organisation
Proofing Future:
Bridging People + Ideas
founder
Sebastian Klemm
offering
Are you working on solutions for Climate Action, Social Justice or Tech for Good?
What support can your organisation & project use at the moment?
We are open for opportunities to support you with our communications platform & networking talent.
Brief us in the contact form & we will send you a calendar for your scheduling selection to a Discovery Call.
opportunities to connect
I am seeking to build strategic alliances to implement a normalized circular economy approach in Costa Rica by boosting the local economy.
opportunities to connect
Interested in sustainability related fields,
looking for potential synergies between the expertise on the Proofing Future platform
and further project developments.
opportunities to connect
We strive to support the development of research capacity in communities through software,
hardware, and training. Specifically, we want to help turn citizens into researchers,
researchers into community leaders, and communities into solvers.
opportunities to connect
I am seeking to connect with individuals of diverse backgrounds to research, develop and implement principles of organization design conducive to scaling autonomous, purpose-driven collectives.
opportunities to connect
I am looking to make connections with other like minded professionals & companies in the sustainability space. I also believe it would be useful to make connections with others who run small businesses so that we can share best practices and challenges, even if we may not be working in the same field.
“Our Sci aims to equip small farmers with the analytical tools and scientific understanding that are used by big agriculture corporations, but are prohibitively expensive for individuals. The affordable Reflectometer as a tool can empower individuals and communities to better understand their land, how different farming practices can affect it and can give them the knowledge to advocate for themselves at a regional or policy level,” says Ria Hawthorn, Assistant Curator of the 27th Ljubljana Biennial of Design, in our interview.
“At CarboFarm, we want to deliver token economics in such a way that there will be an incentive for the farmer aside from certificates. At CarboFarm, we value the cobenefits of carbon farming. SoilStack is a very good starting point in that it helps us bridge the information gap between companies, which is needed in order to say to a soil sampler ‘Please, do that field on this day. These are the sampling points, and please be very precise by following the SoilStack procedure.’ This is a deciding factor for us to get accurate measurements that we can rely on,” details Stefan Fölser, cofounder of CarboFarm in our interview.
Get to know international organisations that foster data literacy & open source technologies, transparent financial structures for nonprofits, innovation in public administrations and methods to engage those underrepresented and least heard in societal affairs.
“SoilStack is designed to help anyone who is collecting a high density of soil samples at pre-determined locations. That primarily includes anyone attempting to do ecosystem service or carbon accounting for markets and researchers evaluating soil carbon at the landscape scale,” says Dan TerAvest, cofounder of Our Sci.
”With Beneficial Bio our mission is to provide locally manufactured reagents to make sure that our local researchers get what they need faster and cheaper. That involves distributing manufacturing, because that is the only way that we can overcome the shipping and importation and customs barriers that really add to the time and the cost of those reagents. That is really where we are using SurveyStack in our mission to provide reagents quicker and cheaper, but also high quality,” says Dr. Jenny Molloy of Beneficial Bio.
“The great potential with SurveyStack is really to allow for the aggregation of data without commodification. We can aggregate without losing resolution, sovereignty and control over data. We can aggregate without losing attribution and that is a really powerful pathway, because of what it allows us to do,” says Dr. Dorn Cox, project lead and founder of Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management – OpenTEAM.
“SurveyStack has now become this amazing, deeply thought Open Source framework for interoperable data. Through SurveyStack we are able to say with confidence ‘Yes, those quote unquote regenerative practices do connect with increased soil carbon as well as do connect with nutrient levels in food being increased’,” says Dan Kittredge, Founder and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association.
“Most data collection software is built to serve the desires of the person who built the survey. SurveyStack is built to serve the community collecting the data. In our agricultural applications, we have learned that there is immense value and a strong need for judgement free, transparent, effective tools for producers to benchmark their operations with their peers,” says Greg Austic, Cofounder of Our Sci.
