Global Ecosphere Retreat (The Long Run)

Overview

The Global Ecosphere Retreat (GER) standard is a sustainability certification for nature based tourism businesses run by The Long Run and developed with Preferred by Nature. It assesses performance across the 4Cs framework of Conservation, Community, Culture, and Commerce, requiring members to meet 125 criteria that are verified onsite by external auditors. To be eligible a business must own, directly manage, or influence a significant land or seascape and must be or become commercially profitable, and certified members submit annual data and undergo recertification every six years. The standard is aligned with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, and recognition is a certification status rather than a tradable credit.

Sources: methodology document · The Long Run

01 · Roles

The workflow as an explicit directed graph. In Graph each column is one role, so you can see who acts at each step; every node names the org.broadlistening.policy.block.* def it resolves to plus its input and output record. Data flow switches to a lineage view that makes explicit what data each node needs and makes, with dependency arcs tracing every record back to the node that produced it, including where the Darwin Core occurrence + measurement records feed in. Hover to trace, click to inspect; revise edges (dashed) send work back.

03 · Generated lexicon records

The records this methodology compiles to, ready to write to a PDS. The first tabs are the new policy engine records; the ★ claim.activity tab and those after it are reused ATProto Collective Funding Ecosystem records (org.hypercerts.*): the issued hypercert batch, its rights, an example verification attachment and a retirement receipt. The ◈ dwc.occurrence and ◈ dwc.measurement tabs are the Darwin Core field evidence the monitoring node writes; see the section below.

{
  "$type": "org.broadlistening.policy.methodology",
  "code": "GER",
  "name": "Global Ecosphere Retreat (The Long Run)",
  "registry": "The Long Run (TLR)",
  "sector": "Conservation tourism",
  "creditType": "ecotourism",
  "status": "active",
  "version": "1.0",
  "scopes": [
    "Ecotourism",
    "Conservation",
    "4Cs"
  ],
  "roles": [
    {
      "id": "registry",
      "name": "Standard Registry",
      "permission": "Owns the policy, approves participants, anchors each issuance to its evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "proponent",
      "name": "Project Proponent",
      "permission": "Registers the project and submits monitoring reports."
    },
    {
      "id": "vvb",
      "name": "Validation & Verification Body",
      "permission": "Independently validates the design and verifies monitored data."
    }
  ],
  "schemas": [
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/long-run-ger-eco-offer",
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/long-run-ger-eco-delivery"
  ],
  "graph": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.graph/long-run-ger",
  "issuesAs": "org.hypercerts.claim.activity",
  "workScope": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.workscope.cel/long-run-ger-scope",
  "rights": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.claim.rights/long-run-ger-rights",
  "createdAt": "2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

04 · Schemas