Planetary Guardians
Protocol Stack
Governance and protocol infrastructure for landscape-scale ecological stewardship. Constitutional kernel frozen February 2026. Version-controlled. Terminal-verifiable. Evidence-bound.
Planetary Guardians is a regenerative governance protocol for landscape-scale ecological stewardship — not an NGO, not an investment fund, and not a movement in the conventional sense. Founded 2019. Built on 25 years of governance research. Across the habitat, place-based work now reads through active, preparatory, and exploratory field nodes.
The philosophical foundation is in the Green Papers — 20 working papers on Moral Biology, Planetary Guardianship, and the conditions for ethical life. The protocol layer and the papers are designed to be read together.
The Association's public support architecture uses three support categories: Land Stewardship Support, Cultural and Knowledge Support, and Coordination and Partner Infrastructure. In the Green Papers, some categories are also explored conceptually under the names Elir and Elia.
PG-RAPID is the applied protocol library — concrete, place-based protocols following the 13×13 structure: 13 topics across 13 fields, creating a shared language for citizen science, governance, and stewardship.
Protocols exist for avian corridors, food forests, water systems, elephant corridors, eel protection, and more. Open-source, designed to be adapted to local contexts.
Protocol Library forming — not yet published. We publish only what we can hold with care.
- Field NodesKitgum, Casablanca, Karachi, Iquitos, and emerging urban tracks such as Mexico City, are read across active, preparatory, and exploratory status. Where field practice is live, protocols are already in use; where tracks are still forming, protocols function as preparation and orientation.
- PapersThe Green Papers provide theoretical grounding. Protocol design follows from Moral Biology and Ostrom's institutional design principles.
- AnchorPointsThe relational and place-based threshold where local partners, stewardship continuity, and access to a lived place are held. AnchorPoints are not identical to fields; they are the grounding layer from which field practice may develop.
- Support categoriesPublic support is structured through three categories: Land Stewardship Support, Cultural and Knowledge Support, and Coordination and Partner Infrastructure. The Penguin Dashboard is the primary legibility layer for how support, field status, and protocol maturity are held and read.
- PG LedgerThe observation and evidence layer — eight categories, three streams, monthly dashboard. The instrument through which field truth becomes governance-relevant over time.
Planetary Guardians is open to anyone who can hold a relationship with a piece of land. We do not recruit. We do not demand agreement. We hold a space where questions can breathe, and where those who are ready can find each other.
Entry begins through place, protocol, or dialogue. We publish only what can be held with care.