Every regenerative project begins by listening.
What is this place already trying to become? That question — held patiently, collectively, with ecological rigor — is the starting point of every Place Fund project.
Every civilization choice is made in a place. Every dollar of capital either regenerates or extracts. The Planetary Regenerative Trust exists because the path forward requires a new operating system for capital itself.
One governed rail. Three sleeves. A Delaware Statutory Trust that makes regeneration financially inevitable.
Every dollar of conventional development capital leaves less life behind. The attention economy, the carbon market, the ESG scorecard — all of them optimize for extraction within a system designed to extract. They call it sustainability. We call it slowing the damage.
The PRT is not a green fund. It is not an impact fund. It is a new operating system — Computer Science 2.0 — that replaces the extraction engine with a regeneration engine at the level of capital structure, governance, and measurement.
"The proper role for humans is to be caretakers of our planetary system. If we address the ecological health of just 3.5% of cities — a tipping point of global transformation becomes possible."
— The Place Fund Impact StatementThe PRT is a Delaware Statutory Trust — the legal architecture that replaces the patchwork of funds, grants, and loans with one integrated balance sheet for regeneration. Philanthropic capital, sovereign capital, family office capital, and institutional capital all enter through the same governed structure and row in the same direction.
The Trust holds all assets centrally, enforces regenerative covenants, calculates dual NAV, manages liquidity windows, and deploys capital only when a place is ready. This is not a fund manager's discretion. It is a system with gates.
Land acquisition, LRLTs, eco-hospitality, regenerative real estate. Primary cash-and-NAV spine. DSCR-based sizing, valuation collar.
Stewardship activities generating verified credits. Only contracted outcomes. 10% community share netted. B-NAV uplift and INAV attribution.
RF4 Food & Forests, Life AI, RCCS technology, Living Building Systems, Regenity. Tech accelerates A and B sleeve performance.
All institutional and family office allocators can take a blended position across all three sleeves. Windowed liquidity.
What is this place already trying to become? That question — held patiently, collectively, with ecological rigor — is the starting point of every Place Fund project.

The PRT runs two parallel valuations. Standard Appraisal NAV for financial reporting. And Impact NAV (INAV) — which recognizes verified improvements across Natural, Human, Social, Built, and Financial Capital as appreciating value in the Trust.
The verification backbone of the PRT. RCCS issues and tracks regenerative credits across the Five Capitals — soil, biodiversity, water, social, and built systems.
Only contracted and verified outcomes are recognized. No pipeline speculation. Credits flow into B-Unit I-NAV only after MRV gates pass and offtake is live. This closes the Goodhart's Law exploit that undermined voluntary carbon markets.
Score a Project with the Five Capitals Engine →The Place Fund leads or co-leads development of innovative real estate projects engaged in a full Regenerative Design, Implementation, and Tracking Process. Capital deploys gradually — readiness-gated, not calendar-gated.
Founder-architect of the regenerative capital ecosystem. Background in AI systems, regenerative real estate, and capital design shaped the PRT as a governed platform rather than another 'green fund.' Founder of Life AI, RDC, and the Planetary Regenerative Trust.
Co-founder of Regenesis Group. 30+ years advancing regenerative development and the Story of Place® framework. Lead developer of the ANSI Standard for Integrative Process v3.0. Guest lecturer at Yale, Harvard, MIT, and 12 other leading universities.
Expert in regenerative education systems and building products. Leads educational development and institutional partnerships. Connects regenerative theory with applied practice — from K-12 through City Planner certification programs.
The Place Fund does not chase SDGs. It creates the conditions from which all SDG outcomes naturally emerge — place by place, capital by capital, one regenerative project at a time.
Regenerative capital — above-market returns through the active regeneration of land, communities, and ecosystems. If this is in your future, we want to hear from you.
Dave Ladouceur · +1 720-401-7165 · [email protected]
Not an offer to sell. Accredited investors only under Reg D 506(c). No guarantee of returns. Target IRR is illustrative only. Entire investment may be lost.