Spaceship Earth DAO

Create a model DAO as a nonprofit that supports projects to buy carbon credits, conserve rainforest habitat and promote social justice.

Environmental and social ethics research and teaching, environmental law, business law, business systems consultant, full stack developer.

The mission of Spaceship Earth project is to launch a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) with three aims:

Enabling: Bringing individuals together to engage in social and environmental conservation and restoration projects

Scaling: Foster effective governance for networks of engaged communities of individuals ranging in size from small to large

Sustaining: Generating sustainable patterns of financial support

The DAO will generate funding to support projects from established environmental and social justice groups including the Sierra Club, Habitat for Humanity, The Heifer Foundation, The Nature Conservancy and Saving the Planet. Individuals who 

The plan for this DAO is modeled on the Cardano Catalyst approach. We propose to revise and redeploy the existing code and replicate the model of building communities of engaged activists. Individuals become members of the DAO by making a tax deductible donation to a project. Any member has the power to create a project. Here are the steps:

Any member of the community can start a proposal.

1. Voting rights are established when donations are committed to a project in a smart contract.

2. Projects receive feedback from the community, and descriptions can be amended in light of comments.

3. Members of the Community fulfill a variety of roles: administrators, moderators, evaluators, etc.

4. Projects move forward when the target amount of funding has been committed.

5. An auditing process is put into place by proposers to track the expenditure of funds and the accomplishments made by the project when it is funded.

We propose to create this DAO as a Wyoming nonprofit LLC. 

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE :

DAVID WATTS, business systems oriented on the problems of blockchain scalability.

JEFFREY DOWNARD, professor at NAU specializing in environmental law and ethics.

TOM DIETRICH, environmental law and policy

Board of Advisors: https://www.keplerscs.com/our-team-1

IP: Open workshop on Zoom in both a live and recorded form. The educational resources will be publicly available via a Youtube channel under copy left permission. The templates will be freely available for developers and dApp users in the Cardano community.

DEFINING SUCCESS:  In this first phase, success consists in the creation of the DAO as an LLC. Revising the Catalyst code available on the Github and deployment of the code on the Cardano system.

TIMELINE & BUDGET:

PHASE 1:

Months 1-3: Creation of the Spaceship Earth DAO as a Wyoming nonprofit LLC, ($2,000)

Creation of website and social media sites for the DAO. ($2500)

Workshop budget for engaged volunteers: ($2000)

Months 2-4: Creation and editing of an integrated set of video tutorials on the use of the DAO to support conservation and social justice projects ($3000)

Months 3-5: 

Revision of the existing Catalyst code available on the Github: ($7000)

Deployment of the Plutus code for the DAO on the Cardano system: ($5000)

Project direction: 15 hours per week for 12 weeks ($4500)

Project participation, oversight and evaluation by members of Board of Advisors months 1-5: ($2,000)

Total: ($28000)

PHASE 2:

Months 6-9: Revise the beta version of the code for the DAO and seek feedback from the initial group of trial users.

PHASE 3:

Months 10-12: Deploy the full version of code for the DAO and grow the SpaceShip Earth community.

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn7mp5BXNH3pWkHtM85Z3rA

www.KeplerSCS.com

See link at the top of the page to the Conference and Workshop website.