WHO WE ARE
GAIA FIRST is a non-profit NGO based in Paris, which focuses on tackling environmental issues resulting from human impact.
This will be done through innovative and real approaches.
I, Gianni Valenti, am the founder of GAIA FIRST together with Kristina Vilimaite and Jean-Francois Fortunato. Our strong backgrounds in business management, our beliefs in acting directly to make a positive change and my intense passion for science and innovations, make us the team who will strive constantly not only to make the project a reality, but to optimize time and funds to reach the designated goal.
We will strive to be a key player in a changing society where more focus is placed on the preservation of our environment.
OUR PROJECT
GAIA FIRST's first project aims at raising funds to finance the creation of a ship equipped with field-proven military-grade technology, capable of collecting and converting all the floating wastes of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) into green energy.
This energy will in turn be used to aliment the boat itself so that the processes may continue non-stop 24/7 eliminating all garbage from the patch. The boat will be designed and equipped with a 25 tons per day converter, which will transform 25 tons of mainly plastic wastes per day. Every day. Thus reaching 9 000 tons of garbage eliminated per year.
We aim at reducing the size of the GPGP by 50% in 5 years with just one boat.
This system may also be used to help clean up environmental crises like oil spills and other toxic or non-toxic pollutants. To do this we need to finance several steps of the project and gain participative presence, so that the important donations may also come from leading companies that wish to participate in this world-changing event.
USE OF FUNDS
The tipping point request of 30 000€ will be used to finance the preliminary study and boat design, addressing key circular energy flow requirements as well as to improve the communicative force of the organization. This is the very first essential step before launching advanced studies of the waste to energy converter and its adaptations to marine environments.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
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