Building for Nature: The Golden Spike

"Day after day, month after month, we carved through mountains, laid tracks on deserts, and built bridges over rivers, never knowing when the end would come." - A look at what we built in 2024 and BASIN’s role in the climate finance stack.

#reflections#nature#value#infrastructure#risk#resilience

Ensuring Nature's Value

Learn how $ENSURE, the nature-based currency, drives the Ensurance model to protect ecosystems through real asset fundamentals. Explore the Nature Finance Flywheel—ENSURE, ENSURANCE, ENSURED, ENTRUST—and how decentralized finance and blended finance can secure natural capital. Discover how SITUS Protocol is building long-term resilience for ecosystems and the communities that depend on them.

#ensurance#ensure#entrust#resilience#natural-capital

The Nomenclature of a Resilience Hyperstructure

No matter which way I looked at it and approached it, it always came back to the core concepts of stocks and flows, spatial and temporal, and fungible and non-fungible.

#resilience#hyperstructure#nature

Reduce Climate Risk Via Natural Asset Leasing

Wildfires, floods, heatwaves, landslides, and social unrest pose increasing threats to business stability. Put nature on your balance sheet to reduce risk and increase resilience.

#nature lease#climate lease#biodiversity lease#natural assets#risk reduction#resilience

Universal Asset Owners: Dealing With Nature & Climate Risk

A tool to reduce risk and increase resilience across portfolios. One-click investment into natural capital.

#resilience#risk reduction#nature investments#climate investments#biodiversity investments

The Investment Value of Ecosystem Condition

Like it or not, expressing nature value in dollars may be the best indicator. A look at how ecosystem condition affects investment value.

#nature finance#investing in nature#ecosystems#ecological value#ecological indicators#ecosystem condition#natural capital valuation

Beavers As An Investable Asset

Yes, an investable, high value asset. Beavers are the most superior ecosystem engineer. We are Beaver Believers!

#beavers#investable#nature finance#climate finance#nature investments

The Most Undervalued Asset

The RealValue of Natural Capital framework shows us that nature is both undervalued and mispriced. Here are three ways to invest in the most undervalued asset.

#investing in nature#natural capital#ecosystems#core benefits#ensurance#ensure

How to make easy money protecting nature

There are lots of hard ways to make no or very little money protecting and stewarding nature and biodiversity. How about a couple of easy ways?

#nature finance#biodiversity finance#protocol rewards#onchain

"Crypto is a scam" - change my mind

"Crypto" is general catch-all phrase used to bucket a multi-trillion dollar industry into simplistic good v bad framing. The future is onchain.

#thoughts#public goods#onchain#fund what matters

Where In The World Do We Need Nature?

More than half the world lives in cities. They need nature just as much.

#biodiversity#investing in nature#resilience#risk reduction#place

Investing in Nature: Transforming Risk into Resilience

Brands, industries, and businesses are facing unprecedented challenges from climate change to biodiversity loss and the social upheaval surrounding i...

#natural capital#investing in nature#biodiversity investments#risk reduction#resilience

Solving the $1T Biodiversity Funding Gap

The economy is 100% dependent on Nature. It is time to act like it.

#realvalue#biodiversity#climate#finance

LAUNCH: .basin, Building Nature's Balance Sheet

Groundbreaking launch of .basin – the BASIN PROTOCOL redefines how we value and protect nature. BASIN ENSURES the ecology of PLACE, on PURPOSE, by PEOPLE. Claim your .basin now to become a BASIN member and help build nature’s balance sheet.

#announcements#milestones

Investing in Nature: BASIN is now part of TNFD Forum

A nature-positive future requires ecosystem function to be investable, BASIN makes that a reality.

#tnfd#nature positive#natural capital#biodiversity#biocomplexity#ecosystem services

A New Dawn for Elk: Embracing Technology and Investment for Habitat Conservation

Hello Humans, I am Elk, speaking through technology. Who would have thought Elk could share their world, manage their finances and have AUM?

#.basin#elk#rights of nature#locus standi#purpose

Carbon is a co-benefit

Carbon sequestration is only fraction of Nature's Value. It is time for holistic ecosystem valuation.

#impactalpha#ecosystem accounting#natural capital#ecosystem services#esv

🪓 "As Improved"

Who are we to decide and determine that land is "less than" without our intervention and "improvement"? Why is "unimproved" land not called "perfect" and "improved" land called "meddled, tainted or scarred"?

#manifesto

⚡️ Adaptive Capacity

Adaptive Capacity: A system's ability to adjust to climate changes, moderate damages, seize opportunities, and manage impacts.

#manifesto

🛠 The Tools We Have

The right tool for the job is the one at hand.

#manifesto

🏦 Naturalizing Finance

We are not pricing nature, we are valuing Nature.

#manifesto

✚ Accounting For Nature

Pricing what is valuable is the only way to end the nature and biodiversity crisis that is disguised as climate change.

#manifesto

🌌 Security. Not a Security.

Is it a security or not a security? This is the wrong question to be asking. The world has bigger problems. Real problems. Let's talk about security....

#manifesto

🎛️ Buttons, Knobs & Levers

What if solving the climate, nature and social crises was a simple as having a control panel that with a push of a button, turn of a knob or slide of a lever could adjust the inputs and outputs of the system?

#manifesto

🦫 Beavers, Biocrust, Bees & Bogs

When society says plant trees, we say "restore the beavers"! When politicians say "drain the swamp", we say "fill up the bogs"! When Rick Moranis says "Comb the Desert!", we say "don't step on the soil crust!".

#manifesto