Emergent wayfinding
for a flourishing planet
We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused and effective teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.
How We Work
Labs bring together diverse disciplinary expertise and deep local knowledge to chart novel, powerfully incentivized pathways to regeneration.
MicroLabs are light, quick, and iterative. They take a few months to deliver their first output and then wrap-up or adapt.
Projects launch out of Labs when CE is uniquely positioned to pursue newly discovered and especially promising pathways.
Projects

Global Forests

CE’s CFW Lab identified places in which rich and diverse water forest ecosystems could thrive in present and future of climate conditions. We are working with underserved communities in the American Southeast to regenerate wetland forests, leveraging the ecosystem’s abundant benefits to help promote both ecological and socio-economic flourishing.

Bison

In close partnership with the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and Mad Agriculture, we are creating a compelling demonstration of the positive ecological and economic potential of well-managed herds of buffalo to support regenerating resilient grasslands in the Great Plains and beyond.

Projects

Active

Bison

In close partnership with the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and Mad Agriculture, we are creating a compelling demonstration of the positive ecological and economic potential of well-managed herds of buffalo to support regeneration of resilient grasslands in the Great Plains.

Active

Forested Wetlands

Guided by the mapping work initiated in CE’s CFW Lab, we are now working with communities in the American Southeast to regenerate wetland forests, leveraging this distinctive ecosystem’s abundant benefits to promote both ecological and socio-economic flourishing.

Enrolling

Forested Wetlands

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Labs

Active

Aicacia
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We are creating a tool that will leverage automation, data, and AI to gather and synthesize available reforestation knowledge from vetted sources, making high-quality information on best practices more readily available to practitioners.

Active

Beaver
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We are using computer vision to spot beaver dams in satellite imagery, which will help generate a large dataset. That data will then be used to train models that will project the ecological effects of a dam at any point on a waterway. The goal is to create a tool to guide beaver reintroduction and restoration.

Active

Ganges
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We are mapping and analyzing a key feature of the Ganges basin—naalas—to understand how new forms of green infrastructure, such as parks, bioswales, and bioremediation, can rejuvenate this vital and sacred river.

Active

Global Forests
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We have developed a method for analysing multiple datasets from NASA and ESA to estimate historical rates of forest regrowth after disturbance, and to forecast regrowth in the future. We are using the method to assess the impacts of disturbance and climate change on resilience.

Concluded

Assisted Forest Regeneration

To accelerate global progress toward best practices for carbon capture and biodiversity recovery, we gathered a large team of community-scientists to perform a multi-lingual lit review, focusing on sources underrepresented in academic literature.

Concluded

Bison
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Focusing on the lands of the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative, we used remote sensing to investigate the distinctive effects of bison grazing on grassland productivity and resilience. The lab accelerated and scaled into a CE project.

Concluded

Coastal Forested
Wetlands

We used remote sensing and machine learning to discover where coastal forested wetland exist, where they may be reintroduced, and which communities may benefit the most from restoring them.

Enrolling

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Microlabs

Concluded

AFR Ideas
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CE’s Assisted Forest Regeneration Lab gathered and organized little-known but potentially useful knowledge about reforestation techniques. To accelerate not only their work, but also that of other researchers, we made smart improvements to widely used AI-driven lit-review software.

Concluded

Sift
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We designed a workspace for ecological practitioners that collates essential resources and tools.

Enrolling

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