Tag Archive: land development

A Model for Profiting from the Land

How do you build a sustainable, profitable land development company.   It almost sounds counter intuitive, but it is not.  If you can harness the land for all its potential layered revenue streams, and do so in an additive, regenerative, or restorative way, then you have capability of creating a long term asset that can profit and last for many generations to come.

Those revenue streams from any large tract of land are numerous, but also distinctly defined by the geography and the land itself.  Each large landscape is unique.  The potential revenue sources can come from energy (wind, water, sun, biomass, geothermal); timber, agriculture, water, carbon credits, eco-tourism, Bio diversity,  and sustainable real estate development.   But this not all that is needed.  It is the practice how you systemically deploy each of these practices sustainably, layer on the  potential revenue streams, and engage the community with the land.  This is more important than each individual revenue opportunity.   Taking a holistic and systematic approach to integrating all the different ideas is essential to the success of the sustainability and profit of the land.

BioLogical Capital is creating a new model for large landscape development in the most profitable and sustainable fashion.  It is firms like this that will lead the way to a better future for people integrating with the land.  We need to develop business models of scale that show the way to sustainable living profitably.

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My Personal Revelation

Almost two years ago I took my family to Africa, to Tanzania into the Serengeti.  We camped (English style) for almost 3 weeks in three different places and occasionally stayed in rustic  beautiful lodges.

When we were out camping and exploring as far as 60 miles around each camping area, we saw incredible wildlife. Beautiful spacious wilderness,  and almost never another car nor person except for the occasional Maasai.   Yet at meals and over the camp fire at night, our guides talked of how spoiled and diminished this land was becoming.  How in a few short years or maybe as long as ten it will be ruined by development.    How much of the bush or savanna was being used and sectioned off confining the animals to smaller and smaller spaces;  and how this was causing great stress and reduction of the number of large and small game alike.  It seemed improbably or impossible that so beautiful, and plentiful land was in jeopardy. Yet they were remorseful of what has happened and what was to come.

When we returned to California, we wondered if they thought Africa was spoiled, what have we done to our land, and what are we continuing to do to it.  Things have to change and soon.   I declared to my family that we will all be involved in an effort to help save or restore our immediate and more global environment.  It is with this startling insight that we are investing  both our free time and capital to help create a more sustainable future.

 

 

 

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