The Challenge
The planet must produce more wood, food, and renewable energy in the next 25 years than it has in human history. Yet land, water, and soil fertility are already under stress. Forests take decades to mature, croplands are degrading, and energy demand continues to climb.
Traditional approaches can’t meet this pressure alone. Phi Earth is addressing this global productivity challenge by developing technologies that help trees and crops grow faster, stronger, and more resiliently, in alignment with Nature.
Mission
Harness nature-aligned technology to reforest the planet, restore ecological balance, and sustainably feed the next billion people.
Vision
To create a world where technology strengthens nature’s capacity to renew itself, restoring productivity,
balance, and opportunity across the planet.
Our Core Technology
Nature’s intelligence, systematized
Phi Tech™ is the proprietary protocol at the core of Phi Earth’s work, a science-based, non-genetically modifying, methodology designed to enhance how plants express growth and resilience.
The System Integrates:
Structured, oxygenated water technology
Tailored biological formulations using beneficial fungi, bacteria, and biochar blends
Precision irrigation and optimized nutrient delivery
Frequency and light treatments
Together, these elements create optimal cellular conditions that promote faster establishment, stronger coppicing, and higher survivability, without genetic modification or ecological compromise.
Our Core Technology
Nature’s intelligence, systematized
Phi Tech™ is the proprietary protocol at the core of Phi Earth’s work, a science-based, non-genetically modifying, methodology designed to enhance how plants express growth and resilience.
The Paulownia Tree
Our first field of application focuses on Paulownia elongata, one of the world’s fastest-growing trees, valued for its lightweight yet durable timber, rapid coppicing, and ability to regenerate after harvest.
Paulownia naturally combines:
- High strength-to-weight timber ideal for sustainable construction
- Nitrogen-fixing properties that replenish soil health
- Rapid early growth and multi-cycle regeneration
Through Phi Tech™, we aim to extend Paulownia’s potential even further, accelerating growth rates, improving climate adaptability, and enhancing ecological safety.
Field trials have already demonstrated significant early-growth acceleration, even in sub-optimal soils, with treated trees reaching a whole year of growth in just 6 months.
Our Areas of Innovation
Phi Earth’s broader ambition is to apply Phi Tech™ beyond trees creating a circular, regenerative bio-economy.
Phi Farms
Extends Phi Tech™ to key agricultural crops such as rice, corn and grass, exploring yield improvement, resource efficiency, and stress resilience.
Biochar & Energy
Uses Phi Tech™-enhanced biomass as a feedstock for biochar and renewable energy, contributing to cleaner carbon cycles and sustainable industry inputs.
Each domain reinforces the others: connecting growth, regeneration, and energy into a single system that benefits both nature and enterprise.
Partnership &
Collaboration
Phi Earth is research-led and partnership-driven. We collaborate with landowners, tribes, universities, and public institutions to design pilot projects that test Phi Tech™ under real-world conditionsPhi Earth’s broader ambition is to apply Phi Tech™ beyond trees — creating a circular, regenerative bio-economy.
Each pilot follows a transparent process:
- Define objectives: growth, biomass, or ecological resilience.
- Implement side-by-side trials with treated and control plots.
- Measure, analyse, and share data openly.
Through these partnerships, we turn observation into proof and proof into global solutions.
Nominee for Earthshot Prize 2026
