# OakTREE > Transformation Rooted in Community ## Pages - [Our Origin Story](https://www.oaktree.eco/about/origin-story/): at oaktree We believe our neighborhoods can be like the rooted networks of a forest. Our communities already have what they need: knowledge, care, creativity, and grit. What’s missing is the connection. We’re here to build that connection—to turn homes into hubs, neighborhoods into networks, and ideas into action. Through community-grown infrastructure, shared resources, and […] - [About Us](https://www.oaktree.eco/about/): Our Mission We’re here to grow resilient ecosystems from the ground up – rooted in community, care, and community-owned infrastructure. We connect neighbors and neighborhoods to thrive together. OUR VISION: A NEW FORM OF GENERATIONAL WEALTH. BUILT FOR US BY US. Beginning in Oakland and reaching far beyond, we envision communities everywhere cultivating generational wealth […] - [Sitemap](https://www.oaktree.eco/sitemap/) - [Donate](https://www.oaktree.eco/donate/): WATER THE ROOTS OF CHANGE. Your donation is the water OakTREE needs right now – flowing into demonstration projects that will prove what’s possible and pave the way for communities everywhere to build their own power. We’re ready to break ground on pilot sites that integrate thermal microgrids, greenhouses, and community systems. These aren’t just […] - [Contact Us](https://www.oaktree.eco/contact-us/): get in touch with oaktree We’re planting seeds of connection and care in communities everywhere, nurturing resilience and change together. Whether you’re ready to lend your skills and resources to this work, exploring clean heat solutions for your business, or looking to bring inter-structure to your neighborhood, we want to hear from you. Contact Information […] - [Get Involved](https://www.oaktree.eco/get-involved/): WE’RE READY TO BUILD OakTREE has developed the model, identified pilot sites, and assembled the partnerships needed to prove that community-owned infrastructure works. What we need now is the capital to break ground: to install demonstration projects that will generate the technical, economic, and social data that unlocks this model for neighborhoods across the country. […] - [Commercial Clean Heat Solutions](https://www.oaktree.eco/what-we-do/commercial-clean-heat-solutions/): PROVIDING COMMERCIAL HEAT AS-A-SERVICE OakTREE is pioneering a new kind of thermal energy economy. One where businesses can decarbonize without the burden of upfront costs, and where the revenue generated helps grow community-powered infrastructure across the country. Through our thermal micro-utility model, we install renewable heat systems at no cost to commercial businesses. Instead of […] - [Rekindled Interdependence](https://www.oaktree.eco/what-we-do/rekindled-interdependence/): CREATING COMMUNITY ACCOUNTABILITY AND interdependence Inter-structure is what happens when roots meet underground – when connections between people become just as powerful as the systems they build. It’s the living network that grows from physical infrastructure, weaving care, responsibility, and shared purpose through every neighborhood.  When one household hosts a solar or thermal array on […] - [Entrepreneurial Development](https://www.oaktree.eco/what-we-do/entrepreneurial-development/): PROMOTING AN ECOSYSTEM OF ENTREPRENEURS As inter-structure takes root and spreads, it creates something beyond infrastructure. It creates an economy. Local, regenerative, and owned by the people doing the work. As OakTREE scales, paid opportunities emerge across neighborhoods: maintaining thermal systems, managing food production, manufacturing components locally, and providing the countless services that keep an […] - [Workforce Cultivation](https://www.oaktree.eco/what-we-do/workforce-cultivation/): GROWING LOCAL TALENT Building the neighborhoods of tomorrow starts with the people who live there today. OakTREE begins with the basics: creating spaces where residents can see these technologies in action, understand what they do, and imagine what becomes possible when communities control their own systems. From there, we connect eager learners with experienced mentors […] - [Infrastructure Development](https://www.oaktree.eco/what-we-do/infrastructure-development/): BUILDING PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE We develop and implement appropriate technologies through demonstration sites where proven innovations like Thermal Microgrids and Close Cycle Greenhouses can work together, adapt to local conditions, and scale with a neighborhood’s vision. We will build modular, scalable solutions through parallel implementation: designing components that can function independently but are most powerful when […] - [What We Do](https://www.oaktree.eco/what-we-do/): We Build the connection OakTREE works with communities to build the systems that make resilience real: shared renewable heat, local food production, community-owned enterprises, and the skilled workforce to sustain them. We don’t drop in with one-size-fits-all solutions; we work alongside residents to design systems that reflect their values and realities using solutions they learn […] - [Implementation Plan](https://www.oaktree.eco/how-it-works/implementation-plan/): how we execute OakTREE has attracted over $4 million in support from public institutions and philanthropic partners who see what’s possible when communities control their essential resources. That investment has brought us to this moment: validating our approach and moving methodically toward neighborhood-scale transformation. Now: Validating & Building Foundation We’re developing the core technology and […] - [Our Innovations](https://www.oaktree.eco/how-it-works/our-innovations/): DEPLOYING EXISTING & EMERGING SOLUTIONS AT BLOCK SCALE Honoring the uniqueness and diversity of each neighborhood, thermal energy networks can become platforms that integrate a variety of emerging and off-the-shelf technologies to give communities the flexibility to adapt, reconfigure, and respond to their own unique needs.  Through a partnership with MMCISolar, OakTREE (Oakland Thermal Renewable […] - [The Initiative](https://www.oaktree.eco/how-it-works/initiative/): INTER-STRUCTURE CREATES CONNECTION AND CAPACITY Like soil nourishing the roots of a forest, the relationships between people form the foundation of every thriving system. OakTREE’s inter-structure—a shared physical and social infrastructure—enables neighbors to connect, produce, and sustain essential resources together.  By linking people, assets, and opportunity, OakTREE creates the conditions for self-reliance, resilience, and lasting […] - [How It Works](https://www.oaktree.eco/how-it-works/): The Problem We’re Responding To Today, many of the essential things our neighborhoods depend on like power, healthy food, internet, and jobs are controlled by corporations outside the communities they serve. These corporations are also major sources of  jobs that often take more than they give, leaving communities with unstable work, low wages, and few […] - [Our Values](https://www.oaktree.eco/about/our-values/): Interconnection We believe community is our greatest infrastructure. Just as trees share resources through their root systems, we foster deep relationships across individuals, neighborhoods, cultures, and generations to grow collective strength and new people powered systems. Transformation We don’t just restore—we transform. Our work reverses harm, reinvents agency, and creates systems that grow stronger over […] - [Who We Are](https://www.oaktree.eco/about/who-we-are/): OUR WORK Our work is shaped by and for the people most impacted by extractive systems: beginning with residents of underserved neighborhoods whose homes, blocks, and daily lives will be directly transformed by OakTREE inter-structure. Many will become participants, stewards, and advocates of the work, helping to lead and sustain it over time. Through skill-building […] - [Accessibility Statement](https://www.oaktree.eco/accessibility-statement/): This website has been built with the accessibility of all people in mind. It is periodically checked against best practices and standards as defined by Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG 2.2, of the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative. This includes: If you are having […] - [Home](https://www.oaktree.eco/): Transformation Rooted in Community OakTREE deploys block scale networks of emerging and proven technologies to increase the food, energy, and economic resilience of communities everywhere. We’re not building for communities. We’re buildingwith them. At OakTREE, we believe our neighborhoods are just like the rooted networks of a forest. Our communities already have what they need: […] - [Privacy Policy](https://www.oaktree.eco/privacy-policy/): About Us OakTREE (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates [WEBSITE URL] (the “Site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. 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