Transformation

In systems change frameworks, it is the collective paradigm out of which the system itself emerges that determines all other aspects of that system – like a riverbed valley that shapes all falling rain into a predetermined course. In a time between worlds, we aim to seed the grains of a new consciousness, a spiritual transformation, centered on interbeing with the Earth and beyond. To that end we are questioning and supporting how an Earth-centric, animistic worldview may evolve and help a broader public restore wholeness to the non-dual self — one that is informed by ritual, practice, community belonging, reverence, and joy.

Transition

In every investment, we consider whether this approach will steer us towards more profound shifts in socio-political structures and in our relationship with nature. Here, we think in 10+ year horizons and acknowledge our actions may bear fruits in distant times to come; therefore we are impatiently patient, insatiably curious, and zanily experimental in our theses.

Triage

Rapid wins within the current system. The landscape is currently being redefined by new rules of the game – from the growing swell of regulations and disclosures on nature and climate risk, to transparency and accountability mandates, attempts to price the multiple values of nature, and radical experiments with new forms of capital structures and ownership models. We believe that actions taken in the next decade will have significant impact for centuries to come, especially when it comes to the last remaining threads of the Earth’s vital lifelines.

Investments

Naia Trust engages across both return-seeking capital and philanthropy, funding and supporting a synergistic ecosystem of investments across the capital spectrum rather than single point solutions. Our portfolio is nature-oriented by design, grounded in the understanding that natural systems underlie the creation of all value - tangible and intangible.

Our primary focus lies in Latin America, North America and Europe, reflecting deep institutional relationships and our strategic commitment to regions of crucial biodiversity, biocultural richness, and climate systems whose stability carries global significance.

We work across three interconnected dimensions, building from the soil of society up: mindset and consciousness change, living landscapes, and shifting overarching political and economic systems.

We work across three nested scales of change —

Earth-centered
Consciousness

Economic &
Political Systems

Canada
Andes
México

Living
Landscapes

Earth-centered
Consciousness
Economic &
Political Systems
Canada
Andes
México
Living
Landscapes

And we strategize across three complementary timelines —

Transformation

In systems change frameworks, it is the collective paradigm out of which the system itself emerges that determines all other aspects of that system – like a riverbed valley that shapes all falling rain into a predetermined course. In a time between worlds, we aim to seed the grains of a new consciousness, a spiritual transformation, centered on interbeing with the Earth and beyond. To that end we are questioning and supporting how an Earth-centric, animistic worldview may evolve and help a broader public restore wholeness to the non-dual self — one that is informed by ritual, practice, community belonging, reverence, and joy.

Transition

In every investment, we consider whether this approach will steer us towards more profound shifts in socio-political structures and in our relationship with nature. Here, we think in 10+ year horizons and acknowledge our actions may bear fruits in distant times to come; therefore we are impatiently patient, insatiably curious, and zanily experimental in our theses.

Triage

Rapid wins within the current system. The landscape is currently being redefined by new rules of the game – from the growing swell of regulations and disclosures on nature and climate risk, to transparency and accountability mandates, attempts to price the multiple values of nature, and radical experiments with new forms of capital structures and ownership models. We believe that actions taken in the next decade will have significant impact for centuries to come, especially when it comes to the last remaining threads of the Earth’s vital lifelines.

Triage

Triage

Rapid wins within the current system. The landscape is currently being redefined by new rules of the game – from the growing swell of regulations and disclosures on nature and climate risk, to transparency and accountability mandates, attempts to price the multiple values of nature, and radical experiments with new forms of capital structures and ownership models. We believe that actions taken in the next decade will have significant impact for centuries to come, especially when it comes to the last remaining threads of the Earth’s vital lifelines.

Transition

Transition

In every investment, we consider whether this approach will steer us towards more profound shifts in socio-political structures and in our relationship with nature. Here, we think in 10+ year horizons and acknowledge our actions may bear fruits in distant times to come; therefore we are impatiently patient, insatiably curious, and zanily experimental in our theses.

Transformation

Transformation

In systems change frameworks, it is the collective paradigm out of which the system itself emerges that determines all other aspects of that system – like a riverbed valley that shapes all falling rain into a predetermined course. In a time between worlds, we aim to seed the grains of a new consciousness, a spiritual transformation, centered on interbeing with the Earth and beyond. To that end we are questioning and supporting how an Earth-centric, animistic worldview may evolve and help a broader public restore wholeness to the non-dual self — one that is informed by ritual, practice, community belonging, reverence, and joy.

Our Portfolio

Our Portfolio

Economic and Political Systems

Economic and Political Systems

These rules of the game define the norms, incentives and direction of collective life. Without shifting them, other approaches cannot take root or last. We focus on embedding the values of nature into economic decision-making and accountability structures; aligning financial realities with planetary boundaries; and expanding legal systems to recognize and represent natural systems as rights-bearing entities. We also support the advancement of democratic participation, the commons, and the agency of future generations - advancing community-led governance and value from the ground up.

These rules of the game define the norms, incentives and direction of collective life. Without shifting them, other approaches cannot take root or last. We focus on embedding the values of nature into economic decision-making and accountability structures; aligning financial realities with planetary boundaries; and expanding legal systems to recognize and represent natural systems as rights-bearing entities. We also support the advancement of democratic participation, the commons, and the agency of future generations - advancing community-led governance and value from the ground up.

Landbanking Group

Getting nature on the balance sheet

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Earth Law Center

Accelerating the Rights of Nature

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Seed Commons

Non-extractive local loan funding

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Walden Mutual

Banking infrastructure for bioregioning

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SPUN

Myconauts mapping the Earth’s mycobiome

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SEED Biocomplexity

Valuing the complexity of nature

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Earthjustice

Legal support for ecosystems

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Stop Ecocide International

Establishing Ecocide as a global crime

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Town Anywhere

Community visioning and imagination processes

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More-Than-Human Life (MOTH)

Interdisciplinary collective advancing MTH rights and perspectives

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The Bioregional Learning Centre

Bioregional resilience and education

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Future Forests Alliance

Driving private sector investment into forest landscapes

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Aristata Fund II

Impact Litigation Funding

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Living Landscapes

Living Landscapes

We back initiatives that partner with nature to restore life's inherent circularity: redesigning harmful and extractive agricultural systems; rebuilding biodiversity across soils, forests, oceans and landscapes; strengthening local and Indigenous knowledge systems; restoring wildlife connectivity; and developing bioeconomy models that make healthy landscapes more financeable than extraction. We enter into long-term relationships with our key bioregions and support the human systems within them to cohere into a greater whole.

Alongside this, science is increasingly affirming that nature is living and relational. We back ambitious research and technologies that advance new modes of sensing nature's flows - making the ecological backbone of life visible, beautiful, and impossible to ignore.

We back initiatives that partner with nature to restore life's inherent circularity: redesigning harmful and extractive agricultural systems; rebuilding biodiversity across soils, forests, oceans and landscapes; strengthening local and Indigenous knowledge systems; restoring wildlife connectivity; and developing bioeconomy models that make healthy landscapes more financeable than extraction. We enter into long-term relationships with our key bioregions and support the human systems within them to cohere into a greater whole.

Alongside this, science is increasingly affirming that nature is living and relational. We back ambitious research and technologies that advance new modes of sensing nature's flows - making the ecological backbone of life visible, beautiful, and impossible to ignore.

Cairnspring Mills

Rebuilding local food economies

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CO Capital Mexico

Latam impact fund for climate x poverty

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NESsT Lirio Fund

Filling the financing gaps for agroecology

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Highlands Rewilding

Regenerating degraded landscapes

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Ecoenterprises

Funding Latam enterprises for biodiversity

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Steward

Crowdfunding regenerative agriculture

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At One Ventures

Deep tech for nature and climate

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Commonland

Holistic landscape restoration at scale

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EcoTrust Forest Management

Restoration forestry and resilience

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Tompkins Fundacion Rewilding Chile

Wildlands at the edge of the world

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Superorganism

Venture fund for biodiversity

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Alder Point

Climate resilient agriculture and forestry

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Art into Acres

Leveraging art for land protection

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Aquaspark

Healing ocean economies

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Rewilding Europe

Removing dams for rivers to flow free

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Re:wild

Establishing new permanent protected areas

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Raincoast

Protecting species’ rights to live

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Red de Observadores Ciudadanos Baja

Citizen surveillance for Mexican marine parks

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Co-Renewal

Fungi collaborations for wildfire remediation

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Digital Democracy

Co-developing technology with front-line Earth defenders

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Ecoflora Cares

Restoration via forest bio-innovations

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ReGen Ventures

regenerative technologies for nature

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Toroto

High-integrity nature developers in Latam

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Fundacion Jocotoco Ecuador

Protecting & regenerating key Andean landscapes

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Ma Earth

Collective funding for nature

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Amazon Research International

Bees, conservation and legal rights

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SWEN Blue Ocean 2

Ocean Ventures for Regeneration

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Earth Centered Consciousness

Earth Centered Consciousness

We see the disconnection of human consciousness and cultural norms as a root cause of our collapsing social and ecological systems. The extractive logic that is driving breakdown is, at its core, a failure of relationship, meaning and perspective - of how human beings understand their place within the living world.

Embracing genuine stewardship of the Earth asks humans to live as spiritual beings. This requires us to Return to Earth and build Future Architectures: deepening practices of connection and wisdom through ritual, grief tending, celebration, rites of passage, and direct relationship with land and more-than-human life, as well as collectively imagining and embodying new futures through citizen engagement, speculative design, and movement building.

We see the disconnection of human consciousness and cultural norms as a root cause of our collapsing social and ecological systems. The extractive logic that is driving breakdown is, at its core, a failure of relationship, meaning and perspective - of how human beings understand their place within the living world.

Embracing genuine stewardship of the Earth asks humans to live as spiritual beings. This requires us to Return to Earth and build Future Architectures: deepening practices of connection and wisdom through ritual, grief tending, celebration, rites of passage, and direct relationship with land and more-than-human life, as well as collectively imagining and embodying new futures through citizen engagement, speculative design, and movement building.

Global Diversity Foundation

Enabling Global South change makers

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Kincentric Leadership

Leading alongside our more-than-human kin

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Advaya

A transformative education platform

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Marshmallow Laser Feast

Immersive art for ecological consciousness

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Plum Village

Zen Buddhism and climate mindfulness

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The Resilience Project

Building resilience of youth climate leaders

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School of Lost Borders

Vision Quests and Rites of Passage

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One Earth Sangha

Engaged Buddhism on ecological crisis

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Black Mountains College

Higher Education for a changing world

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Animas Valley Institute

Depth Psychology and Nature Centric Education

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Project CETI

AI Decoding Whale Communication

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Wolf Willow Institute

Systems Leadership for transition

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The Real Farming Trust

Listening to the Land

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Empatheatre

Theatre for Participatory Justice

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Thrutopian Project

Prefigurative politics and Thrutopias

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Earth Repair Fund

Media for largescale land restoration projects

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Earthly Education

Mobilising social media for Earth action

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The Centre for Rites of Passage

Mainstreaming Rites of Passage for Youth

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IINÁH Institute

Indigenous Lifeways and Agriculture

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The Center for Wild Spirituality

Ecologizing Faith Practices

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We dream of a human civilisation that has re-established its place as a generative species and that lives in reciprocity with the many lifeforms that are our kin.

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We dream of a human civilisation that has re-established its place as a generative species and that lives in reciprocity with the many lifeforms that are our kin.

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