Green Projects’ mission is to work in industries that make a difference and “disrupt” the normal consumption model of consumer behavior though market based conservation or “green/sustainable” retail concepts. At first, it seems easy to vilify big companies who produce and sell products we may not need, however, after a bit of reflection it becomes clear who the villain actually is…. It is we, the consumer. As long as we continue to overconsume items we don’t necessarily need, we will continue to further degrade our environment and in fact, “borrow from our children’s future”.
www.consignit.com
Founded in 1982, it has grown to five locations and is the largest chain in Connecticut. Consignment stores offer a unique opportunity for the consumer to avoid participating in the production of new clothing, household goods, art, shoes or other products.
www.infinite-earth.com
www.rimba-raya.com
Rimba Raya protects over 640 square kilometers (250 square miles) of tropical peat forest and forms a vital patrolled buffer zone between the ever-encroaching bulldozers of the palm oil industry and the Tanjung Puting National Park, home to one of the last remaining wild populations of orangutans on earth.
www.veridium.io
The Veridium Ecosystem, built on the STELLAR Blockchain, is a collaborative initiative between a coalition of industry leaders including IBM, EcoSmart Labs, IDEAcarbon, and Everland with IBM providing the token architecture and token interface with its various industry specific Hyperledger Fabric blockchain platforms.
Veridium is creating a tokenized marketplace for natural capital (environmental) assets, beginning with carbon credit assets. By tokenizing carbon credits into fungible assets that have liquidity on an enterprise grade platform, Veridium will bridge multiple liquidity pools: corporate traders & end-users, traditional commodities trading markets and market makers, as well as the cryptocurrency community.
Green Projects was founded by Jim Procanik, who has developed and run businesses in several countries and in several industries but found his true calling while working on the pre-eminent “REDD” project called the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve (www.rimba-raya.com). While with infiniteEARTH (www.infinite-earth.com), the project developer, he saw first hand the struggle that exists between our consumption based economic model and the devastation it often causes in the environment. While working in Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan), he watched as the land was cleared, burned and cultivated for various crops but primarily Oil Palm plantations.
