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I do habitat restoration, with a particular interest in building soil. Our land is a prototype native plant laboratory. It is the purest post disturbance native plant habitat in the Central Coast region of California and perhaps on the continent (I'm told; I obviously don't know the latter for certain).

Our operations involve animal management, botany, geology, microbiology, forestry, hydrology, construction, engineering... It is a type of work for which robots are spectacularly unsuited: too dirty, difficult terrain, distances from energy stocks too large... I don't care how much GIS information they have, it will never be enough and cannot be processed by any algorithm with certainty (although there is a huge need for better locational information aps). The critical needs for proximity and site familiarity defeat the very idea of central command and control. It is a new industry, with a huge demand for tool and process development including sensor and information processing, automated contract management, manufactured equipment ranging from weed bags to autonomous walking houses, portable food production, and composting units, etc.

Soil is everything to the continuity of civilization. It is time to rebuild a planet full of life. And what do you know but I own the first patented business method for free-market environmental management! (like I'll ever see a dime from it, but at least they can't do it now).

Anyway, that's the gist of it, with the side benefit that a large, distributed, and independent population is immune to tyranny and a bulwark of civil defense for the settled population. All of that's Biblical btw, a new book that is still in rewrite.