Preemptive Nonviolent War to Save Our Environment

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Justin The Magnificent will Purchase a tract of land in the Pacific Northwest
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If we reach exactly 100,000 people, then we will Contribute Investment in a REIT

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Having just begun reading “Valuing Ecosystem Services,” a publication by the National Research Council, I have not yet gained an understanding of the proper/conventional methods for evaluating ecosystem service values. I have long considered it an interesting proposition to measure the value of carbon sequestration in forests, currently being unsustainably logged, add these and other measurable values, and construct REITs to exploit economic opportunity more accurately determined through what I recently heard William McDonaugh (?) describe as Triple Top Line analysis. This could conceivably also take the form of carbon offset nonprofit(s) that purchased lands from the selling entities for the cost of timber rights.

The lands mentioned in a recent article (“Let’s Face the Real Costs of Logging” The Register-Guard Monday January 28, 2008 by Bill Barton) include 600,000 acres of Pacific Northwest in Lane county owned by big t Read More

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Justin Lowell-Bellew started this discussion on Feb 16, 2008

Having just begun reading “Valuing Ecosystem Services,” a publication by the National Research Council, I have not yet gained an understanding of the proper/conventional methods for evaluating ecosystem service values. I have long considered it an interesting proposition to measure the value of carbon sequestration in forests, currently being unsustainably logged, add these and other measurable values, and construct REITs to exploit economic opportunity more accurately determined through what I recently heard William McDonaugh (?) describe as Triple Top Line analysis. This could conceivably also take the form of carbon offset nonprofit(s) that purchased lands from the selling entities for the cost of timber rights.

The lands mentioned in a recent article (“Let’s Face the Real Costs of Logging” The Register-Guard Monday January 28, 2008 by Bill Barton) include 600,000 acres of Pacific Northwest in Lane county owned by big timber interests and taxed at an average rate of $3.40 per acre. This means that the ongoing costs must be offset by income from the land if the venture is to be thrivable, to use a term coined by a friend: Jean Russell, in favor of something more hopeful than the now cliché ‘sustainable’. Annual revenues or non-profit input must be $2,040,000. By the time this venture is constructed, I anticipate that $1,020,000 is a more reasonable goal:
-Much of what remains is likely to have been logged by the time we ‘get there’
-From a real estate economics perspective, I imagine that there will be push-back as the goal is neared, and that acquiring more than 50% of the current parcels would attract undue attention and invite unwelcome pricing implications as big timber began to perceive a market shift. It seems to me that it would be wise to acquire large, contiguous parcels from major shareowners for this purpose.

There are certainly other large carbon sinks and ecosystems which may sequester more carbon per time/cost than the forests of the pacific northwest. Carbon sequestration is not the only service/value provided by this land. Having traveled in this area, I can speak to the devastating impacts of clear-cutting. Carbon offsets are gaining popularity and are better understood that other, more obscure ecosystem values. Timberlands, or lands owned by big timber interests, however, are, by their namesake, immediately threatened. This helps add urgency to this particular cause.

It certainly does not preclude the creation of other REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) from being developed in other regions, where ecosystem services may represent an equally or more compelling incentive to invest.

I will add detail and make changes as appropriate over the course of approaching our goal and will make appropriate adjustments to the Campaign.

As an next steps, I would like to propose motions* of:
1) selecting a tract(s) of land
2) measuring the cost
3) measuring the ecosystem services provided
4) calculating 3 minus 2
5) if 4 is positive, determining realistic yields on a REIT
6) if 4 is negative, determining ways to compensate appropriate entities for preservation of the land
7) publishing results and details
8) propagating 7 for replication

*I’m not yet sure how to initiate a Motion in The Point’s system…

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Justin Lowell-Bellew started this discussion on Feb 16, 2008

Don’t be bashful - this is a good place for comments and no one likes to be the first one, so I’ll blaze the virgin powder and dirty the place up a bit so you feel more at ease ;)

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