About Us

We Create Accelerated Solutions

We are an international team of scientists, naturalists, and business people committed to the regeneration of the natural world. We are an open-source non-profit based in Santa Rosa, California, and we harness the emerging technologies of aerial robotics, big data, and seed enhancements to dramatically scale up restoration of priority forestlands, watersheds, and habitats.

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Surveying potential restoration sites in northern Sumatra
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Reforestation in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra

Our Mission: Large-scale Restoration of Priority Ecosystems

Our leadership team represents diverse cultures and worldviews but together we share a passion for a thriving planet. We believe the survival of countless species including our own depends upon our ability to mitigate climate change and transition into a sustainable relationship with the Earth. We are committed to solutions as far-reaching as the challenges we face.

We have agency. We can shape the future.

Our leadership team represents diverse cultures and worldviews but together we share a passion for a thriving planet. We believe the survival of countless species including our own depends upon our ability to mitigate climate change and transition into a sustainable relationship with the Earth. We are committed to solutions as far-reaching as the challenges we face.

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Planning tiger habitat with National Geographic Fellow Rudi Putra
panoramic tropical forest hills
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Linking Global Efforts

As an open-source not-for-profit droneseeding company we are uniquely positioned to make critical field and laboratory contributions to open-source SET and droneseeding knowledge banks. In these efforts we collaborate with leading researchers, renowned research institutions, conservation organizations, and local communities. Virtually all future large-scale restoration will depend on these open sources for their information and resourcing. Our methods, materials, and results, all free, will empower individuals and local organizations anywhere in the world to carry out large-scale restoration in degraded ecosystems near them – whether in Congo, Colombia, or California.

Meet our founder, Alaric

The reason I’m here is the same reason many of you may also be here: a desire to help the planet, save endangered species, and save ourselves.

To meet the challenges we face our responses need to be big enough to restore habitats, watersheds, and ecosystems faster than they’re being destroyed. Given that the scope of destruction is a staggering 40 million trees a day, closing that gap will require an equally epic effort.

The Earth is my Mother. She’s home. Everything I have is made of Her – my body, the air I breathe, food I eat, my clothes, my home, all the people I know, literally everything. I do this work because I want to give back to Her.

Seven years ago megafires burned much of my hometown to the ground. Then it happened again two years later. Being on the front lines of the climate chaos, I searched continually for a way to take action on a larger scale, action that could make a meaningful difference. What I didn’t know at the time was I was looking for something that didn’t exist. But it was about to be born.

2016 was the year the fires came to my town and a new word was coined: megafires. Over the next few years large sections of my small city, Santa Rosa, were reduced to ash. Records were shattered as extreme weather raged all over the globe and Californians realized we were (are) on the front lines of climate change. We began to comprehend the dangers of a warming planet in real time.

A few short years later megastorms are the new normal. This is the beginning. Planetary change and extreme weather phenomena are accelerating. Now humanity as a whole begins to understand the stakes.

With so many species including humans on the brink of extinction and the epic scope of destruction still accelerating, the question boils down to: how can we hope to restore quickly enough the systems that support us?

I’ve been helping to bring droneseeding into existence for seven years and in spite of the urgency there are still only a handful of droneseeding companies in the world. We are not for profit, because we simply want to restore ecosystems, not pay shareholders. To this end we’re also open-source which means we give all our knowledge to benefit others in their efforts to regenerate degraded ecosystems. If you have a restoration idea we will try to help you bring your vision to reality, too.

We’re here to work together because we believe that together is the only way we can reforest the world. There is precious little time and as I mentioned earlier we are far, far behind.

If you are as inspired as we are about the promise and potential of droneseeding —

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Give now to help restore and regreen our planet.
Together is the only way.