses/trains , ecosystem conservation/regeneration, agroforestry, energy storage, eco-villages etc

• Inherently ascribing value to ecosystem services created by the projects we fund, by selling $Earth at a premium to the $ value of projects in the neoliberal world. $Earth acts as a unit of account for the $ value of the projects in our treasury + potential yields these projects will generate and the positive externalities created by these projects ( healthy soil, carbon sequestration, clean air, biodiversity etc)

• Creating utility for $Earth by creating a network of regenerative/solarpunk merchants who are willing to provide their goods and services in exchange of $Earth.

For our pilot round, $Earth treasury will be funding the following projects -

1.Syntropic Coconut farm in Dominican Republic from Kokonnut Network

2.69 kWp Solar Energy in Mexico from Helios

3.Coffee production in Brazil from EthicHub

4.Eco village in Lisbon from Traditional Dream Factory

You can get more information on these projects here - https://solarpunkdao.earth/projects

With $EARTH one of our key goals is to put the value of Ecology in Economy.

We want to embedd the value of positive externalities that are created in the form of ecosystem services such as -

1. Clean Air
2. Healthy Soil
3. Carbon Sequestration
4. Increase in Biodiversity
5. Nutrient Density of Food
6. Clean Water

As of now there no clear methods to quantify the above impact metrics for the projects we fund.

Hence we are looking to use hypercerts to get the projects we fund to mint hypercert for each of the impact metrics they are creating.

Further we take these hypercerts as proof of impact created by the projects funded and place them in our treasury to show how we are putting the value of Ecology in Economy via $EARTH