# BioFi Design Principles These principles were developed to guide the **[[BioFi]] Project team**, **[[BioFi Glossary#Bioregional Organizing Team|bioregional organizing teams]]**, **Indigenous communities/coalitions**, and other collaborating organizations to effectively design **[[BioFi Glossary#Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF)|Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs)]]** or other BioFi-aligned mechanisms such as **eco-credit programs**, **bioregional tithing** (or other crowdfunding) programs, **complementary currencies**, **mutual credit programs**, or **commitment pooling programs**. Like everything bioregional, BFFs and other BioFi mechanisms should be designed to serve each unique **[[BioFi Glossary#Bioregional Regeneration Strategy|Bioregional Regeneration Strategy]]**. Therefore, their structures will be diverse. Diverse, decentralized organizations can support increased systemic resilience and improve the efficacy of BFFs and other BioFi mechanisms as connective tissue (see Figure I). Therefore, these principles should be implemented within context. We drew on **Permaculture Design Principles**, **Rainwater Harvesting Principles**, **Life Principles**, **Indigenous Economics**, and **on-land observation and tending** to develop this set of **BioFi Principles**. Permaculture and Rainwater Harvesting Principles are based on Indigenous land and water stewardship practices that were developed over millennia. Fritjof Capra's Life Principles are informed both by physics and Eastern mystical traditions developed by indigenous peoples. The BioFi Project acknowledges indigenous wisdom as foundational for this work.  Gary Snyder said of its present anti-natural state: "Money floats upstream." > "The BioFi Principles instruct for the reversal of the current flow of finance – toroidally from and into Nature – so that these essences extracted from the Earth flow downstream to water the [[BioFi Glossary#Regeneration|regeneration]] of our home." *—David Haenke, Bioregionalist, Founder of the Ozark Area Community Congress and North American Bioregional Congress, BioFi Project Advisor* --- *Note: This content is from BioFi's resource garden - https://www.biofi.earth/resource-garden*