Description
ReFi Miami is building a public, private and third-sector coalition to realize the vision of a Regenerative Miami by 2050.
Sparked by the community behind #SaveMiami and SilviProtocol, ReFi Miami is a convergence of thought leaders across technology, science, finance, government, wellness, art, music and education. Our vision is to bring together the right people, tools and capital to help Miami overcome the myriad of challenges facing our wonderful city: climate change, social injustice, biodiversity collapse, AI-risk and more…
We see ourselves as a pioneer of the global regenerative movement and as a model for coastal cities around the world. Many years of preparation has been getting us ready for this moment.
The moment is now!
We are kicking off ReFi Miami at an Earth Day Climate Collabothon on April 22 via #SaveMiami organized by Logos Blue Foundation, Sustainacities and partners.
The Challenges
As recently as last week flooding in Miami Dade County has brought to all of our attention: Climate and environmental change and its complex web of crisis is real. It is not a distant future. It is facing us now and especially palpable in Miami
- Miami's watershed is being destroyed 💧
- Biscayne Bay is dying ❌
- High temperatures are going up at an alarming rate 🥵
- Farming is destroying land & polluting waters ☠️
We are now forced to monitor air quality & heat data in order to make sense of the rising toxicity and it’s impact on our environment and our residents. 🤢
Our time is running out ⌛️
With one of the highest property prices in the United States (and in the world), we have a significant cost to inaction, and inadequate action for the climate crisis that is at han
Major Opportunities
The time is ripe for a regenerative village at the heart of the city of Miami. We are gathering the brightest minds and the most value-aligned capital into the work of regeneration.
Below is just a list of the amazing innititaitves between public, private and third-sector institutions emerging in Miami.
- Miami has adopted a 1 million tree commitment
- Miami-Dade County adopted the Climate Change Action Plan (reduce emissions by 80% by 2050).
- Miami-Dade County founded a Resilience Office to focus on climate change adaptation and disaster preparedness.
- Miami has become a hub for web3, with several major companies setting up shop in the area along with the world’s largest Bitcoin conference
- Miami-based Knight Foundation has committed $10 million to climate solutions in the region.
- Harvard Business School Professors created a case study on Miami as an ideal hub for climate solutions that could be exported to the rest of the world.
- Florida International University (FIU) has a Sea Level Solutions Center that focuses on sea-level rise and resiliency.
- University of Miami (UM)’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researces climate change and oceanography.
- NOAA has a presence with the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory located on Virginia Key.
Overall, there is a strong interest and growing momentum in the Miami area towards regenerative practices, sustainable and regenerative finance, and the development of web3/crypto ecosystem.
ReFiMiami founding members:
Logos Foundation:
Sustainacities Net Zero Tool kit across Blue and Green economy pillars will help Miami achieve its targets, understand its role in the global value chain and model sustainability for other cities aorund the world.
Logos Foudnation has organized an OpenCLimate Collabothon innaugurated during 2023 Earth Day
Silvi Protocol
www.twitter.com/silviprotocol
Silvi is a reforestation protocol headquartered in Miami. Backed by Celo, Climate Collective, Gitcoin community and Filecoin, Silvi is building financial and coordination tools to help a billion people steward a trillion trees. It has pilots aorund the world including rural Kenya and is now looking to build upon the million tree challenge in Miami via gamified urban forestry experiences in order to grow Miami's tree canopy and tree-dependent lifesupport systems
ReFiMiami founders:
Silvio Pupo has worked on more than $1B worth of deals, received financing letters from multilaterals for over $400M, and raised more than $10M for fintech startups. Silvio has over 35 portfolio companies as an angel investor, and invested as a limited partner into venture funds. Silvio was a partner for the Americas and LatAm for the first Global Online Security Token Roadshop (“GOIR”) received over has we scaled venture debt after a contract to rollout rewards services for Banks on the VISA Network in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Djimo Serodio has a background in regenerative agiculture, environmental science and citizen science framewowrks. He is the founder of:
Silvi.Earth - A reforestation protocol and core founding member of ReFiMiami looking to bring citizen-led urban forestry to Miami.
JustLearn.io - An Environmental Science EdTech startup serving science to 40k students
www.twitter.com/djimoserodio
Katrina Morris has been developing online and helping small to mid-size businesses with their e-commerce sites since 1995. She has recently begun expanding her knlowedgebase in web3, with an emphasis on ReFi, and completed her first hackathon at ETHDenver, at which her team won a $5000 bounty from DFinity. She believes in the potential of web3 for social and ecological good and is onboard to help build healthier ecosystems, for communities and for the environment.
Founding contributors
Matt Cyrankiewicz
Matt is a serial entreprener having Founded projects like Future Horizons, Future Quest, and Hoo Koo E Koo and currently wokring on Future Work. Matt has experience in web3 design, strategy and AI and is interested in training AI agents to help deliver on ReFiMiami's objectives
Greg Taffet (COO Logos Blue) is currently a mentor and adviser to startup and growth companies. He works with the executive team to provide strategic direction on scalability, digital transformation, technology, and security. He also works with key emerging technologies such as blockchain, and deep learning. He is also actively involved in Coral reef restoration. Greg has produced the CIO track at ITPalooza for 8 years. It is the largest CIO-level invite-only event in South Florida
Angel Lacret is a computer engineer. +16 Years of experience designing and developing large scalable cloud, IoT, mobile, web and web3 applications.Passionate about Low code technologies, Cloud-based services, Web3, and connected hardware. Worked across Healthcare, Banking, Big Data, Logistics and Transportation, Hospitality, Retailing and Productivity.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alacret/
http://github.com/alacret
Patrick Devany (FIU Student Blockchain Club) Full Stack Developer and Web3 technologist bridging industry initiatives and university talent to catalyze regenerative finance and technology.
Priscilla De'Brito https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscila-d-brito-43706a84
Maria Lopez https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-lopez-4a46221b5
Eugene Montoya https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekmontoya
Lloyd Emelle https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurulloyd
Daniel Kleinman (Blue Economy)
Sergio Martel