Applying stewardship models to create a new asset class.
Through Local Regenerative Land Trusts and VLAS — verified ecological and social gains become finance-grade assets, priced with the same rigor as any security.
Three unit classes. One trust.
A Delaware Statutory Trust that issues A, B and C units under one covenant — so philanthropic, public and private capital row in the same boat. The Place Fund is its land lane.
Real assets — Land & infrastructure
Land, districts, and regenerative infrastructure held through Local Regenerative Land Trusts. Asset-backed security and yield. This is the Place Fund.
Stewardship — Stewardship & credits
Verified ecological and social outcomes, priced through VLAS and issued as Planetary Regenerative Credits. Impact capital as catalyst, not donation.
Enablers — Technology & education
The platforms, data and learning that scale and sustain regeneration — the Life AI operating system, training, and circular-materials systems.
Local Regenerative Land Trusts.
A mission-locked entity that holds land to safeguard its regenerative capacity. Crucially, within an LRLT stewardship becomes Net Operating Income. Before vertical construction begins, the trust generates Phase-2 Yield from regenerative operations — renewable energy, agroforestry, verified credits. As regenerative capacity rises, the site’s productive value and appraisal rise with it. The LRLT banks regeneration as growth.
I
Readiness
Story of Place and ecological baseline established; the LRLT covenant set before capital enters.
II
Stewardship
Phase-2 yield from regenerative operations — energy, agroforestry, credits — becomes net operating income.
III
Activation
Vertical build-out and enterprise advance only as verified milestones are met.
IV
Return
Conversion at fair market value into compounding trust units; windowed liquidity for redemptions.
The modeler runs these readiness gates against a real 15-year capital scenario — open the interactive Project Modeler →
The Regenerative Capital Credit System.
If the LRLT anchors value on the balance sheet, VLAS is how regenerative performance is quantified, verified, and priced over time — the open standard for recognizing living-systems improvement as finance-grade value. It converts verified improvement across the Five Capitals into auditable financial assets — Verified Living Assets (VLAs).
Uniquely registered
Each verified result is issued as a VLA, registered to prevent double-counting — with the same registries and data integrity expected of traditional securities.
Community-first
Every VLA carries a minimum 10% community dividend, distributed locally before any investor allocation.
Prudent by default
Credits are recognized only when contracted or offtaken, and discounted for uncertainty or non-permanence to ensure prudence.
The formula itself manufactures quality.
Qi,t = ΔI × vα × aβ × P × S × (1 − U)
Measure. Verify. Issue. Trade. Reinvest.
Nine ways a place earns.
Regenerative Agriculture
$2.5–8k/acre/yr
Regenerative Grazing
$20–35/AUM/mo
Agroforestry & Silvopasture
$3–10k/acre/yr
Solar Arrays
$500–1,500/acre/yr
Carbon Credits
$5–25/tCO₂e
Water Credits & Storage
$100–1,000/acre-ft
Biodiversity Stewardship
$200–1,000/acre/yr
Land-Based Education
$150–400/person-day
Regenerative Hubs
$120–300 ADR
Doing good is doing well — stewardship is both the source and the measure of durable return.
Safety by design.
Cross-Capital Non-Fungibility
A gain in one capital never masks a loss in another — natural, human, social, built, and financial performance are scored and reported separately, never netted into one number.
Auditable Governance Gates
Every readiness-gate transition is recorded with the evidence that justified it, so a reviewer — investor, community steward, or regulator — can retrace exactly why capital was released.
Windowed Liquidity
Redemptions open on a defined schedule tied to verified milestones, not on demand — protecting the trust's stewardship obligations from a run on capital.
Mission-locked, before capital.
Every place enters under a covenant held by the Trust and rooted in its Story of Place — and at least 10% of all verified credit value is reserved for community benefit before any investor profit is distributed.