Environmental and Ecosystem Grants
Tools and Technology Projects
As part of our Ecosystems and Agriculture Programs
Good Ancestor maintains a Vermont Research Farm where we
- Do prototyping for our Eco-Endowment
- Perform basic research on polyculture and regenerative agriculture
- Have made an experimental food forest
- Have created a novel geothermal greenhouse prototype
- Look at automation techniques: Agriculture in the AI Era
We work with Open Source Ecology, which develops an self-contained ecosystem of tools needed to build a civilization, and the Open Building Institute, which prototypes modular open source eco-compatibile housing and have a research farm and industrial shop in northern Missouri.
We also have The Archive a digital sovereignty toolkit for aspirational "game-b" futurist homesteaders.
Research Grantmaking
- We made an eco-focused collaboration grant for Open Source Urban Housing for the Caribbean using Roman inspired design
- We provided a research grant to Growbot founder James Brake to study automated growing systems, and research for space travel with accelerated plant growth in a pressure vessel, mimicking the fast growth environment of the high pressure atmosphere during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
- We have provided a research grant to All-Fed, regarding food system resiliency.
- We developed a collaborative research grant for heat tolerant seagrass to address climate susceptible species which are keystones of marine ecosystems, fix 10% of global carbon and are the climate change susceptible.
- We are also performing wildlife tracking research with our Emergency Communication Satellite project.
Ecosystems Grantmaking
We also are beginning to perform grantmaking and research around globally critical ecosystems. Below are some organizations we made small grants to recently.
Land Ecosystems
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Ocean Ecosystems
Vizzuality
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