ReFi Miami is building a public, private and third-sector coalition to realize the vision of a Regenerative Miami by 2050.

Sparked by the community behind SustainaCities and Silvi, Logos Capital and the Miami Government Blockchain Association, the #SaveMiami campaign believes that regenerative finance (“ReFi”) can help #SaveMiami. ReFi Miami is a convergence of thought leaders across technology, science, finance, government, wellness, art, music and education. Our vision is to bring together the right people, tools and capital to help Miami overcome the myriad of challenges facing our wonderful city: climate change, social injustice, biodiversity collapse, AI-risk and more…

We are pioneering the global regenerative movement in Miami as a model for coastal cities around the world. Many years of preparation has been getting us ready for this moment. The moment is now!

Earth Day Kickoff

We kicked off ReFi Miami at Earth Day Climate Collabothon this past April 22 via #SaveMiami organized by Logos Blue Foundation, Sustainacities and partners to start gathering community and bringing awareness to the Global Stocktake and the obstacles and opportunities that exist to regenerate our natural capital assets.

We continued hard at work hacking solutions through the week culminating out best ideas and celebrating with your first ceremonial tree planting party!

The Challenges

As recently as last week flooding in Miami Dade County has brought to all of our attention: Climate and environmental change and its complex web of crisis is real. It is not a distant future. It is facing us now and especially palpable in Miami

• Miami's watershed is being destroyed 💧
• Biscayne Bay is dying ❌
• High temperatures are going up at an alarming rate 🥵
• Farming is destroying land & polluting waters ☠️
• Septic tanks and leaking water lines are polluting our waters
• Real estate developers are encroaching on urban development boundaries

We are now forced to monitor water, air quality & heat data in order to make sense of the rising toxicity and its impact on our environment and our residents. 🤢

Our time is running out ⌛️ With one of the highest property prices in the United States (and in the world), we have a significant cost to inaction, and inadequate action for the climate crisis that is at han

Major Opportunities

The time is ripe for a regenerative village at the heart of the city of Miami. We are gathering the brightest minds and the most value-aligned capital into the work of regeneration. Below is just a list of the amazing initiatives between public, private and third-sector institutions emerging in Miami.

• Miami has adopted a 1 million tree commitment
• Miami-Dade County adopted the Climate Change Action Plan (reduce emissions by 80% by 2050).
• Miami-Dade County founded a Resilience Office to focus on climate change adaptation and disaster preparedness.
• Miami has become a hub for web3, with several major companies setting up shop in the area along with the world’s largest Bitcoin conference
• Miami-based Knight Foundation has committed $10 million to climate solutions in the region.
• Harvard Business School Professors created a case study on Miami as an ideal hub for climate solutions that could be exported to the rest of the world.
• Florida International University (FIU) has a Sea Level Solutions Center that focuses on sea-level rise and resiliency.
• FIU has launched an Environmental Finance & Risk Management Program.
• University of Miami (UM)’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science research climate change and oceanography.
• NOAA has a presence with the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory located on Virginia Key.
• Florida Climate Institute has released “Laying the Groundwork for ‘Getting to Neutral’ in the State of Florida.
• Miami-Dade has the worlds firsts ever Chief Heat Officer
• Miami-Dade County has the first Chief Bay Officer
• Overall, there is a strong interest and growing momentum in the Miami area towards regenerative practices, sustainable and regenerative finance, and the development of web3 ecosystem.

ReFiMiami founding members:

SustainaCities Sustainacities is powering the transition towards the. Netzero economy with its Net ZeroToolkit (“NZ0”).

The NZ0 guides cities, enterprises and residents on a profitable path towards NetZero, including smart cities techn with an environmental focused including Blue and Green economy pillars to help Miami achieve its targets, understand its role in the global value chain and model sustainability for other cities around the world.

To guide the multiple stakeholders on their journey, we created Mia, the Climate Genie, our Chief Climate Officer.

MIA guides users through “ClimaGo” — our “Pokémon Go for Climate” game that immerses users in the MiamiVerse and lets them go out into the real world, and play and scan to learn and earn in an eco-adventure to rediscover your city!

Click here to see what the experience is like! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSC5LWpPIT4 Save Miami ARTREES ZOOM - Powered by Silvi and AR Miami

MiamiVerse

Miami-Verse Project with flood scenario simulations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf3CLN1-Jgg

Logos Blue Economy Foundation

Logos Blue Economy Foundation has organized an OpenCLimate Collabothon innaugurated during 2023 Earth Day, to build local understanding and capacity around Natural Capital Accounting, Nature Based Solutions and economics of Ecosystem Services in an effort to pilot one of the first subnational Blue Bonds in Miami-Dade, complete with Marine Ecosystem Credits like the innovative blue carbon, plastics, eutrophication and biodiversity credits.

You can learn more about these smart blue bonds at www.bluebonds.org

source: Marine Ecosystem Credits, Open Earth Foundation

Silvi Protocol www.twitter.com/silviprotocol Silvi is a reforestation protocol headquartered in Miami. Backed by Celo, Climate Collective, Gitcoin community and Filecoin, Silvi is building financial and coordination tools to help a billion people steward a trillion trees. It has pilots aorund the world including rural Kenya and is now looking to build upon the million tree challenge in Miami via gamified urban forestry experiences in order to grow Miami's tree canopy and tree-dependent lifesupport systems.

ReFiMiami founders:

Silvio Pupo has worked on more than $1B worth of deals, received financing letters from multilaterals for over $400M, and raised more than $10M for fintech startups. Silvio has over 35 portfolio companies as an angel investor, and invested as a limited partner into venture funds. Silvio was a partner for the Americas and LatAm for the first Global Online Security Token Roadshop (“GOIR”) received over has we scaled venture debt after a contract to rollout rewards services for Banks on the VISA Network in Latin America and the Caribbean. Silvio is the founder of impact investment firm www.logoscapital.io, bluebonds.org, Government Blockchain Association of Florida and Sustainable Smart Cities, sustainacities.com

Djimo Serodio has a background in regenerative agriculture, environmental science and citizen science frameworks. He is the founder of: Silvi.Earth - A reforestation protocol and core founding member of ReFiMiami looking to bring citizen-led urban forestry to Miami. JustLearn.io - An Environmental Science EdTech startup serving science to 40k students www.twitter.com/djimoserodio

Katrina Morris has been developing online and helping small to mid-size businesses with their e-commerce sites since 1995. She has recently begun expanding her knowledge base in web3, with an emphasis on ReFi, and completed her first hackathon at ETHDenver, at which her team won a $5000 bounty from DFinity. She has also recently completed a certification course in Sustainable Tourism Destination Management through eCornell. She believes in the potential of web3 for social and ecological good and is onboard to help build healthier ecosystems, for communities and for the environment.

Founding contributors

Paul “Paulsky” Bronstein, Founder, XR Labs https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-bronstein-589132a8/ Storyteller/Futurist/Activist who aims to utilize XR and Emergent Technology too build up a personal and unique technical skillset and access to a network of individuals that emphasize the use of Technology and Art to build up creative XR marketing campaigns and immersive storytelling to enhance products and services.

Lloyd Emelle https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurulloyd

Texan tech genius, transplanted to South Florida. Passionate about life, and transforming communities through government focused technologies for Municipalities. Founded Code for Philly. Lloyd named our Miami Climate Genie, Mia.

Greg Taffet (COO Logos Blue) is currently a mentor and adviser to startup and growth companies. He works with the executive team to provide strategic direction on scalability, digital transformation, technology, and security. He also works with key emerging technologies such as blockchain, and deep learning. He is also actively involved in Coral reef restoration. Greg has produced the CIO track at ITPalooza for 8 years. It is the largest CIO-level invite-only event in South Florida

Priscilla D'Brito, Artist https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscila-d-brito-43706a84 Artists and Founder of Sea Sirens Designs Eco-Design artificial reefs that fosters marine life and coral reproduction through underwater sculptures. We produce high volume artificial reef custom design sculptures for resorts, private islands, commercial and educational projects. We are involved with STEAM education and partners with local marine conservations as well as Universities in South Florida.

Maria Jose Lopez, Admin, Arts, Culture & Movement https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-lopez-4a46221b5 Colombiana en Miami, she makes our Magic City move and shake. Web3 recruiter and early organizer of the #SaveMiami efforts, Maria supports at large with administrative, arts and culture.

Eugene Montoya https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekmontoya

Eugene Montoya joined Wells Fargo’s Sustainability Group in January of 2020 as the company’s first dedicated climate change strategist at a senior enterprise officer level. Since joining, he’s worked steadfastly on the integration of climate-related risk and climate-related opportunity data into various use cases including TCFD reporting, net-zero sectoral target setting and measurement for financial portfolios and creating the company’s first enterprise-scale technology solution for financed emissions. The coupling of net-zero and resilience resonates with his personal mission of climate finance mobilization aimed at meeting various investment objectives for public and private stakeholders. Such objectives include capital preservation, future cost savings, sustained insurability, revenue stabilization and diversification, and triple bottom-line outcomes that stem from climate resilient investing.

Juan Carlos Gallo, AR Miami https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcfractal

Juan Carlos “JCFractal” Gallo, is the founder of ARMiami, and a founding member of XR Miami, a community of developers and creators from South florida. I’m also the Lead AR designer for Before Its Too Late, a nonprofit climate action prototyping lab founded out of MIT to leverage arts & technology to awaken and unite people to take action to solve the climate crisis. Our AR murals and experiences, raising awareness for Climate Change, have been featured in the Miami Herald, PBS News-hour, The New Yorker Magazine, NBC6, DecoDrive, NBC10.

Alfonso "Hupernikites" Guerra, Apokalypse Software Corp. https://www.linkedin.com/in/huperniketes/ Transforming software teams to 10x performance, at higher quality, and out-maneuver their competitors.

Douglas Hardin, Eat Up Inc. Doug is a musician, technologist and mixologist that supports the arts and culture community as part of the genesis of the #SaveMiami team which spun out ReFiMiami. Doug plays annually in NYC during Climate Week for peace and keeps ReFiMiami going forward with inspiration and libations.

Patrick Devany (FIU Student Blockchain Club) Full Stack Developer and Web3 technologist bridging industry initiatives and university talent to catalyze regenerative finance and technology. Regenerative Finance afficionado.

Matt Cyrankiewicz

Matt is a serial entreprener having Founded projects like Future Horizons, Future Quest, and Hoo Koo E Koo and currently wokring on Future Work. Matt has experience in web3 design, strategy and AI and is interested in training AI agents to help deliver on ReFiMiami's objectives.