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Bhutan: Regenerative Village, Smart Tech & Shared Prosperity

Hosted by Alistair Langer & Alex Cahana
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You are invited to an evening on how the world's happiest nation is about to become its cleanest.

Bhutan produces very little waste — roughly 240 tons a day for the entire country, of which about 200 are processable. It is now preparing to eliminate what it has entirely and become the world's first waste-free country, using a carbon-neutral, low-temperature technology that turns waste into clean energy, clean water and fertilizer, and lifts lead and medical hazards out of the environment before they reach a child's bloodstream. The Kingdom that gave the world Gross National Happiness would be the first to design its waste away entirely — the same philosophy, expressed in infrastructure.

But the part that brought us together is not the chemistry. It is the choice about who benefits.

In this model the wealth created by cleaning a village stays in that village — flowing back through a cooperative structure into roads, schools, homes, and into the hands of the young “guardians” who run the work and carry it to their neighbours. Drinchengang is the first of these villages: a community rehoused under royal charter, a twenty-year-old landfill cleared, and the value of that work returned to the people living above it.

Nobody says you can't set up the structure so the value uplift is distributed in an equitable fashion — to a village, a valley, a series of villages.

THE WORKING-GROUP CONSENSUS

We are gathering a small circle of people who believe, as Bhutan does, that prosperity should be pre-distributed to the many rather than captured by the few. Join us to hear the story firsthand, meet the Bhutanese, DHI and DRV partners, and explore how philanthropy can seed the community programs — the training, the youth corps, the consciousness campaign — that turn a national clean-up into a lasting uplift.

ORGANIZED BY

783 Capital Partners — The infrastructure layer between capital & execution

ACA Galleries - EST. 1932 one of New York’s most enduring and influential art institutions

GUESTS

Druk Holding & Investments — DHI Impact Fund

Drinchengang Regenerative Village — royal charter village, Wangdue Valley

Capacity

20–30 mission-aligned guests. The room is deliberately small.

Registrations are reviewed by the host team. Private meetings between 5 and 7 PM are scheduled individually.

Location
Affirmation Arts
415 W 13th St 8th Floor, New York, NY 10014, USA
8th floor
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