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1. Ecosystem Investing:
Building Natural Capital
Young Farmers Conference 2009
Ethan C. Roland, Gratitude to:
www.AppleSeedPermaculture.com Gregory Landua, www.BooyaCacao.com
Catherine Austin Fitts, www.Solari.com
Ben Falk, www.WholeSystemsDesign.com

2. Overview
Global Challenges,
Personal Solutions
Farms as Ecosystem
Securities Investing

3. Global Challenges

4. Peak Petroleum

5. Peak Petroleum
"Energy experts no longer debate about whether Hubbert's
peak will occur, but when"
- Fox News, April 28 2006
Global Peaks US Prices
Source: Wikipedia

6. The Hirsch Report
• World oil peaking is going to happen, and will likely be
“abrupt and revolutionary”.
• Oil peaking will adversely affect global economies,
particularly those most dependent on oil.
• Effective mitigation will be dependent on the
implementation of mega-projects and mega-changes at
the maximum possible rate.
• Government intervention will be required, but
economic upheaval is not inevitable.
• Scenarios: 0, 10, 20 years before peak.

7. Climate Chaos
50 million climate change refugees by 2010 - UN

8. The Guardian (UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/
aug/06/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange
James Randerson reports the 4ºC rise warning from UK’s chief
scientific adviser Bob Watson

9. Food Insecurity
“...an impending crisis of soaring food prices...” - UN/FAO ISFP

10. Blood Boils
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009
• Climate has been a major driver of armed
conflict in Africa
• Future warming is likely to increase the number
of deaths from war
• Strife arises when the food supply is scarce in
warm conditions
• 400,000 extra deaths in African conflicts by 2030
• Human costs are likely to be staggering

11. 2004
Climate
Chaos

12. Hardiness Zones
www.arborday.org
Hardiness Zone

13. BioDevastation
• Welcome to “6X”

14. BioDevastation
• Welcome to “6X”

15. “Financial
Turmoil”
[From Chris Martenson,
TheEndofMoney.com:]
“Here's my very direct
and simple thought: The
US dollar is toast...
"What exactly is the long-term
direction of a currency that is
backed by defective loans,
unsaleable assets, and positions in
failed companies?"
“...the stage is now set for
a major dollar collapse.”

16. Purchasing Power
www.zerohedge.com &
Wall Street Journal - http://su.pr/2CDeqk

17. Geography of a Recession

18. Investing in the US Dollar

19. Investing in the US Dollar
Warfare

20. Investing in the US Dollar
Economic Warfare

21. Investing in the US Dollar
Economic Warfare
Tapeworm Economics

22. Investing in the US Dollar
Economic Warfare
Tapeworm Economics
Infinite Growth

23. Permaculture
“The Problem
is the Solution”
- Bill Mollison

24. The Permaculture Pie
carbon economic
natural farming
capital relocalization community
landscape currencies renewable
re-patterning energy
natural ecological
building agriculture
food
green forestry
architecture
biological “waste”
rainwater &
management &
greywater re-use
ubiquitous vibrant local bioremediation
food production culture

25. Permaculture:
the harmonious integration of landscape and people, providing their
food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs, in a
sustainable way

26. Permaculture:
meeting human needs while
increasing ecosystem health

27. Integrative Design

29. Permaculture Design =

30. Permaculture Design =
Regenerative Design

31. Permaculture Design =
Regenerative Design
Ethics of Permaculture
1. Earth Care

32. Permaculture Design =
Regenerative Design
Ethics of Permaculture
1. Earth Care
2. People Care

33. Permaculture Design =
Regenerative Design
Ethics of Permaculture
1. Earth Care
2. People Care
3. Resource Share

34. Permaculture Design =
Regenerative Design
Ethics of Permaculture
1. Earth Care
2. People Care
3. Resource Share

35. Permaculture Design =
Regenerative Design
Ethics of Permaculture
1. Earth Care
2. People Care
3. Resource Share

36. Permaculture Design =
Regenerative Design
Ethics of Permaculture
1. Earth Care
2. People Care
3. Resource Share

37. Permaculture Design =
Regenerative Design
Ethics of Permaculture
1. Earth Care
2. People Care
3. Resource Share

38. Permaculture Design =
Regenerative Design
Ethics of Permaculture
1. Earth Care
2. People Care
3. Resource Share
Developed in 1980’s, over 1,000,000 people certified, active in 140+ Countries, more than 4,000 projects on the ground

40. Global Challenges
Investing in the US Dollar
Economic Warfare
Tapeworm Economics
Infinite Growth

41. Personal Solutions

42. Personal Solutions

43. Personal Solutions
• Local Banking

44. Personal Solutions
• Local Banking
• Family, Friends, and Debt

45. Personal Solutions
• Local Banking
• Family, Friends, and Debt
• Your Money or Your Life

46. Personal Solutions
• Local Banking
• Family, Friends, and Debt
• Your Money or Your Life
• Partnership in Hand

47. Personal Solutions
• Local Banking
• Family, Friends, and Debt
• Your Money or Your Life
• Partnership in Hand
• Kiva.org

48. Personal Solutions
• Local Banking
• Family, Friends, and Debt
• Your Money or Your Life
• Partnership in Hand
• Kiva.org
• Solari Circles

49. Overview
Global Challenges,
Personal Solutions
Farms as Ecosystem
Securities Investing

50. Financial Permaculture

51. Financial Permaculture
• Ecology & Economy

52. Financial Permaculture
• Ecology & Economy
• Ecosystem Mimicry

53. Financial Permaculture
• Ecology & Economy
• Ecosystem Mimicry
Think like a forest

54. Financial Permaculture
• Ecology & Economy
• Ecosystem Mimicry
Think like a forest: Invest

55. Six Kinds of Capital

56. Total Economic Return

57. Total Economic Return
=
Return to Investor

58. Total Economic Return
=
Return to Investor
+

59. Total Economic Return
=
Return to Investor
+
Return to Community

60. Total Economic Return
=
Return to Investor
+
Return to Community
+

61. Total Economic Return
=
Return to Investor
+
Return to Community
+
Return to Ecosystem

62. Highway 2.0
Juicy Investment Opportunity 01
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP80j_mz4Jo
www.WholeSystemsDesign.com

63. Living Equity
• Hot investment tip:

64. Living Equity
• Hot investment tip: stock

65. Living Equity
• Hot investment tip: Livestock

66. Living Equity
• Tangible vs. Immaterial assets
• Livestock vs. Deadstock

67. Living Equity
• Measure your wealth in ounces

68. Living Equity
• Measure your wealth in ounces,
acres, and hooves

69. PermEstate
Juicy Investment Opportunity 02
• Invest in tangible & regenerative assets

70. PermEstate

71. PermEstate

72. PermEstate

73. PermEstate

74. PermEstate

75. PermEstate

76. PermEstate

78. PermEstate

80. Ecosystem Investing

81. Ecosystem Investing
• Invest IN ecosystems

82. Ecosystem Investing
• Invest LIKE ecosystems

83. Invest LIKE Ecosystems
Principles of Ecosystem Investing
INVEST:
• Living Equity

84. Invest LIKE Ecosystems
Principles of Ecosystem Investing
INVEST:
• Living Equity
• Diversely - for risk management

85. Invest LIKE Ecosystems
Principles of Ecosystem Investing
INVEST:
• Living Equity
• Diversely - for risk management
• Intimately - with integrity

86. Invest LIKE Ecosystems
Principles of Ecosystem Investing
INVEST:
• Living Equity
• Diversely - for risk management
• Intimately - with integrity
• Multi-locally

87. Summary

88. Booyacacao
Juicy Investment Opportunity 03

91. Multiple Yield Horizons
Cacao & Perrennial Polyculture
Carbon Offsets
Conservation Grants

92. Booyacacao
Juicy Investment Opportunity 03
• “European Climate Exchange Foresees
Carbon Trade Doubling”
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/05/12/european-climate-exchange-
foresees-carbon-trade-doubling/

94. Ecosystem services
• Funding for conservation projects
• “protect the hotspots and the rest will follow”

96. Theobroma cacao
• Currency of the Americas
• Money does grow on trees
• “have your chocolate and eat it too”

98. Multiple cropping
Cacao Coffee
Vanilla Sugar Cane
Coconut
• Resilience in diversity 26% 26%
16%
21%
11%

100. Sail Transport

101. Sail Transport
New York
Nicaragua

103. Summary

104. Overview
Global Challenges,
Personal Solutions
Farms as Ecosystem
Securities Investing

105. Farms as Securities
• What makes your farm investable?
• Goals
• Niche Analysis (6 Kinds of Capital)
• Total Economic Return
• Investors

106. Next Steps
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107. Living Equity Forum
• Solari - Catherine Austin Fitts
• Slow Money - Woody Tasch
• Complementary Currencies - Margrit
Kennedy + Jean-Francois Noubel
• Land Trusts - E.F. Schumacher Society
• NewSeed Advisors - Janine Yorio

108. Carbon
Farming
• August 25 -
September 16th.
• The Farm,
Summertown, TN

110. Carbon
Farming
• August 25 -
September 16th.
• The Farm,
Summertown, TN
• Next one in
Hudson Valley?

111. Gaia Northeast
www.gaiauniversity.org

112. What will YOU do?

113. Invest!
• Local Banks, Kiva, Solari Circles
• Support Local Ecosocial entreprenuers!
• Booyacacao - Carbon negative chocolate
• PermEstate - AppleSeed Permaculture

114. Ecosystem Investing:
Building Natural Capital
Young Farmers Conference 2009
Ethan C. Roland, Gratitude to:
www.AppleSeedPermaculture.com Gregory Landua, www.BooyaCacao.com
Catherine Austin Fitts, www.Solari.com
Ben Falk, www.WholeSystemsDesign.com