Land Betterment Corporation Hires Senior Executive, Jessica Medeiros Garrison, as President of the Land Betterment Exchange

FISHERS, Ind., September 14, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Land Betterment Corporation (“Land Betterment” or the “Company”), an environmental solutions company fostering positive impact through upcycling former coal mining and industrial sites to create sustainable community development and job creation, today announced that it has hired Jessica Medeiros Garrison as President of the Land Betterment Exchange (LBX) and LBX Carbon Offsets. Jessica will be responsible for driving the vision, outreach, and collaboration between corporations wanting carbon offsets and the domestic projects needing environmental remediation.

The LBX team noticed that in their quest for carbon neutrality, domestic companies are spending millions every year to pay landowners in foreign countries simply to not cut down trees in exchange for carbon offsets. The LBX philosophy is rather to spend those same dollars proactively to plant trees and to rehabilitate our scarred natural resources for the benefit of American communities.

“Our priority is supporting reclamation of our environment and distressed communities in the United States. By training former workers in the fossil fuel industry to perform remediation activities, we are empowering local communities and states to clean up the land that has given so generously to our society, and to sustainably return those sites to a healthy state. Along the way, we can create local jobs, provide additional tax revenue, grow the local tax base by increasing area property values, and help our domestic corporate leaders by supporting their carbon neutrality goals. Distressed communities are short of jobs and are not enthusiastic about their outdoor views. LBX is not forgetting about those communities. LBX will help anywhere there is a fossil fuel impacted property.” stated Jessica Garrison, president of Land Betterment Exchange.

These priorities created the pivotal moment in the creation of the Land Betterment Exchange Carbon Offset program. The LBX Carbon Offset is a verified and trackable voluntary carbon offset that enables companies to achieve carbon neutrality by sponsoring the remediation and transformation of former fossil fuel sites, while creating jobs for former coal miners and oil and gas workers in the local regions.

Mark Jensen, co-founder and executive chairman of LBX stated, “We believe LBX is a game changer for the voluntary marketplace. Given the vast amount of voluntary carbon offsets that will be needed over the next ten years, we will be a small component of the market but a component that every fortune 500 company should have in their yearly allocation. We offer several key differentiating factors that cannot be found in other voluntary carbon offsets. We feel confident that companies purchasing carbon offsets through the LBX program will realize more value per offset than any other offering in the market.”

The keys of Land Betterment Exchange Carbon Offsets are:

• LBX program offsets are derived from environmental improvement vs environmental neutral.
• The environmental improvement is created by local communities reclaiming and shutting down fossil fuel properties to transform the properties (carbon banking and reforestation).
• The jobs help workers transition from coal mining or oil and gas jobs to becoming environmental specialists (providing them jobs that match their skill sets).
• The offset has an extremely conservative valuation and calculation methodology.
• They are 100% tracked using blockchain as well as time elapse documentation and verification that is provided to the purchaser for their own use and marketing.
• Every project becomes a local marketing platform for the offset purchaser as we can integrate their brand in the videos and images created through the reclamation itself.

Jessica further states “I have three principal goals: (i) Americans to genuinely believe, have hope and be excited to know that LBX and its corporate collaborators will help them restore their communities, (ii) business leaders pledging carbon neutrality ambitions to feel duty-bound to learn more about and support the LBX platform, and (iii) for political leaders to observe and support these efforts in their states.”

Mark Jensen, executive chairman of Land Betterment stated, “We could not be more excited to have Jessica join our team at this crucial moment of the Land Betterment Exchange. We have worked tirelessly to design a product where everyone wins - the community, the environment and the carbon offset buyers. Having Jessica lead this division forward and showcase our product on the main stage is an exciting moment for our company. She has the passion, drive and energy to create change in our world and we are confident that through her efforts we will be able to clean up billions worth of environment hazards in the United States, create jobs for fossil fuel communities once left behind and truly improve the environment while helping corporations to achieve their carbon neutral plans.”

About Jessica Garrison
Ms. Garrison has been practicing law and serving executive functions in business for over 20 years. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Government Affairs for a New York based artificial intelligence company. Jessica graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alabama where she served as President of the Student Government Association. She is also a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law. Before attending law school, Jessica served as Director of Public Relations and Legislative Affairs for then State of Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor (now Chief Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit). Following law school, Jessica was a partner in in an Alabama based law firm where her primary practice areas included real estate transactions, business acquisitions, economic development incentives (including industrial and brownfield projects), bond financing, and commercial law. In 2010, Jessica successfully managed a statewide campaign for Attorney General and joined the incoming administration as Chief Counsel and Deputy Attorney General. Jessica was recruited from that position to serve as Executive Director of a national political committee and a national policy committee in Washington DC. Her directive was to revamp and improve those committees’ performance in support of mission objectives. After successfully accomplishing that goal, Jessica returned to the private sector but has remained involved in shaping policy. In 2021 Jessica was named one of ‘Washington’s Most Powerful Women’ by Washingtonian Magazine. Jessica currently maintains her membership in the Alabama Bar Association and is also a member of the Global Network Foundation Board of Directors, the Society of International Business Fellows, The Federalist Society, Women’s National Republican Club in New York, North America Leadership Class of 2014, the Birmingham Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2013, Leadership Alabama Class of 2008-09, and the Leadership Tuscaloosa Class of 2001-02.

About Land Betterment Exchange - LBX
The Land Betterment Exchange process enables corporations and sponsors needing carbon offsets to achieve their carbon neutral plan to keep their funds local benefiting their community and environment while still acquiring highly valuable, traceable and verifiable carbon offsets. LBX will work with sponsors to match them with projects that will be tracked using the LBX blockchain technology while also providing time elapsed documentation, imagery and videos of the property being remediation and revegetation. LBX works to incorporate its sponsors’ brand into the environmental remediation and bring the community together with the sponsors as they help to do good by the region and environment. LBX is keeping it local in the United States. Land Betterment Exchange has engaged Land Betterment Corporation as its token and carbon offset issuance partner to ensure that integrity of the token and carbon offset issuance process is adhered to. Land Betterment Corporation and Land Betterment Exchange both firmly believe that with real solutions it is possible for restoration of impacted areas to live side-by-side long term employment, while building sustainable and safe surroundings for communities and our planet. For more information visit www.thisislbx.com or connect with the Company on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

About Land Betterment Corporation
Land Betterment Corporation, an Indiana Benefit Corporation and Pending B-Corp, is an environmental solutions company focused on fostering a positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites to create sustainable community development and job creation. The Company utilizes a complete solution-based lifecycle program to restore and rehabilitate the environment and revitalize communities in need of change and opportunity. Land Betterment accomplishes this by identifying un-reclaimed, run-down and neglected coal mining sites, fixing the environment through reclamation and remediation, and then repurposing the land to support a sustainable business that serves the community. For more information visit landbetterment.com or connect with the Company on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other important factors that could cause the Company’s actual results, performance, or achievements or industry results to differ materially from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Land Betterment Corporation’s control. The words “believes”, “may”, “will”, “should”, “would”, “could”, “continue”, “seeks”, “anticipates”, “plans”, “expects”, “intends”, “estimates”, or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. Any forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date of this release. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. The Company cannot assure you that the projected results or events will be achieved.

Company Contacts:
Mark LaVerghetta
317.537.0492 ext. 0
Chief Governance Officer, Corporate Finance
info@landbetterment.com

Stephanie Conzelman
207.205.0790
Stakeholder Engagement Director
info@landbetterment.com

Jessica Medeiros Garrison
205.568.4371
President
Land Betterment Exchange
jmg@landbetterment.com