Build sheets for the four Orbit-A pages. Each: purpose, wireframe, copy (tagged), images, interactions, rationale.
/Status: already built. homepage/index.html is the faithful replica of the design team's prototype and ships as-is — it IS the spec for this page. Sections, in order: white header (Home/Members only) → forest hero ("Restoring the Planet's Living Systems") → Climate Repair (black band, color wheel) → three pillars (Science/Action/Storytelling + mangrove banner) → Global Alliance (text | world map | events + 8 partner tiles) → Exemplary Projects intro + 3 alternating rows (ARARA, Nakivale, Panama) → Healthy Ecosystems (sub-heads + curved-corner box + photo gallery) → Donate band (curved-corner card, right) → Currents (5 posts) → footer.
Only permitted change at launch: the header may adopt the extended nav (Part 1 §02) after Stefan & Mary sign off. Everything else is frozen.
/sciencePurpose: the credibility engine. Make a skeptical, science-literate funder think "this is a real, quantified blind spot — and these people found it." Orbit A. Primary CTA → Door 1; secondary → download decks/paper.
Audience: climate philanthropy & family offices (warm leads arriving from decks/intros); journalists; scientists.
adapted Hero.
The Science of Cooling Climate Quickly
The planet is heating because Earth's air conditioners are breaking down.
Forests, soils, wetlands and ocean life form a living climate-control system — moving water, seeding clouds, and shading land. Climate policy measures carbon and misses most of this. ERA's whitepaper, Cooling Climate Quickly, quantifies the blind spot — and the fastest, cheapest cooling lever we have.
verbatim numbers Stat columns. "15–45% — of today's climate forcing traces to degraded ecosystems, invisible to carbon-only accounting." · "4–10× — how far conventional carbon math undervalues restoration's climate benefit." · "2–4°C — local cooling that restored ecosystems can deliver within months."
adapted The accidental experiment.
A natural experiment proved the lever is real
In 2020, new shipping-fuel rules abruptly cut sulfur emissions — and with them, the bright ship-track clouds that had been quietly shading the oceans. Warming jumped. It was an accidental planetary experiment, and its lesson cuts both ways: if thinner clouds can heat the planet that fast, restoring the biological processes that brighten and seed clouds can cool it. Biology is not a bystander in the climate system. It is the control knob we've been ignoring.
draft How nature cools (3 columns): Water ("A living landscape is a water pump — vegetation moves rain inland and re-wets the small water cycle…"), Clouds ("Life seeds clouds: forests release the biological particles around which droplets form…" — include the June-newsletter line "Forests don't simply grow where it rains — they ensure that it rains where forests grow."), Life ("Soil, fungi, whales and watersheds form one connected cooling engine; restore the parts and you restore the function.").
adapted Paper card: title, one-paragraph abstract (lift from /ccq/ page), author list (von Herzen, Bunyard, de Laet — confirm final list), download button, "co-developed by human and artificial intelligence, reviewed by humans" one-liner (backstage AI framing). For-funders band: two deck-download cards (Family Office / Philanthropy versions) + Door-1 card: "If CCQ changes your map of what's fundable, let's talk. → Fund a leverage point" linking /donate#fund.
homepage/img/cycles-color-wheel.png (hero art) and ecosystem-lineart.png (accent).Leads with the hook (vision-ladder rung 1), proves with numbers fast (funders skim), then earns depth. The shipping story is the most persuasive single artifact ERA has for skeptics — it gets its own section. AI stays backstage per the orbit rules.
/initiativesPurpose: proof the thesis works on the ground — "from conversation to implementation." Orbit A. CTA → Door 1 ("fund a hub") and /engage.
draft Hero: "Restoration you can stand on. ERA's learning hubs and exemplary projects turn the cooling science into places — living laboratories where restoration is designed, measured, and made replicable." Hub cards:
EcoFinca · Panama Canal watershed
ERA's first demonstration site: a working farm-and-forest laboratory in the watershed that feeds the Panama Canal. Regenerative agriculture, water-cycle restoration, and community training — proving that restoring the rain is also economic infrastructure. Status: live — launched May 2026.
Edward's Hamlet · Uganda
A community-led regeneration centre prototyping ERA's model in East Africa — soil, water, and livelihoods restored together, seeded by the ERA Fund's first loan. Status: active prototype.
verbatim Exemplary projects: reuse the three homepage project descriptions and images exactly (ARARA, Nakivale Refugee Regenerators, Panama Restoration Lab). draft ERA Fund: "A member-governed fund making small, catalytic loans and grants where they unlock the most — seeded by a founder donation, now backing its first projects. → Fund a leverage point." African Consortium: one para on the member-led coalition coordinating hubs across the continent (confirm scope with ERA).
proj-*.jpg + pillars-banner.png. Slots: EcoFinca photos, Edward's Hamlet photos.Hubs lead (they're the differentiator vs. "lots of orgs do hubs" — these are *instrumented* hubs tied to the cooling science); projects reuse known assets; the Fund gives Door-1 funders a concrete vehicle.
/aboutPurpose: identity and trust. Who ERA is, what it believes, who stands with it. Carries the 10s and 30s rungs of the vision ladder. Orbit A with one B-doorway.
adapted Hero: "ERA makes nature's cooling power visible, fundable, and real. We are an alliance of ~600 scientists, Indigenous leaders, regenerative farmers, storytellers and funders — a bridge and translator between the people restoring Earth's living systems and the science and resources they need. And increasingly, a builder: our fund and learning hubs turn the thesis into ground truth."
adapted Three intelligences: Natural — "the living systems that already regulate climate; our first teacher and final metric." Human — "a global network's lived knowledge: Indigenous practice, field science, craft." Artificial — "tools like the Big Map that make a scattered field legible. → See where this is going (ERA² & the Oracle)". verbatim Values (from the live site's "Rooted in Our Values"): biodiversity & bio-inspiration · pragmatic optimism · Indigenous wisdom and modern systems · intergenerational impact · servant-leadership. draft People: name + one-line bios (board: Jon Schull, Precious Phiri, Jonathan Cloud (Treasurer) — confirm full slate). Partners: UN Decade endorsement line + logo wall (Green Belt Movement, Ecosystem Restoration Communities, Bio4Climate, REDES, Geoversity, OzGreen, SGEI…) + the 8 partner tiles from the homepage.
The "three intelligences" block is the one sanctioned Orbit-B doorway on an Orbit-A page — it earns the reveal in context and routes the curious to /era2 without spooking anyone.