Menlo Manufacturing:

We are participating in a design and manufacturing roll-out of patent protected structural components, as part of a prefabricated LEED green building system. Applications include single family, higher density housing, multi-use community centers and commercial buildings. Finishes integrate basic structures into the ‘look & feel’ of neighborhood ecologies, and architects can customize. Solutions available for most budgets. Near term products are long lasting, environmentally friendly, faster-easier to put-up than conventional; saves +20% on construction and up to 50% in annual operating expenses. Future designs encourage manufacturing configurations in developing countries, utilizing local materials, substitutes for wood in wood scarce countries, recyclables, and new clean technology infrastructure (alternative energy, purified water, communications systems - otherwise not affordably available). We welcome strategic partnerships with architects, project developers, green building designer-researchers, materials innovators (including nano-materials), complimentary suppliers, universities and public organizations. In phase 2, the firm intends a roll-out of zero energy building options, higher concentrations of eco-friendly materials in all solutions, increased variety - while driving materials cost and operating cost further down.

Providing expansion capital financing & sweat equity to a mid-market Silicon Valley solar cell & MEMS manufacturer. Seeking RFID partners. Exploring roll-to-roll flexible electronics. Flex investments presently on hold, pending suitable manufacturing equipment.

MenloPress & MenloMaps:

Online distribution of individualized maps. A world history-culture chart is separated into 50-year intervals from 2100 BC to 2100 AD allowing everyone to add two tombstone bullet points describing the meaningfulness of their own lives in the context of history, family lineages and major 2000 AD � 2050 AD trends. We can self-assess whether our contributions are of greater value to society than our consumptions and pollutions. Another set of maps is derived from x, y, z high resolution soil-climate-vegetation datasets, allowing for search engine queries and the multivariable matching of �perfect tomatoes to perfect plots of land� in all countries between the arctic circles. The actionable relevancy of the second set: renewable resources planning, eco-tourism, economic development, property valuations on a global basis, determination of which exotic plants are invasive and which are not if planted in your own backyard, and lots of plots of fun.

MilpaFinance 2.0 (Post Monoculture):

Creating accredited investor opportunities for small investments, enabling middle Americans to diversify a portion of their portfolios into personally strategic initiatives. Facilitating middle class learning-earning- managing of their ecological wealth; through clean-green investment clubs, limited partnerships, LLCs, university innovation centers, and interactions with endowments and the public sector.

Financial Engineering Services: designing short term flips (secondary markets of sufficient scale) for specific long term private equity investments plus other solutions, often related to MenloGreen investments.

NaturesRide:

A sustainable tree farm in Panama for growing teak and other tropical hardwoods. The project also involves creating an exotic nursery, concentrating on endangered mother trees, seedlings and plants for distribution to locales where introduction is noninvasive.

Technology Breakthroughs:

Advances in technology often benefit our environment. Certain recent developments center on improvements in content searches, applications of knowledge from one discipline to another, and energy savings - particularly to curtail the voracious appetite of computers for electric power. We are structuring the funding of one platform breakthrough that improves all of the above.