Our Projects

  • Climate change has changed the way we live, and that change will accelerate. WUB is the result of our initial look into mass produced manufactured housing solutions - because you can’t live without water. Climate change is forcing people to live in more arid areas (less water) or water saturated areas (such as Florida) where ground water and septic systems both fail. WUB is built around the idea that the best way to “get water” is to reuse what you have, and the best way to deal with septic is to recycle it. The company has more than 5 products targeting the need for mobile water solutions for emergency housing ($4BN year), people who live in their vans (5.5M and rising), and homelessness. The industrial line targets wastewater control and recycling for the food production industry (39,000 factories in North America). WUB makes a line of self recycling sinks, showers, and zero discharge septic systems. Live anywhere, work anywhere, and reuse and reduce your environmental footprint; unicorn potential.

  • FIT: Water scarcity, water mobility, climate crises housing, water reuse, septic control, homelessness

    STAGE: 3 Products at release, 4 in pipeline to release within a year, patents

    STATUS: At incorporation, raising $12m USD

    www.wub.one

WUB | Water Used Better

  • WaterPlantir is a serialized above ground drop in septic system that completely disrupts the entire way we deal with residential and commercial septic systems. For the last 2000 years all septic systems are “custom” and designed by an engineer for you home or business, submitted for approval, built to a custom plan. This process creates massive time and cost wastage. Instead, the WaterPlantir is pre-made and shipped ready-to-use. Just hook it in and it works turning a 3-6 month process into 3 hours. Best of all, serialized production means there is little need to submit “custom plans” because it is now a pre-approved septic appliance. Additionally, it operates in less than 2% of the traditional footprint saving valuable real estate. Water that exits the system is good enough to be reused inside the home (regulations permitting), negating the need for a freshwater source, or can be used for landscaping. A true game changer - and is now a required solution in California, New York, Florida. Backed by The National Research Council of Canada, this truly holds unicorn potential.

  • FIT: Sea level rise, climate induced septic failure (flood, storm), water scarcity, water mobility, climate crises housing, water reuse, septic control

    STAGE: Field testing for certifications, patents filed

    STATUS: Soon to incorporate, raise

    waterplantir.com

WaterPlantir

  • Forestry certification is essentially a complete failure and “greenwashing” on a massive scale. The reasons are legion but the short answer is that it’s very easy to game the certification schemes, and that they don’t address the issue but offer a “feel good” solution for buyers. Timber Neutral changes the entire dynamic by shifting sustainability from the supplier (who has no interest in being sustainable) to the end user (who is interested). Timber Neutral is a software that analyzes your building construction and calculates how many trees were cut down to create the structure by reverse engineering the build. Builders, owners, renters can then have a definitive answer as to what their carbon cost was in terms of trees used (this includes form work and wood that often doesn't even make it into the building) and timber offset options are presented. Best of all, you don’t have to replant “like for like” but can replace one tree for an endangered one to maximize your positive environmental impact. Costs are very low - actually LOWER than utilizing “certified” timber and now you can definitively know for certain that your environmental timber footprint is zero. Additionally, as an extra user enticement, users could actually offset and make a financial return on their offset - meaning that it paid to use the system. This program was developed and field tested (full test from user to field planting) in 2007, was deemed too early for market and held until the market and climate change realities caught up to this future learning program. Unicorn potential.

  • FIT: Carbon offsets, timber offsets, timber certification, climate mitigation, decentralized authority

    STAGE: Field tested

    STATUS: Incorporated, raising

Timber Neutral

  • Humans created climate change in order to make themselves extinct. Not happy with the slow progress they invented “crypto currency”, just to waste more resources and speed along humanity's death. Tally stick is an asset backed Crypto that actually mitigates climate change making the world better, not worse.

    A tally stick was the world’s longest used form of currency and the origin of the stock market and the term “short end of the stick.” It was also an unforgeable debt instrument. You might not know of tally stick but it was the origin of the world of finance and its return is overdue. Unicorn potential, stable, and won't destroy the planet.

  • FIT: Climate change mitigation, crypto currency, environmental remediation

    STAGE: In development

    STATUS: Being birthed in house

Tally Stick

  • Seaweed produces as much as 600% more yield per hectare than the most intensive farming without the need for water and fertilizer. Better yet, it decarbonizes the ocean’s (they can only take so much), cleans the oceans, provides habitat and a full crop grows in just 3-5 months. Seaweed has hundreds of uses from food, feed, feed additives (methane reduction in cattle), bio fuels and more. Demizine did an inhouse research program in 2020 to better understand the market future of seaweed and found two growth areas. First, there are no “scalable solutions” at work in the seaweed world. For example, if you wanted to go from a small fisherman growing 100 tons to a real industrial business to growing 1 million tons, you need support equipment to cultivate and harvest and process. Demizine has solutions in these areas. Second, the biofuel side has been neglected and is a missed opportunity because the academics, and business propositions have been myopically focused on a single process and neglecting the entire product lifecycle and opportunities. An exciting area with rapidly scaling growth that will need what we are working on; unicorn potential.

  • FIT: Climate mitigation, food security, bio-fuels

    STAGE: Prototypes and in house meta analysis of previous work and future needs

    STATUS: Being birthed in house, talking with partners

Secret Seaweed

  • This was the original founding product of Demizine – an in house black and greywater recycling system that operates on a closed loop. This product went from idea to reality in less than 2 years. There are two units deployed in each home. The gray water side has a settlement tank, where active microbial treatment is followed by 3 stages of water filtration, including ultra-filtration to 0.2 micron and a kill cycle. The black water side starts the same but septic waste is vacuum extracted from the tank and aspirated into a vacuum chamber and subjected to vacuum distillation. Fresh water is returned to the system and dehydrated waste is dropped into a trash bag for disposal. You can think of it as being similar to the home version of what happens on the International Space Station. Ahead of its time by about a decade and fitting into a regulatory niche of the FDA, rather than the EPA, (because of its interior use), regulators were confused as to who they could point a finger at if there were issues. Therefore, while legal, working, and desired by the public, the reality is that the regulatory framework meant that “Bob” the building inspector, who is 5 years from retiring, doesn’t really care if it works or not, and when presented with lab results he can’t read and understand, and who in twenty minutes wants to be eating lunch not trying to understand a piece of tech he has never imagined in his life takes the easiest path. What does “Bob” do? He refuses to issue a certificate of compliance. We took everything we learned in this project and put it into all the following water recycling technologies to spread the unicorn potential.

  • FIT: Water scarcity, water reuse, septic treatment, decentralization, mobility, climate mitigation

    STAGE: Tested in full size unit, extensive market validation meetings

    STATUS: On hold - too early for the market. Waiting on regulations to change and “Bob” to retire

Orator

  • Agroclean was originally envisioned as a way to process waste water back into drinking water while producing food, flowers, etc from the high nutrient waste. In order to conquer the biological cross contamination issue we created the world's first positive pressure grow cabinet – whereby sterile air pushes out contamination when the doors are open. It is a perfect fit for local grown pharmagrade plants (e.g. psilocybin, amanita, etc). It was also of great interest to remote areas (desert or far north) where food costs are very high. Think of it as the next stage of “urban farming” whereby the urban farm is also the septic processor and returns the fresh water back for reuse - unicorn potential.

  • FIT: Water scarcity, water reuse, septic treatment, decentralization, mobility, climate mitigation

    STAGE: Tested in full size unit, extensive market validation meetings

    STATUS: Dropped - interesting tech, but market too small for the effort at this time

Agroclean

  • It started with Covid, but the story here is really about climate change. At the start of Covid, the CEO’s wife came down with a case of Covid that morphed into pneumonia which was not responsive to antibiotics. Having heard from a friend about a medicinal plant that worked on breathing disorders – Mullein – we decided to experiment on utilizing the plant for Covid. Well documented for over 3000 years, the plant is very drought tolerant and was the goto cure for tuberculosis but it is resistant to commercial processing due to a number of physical factors.

    Humans are now getting caught up in a trifecta of climate change induced health crises - warmer earth creates more mould spores, massive climate induced fires spread those spores over 800 km away from the fires causing massive respiratory duress, human body temperatures on a decline (for unknown reasons) and as they lower people become more susceptible to fungal infections. Ignore this warning at your peril…

    This project was accepted to the Agricultural Ramp Up accelerator in 2022 and was split into its own company in 2022 which aims to commercialize the product for the $52BN year North American COPD market (average spend $183USD per month) and the emerging climate change health crises. A true unicorn in the making.

  • FIT: Climate Change induced health crises, natural medicine with minimal processing

    STAGE: Tested both at cultivation, and processing, novel scale up methodologies and technologies for scaling done or in the works, product/fit market validation studies, product production tested being refined, patents might be filed but trade secrets created

    STATUS: Incorporated - raising $11m USD for scaled launch to dominate NA market

Breathli Medicinal

  • The original idea for this project was to create a bio-mass (renewable) heater that was a leap forward in efficiency, with ultra low emissions, maximum heat retention, and as a plus excess heat energy would be harnessed into electrical energy. The thought was that this would complement our decentralized water products by offering a cleantech home solution. The project tagline was: “Heat your home and charge your Tesla with one appliance.” Being IOT enabled you can run machine learning to maximize burn, heat output and client comfort - think of it as the “Nest” of wood burners. It works by burning the fuel at ultra high temperatures (900°C) or double what a normal wood stove achieves, then utilizing a trade secret heat storage medium, it absorbs and retains heat far more efficiently (holding heat for days). Excess heat is siphoned off into electrical energy to recharge your home or supply emergency backup power on demand. The project has generated three patents pending and is part of a government-private sector – education institution collaboration that started in 2021.

    The project was sold off to INGENIOUS HOLDING INC in 2022 and is now its own company. While we were originally interested in the biomass heater aspect, the patents are global and far more lucrative than the original project covering soot reduction and increased thermal efficiency between metal and liquid mediums.

  • FIT: Sustainable energy, decentralization, energy efficiency, climate mitigation, pollution reduction.

    STAGE: Patents pending filed, project is well underway with more IP being created. Three different fully functional prototypes and one serialized test run created

    STATUS: Incorporated - raising $5m seed USD

    www.ingenious.energy

Ingenious Energy

  • In 2022 the company acquired the original NASA 025 Command vehicle used as the remote command center for the Space Shuttle program. The vehicle was custom built in 1990 and went through numerous upgrades over the years. It is the only ITAR (international trafficking Arms Reduction) custom Airstream in the world and the only NASA airstream in private hands. NASA is very secretive and selective of its brand partnerships and this is the only known opportunity that we, or our peers are aware of, that allows for NASA association without the bureaucracy!

    The company plans on doing a full refit and upgrade to the vehicle to make it a long duration technological test bed that will start a continuous tour of the USA and CANADA visiting 52 science and museum venues a year showcasing the latest and greatest from various tech partners. The company signed an engineer with museum curation experience to run the development program in 2023. This project is an opportunity to spread our message and the message of our corporate partners and financiers to an audience of over 500,000 in person visits and more than 100 million impressions and virtual visits a year; unicorn potential.

  • FIT: Sustainable tech test bed, B2C outreach, climate and tech education, Private/NGO partnership

    STAGE: Under development, program growing, partnerships, in retrofit hope to have it show ready by early 2024

    STATUS: Seeking partners for the PR and opportunity to be seen by millions of people

NASA Command Center