Doing our best and being our best.
We push beyond “responsible” to “radical” in using our business as a force for good, starting with the very structure of our organization.
Reimagining capitalism with a life-affirming ownership model.
Since our founding, we strived to ethically and equitably pursue our mission, but we did so within the limits of a traditional corporate ownership structure. In 2023, we broke through those limits by transitioning to a different type of ownership: a Perpetual Purpose Trust.
A Perpetual Purpose Trust (PPT) is a form of non-charitable trust, where the beneficiary is not a person, but the company’s purpose. Like a benevolent owner who will never retire, die, or take profits out of the business, the PPT owns the company indefinitely, allowing the company to focus on running a healthy, sustainable business that uses profits to further its mission and benefit its stakeholders.
With PPT ownership, Biohabitats can never be bought or sold. We are beholden not to shareholders, but to our purpose:
Restore nature, protect and conserve biodiversity, inspire love for wild places, and generate a financial return on our investment while operating as an authentic representation of our core mission and values.
Different from our mission, our purpose ensures that our strategic initiatives and governance stay on track. Five key Trust objectives guide us in staying true to our purpose:
- Advocate for the innate rights of nature and ecological democracy.
- Undertake work that protects and conserves biodiversity, restores and regenerates natural systems, and rights environmental injustices,
- Cultivate an interdisciplinary team comprised of a balance between the sciences, engineering, design, and construction.
- Be just in compensating all team members, including sharing profits with active stakeholders, nature, and the communities we touch.
- Operate Biohabitats as a learning organization that embraces a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture, supported by self-management, wholeness, and evolutionary purpose.
In Good Company
Our mission to restore the earth and inspire ecological stewardship permeates not only the work we do but the way we operate our business.
Supporting & Amplifying Other Voices
We support initiatives aimed at creating a world of abundant biodiversity, climate resilience, justice, and clean water.
Walking the Talk
Corporate, social, and environmental
responsibility are central to our culture.
