Ogallala Life

$281.95 crowdfunded from 125 people

$1,675.18 received from matching pools

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Project to rehydrate landscapes and enhance watershed resiliency, with 110 natural infrastructure installations. Aiming to expand pilots, create a learning center, and develop ecocredit technology for scalable regeneration. Needs tech funding support.

Our mission is to empower communities sustained by the high plains aquifer system (major aquifer, the Ogallala) to rehydrate their landscapes, for resiliency, water security, biodiversity & climate.

We launched a limited pilot last year, thanks in part to gitcoin, and installed over 110 instances of natural infrastructure in dryland streams, on 6 different watersheds with differing geological features. Then it dumped rain - a few washed out, we've learned lessons but generally very pleased.

Our objectives are to grow this bioregional pilots portfolio, help cultivate a bioregional learning center and crowdfund and curate foundational funding support. Our leadership is a student of the Design School to Regenerate Earth, and we're using the Bloom Network (see https://bloomnetwork.earth/texaspanhandle).

We have sufficient funding for the landscape rehydration work next winter, on these and different watersheds - some publicly accessible (a huge value add). But we lack funding for the technological work that is needed, that we're uniquely qualified to help build.

We have an ecocredit concept and intentions to build the same using Regen's permissionless ecocredit module. We have an active collaboration with dMeter (4dMRV) and a FOAM pilot IOT mesh which "proves" location. The tech is critically important to scale regen efforts and we humbly request your support, and thanks!

Ogallala Life History

  • accepted into Climate Round 1 year ago. 125 people contributed $282 to the project, and $1,675 of match funding was provided.

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