Showcase how you and yours have made life better in ways that can work for others. Join a KiniCo or, if nothing fits, make your own. Earth Returns will help you get set and keep your ground.
If you hold a place that is genuinely improving — a river returning, a coast holding, a soil deepening, a community keeping Country — there may be a KiniCo in it. A KiniCo is a company built around your verified improvement, structured so its value returns to you and funds the work to continue. Here is what it takes.
Not every good deed becomes a KiniCo. Feasibility rests on whether the work can be verified, consented, structured and packaged to deliver a product or service on commercial, profitable terms without extracting anything from the improvement you made. These are the foundations we look for — and help you build.
There are many ways to meet the requirements. Indicate interest to deep dive with us.
We meet your work where it is. A Proven Improvement Evaluation recognises what has been done and where, who did it and why, and how durable the evidence is.
We structure a KiniCo sized to your work — a special-purpose entity, not a forced template — and define how its verified value can be realised.
A defined share of realised value returns to the Improvers and funds the continuing work. Return is both monetary, and a returning to place.
Where the model holds, it travels — into new catchments, coasts and communities — adapting to each. Replicate, not repeat.
In very promising KiniCo opportunities, the Earth Returns Living Economy Fund LP will consider seed-funding KiniCos to get them from concept to turn-key operational. An investment is most likely where a proposal shows the following — alongside the six foundations above.
A baseline of improvement work that either has PIE Points or is ready to be evaluated. Sometimes the path is clear enough to begin support to secure PIE Points.
A structure where the people doing the work clearly benefit — durable, legible, and proportionate to their contribution.
Licencees, buyers of products or services, organisations that can reduce costs and share a portion of the savings all provide revenue for KiniCos to work. Clear commercial partners need not be signed up but must be identifiable. Banks, insurers, governments, multilaterals or any participant with a lasting reason to value this improvement, not a passing one.
Duration, spread and recognition that give the evidence depth and resilience — a KiniWeave made of PIE Points and Capability verification that holds under scrutiny and retains real value over time.
A model that can be carried into adjacent places and communities, multiplying return without diluting integrity.
Work that strengthens, rather than substitutes for, the ecological and social systems it depends on.
A person will read your expression of interest and respond. If there is a KiniCo in your work, we will help you build it from the foundations up.
Earth Returns Pty Ltd · Noosaville, Queensland
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