Carbonland Trust

Carbonland Trust's Forest Conservation Smart Contract and fun blockchain NFT virtual nature preserve game will inspire conservation efforts

Recently won best prototype at a hackathon, just had a meeting with 3 leaders from the USDA who pledged support, and secured forest for MVP

Carbonland Trust has two tokens, a fungible token (CO2) representing co2 sequestered by land in our trust, and non fungible tokens (ACRES) representing a satellite view of actual forest and the attributes of the land in the metadata.

The NFTs will airdrop/produce carbon credits(CO2 Tokens) for the holders of the NFTs.
Also Carbonland Trust NFTs offer timeshare like opportunities for holders of the NFTs to visit the forest land they have helped preserve. And our NFTs will also be used in virtual land where people will be able to play a game similar of Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne.

Like Kickstarter in a way, a land owner decides how much they will take in exchange for putting forest into 100 year trust, and either the total is reached and the land is put into Carbonland Trust, or if it fails and then the landowner could decide if they will take less and accept whatever as been raised during campaign(NFTs sold). If they wont accept less the funds are returned to those that reserved and the landowner can try again in the future if they like.
For Carbonland Trust a decentralized app provides ways we can lower cost for the legal aspects of our land trusts, and provide all stakeholders digital assets(NFTs)(CarbonCredits) that can be confirmed on a blockchain.

It is hard to say for sure but probably millions of people will engage with Carbonland Trust to save forest and offset carbon in the future. Forest preservation is one of the most popular philanthropic and volunteer related causes. And there is a massively growing interest in climate action, co2 sequestration, and carbon credits. If our Land Trust Tiles(NFTs) and CO2 credits(Fungible Token) were native assets on Cardano it would be powerful use case for the ecosystem.

The reason I think we need something like Carbonland Trust is many of the forest conservation and carbon credit programs are not really doing it with the best intentions. Some companies that are getting money for carbon credits like logging company's that plan on cutting down the trees as soon as its marketable timber and only taking part in carbon credits to get money until they do cut down the forest, no plans on protecting the forest longterm.
That is why Carbonland Trust is a 100 year lock period and land management is focused on maintaining those lands with permaculture and regenerative conservation practices.

CO2 rules are already being proposed by governments all over, and the voluntary carbon markets are taking off. And many businesses and people want to do conservation efforts and work towards reducing pollution. And since nations and businesses are already taking upon themselves to make this mainstream, we should be part of those conversations and efforts to use blockchain to make sure at least it really is benefiting people in the longterm and bring transparency to the carbon marketplace.

The carbon credits market and permaculture focused conservation efforts can be something good for us all. And could be a powerful use case for Cardano :)

Please visit the website and see this pitch deck for more info and visit the website
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1moXRsokFs6udwfxeazQ3_pTuNgz6j_CYRapuvisXohk/

Requesting $5000 in Funding as a sign that the Cardano ecosystem wants to see this KIND of use case. The funding will be used to develop a Minimal Viable Product (MVP), developing the native assets and smart contracts for the land trust and NFTs CO2 staking rewards. After we have reached a milestone in development and traction with the MVP we may ask for additional dcfunding to finish building the platform. But, if we can get this MVP launched with the help of dcfund before March, we have a excellent chance at getting a Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) grant from the USDA to complete the whole project, hire a whole team, and market the project.