Búan_fund is at its core a web of attestations tied together in a legal agreement which enables stewards to commit to fulfilling warranties and claim funds that can be used to optimise their properties for biodiversity.
We are currently seeding property areas with funding from local businesses who pay a platform fee to us and also fill the funding pool. In return they get to demonstrate to their customers how they are contributing to nature restoration - an alignment that is increasingly important to demonstrate to customers and employees. The platform fee is twenty percent of the total and split three ways. After covering for operating and setup expenses, a third of the money goes into an auxiliary fund to support community projects, and a fund for Búan to acquire land for conservation in perpetuity which landowners can also choose to be part of.
The five areas we are starting out with have been carefully chosen for their proximity to existing areas of conservation that are under threat by the expansion of commercial forestry and over grazing that tend to concentrate themselves along the peripheries of protected areas where the soil is rich with peat that makes the ground extremely fertile. We also selected wetland areas that have been allowed to regenerate over several decades already and demonstrated how unique they are in the data we have gathered.
Speaking of data - we aren't just making things up, all information comes from open sources that you can interrogate by having a chat with Debi our LLM that aggregates everything from official publications and makes them accessible. Everything is area specific so you can ask it what species are found, what's the ecological value of this place, why is it worth conserving, what are some priority species that can be optimised for on this upland property area etc.
The foundation of the stewardship agreement for all properties covers the removal of invasive species, exclusion of browser species to allow for natural regeneration where appropriate and commitment to increasing biomass across the property covered.
The traditional view of land is static—a folio number in a registry. We are recreating conservation worthy areas as dynamic, data-driven self sovereign funding entities optimising themselves for biodiversity in perpetuity.
The start of the year is going to be very busy - we will be getting funding applications in for a totally new 'branch' of the project - the establishment of a forest factory, a really pioneering idea to solve the problem of establishing forests in areas that otherwise wouldn't be possible due to pressure from browser species.
It will also see the launch of our website, a huge amount of progress has been made. You'll still need to have an access key to get through to the main part of the website for the moment. You can now at least register your interest, sorry for leaving this out before, I know some of you were disappointed not to be able to peak behind the curtain yet, just looking at the logs of everyone who tried. The first phase of the launch has already started; as mentioned above we are onboarding the first tranche of businesses to add funds to the project areas that stewards can stream funding from.
The areas selected cover a wide range of warranties from conservation of low lying wetlands to upland commonages and valleys. There are those that focus on species such as the conservation of Marsh Fritillary Butterfly or the management of particularly thick coverings of Rhododendron. We are prioritise working with private landowners rather as that is where we see the most impact from supporting more autonomous actions. Landowners that have already received help from other organisations are encouraged to make attestations and get funding streamed to them.
As mentioned earlier on in this article the basic stewardship agreement is a web of attestations committing to identity and some essential tenets of maintaining and improving the ecological well being of the property. Every steward agrees to creating the right circumstances for rewilding as a base case scenario - this means removing invasive species, keeping pressure from browser species to a minimum and creating the right conditions for expansion of biomass. Most importantly we seek to ensure that properties in our network are maintained in to the future by asking landowners to opt in to buyout clauses which will ensure that their properties are forever part of a network which conserves them.
For businesses purchasing the living tokens generated we provide transparent proofs of contributions for customers to look at and assure them that the businesses they are choosing to frequent have contributed in a meaningful way to the conservation and expansion of biodiversity in Ireland.
The more community participation there is the faster the funds will flow, so if a steward gets a neighbouring property to also attest to their ability to fulfil warranties then that results in more funding being streamed to them. The more evidence there is also contributes to how much funding will flow.
In this way we want to create these living tokens whos stakeholders include the businesses contributing, their customers, the stewards and Búan_fund itself.
This is a protocol for natural agency of environmentally important assets with stewardship taking a leading role for autonomously funding its own improvement. Irish ecology can in this way hold its own identity and fund its own survival.
Don’t think that you are making eternal things; they will end up becoming obsolete … ask yourself: what will remain?
Nicolas Masson
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From the minds that brought you - none of that nonsense, we bring you something better. With a collection of reservoirs for biodiversity throughout Ireland that serve as the basis for premium, better designed ITMO that actually work to mitigate climate change by making it more viable for landowners to do the right thing. With the transparency that blockchain technology provides we can scale the route to market for climate solutions that previously would never have been funded. Búan enables th...
B Ú A NNatures bonding curve
Effectively incentivising landscape level improvements means creating markets to tackle problems. Programmable money helps to create more complex, conditional markets that can avoid the pitfalls of the measurement problem. Using machine learning enables objective analysis of habitats and avoiding corrupt data can be helped by diversifying the kinds of information the system takes into account. Before we even get to creating a market for what we are tokenising we are first of all ensuring that...
B Ú A NWet Wetland
Made a flying visit down to Kerry to see the plot in the winter time. Leaving at seven in the morning from Dublin Heuston we took the train down to Killarney and drove through the National Park to Sneem. Everything was draped in a thick blanket of fog, so thick we did not even see the property or any of the landscape at all on the first day. The air was full of water, drenching everything growing through it, really showing us how wet this place could be. Exploring the plot was a challenge giv...
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Búan_fund is at its core a web of attestations tied together in a legal agreement which enables stewards to commit to fulfilling warranties and claim funds that can be used to optimise their properties for biodiversity.
We are currently seeding property areas with funding from local businesses who pay a platform fee to us and also fill the funding pool. In return they get to demonstrate to their customers how they are contributing to nature restoration - an alignment that is increasingly important to demonstrate to customers and employees. The platform fee is twenty percent of the total and split three ways. After covering for operating and setup expenses, a third of the money goes into an auxiliary fund to support community projects, and a fund for Búan to acquire land for conservation in perpetuity which landowners can also choose to be part of.
The five areas we are starting out with have been carefully chosen for their proximity to existing areas of conservation that are under threat by the expansion of commercial forestry and over grazing that tend to concentrate themselves along the peripheries of protected areas where the soil is rich with peat that makes the ground extremely fertile. We also selected wetland areas that have been allowed to regenerate over several decades already and demonstrated how unique they are in the data we have gathered.
Speaking of data - we aren't just making things up, all information comes from open sources that you can interrogate by having a chat with Debi our LLM that aggregates everything from official publications and makes them accessible. Everything is area specific so you can ask it what species are found, what's the ecological value of this place, why is it worth conserving, what are some priority species that can be optimised for on this upland property area etc.
The foundation of the stewardship agreement for all properties covers the removal of invasive species, exclusion of browser species to allow for natural regeneration where appropriate and commitment to increasing biomass across the property covered.
The traditional view of land is static—a folio number in a registry. We are recreating conservation worthy areas as dynamic, data-driven self sovereign funding entities optimising themselves for biodiversity in perpetuity.
The start of the year is going to be very busy - we will be getting funding applications in for a totally new 'branch' of the project - the establishment of a forest factory, a really pioneering idea to solve the problem of establishing forests in areas that otherwise wouldn't be possible due to pressure from browser species.
It will also see the launch of our website, a huge amount of progress has been made. You'll still need to have an access key to get through to the main part of the website for the moment. You can now at least register your interest, sorry for leaving this out before, I know some of you were disappointed not to be able to peak behind the curtain yet, just looking at the logs of everyone who tried. The first phase of the launch has already started; as mentioned above we are onboarding the first tranche of businesses to add funds to the project areas that stewards can stream funding from.
The areas selected cover a wide range of warranties from conservation of low lying wetlands to upland commonages and valleys. There are those that focus on species such as the conservation of Marsh Fritillary Butterfly or the management of particularly thick coverings of Rhododendron. We are prioritise working with private landowners rather as that is where we see the most impact from supporting more autonomous actions. Landowners that have already received help from other organisations are encouraged to make attestations and get funding streamed to them.
As mentioned earlier on in this article the basic stewardship agreement is a web of attestations committing to identity and some essential tenets of maintaining and improving the ecological well being of the property. Every steward agrees to creating the right circumstances for rewilding as a base case scenario - this means removing invasive species, keeping pressure from browser species to a minimum and creating the right conditions for expansion of biomass. Most importantly we seek to ensure that properties in our network are maintained in to the future by asking landowners to opt in to buyout clauses which will ensure that their properties are forever part of a network which conserves them.
For businesses purchasing the living tokens generated we provide transparent proofs of contributions for customers to look at and assure them that the businesses they are choosing to frequent have contributed in a meaningful way to the conservation and expansion of biodiversity in Ireland.
The more community participation there is the faster the funds will flow, so if a steward gets a neighbouring property to also attest to their ability to fulfil warranties then that results in more funding being streamed to them. The more evidence there is also contributes to how much funding will flow.
In this way we want to create these living tokens whos stakeholders include the businesses contributing, their customers, the stewards and Búan_fund itself.
This is a protocol for natural agency of environmentally important assets with stewardship taking a leading role for autonomously funding its own improvement. Irish ecology can in this way hold its own identity and fund its own survival.
Don’t think that you are making eternal things; they will end up becoming obsolete … ask yourself: what will remain?
Nicolas Masson
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Optimising for biodiversity in perpetuity.
B Ú A NInternationally transferrable mitigation outcomes
From the minds that brought you - none of that nonsense, we bring you something better. With a collection of reservoirs for biodiversity throughout Ireland that serve as the basis for premium, better designed ITMO that actually work to mitigate climate change by making it more viable for landowners to do the right thing. With the transparency that blockchain technology provides we can scale the route to market for climate solutions that previously would never have been funded. Búan enables th...
B Ú A NNatures bonding curve
Effectively incentivising landscape level improvements means creating markets to tackle problems. Programmable money helps to create more complex, conditional markets that can avoid the pitfalls of the measurement problem. Using machine learning enables objective analysis of habitats and avoiding corrupt data can be helped by diversifying the kinds of information the system takes into account. Before we even get to creating a market for what we are tokenising we are first of all ensuring that...
B Ú A NWet Wetland
Made a flying visit down to Kerry to see the plot in the winter time. Leaving at seven in the morning from Dublin Heuston we took the train down to Killarney and drove through the National Park to Sneem. Everything was draped in a thick blanket of fog, so thick we did not even see the property or any of the landscape at all on the first day. The air was full of water, drenching everything growing through it, really showing us how wet this place could be. Exploring the plot was a challenge giv...
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