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“This document contains confidential information and is intended solely for the

purpose of eliciting commentary from selected advisors of New Soil Security, Inc.

Under no circumstances shall this document constitute an offer to sell nor a

solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of New Soil Security, Inc.”

Contact Information:

NSS CEOAbe Collins

(802) 782-1883 [email protected]

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New Soil Security provides increased agricultural production and

environmental services from grazing and farm land via direct

management, monitoring and decision-support tools.

Desert to Grasslands in One Year - Perennial Rivers in Five Years

Eight Inches of New Topsoil in One Year

Cimarron Farm, NSS HQ, St. Albans, VT

Dimbangombe Ranch, Africa Centre For Holistic Management, Zimbabwe

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Poor Land and the NSS SolutionCritical ecosystem services are generated and regulated by carbon in topsoil, including agricultural

production, water provision and purification, atmospheric regulation and natural hazards mitigation.

NSS rapidly sequesters carbon in new topsoil, enables others to do so and monitors, quantifies and valuates the resulting ecosystem services benefits.

Rapid topsoil formation on agricultural, grazing and desert land directly addresses natural

resource problems at local-global scales, including:

Climate change mitigation and adaptation

Increased food production

Water storage and purification in soils and aquifers, dwarfing dam storage potential

Mitigation of flooding, drought, wildfire, erosion, dust-storms and ocean dead-zones

CURRENT Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) Markets are growing fast.

Water is “the new oil.” Currently $425 Billion annually, $1Trillion annually by 2013.

Global carbon market may exceed $3 Trillion by 2020

USDA Office of Ecosystem Service Markets Management Priority: Soil Carbon Measurement.

Wetlands and Habitat Mitigation Banking: $3.4 billion annually in the US, up to $10 billion annually by 2020.

NEW PES market opportunities through topsoil

formation:

Natural hazards mitigation

Municipal water provision through:

Increased infiltration of

precipitation resulting in

groundwater recharge and

purification

Restoration and flow

maintenance of surface waters

Water rights sales and leasing

enabled by reduced irrigation

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New Soil Security Summary

The business of New Soil Security (NSS) is:

1. Rapid topsoil formation and restoration of desertified land

2. Monetizing the results through ecosystem services markets: food, carbon, water, biodiversity and natural hazards mitigation

NSS profits through:

1. Land restoration management contracts on large land holdings

2. Decision-support and networking technology for farmers, ranchers, governments, ecosystem services aggregators and policymakers

3. Ecosystem services quantification via soil monitoring and modeling

These three business units support each other to achieve a profitable whole with diversified revenue streams.

A two-year, revenue-generating corporate development and R&D phase is planned to:

1. Scientifically validate our management processes and technologies with Cornell University

2. Build out the New Soil Matrix decision-support system and populate AI modeling with land-performance and financial data

3. Demonstrate large-scale land improvement at a profit, leading to internally financed R&D and expansion

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22 Quantifiable Ecosystem Services (ES) are

generated through Rapid Topsoil Formation.

Those that can provide or need critical ES are our Market:

Farmers, ranchers, pastoralists

Land owners and investment groups

Native nations and rural communities

Cities and governments

Policy planners at local-continental-global scales

ES-dependent or regulated companies

ES project developers, brokers, traders

ES verifiers and registries

Development organizations and agencies

Environmental organizations

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New Soil Security Revenue:Contracts: Large-scale landscape restoration projects

Joint Ventures: Equity stake in select soil-formation projects enabled by NSS land management, monitoring, and decision-support technology

Licensing:Advanced capabilities for New Soil Matrix land management decision-support software

– New Soil Matrix urban water and policy planning modules

– Soil monitoring and Ecosystem Services provision quantification services

• Sales of New Soil Security training, support, online membership and on-

line advertising revenues

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The NSS 3-Legged Stool

Profit from New Soil and

Quantified ES

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New Soil Security Land Management

NSS offers a total land restoration service enabling individual and communal land owners to profitably improve land and soil.

NSS Land Management serves cities and states by converting desertified watersheds and regions into grasslands with effective water cycling, for instance around dry US or Middle-Eastern cities.

Groundwater rechargeRestoration of spring and stream flowReduced irrigation, increased productionMinimized flooding, wildfire and dust-storms

NSS serves our clients by establishing and operating optimized livestock, carbon and water sequestration enterprises on large land bases, with commodity livestock ROI for clients between 6.5% and 20% annually.

Livestock value-add enterprises and ecosystem services quantification and sales can increase client ROI.

Status:

Carbon and Cattle JV on 2.2 million acres in AU operational in 2nd quarter of 2010.

-25 million additional acres in the pipeline.

2010 Target Contract: Southwest US, restoration of completely desertified land - 10,000 + acres/year

2011: One Middle-Eastern $150 million contract – 40,000 + acres/year

2012: Ongoing and additional projects

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The New Soil Matrix Operating System for the Soil Age

A software and cloud decision-support and networking tool for:

Rapid soil formation and desertification reversal by ranchers, pastoralists and farmer

Precision quantification and monetary valuation of resulting ecosystem services

A.I. guided future resource base scenario modeling and policy formation

Water, Carbon, Biodiversity and Risk Mitigation trading in performance-based environmental markets

Status: Primary Architecture complete,

Development Team assembled, Web-portal

under development, Subcontractors organized

To be built: Land Manager and Policymaker

Decision-Support and GUI

Existing Components to be synchronized:

Artificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services

valuation (ARIES)

Precision Agricultural Landscape Modeling System

(PALMS)

Soil Information System (SIS)

GIS and 3D data visualization

Visionarium - Mobile Control Room

• Development Cost: ~$ 8 Million.

• Beta launch of V 1.0 in 1st quarter 2011

• Full launch of V 1.1in 1st quarter 2012

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New Soil Monitoring

Milestones: 2010 Deployment of two monitoring units: US and Australia.

Baseline Monitor 2 million Ha in AU

Monitor Cornell Study farms and ranches in US, baseline plus follow-up

Monitor additional paying clients. All monitoring events include public field days for marketing purposes.

Milestones: 2011 Baseline Monitor 6 million Ha in Au, plus follow-up on already baselined properties

Monitor Cornell Study units plus paying clients in US

New Soil Matrix Monitoring accepted as “gold standard” by verifiers and Office of Ecosystem Services

Market: Farmers and Ranchers and related associations, Carbon Verifiers and Registries, Development Organizations, Research Institutions, Environmental Groups, Food Companies, USDA and other Government Agencies, Governments needing water

Costs: $1.6 million per year for first 2 years to run monitoring division.

Option for $750k investment to secure environmental monitoring rights to Gen-4 probe, which cuts labor and lab costs.

NSS offers the most accurate and cost-effective soil monitoring and modeling tool for quantification of ecosystem services provision (Eg., soil carbon, water infiltration, water holding capacity, natural hazard mitigation.)

• Purpose: Quantification of ES provision, enabling Payment for Ecosystem Services Markets. Conclusive scientific validation and market-creation for benefits of rapid topsoil formation and reversal of desertification.

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NSS Competitive AdvantageNSS combines land restoration know-how and disruptive monitoring and decision-support technologies to offer

an unprecedented service range to a massive market. Our monitoring and decision-support tools flip

potential competitors into a target market. Our early arrival and combination of scientific validation and

demonstrative large-scale projects are designed to put NSS on the leading foot in performance-based

payment for ecosystem services markets.

• Land Restoration Management: A number of successful Mitigation Banking Firms including Wildlands, Inc.

and Applied Ecological Services use livestock grazing to “manage vegetation.” NSS employs unmatched

experience and innovative technology in managing livestock megaherds to rapidly reverse desertification and

build topsoil. Our expertise also covers over 40 additional agricultural and management tools that accelerate

land restoration. Many of the ranch-based consultants who offer parallel coaching services will be employed

by NSS as on-site managers.

• Monitoring: The NSS relationship with Soil and Topography Information, LLC (STI) gives us access to the most

advanced soil monitoring and ecosystem services quantification system in the world. With over one hundred

man-years of R&D, commercial deployment and numerous patents and trade secrets, STI has an estimated 3-5

year lead on competing soil monitoring companies. Our early adaptation of STI tools to environmental

monitoring gives us the opportunity to secure exclusive licenses across sectors and countries. While most

other PES firms rely on modeled “best management practices” to calculate payment for environmental

services, NSS and STI have a working system to precisely quantify the complete range of ecosystem services.

• New Soil Matrix decision support: The NSM is a disruptive technology, with no current parallel. The belief

that topsoil can only be created slowly and that desertification is largely irreversible has precluded the

development of topsoil formation decision-support options for land and municipal managers, carbon and

water traders and policymakers. By integrating best-of-breed component technologies and rushing software

and online networking to market, NSS plans to achieve social lock-in among agricultural producers and cities

needing innovative ways to meet pressing water and risk mitigation needs.

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NSS-Cornell StudyLead Investigator: David Pimentel, Cornell University

Study Name: Quantifying Soil Carbon Increase and Ecosystem

Service Provision Under Optimized Management of Grassland

Farms and Ranches

Locations:

2010 Pilot: 3 Vermont Farms

2011-2012: 18 additional Farms and Ranches across US, Canada, Mexico

Purposes:

• Scientific quantification of rapid topsoil formation benefits resulting from NSS processes

• Decision-support software R&D: Problem-solving by lead ranchers and farmers downloaded into the New Soil Matrix

• Populate Artificial Intelligence ES modeling with data across a range of environments and management scenarios

• Publicity generation

• Demonstrative sales of soil carbon credits estimated at $9 million over two years possible at $7 per ton of CO2

• Milestones: Equip, Support and Monitor 21 Farms and Ranches in 2010, 2011, 2012.– 4 monitoring events, each a field day.

– Publishing of Scientific Papers in 2011 and 2012

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New Soil Security TeamLand Team

CEO:

Abe Collins, founder of New Soil

Security, soil formation expert,

New Soil Matrix architect

Land Projects Director:

Rodger Savory, world leader in

megaherd management and

drylands landscape restoration

Design Director and AU Liaison:

Darren Doherty, world leader in

Keyline and Permaculture Design

Software Project Management Team

Director of Technology:

Roger Davis, electronic cinema pioneer, worked with all major Hollywood studios

Information Architect and Development Team Manager:

Michael Mackay, digital cinema total system engineer and mobile 3D systems design. Principal architect Malaysian DirecTV, former Director, Sony's Advanced Research TV Group

Business Operations

COO: Candidates being considered

CFO: Currently Gallagher, Flynn and Company, additional candidates being considered

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Investment and Return

A phased $10 million investment will enable rapid development of the complete NSS services offering and early client acquisition.

Revenue from monitoring, land and software enterprises is projected to provide 20% annual ROI over the first 5 years to investors.

Exit strategies are dependent on investor interests. Company buy-out of investor stake or ongoing equity partners are favored.