A major conflict in rural versus urban politics is that strong property rights over private land incentivizes the NZ multi-generational farm as a business and also for ecological stewardship, yet environmental regulation works against this by constraining decision rights on private land, which is a form of capital. This talk explores a new path to resolve this conflict with a design for ‘ecocapital’ which is a new type of dynamic property right built from several novel technological and governance mechanisms (contribution systems, smart contracts and oracles, envelopment bank). I illustrate with several pilot case studies. The central idea is that ecology and agriculture can be aligned by using new digital technology affordances to harness the power of the commons to augment private property (ecocapital), and that this is a superior solution to the standard environmental economics approach that uses government regulatory power to weaken private property and create artificial capital (e.g. carbon markets).