In this episode, guests Jonathan Uber and Andrew Bittner, co-founders of HOME DAO, share how their company is impacting sustainability, self-reliance and community-driven collaboration. DAO stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization. Home DAO funds public goods, starting with renewable energy, to build a better world focusing on solution-oriented infrastructures. The sustainable infrastructures related to food, energy and digital assets (particularly the new cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin) are discussed at length.   Co-host Jim Gale shares that his company, Food Forest Abundance, has its own digital asset called a yield coin, which is directly linked to ethical, permaculture-style food production based on caloric value.  Home DAO will be dropping 770 NFTs (non-fungible tokens) to those identified with his company’s mission. The two companies share many values and approaches for bringing greater freedom to all through new technologies, building communities, and trust based on transparency. Topics covered in this interview include: –Positively impacting the world through Web3 now, which provides  “a new beautiful, compounded opportunity for connection” and “communication that can be trusted,” according to Andrew.  –Web3 breaks the mold and adds a new dimension to human capability for communication across the planet, no longer having to work through banks, through centralized governments,  or through centralized companies.  We can literally connect peer-to-peer about all the things we want to communicate. –Jonathan elaborates, saying that it is like “owning your own key,” having the freedom to move through different apps and layers without permission.  Being decentralized allows Web3 not to be shut down in the way Web2 platforms like Facebook or Twitter can be through the control of others. –Jim calls it a “fundamental piece of the freedom puzzle.” –Commodities built on trusted layers of real accounting are elaborated upon with:  Bitcoin being a commodity of money. Yield coins being the commodity of food. And Home DAO being the commodity of infrastructure for sustainability. –Home DAO is a funding mechanism for sustainable projects with a focus on communities, bridging the worlds of trust and building infrastructure in your backyard to give you freedom. Having a trusted ledger and doing the accounting publicly is used to build trust.  –A Freedom Farm Academy offered by Jim’s company is one of those infrastructures.  Andrew likes the concept because “Food is one of the faster paybacks of any type of infrastructure we look at.”  –The Bitcoin challenge is finding cheaper ways to mine, like using renewable energy.  –Great optimism was shared by all, for this profound time in history, of moving through the discomfort of seeing our flawed institutions and choosing to change the world and design new systems. ​​ Jonathan Uber: Jonathan is the head of Operations for the HOME DAO.  He believes sustainability is a lifestyle and looks to implement sustainable practices in his personal and business life at every opportunity. He is currently the President of Operations and Sales for Guaranteed Clean Energy and Co-Founder of GCE Healthcare, an energy advisory firm for institutional healthcare facilities and hospital networks. Jonathan's previous background included working in medical device distribution, development, and business operations. He particularly focused on sustainability projects and anesthesia-related products with large hospital groups. He helped bring to market a device that would allow hospitals to not emit waste anesthetic gas and provided an opportunity to recycle the gas.   Andrew Bittner: Andrew Bittner is the head of the Business Development and Strategic Relationships for the HOME DAO. He is also the CEO/Founder of Guaranteed Clean Energy, an energy advisory firm specializing in holistic sustainability development projects for K-12 schools, and municipalities in the US. GCE was awarded as the “Top Cleantech Startup”