The Climate Tech Innovation Initiative

Heal the Planet with Democratic Innovation

1. The Vision

What We're Creating:

Not Silicon Valley 2.0—Something Better:

We're taking:

• ✅ Best of Startup Culture: Speed, creativity, experimentation, and scrappiness
• ✅ Best of Public Science: Peer review, open sharing, and mission-driven

While eliminating:

• ❌ VC Extraction: No equity theft, no exponential growth pressure
• ❌ Patent Hoarding: All innovations public commons
• ❌ Profit-over-Planet: Success = ecological impact, not exit valuations
• ❌ White Tech Bro Monopoly: BIPOC, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, disability, and women-led ideas are prioritized

The Model: Publicly-funded climate tech incubators that give grants, not equity investments to teams developing breakthrough ecological restoration technologies.