• Our Team
  • Our Projects
  • Contact
  • H4E Method
  • REGENFT

Hack4Earth 1.0 PROJECTS



Regenerosity



Amanda Joy Ravenhill



To be regenerative is to step beyond sustainability, which aims to preserve what is, and instead restore and replenish even that which is destroyed. The UN has declared the 2020’s the decade of Ecosystem Restoration, and with that in mind, the team at Regenerosity has built a platform and an award system unlike anywhere in the world. Imagine a platform that rewards the whole systems projects with capital, and coaches, and mentors projects that do not pass the bar, giving them another chance. Imagine a world where there aren’t any losers and every project is a winner. This is the world Regenerosity is working to create, and with low operating overhead, it’s a perfect place to make your wealth regenerative and grow a better tomorrow. Join Ecohero Faith Flanigan, Operations Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute in building this tomorrow.



Cooperating Manual for Spaceship
Earth



Faith Flanagan



The Buckminster Fuller Institute (www.bfi.org) is dedicated to accelerating the identification, development, and deployment of strategies that radically advance human well-being as well as the health, resilience, and regeneration of Earth's ecosystems. BFI offers innovative programs that provide comprehensive and anticipatory perspectives on the interconnected challenges and opportunities facing humanity, engaging leading thinkers and practitioners demonstrating whole systems strategies to addressing complex problems, and providing opportunities to design and test those strategies. They are in the beginning stages of building out the Co-operating Manual for Spaceship Earth toolkit/wiki, and want your help designing, architecting and strategizing on how to best maximize engagement once complete.



Sun Geometry



Mark Perlin



SunGeometry is a powerful solar-electric charger that can track the sun throughout the day and trap more solar energy than a conventional solar panel cell. The charger is constructed from small concave parabolic mirrors with tiny high-power solar cells. In direct sunlight, these solar mirrors with the high- efficiency PV cell receivers (already custom packaged and mounted) currently will generate 100% more concentrated solar power from the sun in the same exact area as a conventional solar charging panel. The reflector is more sustainable than a conventional solar panel since it can be produced from recycled plastic with a minimal amount of semiconductor material. It can be used to solar-charged batteries, electric cars, or electric boat motors in just minutes rather than hours.



Regenerate with Hemp



Daniel Enking



The end of 80 years of hemp prohibition in the US can usher in a new age of regeneration, if done correctly. When farmed using regenerative practices, hemp can remediate and regenerate soil, and pull carbon out of the air faster than almost any other plant. Hemp can provide us with food, energy, clothing, medicine, building materials and many other benefits. And when combined with other technologies that mimic natural processes, one hemp farm could support an entire local economy. Team Regenerate with Hemp will demonstrate how to get the most out of hemp cultivation by using regenerative and cradle to cradle techniques and technologies.



BFLO



Amy Seidman



Noble Profit serves as an authentic source to discover and find solutions and investment in impact, clean tech and sustainable business. BFLO™ technology is built to make it easier to track, verify and manage sustainable business and investment data. Their goal is to establish proof of reputation using data validated by trusted third parties. They are building an interoperable blockchain-enabled protocol. The BFLO™ token is initially on Stellar. BFLO technology is being designed with Noble Profit experts to enable efficiency in business that drives sustainability. Amy is going to lead a team to track the natural capital impact from a fortune 500 company's financial statements. She envisions a world where corporate social responsibility reporting is traceable and trackable.



BELLA GAIA



Kenji Williams



Bringing soul and beauty to data. BELLA GAIA is an unprecedented NASA-powered immersive experience, inspired by astronauts who spoke of the life-changing power of seeing the Earth from space. Illuminating the BEAUTY of the planet both natural and cultural (BELLA) and the INTERCONNECTEDNESS of all things on Earth (GAIA), this live concert blends music, dance, technology, and NASA satellite imagery to turn the stage planetary. The Bella Gaia team currently uses planetary scale ata in their artistic portrayal, and are seeking a team to flesh out municipal scale data into their show. If you have a data science background, join one of the most inspiring uses of data on the planet today.



LA Fire Resilience



Joshua Armah



Los Angeles is one of the most dynamic economies on the planet – and home to a singularly diverse and culturally rich community. Thus, as a leading global city, it is imperative that Los Angeles set the precedent for building climate resilience. To this end, an anonymous foundation is embarking on a multi-year effort— aka: The Project--to dramatically accelerate the implementation of climate resilience strategies within the Los Angeles area. While the large majority of local citizens may know that the climate emergency is real and will have significant consequences for generations to come, we are not yet living as if there is an emergency. The team presentation is put on by Joshua Armah, entrepreneur and the lead developer on this team.



Carbon 0



Yeled OMercy



The facts are simple, we are on the verge of a mass extinction crises because of increase of CO2 in our atmosphere. There is a simple solution plants and algae can capture CO2. I started asking myself why am I not planting trees in my spare time? I realized I’m lacking knowledge and a social support structure that makes tree planting fun, and I'm not the only one. But that’s something we can change! ​ What if the 800 million people that downloaded Pokemon go and marched out in the world trying to capture imaginary creatures would play a different game, a game designed to reduce our carbon foot print by cultivating plants and algae and going on other missions? Carbon 0 is an AR location based game with the goal to actually save the plant. Climate change is scary, the best solution is fun!



Safe Organized Spaces



Amy Farah Weiss



“Safe Organized Spaces” (SOS) is a catch-all phrase for community-integrated emergency shelter response that provides people with a place to belong and meet their essential needs in a structured, participatory environment on their path to permanent housing. Amy is working with a team to take their CA code compliant, homeless solution off-grid and further develop a “menu of options” for activating land with SOS Stewardship Villages in urban, wilderness, and agricultural settings. Eco Hero- Amy Farah Weiss - founder of Safe Organized Spaces & Saint Francis Homelessness Challenge We are excited to see what this powerful team builds together. There are people who need places to belong in order to heal and thrive, and there is land in need of proper stewardship in order to heal and thrive—SOS Stewardship Villages seek to connect the dots and scale-up throughout California.



Marine Monitor



Brendan Tougher



Marine Monitor is a lower cost software solution that works with off-the-shelf radars to provide 24/7 situational awareness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Preserving marine protected areas (MPAs) is challenging since poaching and other activities can occur at night, in the early hours of the morning, and far offshore. Marine Monitor (M2) combines commercial-off-the-shelf marine radar hardware with a custom software solution written using open-source tools to track boat activity and illegal fishing in nearshore waters (out to 5 miles) at a fraction of the cost of traditional military-grade systems. The M2 software downloads radar data and mirrors it in a friendly user-interface that can be stored and replayed via the cloud. The M2 software can further improve MPA monitoring with the optional integration of a Automatic Identification System (AIS) sensor and high-definition pan-tilt-zoom video camera.



Gaia Viz



Art Director



New media data visualizations give a new path for easily and intuitively observing the seemingly unobservable. http://gaiaviz.com/



Blacksheep Regenerative Resource
Management



Amanda Wilson



Who said money doesn't grow on trees? Blacksheep is reclaiming global sovereignty from extractive industries and corporations through open-sourced partnership systems built on the regeneration of natural capital. PROCESSING Blacksheep strives to create wholesome products based on market demand. Our raw materials are processed in the most socially, environmentally and financially responsible ways possible.



Each H4E 1.0 vision worked a long weekend in November of 2019 at Google Community Space. Contact us below to reach out to the visionary project leads.


Email: hackforearth@gmail.com
+1 347-460-8856