{"title": "Earthist - Decentralize Hemp Seeds", "logoImg": "bafkreiboym44w2hqgqhfvsdpfip6cmb2ayt644k3yvvovy5eopjt6k3goa", "website": "https://earthist.notion.site/Earthist-Decentralize-Hemp-Seeds-Gitcoin-Alpha-d48f1494b9a94cfe9cb5d2a23770a63b", "bannerImg": "bafybeifj3geh7cecy4l5s4ns7v4ftxqcnlhrv2g4jqvse477p5pvt3mwty", "createdAt": 1673615408391, "userGithub": "berksohto", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..hlB3KDxi3_ot6rb-C12i-ZMVsTpsGFoSy1Wf3b-CETK9RVCyEvkFsKPoX4llTzB0dMNWg27zKEvUCa7qZO6qBQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-01-13T12:54:10.458Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-01-13T12:54:10.457Z", "expirationDate": "2023-04-13T12:54:10.457Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x5076f87610Ff3D5f859d562a050Dae82F6b3C63e", "hash": "v0.0.0:2Cthi9WcTWSalkOJYZCfyBDvF5HRFG2xHtj9mvjS0vQ=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#earthistdao"}}}, "description": "❗Problem Statement\n \nThe financial and political incentives to fight climate change, soil degradation and systemic degeneration are insufficient to mitigate and reverse the risks we face as humanity.\n\n📃Our Proposal\n\n🟢Why?\nToday, most commercial seeds available in the market are bound to intellectual property rights – the majority being owned by an oligopoly that is slowly becoming the owner of our food chain. \n\n🟢What?\nHemp is an ancient plant that has been used for around 10.000 years, and one of our most powerful instruments for producing positive socio-ecological impacts. It has an extensive application range in various industries such as food, textile, construction and many more.\nDespite such functionality, the highly centralized ownership structure makes it harder to experiment with hemp and adopt sustainable & regenerative business practices with it.\n\n🟢How?\n🌱Earthist considers heirloom seeds as public goods. We aim to protect nature’s legacy and transfer it to future generations without degeneration. We work for sustainable land regeneration at scale through hemp farming and aim to incentivize small/family farmers to adopt decentralized MRV technologies for positive ecological impact while producing carbon-conscious raw materials.\n \n🪄Since GR 13:\n✅We have found and collected four different types of lost heirloom cannabis seeds from across the country and have safely stored them in our seed bank.\n✅Over 6.250.000 seeds were successfully planted and harvested by farmers in five different regions through our network.\n✅We have given away 70% of our hemp seed related products as a gift to the community in order to improve health and raise awareness about regenerative hemp farming and heirloom seeds.\n✅Collaborating with amazing climate projects such as dMRV Network, Atlantis and Digital Gaia (Augmented collective intelligence to integrate real-world data with natural models to continuously evaluate real global impact, using seeds as an ancient tool for cybernetic communication)\n🌱We’ve invested in mechanization and bought a hemp seed dehulling machine to make the first local hemp hearts from heirloom seeds. \n🌱 We have opened a Gitcoin community-supported \"Everything-Hemp-Store\" in Istanbul 💚 Thanks to this, we will also have a small space for 9-10 people to host hemp and regeneration-related workshops.\n\n➡️Next\nGitcoin Alpha Round 💚\n\nThe number of local farmers in the country by the end of 2021 was 512.000 as opposed to 1.122.000 in 2011. Moreover, with inadequate political and economic decisions given by the government, inflation rates in the country have risen to 181%. \nThere is a bottleneck between farmers and the market as a result of the lack of investment and equipment in our sector.\nAs Earthists: \n🟢We have to be the market makers, farmers, producers, subject experts and consciousness changers all at the same time. This is not an easy task though!\nNow, \n🟢We need to improve our machinery to accelerate the production of hemp goods. In this way, we can show the proven value and amazing potential of the nonpsychoactive variety of the cannabis plant with more than 96 different hemp-based products. All made by Earthists for health, cosmetics, textile, paper, construction etc.\n🟢This is an amazing opportunity to show people that they can eat it, drink it, read it, tie it, wear it and live in it all while rapidly generating the soil and protecting the climate with your support! \n💜Hemp is hope and a vital part of the solution to today’s problems!\nThank you for your support.\n\nAll previous Gitcoin round supporters are invited to the store to pick up a free Earthist Garden Hemp Seed Oil by displaying their POAP!\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "earthistdao"}