What if you could help protect the environment by buying a virtual piece of land that helps in preserving the ocean and the rainforests? That’s exactly what you can do with Next Earth NFTs, where you can buy a virtual piece of Earth to support The Ocean Cleanup and Amazon Watch. In Next Earth’s ITO, or Initial Tile Offering, over $1.3 million of virtual real estate was sold — 10% of which goes to environmental charities. A Discord poll was used to allocate funds between these two initiatives, which resulted in The Ocean Cleanup receiving a small majority of allocated funds, and Amazon Watch receiving the rest. The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization that aims to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. It has developed a system that uses large floating barriers to collect ocean plastic. The company has raised over $21.7 million from supporters to fund its mission. Amazon Watch is an organization that works to protect the rainforest and the people who live in it. It is also working to create a sustainable model for the use of the forests, to replace the status quo of tremendously destructive deforestation. Next Earth NFTs For Good Next Earth is the first decentralized virtual real estate platform. Anyone can buy a plot of digital land, and one day develop it however they want. It’s similar to the likes of Minecraft or Second Life in some ways, but with a decentralized model, users are...
