In the coming 30 years, 1.5 billion people will lose their homes due to climate disruptions—both first and second order effects. These individuals won’t just need shelters; they will need new homes. Homes that provide stability, dignity, and a foundation for rebuilding their lives. This is not merely about temporary survival, but about creating lasting, resilient communities that can thrive in the face of ongoing climate challenges. The scale of this displacement is immense, and addressing it requires solutions that go beyond short-term relief, focusing instead on sustainable, long-term infrastructure and support for the millions who will be forced to start over.
Project MIRACLE aims to provide the material stack needed to help these displaced individuals build new lives. This solution cannot be rooted in traditional monetary and market systems—it must exist in the commons, offering free support to those who have contributed the least to the polycrisis yet are suffering the most from its effects.
The idea is simple: those most affected by climate disruption deserve access to the resources and tools necessary to rebuild without the barriers of profit-driven systems. Project MIRACLE seeks to ensure that displaced communities are empowered with the materials, knowledge, and support needed to create homes, not just shelters—spaces where they can thrive and build a future with dignity, outside the constraints of market-based solutions.
I must admit, with some embarrassment, that Project MIRACLE is structured as an impact fund. The embarrassment comes from the fact that, no matter how you brand it, a fund is inherently tied to the extractive machinery—you still need to generate returns for your LPs (limited partners), keeping you tethered to the very systems we’re trying to transform. However, at Project MIRACLE, we believe we’ve found a hack to address this.
Our approach at Project MIRACLE is to engage with large pools of liberated capital—such as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and other long-term investors—who have a vested interest in a thriving future for the people they represent. Rather than following a typical profit-driven model, we invite these funds to participate in a framework we call “Exit to Planet.”
In this model, we aim to balance the financial returns expected by LPs and founders while ensuring that life-serving solutions are not locked within the confines of private ownership. The process works by purchasing the intellectual property (IP) of impactful, regenerative innovations, satisfying the financial goals of investors and founders. But instead of monetizing this IP indefinitely, we gift it to the commons—making these critical technologies or solutions freely available to everyone.
This way, the extracted value serves not just the investors but, more importantly, the broader human and ecological community. The “Exit to Planet” strategy allows us to deliver both financial returns and, more significantly, long-term planetary resilience by contributing transformative technologies to the public domain where they can benefit those who need them most.
Right now, we are in the process of setting up the legal structure for the fund, in collaboration with our partner Katapult. We’ve already identified a portfolio of life-serving solutions, and we’re preparing to take the next steps. Toward the end of the year, we will begin inviting LPs (limited partners) to join us in this transformative journey. With the “Exit to Planet” model as our foundation, we’re positioning ourselves to deliver both financial returns and a profound contribution to the commons, ensuring that these impactful solutions can benefit all of humanity.