Who We Are
Bank of Nature is part environmental philosophy, part finance reform, part fiduciary law innovation and part economic transformation — pointed at the “Untaken Safer Alternative Path”.
The engine is fiduciary finance and the trillion-dollar aggregated savings designed to deliver a dignified future.
The vision is long-horizon climate security and all the social benefits that cascade from that.
- Can nature be a bank?
- What gets us to endgame sustainability?
- Is government the last line of defense?
- What operates at the scale of climate?
- What is the pension promise, and how does it affect all 8B of us?
The creation of history’s first planet-scale proxy for nature is the channel for that stewardship with the single focus: Address planet-scale crises regardless of a growth motive. This site is full of big ideas. We hope you engage with them.
Bank of Nature is a program of Cape Cod Center for Sustainability, a 501c not-for-profit social enterprise based in Provincetown, MA USA. We use transdisciplinary experts in substantive collaboration to innovate new ideas that challenge conventional practices.
We are not yet a bank and offer no banking services.
Mission/
Vision
To envision a successful climate endgame with today’s existing financial tools that puts substantive forward momentum toward climate security and an economy that accounts for nature as an investor.
Theory
of Change
Humans can define the Anthropocene by revising their exceptionalism narrative to include paying nature for climate security. “If we win, nature wins more.” Public trusts can be climate heroes and economics that accounts for nature can drive an interactive, rather than extractive, partnership with nature.
A Work
in Progress
We welcome contributions, suggestions, challenges and advice as we move through this design phase and get ready to meet the world. We’re expanding our global community and ask that you join us in executing on this metaphor as a real world solution.
Support
our work
Bank of Nature is a program of Cape Cod Center for Sustainability, a 501c3 nonprofit in Provincetown, MA and can accept donations and generate tax receipts. Please consider a donation.
"We’re designing a safer alternative path through nature-building financial stewardship and a new economic human-nature partnership
Our cofounders
Tim MacDonald
Bank of Nature Design Co-Lead
Tim is a lawyer, philosopher and Fierce Financial Theorist who brings to the Bank of Nature project much critical and creative new thinking about Money, Finance, Fiduciary Duty, and especially the fiduciary duties of intergenerational loyalty and prudence of the Fiduciary Owners of society’s shared savings aggregated into Pensions and Endowments to programmatically provide certainty against certain of life’s future financial uncertainties.
Ian Edwards
Bank of Nature Design Co-Lead
Ian Edwards is the founder of Bank of Nature, executive director of Cape Cod Center for Sustainable and also founder of Broto: Art-Climate-Science. He has an MBA in sustainability and a career as a journalist and sustainability consultant. He is a fellow of Arizona State University's Center for Science and Imagination.
Bank of Nature is The Untaken Safer Alternative, the next last line of defense in the climate impasse and a strategy to reengage fiduciary values in an economy that takes care of the future. We invite contributions that make connections, improve our plan and move it forward.