# Additional Case Studies: Stories of Bioregional Regeneration 7. Additional Case Studies: Stories of Bioregional 127 Organizing and Bioregional Finance in Action Case Study 8: The Edge Prize – Scaling What’s Possible by Supporting and 129 Connecting Regenerative Innovators Case Study 9: Regenerate Cascadia – Coordinated and Coherent 130 Bioregional Organizing Case Study 10: Hylo – A Coordination Platform for the Future of Bioregional 133 Organizing Case Study 11: ReCommon – Regenerative Common Land Trusts 135 Case Study 12: Regenerosity – Flowing Capital to Grassroots Regeneration 137 by Cultivating Trust -> 7. Additional Case Studies: Stories of Bioregional Organizing and Bioregional Finance in Action In addition to the multiple case studies throughout this book, five more case studies are presented in the annex. Each of the case studies tells diverse stories of combining dedicated social processes and thoughtful technological innovations to create strong foundations for BFFs. While each is substantial as a standalone case study, they represent, as a set of interdependent stories, a collective case study in how creative efforts across bioregions are resourcing each other and the global movement.  The Edge Prize concept is a template for a broader, open-source movement to catalyze critical regenerative innovation in bioregions globally, fitting into a template of bioregional transformation on an evolutionary trajectory toward regenerative innovation. CASE STUDY 9: Regenerate Cascadia – Coordinated and Coherent Bioregional Organizing By: Taya Seidler, Clare Attwell, Brandon Letsinger, and Sheri Herndon About Regenerate Cascadia Regenerate Cascadia is a capacity-building organization and a social movement and developing a vision and framework to administer a regeneration fund for Cascadia, a bioregion located along the upper Pacific Rim of North America stretching from Southeast Alaska to Northern California, and as far east as the Yellowstone Caldera. A central goal of Regenerate Cascadia is to grow capacity cohesively across the scales of landscapes, ecoregions, and bioregions – something that currently does not exist locally or globally – as part of a multi-generational strategy for the long-term health of the Cascadia bioregion. Regenerate Cascadia is addressing the complex challenges in funding connected landscape outcomes across a bioregion through a whole-systems approach that: prioritizes the central role of place-based stewardship; ensures decision-making is held by those at the local level; develops trust-based networks that hold the integrity of the work; and uses a nested scale structure to facilitate information flow, representation, and learning across the whole system. Activating a bioregional movement Regenerate Cascadia was formed by Brandon Letsinger and Clare Attwell in April 2023 during the first ever Salmon Nation Edge Prize, where their vision to activate a bioregional movement in Cascadia won the Edge Prize for Innovation in Systems and Governance. After months of planning with 100+ local community organizers on both sides of the Canada-US border, they partnered with the Design School for Regenerating Earth to co-facilitate a month-long Bioregional Activation Tour. They traveled to 14 communities around Cascadia during October 2023, hosting presentations that asked, “How do we regenerate the Cascadia bioregion?”. They met with more than 1000 individuals, including Indigenous knowledge keepers, regenerative leaders, groups, community artists, and elders across Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia through presentations, workshops, site visits, and strategy sessions. This was followed by an online summit that brought together 50+ presentations in a ‘Festival of What Works’, and concluded with an Open Space Unconference from November 3-12, 2023, where participants cocreated working groups for Regenerate Cascadia. The vision resonated strongly with many communities across the bioregion. Jay Bowen, an elder of the Skagit people who opened the Summit, articulated the following statement in the opening ceremony: “Gathered before us are the most important people in the world. It may be a small group right now, but in a few short years, there's going to be a long line of people waiting to get involved in this very important movement that is overseeing the welfare of our communities.”  Beyond this, Regenerate Cascadia has succeeded in meeting the core challenge participatory events often struggle with – maintaining momentum and continuous engagement among participants. They have an active Telegram channel of 121 members sharing thousands of messages through 39 subchannels covering specific topics and guilds, organizational infrastructure discussions, local communities’ individual channels, media and communication, inter alia. The community is thriving and members are actively engaging with each other. The Regenerate Cascadia community of ‘regenerators’ has since co-developed a digital platform to support the work; they continue to collaboratively take in feedback and refine this prototype as their ideas and needs evolve. A digital landscape The digital platform includes a structural framework (see Figure 11.) that prioritizes community-led work within a landscape, while thoughtfully aggregating place- based projects into larger coordination structures. A ‘front door’ website is an easy entry point for people to learn more, join as a member, donate to specific projects, and get more involved. Projects and communities each have a landing page that serve as a focal point for local news, resources, and events. These are curated by participating communities and are indexable by search engines. The digital platform provides an online space to connect within a landscape and across watersheds at the nested scales of ecoregions and the Cascadia bioregion. The platform includes a comprehensive ‘back end’ suite of tools and resources to support local project work, including (i) education and onboarding; (ii) an information commons and searchable directories; (iii) a regenerative movement map and relational database; and (iv) comprehensive data, measurement, evaluation and reporting capabilities. All Regenerate Cascadia programs are part of an integrated 501(c)3 nonprofit administrative backend to provide accounting, receive grants, raise funds, deliver timely financial reporting, and maintain legal compliance. Figure 11. Regenerate Cascadia’s evolving structural framework for supporting bioregional funding  Regenerate Cascadia’s living structural framework can be viewed as a system for the coherent flow of resources - educational, financial, inspirational, and cultural - that supports ongoing bioregional regeneration outcomes and learning. The framework enables capital to be distributed from a large bioregional fund into smaller landscape- level funds that deliver resources to decentralized projects according to the needs of ecoregions and landscapes. This ensures governance power is held by those closest to the work through trust-based networks of relationships that connect and align diverse projects within a landscape-level vision and strategy. The framework provides a comprehensive intermediary between local communities and funders. This enables effective cooperation, coordination, and governance across the bioregion to optimize strategic outcomes. Representing diversity A key tenet of the framework is the commitment to the representation of diverse voices at all scales, including those of ecosystems and keystone species, ensuring that feedback loops from across the whole system enable collective intelligence to inform future actions. This supports the whole system to see itself (co-sense), learn (co-presence), and iterate (co-create), enabling connected and concurrent local and bioregional agency to solve problems at the appropriate scales. Regenerate Cascadia’s structures are built with one of the movement’s core goals in mind – to prototype a series of replicable transformational templates that return ‘right relationship’ to the Earth as a central organizing premise for finance, while evolving how we live and work together cooperatively across scales. A core foundation of Regenerate Cascadia are ‘Regenerate Hubs’, which hold the governance capacity to manage a fund for a discrete landscape across diverse stakeholders. Regenerate Hubs operate in several ways, including: — working with local communities and weaving relationships to develop a long-term vision aligned with the overall bioregional vision of Regenerate Cascadia; — identifying and engaging voices that need to be present; — maintaining a portfolio of regenerative projects within their defined landscape areas; — stewarding an annual landscape budget; and — maintaining team coherence. Structured for regeneration Each Hub has a core team that facilitates/helps establish conditions for cooperation and trust and is accountable for administrative and reporting requirements. Each landscape features Bioregional Learning Centers that facilitate the cocreation of place-based frameworks and serve as foundational education spaces for sense- making and decision-making in the community. These centers monitor, evaluate, and manage the dynamic flow of an information commons using shared metrics for social, cultural, and ecological impact that supports robust fund reporting and continuous learning. Hubs primarily collaborate with members of Regenerate Cascadia from within a particular landscape, and are represented by a network of Ecoregional Councils – governance bodies responsible for creating ecoregional budgets that maintain the connections between local and bioregional scales. Regenerate Cascadia’s structural framework serves several other core functions in supporting landscape leaders, including bioregional ‘Guilds’ made up of knowledge communities responsible for providing tools and resources around specific  regenerative topics, and connecting learning and networks across landscapes. Hubs and Guilds undertake their own projects and activities while sharing news, updates, resources, directories, and events for a specific place or topic in a way that is meaningful for all participants. Regenerate Cascadia supports the Hubs and Guilds’ core teams and services by administering a portion of all funds raised; providing opportunities to practice healthy budgeting and governance with small sums of money; and growing their decision-making and governance capacities ahead of receiving larger flow funding. Finally, the non-profit backbone of Regenerate Cascadia is maintained through ‘Bioregional Stewardship Councils’, which directly assist with communications, outreach, fundraising, finance, legal, and reporting requirements, and a Bioregional Congress – an assembly comprised of Guilds and Ecoregional Councils to govern a shared Cascadia bioregional vision. Each of the structural components Regenerate Cascadia is collaboratively building are demonstrable templates that are adaptable, replicable, and scalable in other localities. They are significant, not only for a single bioregion, but as a living framework for movements emerging around the world. By connecting and resourcing those doing the work in their communities through the support of core backbone teams of bioregional weavers; providing knowledge and resource sharing through Guilds that weave between landscapes; and co-creating the digital infrastructure for coordination and communication, Regenerate Cascadia enables coordinated, coherent processes for bioregional learning and regeneration. This framework provides a governance model for bioregional funding, enabling capital to flow to where it is needed on the ground, and building the foundations for funding the transition to a regenerative economy. CASE STUDY 10: Hylo – A Coordination Platform for the Future of Bioregional Organizing By: Clare Politano About Hylo Hylo is a community-led, open-source coordination tool for purpose-driven groups, with an emphasis on place-based organizing. The free web and mobile apps allow community members to deepen relationships and collaborate to get things done through discussions, requests, offers, resources, projects, events, geographic maps, direct messaging, and chat. All of this is offered without advertising or data-harvesting in a clean and simple user interface. Hylo is for place-based organizing Giving groups tools for local coordination is a particular focus for Hylo, because ecological regeneration and community care must happen in a place-based context. By using the geographic map, members can share and discover local events, resources, and collaborators. Groups can also define their geographic boundary and display that on the shared map, which also includes a layer for Native territories that can be toggled on and off. Hylo plans to add bioregions as the next map layer. Bioregional coordination is already happening on Hylo Several bioregions are using Hylo to support connection in their local landscape.  In 2023, Salmon Nation bioregion used Hylo to convene a community of local leaders, the “Edgewalkers,” throughout Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northern California for an initiative called the Edge Prize. The group gathered on Hylo for a series of online relationship-building and educational sessions, and many participants also met up in-person and made new local connections. The Edge Prize culminated in the Edgewalkers distributing $80,000 in prize money to deserving bioregional projects through a participatory budgeting process. The Edgewalkers used a different tech tool to conduct the co-budgeting exercise, and in the future this function will be built into Hylo. After the convening, two Edge Prize participants founded a new bioregional group together, Regenerate Cascadia, which went on to organize an in-person bioregional activation tour, in-person event series, and online summit all dedicated to ecological regeneration and community resilience in Cascadia bioregion. This group remains very active on the ground in Cascadia bioregion. Other bioregional groups using Hylo include the Bay Area Bioregion, Salish Sea, Sacramento River, Appalachia, Thames River Watershed, and Bioregional Weaving Labs. People use these groups to share local opportunities and information, meet collaborators, and coordinate action - like civic participation in public comments related to local environmental policy, or crowdfunding to support the return of land to Indigenous tribes. There is also a global community of practice, the Bioregional Commons, where place-based organizers from around the world are connecting to share and discuss resources relevant to bioregionalism and the transition to regenerative bioregional economies. Tools for bioregional self-governance Through a partnership with OpenTEAM, the Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management, Hylo is building tools to support the transition to regenerative agriculture and the participatory governance of purpose-driven, collaborative groups. These prosocial tools include space for groups to share their purpose and agreements, and prompt members to commit to them; administrative tools to curate and assign roles and responsibilities within the group; and coming soon, tools for proposals and decision-making. OpenTEAM is using these tools to manage collaboration among dozens of sub-awardees - networks of farmers and open-source technologists - working together to fulfill a $35M grant to the organization from the USDA to support the growth of climate-smart agriculture in the US. Combined with Hylo’s mapping features, these tools to support place-based collaboration and governance give bioregional groups the power to steward their landscape as a commons. This might, for example, mean the residents of a bioregion making proposals for restoration projects or local regenerative businesses, with other residents voting on which proposals to support and how to allocate resources among them. These tools can be powerful enablers of capital allocation for Bioregional Financing Facilities. Bioregional DAOs Hylo is stewarded by Terran Collective, a bioregional group in the California Bay Area whose purpose is to amplify collaboration among people regenerating communities and the planet. Terran’s vision is for bioregional groups on Hylo to grow strong collaborative cultures and mature into bioregional DAOs – Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (see Section 4.7). A DAO is a collaborative organization where members decide together how to govern a shared resource or a commons.  The aim of such a DAO would be to steward the wellbeing of the land and the people, with members participating in governance decisions to support this care. Decisions could enable the creation of land management agreements, the transition to local production and circular economies, advancement of ecological regeneration, and improvements in community resilience and climate adaptation. CASE STUDY 11: ReCommon – Regenerative Common Land Trusts By: Alex Corren About ReCommon ReCommon is a US-based organization dedicated to building systems for regenerative community land acquisition and governance, using an adaptive bioregional framework. ReCommon approaches this work on the “pattern-level” to create innovative yet grounded solutions that reflect foundational principles in nature. This approach is based on the understanding that there are common patterns present in most successful solutions, and that identifying and making those patterns accessible to others can greatly streamline place-based, on-the-ground action. This work includes building governance protocols and legal templates that are designed to scale based upon natural patterns, such as land use patterns, community design patterns, and regenerative landscape intervention patterns. The groups that ReCommon works with then move from the pattern-level to the detail-level by adapting these protocols and templates to their place-based projects and communities – rendering them increasingly decentralized and interoperable, which cultivates systemic resilience. Hybrid entity structure ReCommon’s hybrid entity structure serves as an integrated bridge between impact investment capital and long-term regenerative stewardship of land in Trust by place- based bioregional communities. There are three core sister entities are: ReCommon Foundation - 501(c)3 nonprofit, cultivating Bioregional Nodes, governance and stewardship of land in Trust ReCommon Trust - impact investment trust fund, acquires land to be stewarded and governed by Bioregional Nodes and other aligned entities ReCommon Labs - cooperative that builds digital tools to support the coordination, acquisition, and governance of land held in Trust These diverse entity structures are able to work closely together towards a common goal while leveraging all pathways of capital formation. The Foundation accepts tax- exempt donations of all kinds and applies for grant funding, the Trust issues shares to investors for the acquisition of land from investors, and Labs accepts a blend of investor and non-investor members to build the ReCommon ecosystem.  Adaptive bioregional governance ReCommon’s place-based governance framework is called the Regenerative Community Land Trust (aka RCLT, RegenCLT), which builds upon core principles and functionality of the classic CLT model while expanding on it with ecological design principles codified into bylaws, leaseholds, and other documents. This model of land tenure serves as the foundation for how the land is managed, accessed, and stewarded by the community. The distinct governance bodies that are responsible for the long-term stewardship of land in trust correspond to ecoregions and are called Bioregional Nodes. They oversee the agreements for use of the land, manage the Bioregional Node Treasury, and submit proposals related to use of funds, and use of land. Land is held in Trust and is governed by Bioregional Nodes. Leaseholders access the land via long-term renewable leaseholds, and have direct ownership in the structures, businesses and activities that happen on the land. Each Node has five key stakeholder categories. Each category has equal weight – 20 percent – regardless of the number of members — Stewards: leaseholders with direct stewardship responsibility for land in Trust — Elders: members that represent rights of nature and Indigenous wisdom — Patrons: Commons Credit holders, investors into land held in Trust — Partners: aligned organizations that are working in and/or with the Node — General Members: members located in the Node, with no other qualifiers This structure allows for larger and smaller coordination bodies to form organically, honoring the complexity of relationships within and across landscapes and cultures. Securing land for the bioregional commons ReCommon Trust raises capital to build a distributed bioregional network of land holdings through the issuance of shares known as Commons Credits. CCs directly correlate to property acquired by the Trust, and are backed by the value of the land. Patrons – the owners of CCs – have a seat at the table in RCLT governance in the Bioregional Node that contains the property. Governance of the land held in Trust is explicitly delegated to stewardship entities. Bioregional Nodes, via ReCommon Foundation, are the default stewardship entity, but the Trust has the flexibility to work with any place-based organization that exists specifically to support the multi-generational care of land. The Foundation is a significant shareholder in the Trust, which means that when profits are generated – by scalable leasehold fees, etc. – and are distributed to shareholders, the Bioregional Node Treasuries are direct recipients of a portion of those profits. This serves as the foundation of a regenerative flywheel for resilient bioregional economies, where land in Trust generates revenue that is redistributed to the community for ongoing support of ecological bioregional initiatives.  CASE STUDY 12: Regenerosity – Flowing Capital to Grassroots Regeneration by Cultivating Trust By: Faith Flanigan and Ruth Andrade About Regenerosity For over 15 years, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Lush Spring Prize, and UNDP’s Equator Prize have identified, spotlighted, and funded more than 400 leading and upcoming grassroots organizations in the regenerative movement that are delivering programs at the nexus of climate, ecology, livelihoods, and sovereignty. Regenerosity emerged in 2019 as a collaborative between these prize programs designed to bolster the critical role philanthropy has to play during these challenging times by leveraging this track-record and experience. Regenerosity works to continually grow partnerships, flow resources, and facilitate learning for regenerative grassroots organizations. To achieve this, Regenerosity thinks systemically. From the understanding that regeneration is about creating more capacity and capability to create conditions conducive to life, Regenerosity supports a developmental culture throughout all the elements of our theory of change by: — Supporting grassroots, community-led organizations in threatened or degraded landscapes through capacity development grants, and by inviting members of the communities Regenerosity works with to design participatory trust-based programs according to their needs. — Bringing grantee organizations together in regional peer-to-peer learning circles and supporting their connection to other networks and funders. — Bolstering the critical role of philanthropy by engaging funders in the concepts of trust-based and regenerative philanthropy, providing experiences of connection to nature (in partnership with Be the Earth Foundation), and attracting further funding for grassroots organizations in ways that are more trust-based. — Creating and promoting grassroots-led stories to share the impact and inspire the larger movement. — Developing Regenerosity into an organization that embodies those principles in governance and creates opportunities for its own growth. Regenerosity’s vision is a world where the power of gifting and collaboration can nurture thriving communities and grassroots initiatives as they steward ecosystems towards vibrant health. Regenerosity’s theory of change Regenerosity works across scales through all of their programs. They weave action- focused collaboration between grassroots organizations, funders, and key actors to develop human capacity to be in right relationship with all living systems by centering: — Place-based Impact: Co-designing catalytic programs with grassroots organizations based on long-term relationships of trust. Flowing capital and resources to these organizations so they can grow their impact and potential to become regional hubs of regenerative practice. — Network Collaboration: Bringing organizations together through regional  communities of peers. Organizations join learning circles in and across cohorts for peer-to-peer learning, storytelling, and strategy development. — Movement Building: Spotlighting evidence and grassroots-led stories that inspire the larger movement. Engaging with funders and key actors to influence the field of regenerative philanthropy and further attract interest and resources for the growth of the grassroots regenerative movement. Regenerosity’s core programs Regenerosity’s core programs are based on shifting the power dynamics of philanthropy, catalyzing the work of their partners, and deeply listening and sharing their stories. Seeds Flow Funds The Seed Flow Funds are an experiment in trust-based philanthropy that puts the design (and direction) of the fund and decision-making about how the money gets spent in the hands of community leaders. The two current funds support “Indigenous Women in Brazil” and “East African Youth & Women in Permaculture”. In each of these funds, $3,000 is distributed to individuals and groups to lead changes in their communities. So far, 13 indigenous women in 12 states across Brazil and 12 mostly women permaculturists across 3 regions in Uganda and Kenya have delivered a diverse array of unique, context-dependent community initiatives. Currently 16 more women in Brazil are participating in the second cycle. Blossom, capacity strengthening program Blossom is a two-year program co-designed with grassroots partners who are working to regenerate threatened or degraded landscapes at the intersection of food sovereignty, livelihoods, and ecology. Through deploying participatory capital via a co-design process, Regenerosity is able to support their grassroots partners’ growth and innovation. The program develops partners’ organizational capacity, leadership skills, and connections, and supports their prototyping of models so that local organizations can grow into thriving regional hubs. The 2021-2023 cohort enabled thousands of members of Indigenous and local communities to increase food security and secure sustainable incomes while protecting and regenerating their traditional lands; scaling regionally and/or nationally while partnering with government offices and large NGOs; and scaling their programs through additional funding received through Regenerosity’s support. Regenerosity has delivered over $1M USD to 11 projects over 2.5 years, including supporting: — 2,500 direct beneficiaries who saw a 76% increase in household income with partners YICE Uganda and KAFRED in Bigodi National Park — a 100% increase in daily household meals in Nakivale Refugee camp with the participants of the food program with YICE Uganda — a 30% increase in water availability for biodiversity and livelihoods through Tarun Bharat Sangh across 5 watersheds in India. Pollinate storytelling series Liberation Agriculture is a film series exploring what true regeneration cultivates. Far too often, narratives around regeneration only go soil deep. With the intersections  of ecological collapse and systemic oppression becoming increasingly clear, Regenerosity is sharing stories that interweave the struggle to reclaim ecosystemic health and the struggle for collective liberation. Nurture Funder Community of Practice The Nurture Funder Community of Practice is an aligned community of funders that are learning, sharing, and experimenting with allocating financial capital in ways that are trust-based, coherent, and inclusive, in order to address social and environmental challenges from their roots. Regenerosity takes an experimental approach that aims not only at sharing knowledge, but also create a call-to-action environment, through helping to evolve the capacity of funders for redistributing power, upgrading methodologies, and reframing governance structures; creating collaborative prototypes for alternative types of funding; and generating stories that inspire other funders to transform their practices. Regenerosity believes in the power of shifting catalytic capital through trust-based, participatory practices, deep listening, and putting the voices of their partners at the forefront. They have catalyzed over 1.5M dollars to grassroots projects and continue to iterate and grow their programs.  8. Next Steps and Call to Action  8. Next Steps and Call to Action “There’s a time for certain ideas to arrive, and they find a way to express themselves through us.” – Rick Rubin Bioregional Finance is an idea whose time has come. There are already many remarkable organizations, projects, and people working to actualize the spectrum of ideas and recommendations laid out in this book. We are grateful to them for inspiring us and feeding into this document. With the publication of this book, the authors and our many collaborators will now move from research and template design to designing, building, and implementing BFFs through partnerships with Bioregional Organizing Teams and by catalyzing broader action in Bioregional Finance. We invite stakeholders from around the world, working across disciplines and sectors, to engage with us and with each other to support the decentralization of financial resource governance, the design of project portfolios for systemic change, and the transition to regenerative economies. We recognize that while there is no single solution to the polycrisis, Bioregional Finance can catalyze a global place-based movement that shifts value structures, and enables each of us to contribute to healing the Earth and culture in our unique ways. In Table 12 below we lay out some potential actions for key categories of actors.247 While no two bioregions will follow the same path, we hope that through shared learning and prototyping we can rapidly advance the field of Bioregional Finance in an emergent, evolutionary way. While many of these actions may on the surface look like to-do list items to check off, we suggest that they are all – including the most technocratic and technical – recommendations to form and nurture relationships of care, trust, healing, reciprocity, clear communication, and mutual learning. We look forward to embarking on this journey with all of you. The forthcoming BioFi Community of Practice on Hylo will be a key place for us all to engage. 247 These actions are not intended to be prescriptive and are not linear. We understand bioregional regeneration to be a complex, dynamic flow of actions and relations across multiple nested scales within a landscape and hope for these actions to support that process. We encourage you to consider that by reading this book, you are already an active participant in this movement, whether or not you identify with one of these categories. We encourage you to be curious about actions and relationships not listed that may be right for you to engage in. ACTORS POTENTIAL ACTIONS Bioregional › Connect, engage, align, and organize diverse actors in your Organizers bioregion and continually work to identify voices missing from the process248 › Establish relationship with aligned local Indigenous communities early in the organizing process249 › Prioritize building relationships of care, trust, and long term commitment before formal community organizing › Start a thorough, participatory, and iterative bioregional mapping process › Invite Indigenous communities to contribute to a story of place through participatory mapping processes250 › Develop Bioregional Hubs to build capacity in the bioregion › Connect with organizers in other bioregions to form relationships and networks of mutual learning and support251 › Develop a Bioregional Regeneration Strategy › Prototype and iterate participatory, inclusive governance structures for effective bioregional connectivity and representation › Run a project incubator: prepare projects and organizations for investment by helping them assess and locally source their multi-capital needs; financial capital may not be what is most needed now › Prioritize projects and develop project portfolios best suited for initial funding › Experiment with facilitating financial flows through shared governance and document your learnings › Connect with the BioFi teams and/or experts in your bioregion to design, implement, and evolve BFFs › Develop an integrated MRV strategy › Learn out loud: Publicly share the story of efforts and learnings as they unfold › Join the forthcoming BioFi Community of Practice on Hylo Regenerators › Tell the story and share the vision for the transition to and Indigenous a regenerative economy in your place in a way that Communities, demonstrates the wisdom and expertise in the unique Nations, and Tribes stewardship role you hold. Invite and support others in doing the same › Connect with aligned projects, organizations, or Indigenous groups in the bioregion and consider developing an integrated or at least coordinated approach – leverage synergies › Develop project or organizational proposals for your vision › Share your multi-capital and financial capital needs with bioregional organizers › Work with bioregional organizers to develop a phased funding approach illustrating what types of financial capital are needed at each stage of the work and what activities those resources will be used for; seek expert support where needed 248 See 3.1 Bioregional organizing and value creation for a list of key actors. Exercise sensitivity to the place-specific context impacting Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) within a place 249 Some communities and First Nations may have cultural liaison officers available to advise on engagement protocols, culture, and history. 250 As the first peoples of the land, their stories, including place names and language, are invaluable to the bioregional mapping process. 251 Bioregional Weaving Labs (Europe), Design School for Regenerating Earth (Global), and Regenerative Communities Network (Global) are three of many great places to start.  › Consider financial regulation that drives a dynamic, forward- looking, and holistic assessment of risk and supports the localization of risk assessment › Work with Bioregional Organizing Teams and BFF management to collaboratively develop strategies for devolving resource allocation decision-making to bioregional entities › Push for the Global North to Global South funding flow to support Global South countries in meeting the targets under the Rio Conventions to flow directly to BFFs rather than through a multilateral fund › Set up a technical assistance fund to support Bioregional Organizing Teams and Indigenous nations (or consortiums of nations) to design, build, and operate BFFs › Invest in a portfolio of BFFs through a bond fund › Provide guarantees to enable Bioregional Investment Companies and Bioregional Banks to raise return-seeking financial capital Policymakers › Implement the actions described above for national (local level) policymakers that local policymakers also have jurisdiction over › Work with Bioregional Organizing Teams and BFF management to collaboratively develop strategies for devolving resource allocation decision-making to bioregional entities › Create local authorities, bonds, and taxes to directly support landscape, bioregional and watershed scale regeneration › Take steps to cultivate a bioregional perspective (holistic, ecologically-intersectional, Indigenous-informed, systems- level) when considering policy and program development and implementation › Seek deeper and more frequent cross-jurisdictional, multi- sectoral, multi-stakeholder collaboration on issues of bioregional importance and purview › Prioritize funding and capacity-building for initiatives that explicitly pursue their work through a holistic, intersectional bioregional lens Multilaterals and › Work with client countries to design and implement BFFs Development › Decentralize financial resource governance to BFFs when Agencies possible › As new public resources are mobilized – for example those promised under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework – structure them to flow to BFFs rather than to a global fund and then to national governments255 Web3 practitioners › Work to apply existing Web3 technology and to develop new tools and protocols where needed to innovate at the BioFi x DeFi intersection – particularly in the areas of capital raising, participatory capital allocation, MRV, governance, relational trust networks, complementary or Nature-based Currencies, Ecological Institutions, Rights of Nature, and wallets for ecosystems or species › As much as possible, seek partnership with “on-the-ground” regenerators and communities who are facing contextually- specific challenges and can guide iterative experimentation 255 This is particularly important for getting financial resources to Indigenous nations and tribes. Innovators, › Develop new financial and governance tools/instruments, Technologists, and business models, and legal structures that can support the Futurists legibility of both the local and global (real) value of biocultural regeneration and support the transition to regenerative economies › Continue to design and innovate integrative, cost-effective MRV solutions deliverable/contributable by place-based regenerators › Further iterate and improve the concepts of BFFs Designers, › Support Bioregional Organizing Teams to design and Economists, and implement BFFs and oversee iterative improvements Financial Services › Support bioregions in developing and implementing Consultants appropriate capital raising and participatory capital allocation approaches › Work on complementary or nature-based currency experiments › Share learnings openly and widely in the BioFi Community of Practice so that others may benefit from it Storytellers, Artists, › Invite local artists, storytellers, and designers early on into the and Designers process256 › Use art, storytelling, and other forms of creative expression to engage and reflect the local communities’ vision for a regenerative, bioregional economy – supporting a sense of common purpose and identity › Form artist collectives to work together to create art that fuels a movement in the bioregion › Submit collective proposals for grants to the Bioregional Trust once it is set up › Form a national or global fund to resource artists building the bioregional movement › Connect with local regenerators or Indigenous tribes to discover opportunities for connective tissue between place- based “old story” and artistic vision for “new story” culture creation Academics › Partner with a Bioregional Organizing Team to conduct strategic research to support the development of a Bioregional Regeneration Strategy, BFF, or Bioregional Hub › Support the development of an integrated MRV platform and strategy for BFFs and Bioregional Hubs › Support Bioregional Organizing Teams in systems mapping and identification of leverage points that can inform BFF investment strategies › Write about BFFs and bioregional efforts in academic journals or other publications. › Speak about case study examples at conferences to help spread the word and raise the profile of these efforts › Publically engage in debates, podcasts, or interviews about bioregional philosophy and tools (such as finance) › Organize meetings or conferences on bioregional themes › Interface with policymakers and other stakeholders to weave connections and facilitate information flow › Share research with bioregional communities › Listen to bioregional communities and help them share their stories with other bioregions and the broader planetary community 256 Due to historical and ongoing marginalization, it is particularly important that, where possible, these contributors are paid for their time and creative work.  9. Conclusion  9. Conclusion “When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” – Ilya Prigogine sprouting up in every bioregion on Earth. They can take in capital from an extractive and destructive economic system and compost it to grow new, regenerative, bioregional economies that eventually do not require external capital at all, but can autonomously engage in economic reciprocity and solidarity with neighbors giving nutrients and energy to, and potentially between, the islands of coherence Islands of Coherence – Ilya emerging amidst increasing disequilibrium. They can support us in reanimating the Prigogine, a renowned theoretical physicist and economy and putting finance in service to life and Indigenous wisdom. chemist, used the concept BFFs can help us return to seeing ourselves as an integral part of the living, of "islands of coherence" breathing Earth, and our economic actions and underlying perceptions of value to describe emergent phenomena in complex as steps toward or away from a regenerative future. We have been stuck for too systems, particularly localized long thinking about what is possible within the bounds of economic and financial regions within a complex systems that have us locked into a path of mutually assured destruction. Creating system where coherence or institutions that can effectively meet the polycrisis will require bold envisioning of the order emerges spontaneously possible.257 And critically, a remembering that it’s all intelligent, it’s all alive, and it’s all amidst overall disorder or connected. Our financial architecture must serve this recognition. randomness. These islands of coherence are characterized We believe that there is an order to the changes now emerging from the disorder of by temporary stability or our current social and economic systems. Ecosystems regenerate through phases organization that arises due of resource exploitation, conservation, release, and reorganization and our socio- to nonlinear interactions and economic systems can do the same.258 Just as clouds gather and disperse, so too feedback processes within the system. has capital gathered and is finding its way to flow back to life, including its human stewards.259 257 More on the analysis behind why human survival requires imagination in Iain McGilchrist’s books: The Master and the Emissary and The Matter With Things. 258 “During the slow sequence from exploitation to conservation, connectedness and stability increase and a capital of nutrients and biomass (in ecosystems) is slowly accumulated and sequestered. Competitive processes lead to a few species becoming dominant, with diversity retained in residual pockets preserved in a patchy landscape. While the accumulated capital is sequestered for the growing, maturing ecosystem, it also represents a gradual increase in the potential for other kinds of ecosystems and futures. For an economic or social system, the accumulating potential could as well be from the skills, networks of human relationships, and mutual trust that are incrementally developed and tested during the progression from exploitation to conservation. Those also represent a potential developed and used in one setting, that could be available in transformed ones.” (Resilience Alliance: Adaptive Cycle) 259 Inspired by the Emerald podcast episode On Clouds and Cosmic Law.  Glossary  Glossary Anti-fragility – The quality of a system, entity, or process that allows it to not only withstand — but actually benefit and grow stronger from — stress, volatility, and uncertainty. Unlike fragile systems, which break under stress, or robust systems, which withstand stress without changing, anti-fragile systems thrive and improve in response to challenges and disruptions. Biocultural regeneration – A holistic and interconnected approach to revitalizing and restoring ecosystems, biodiversity, and cultural practices in a given spatial context. It recognizes the interdependence of nature and culture, emphasizing the importance of Indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices in stewarding ecosystems. Biodiversity – Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic (genetic variability), species (species diversity), and ecosystem (ecosystem diversity) level.260 Bioregion – A region defined by unique physical characteristics (climate, topography), ecological characteristics (such as soil, flora, fauna, and fungi), cultural characteristics (such as language, art, and identity), and their interconnections. There are many differing definitions of the scale and boundaries of bioregions,261 and this book celebrates this diversity as a critical insight about the lack of any firm boundaries in ecosystems and the need to work with neighbors in bioregional organizing. Bioregional Hub – A community-led institution that functions as a gathering place (physical and/or virtual), resource center, and facilitator of various regeneration- related activities, initiatives, and networks within a bioregion. While Bioregional Hubs can offer educational and capacity building programs, much like Bioregional Learning Centers do, their focus extends to facilitating the flow of multiple forms of capital (intellectual, social, cultural, etc.). They cohere and strengthen a synergistic bioregional collaboration network by fostering connections and partnerships, and catalyzing projects and initiatives that align with the Bioregional Regeneration Strategy. See 3.3 Bioregional Hubs for detailed description. 260 UNEP: What is biodiversity? 261 One Earth: What is a bioregion? 22 ways to define a bioregion Bioregional Learning Center (BLC) – An educational hub for gathering and synthesizing knowledge about local ecology and culture.262 Centers typically focus on education, research, and skill-building related to the specific ecological, cultural, and social aspects of a bioregion. They offer various programs, workshops, mutual learning exchanges, and courses that focus on topics such as ecology, permaculture, sustainable living practices, Indigenous knowledge, and local history. The primary goal is to provide opportunities for individuals and communities to deepen their understanding of the unique characteristics and challenges of their bioregion while equipping them with the knowledge and skills necessary for regenerative living and stewardship in place. Bioregionalism – A socio-political and ecological philosophy that advocates for the alignment of economic activity, ecological management, and governance with the natural systems and cultures of "bioregions," defined by unique physical, ecological, and cultural characteristics, and their interconnections. Bioregionalism suggests that the invisible and visible regenerative efforts occurring across multiple scales (individual, family, neighborhood, community, organization, ecoregion, global) can be anchored and organized in large, bioculturally coherent landscapes that federate through affinity, solidarity, and reciprocity to fulfill planetary potential.263 Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF) – A community-owned institution that applies a participatory, transparent, and place-based approach to driving the decentralization of financial resource governance, design of project portfolios for systemic change, and the transition to a regenerative economy. While a BFF specializes in facilitating the flow of financial capital between regenerative projects, community members, and investors, it also works in close relationship with a Bioregional Hub to facilitate the flow of all capital types (e.g social, intellectual, cultural) in holistic support of bioregional regeneration. See 4. Designing and Implementing Bioregional Financing Facilities for detailed discussion, templates, and case studies. Bioregional Organizing Team – A team of local stakeholders that initiates a bioregional regeneration and governance process, activates other stakeholders, builds networks of relationality and trust, and facilitates the collective regeneration efforts. See 3.1 Bioregional organizing and value creation for detailed discussion. Bioregional Regeneration Strategy – A co-created, 20-100+ year or multigenerational plan for regenerating a particular bioregion, including a guide to the worldviews, values, processes, and principles recommended in approaching the work. Strategies are ideally built upon comprehensive mapping and systemic analysis and employ long-term thinking. See 3.1 Bioregional organizing and value creation for detailed discussion. 262 Joe Brewer: What is a Bioregional Learning Center? 263 This is articulated in the vision, mission, and goals of the Regenerative Communities Network. Bioregional Tithing – A program through which citizens residing or organizations operating in the bioregion opt to “tithe” by donating a certain amount annually or monthly (based on their income or profits) to the Bioregional Trust to support regeneration of the bioregion they are tasked with stewarding. This program recognizes that while all humans are meant to be stewards of the lands and waters of their place, some are better placed to do this work directly, while others can support them with financial resources. Inspiration can be taken from the Ohlone Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and its calculator for the voluntary Shuumi Land Tax.264 Biosphere – The thin life-supporting stratum of Earth’s surface, extending from a few kilometers into the atmosphere to the deep-sea vents of the ocean. It is composed of living organisms and nonliving factors from which the organisms derive energy and nutrients. The biosphere supports all life on Earth, estimated at 3 to 30 million species of plants, animals, fungi, single-celled prokaryotes such as bacteria, and single-celled eukaryotes such as protozoans.265 Carbon-tunnel vision – A myopic perspective that ignores the multiple interdependent socio-ecological system crises that we face to focus only on carbon emissions, and/or focuses solely on carbon emissions reductions as the key climate change response.266 Cascading benefits – A term coined by Buckminster Fuller used to describe how benefits from one well-designed change in a system can create enabling conditions for other beneficial changes. Common assets (also referred to as commons) – A type of resource that is collectively owned, used, or engaged with by a group of people. Commons can range from local resources like forests, fisheries, and urban spaces, to global resources like the biosphere, atmosphere, digital networks, and data. Elinor Ostrom's work challenged the traditional notion that commons are inevitably subject to degradation or overuse ("the tragedy of the commons"), and instead demonstrated through empirical studies that communities are capable of developing effective rules and institutions to sustainably manage and govern commons over the long term.267 “Commoning” and “re-commoning” are also coming into increasing use as verbs to describe the practice of forming and governing new commons or recovering historical commons from a present privatized state. Community organizing, weaving, and activation – The processes of gathering, facilitating connection between, and empowering community towards a shared purpose and vision. The Bioregional Weaving Labs consortium outlines five core Weaving Practices: Helping systems see and sense themselves; Cultivating trust- based relationship; Aligning on a shared purpose and vision; Facilitating collective (un)learning; Fostering (experimental) action.268 264 The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust received a $20 million Shuumi Land Tax contribution in early 2024 - the single largest known cash gift to a Native land trust in history. 265 Britannica Biosphere 266 Phrase coined by Dr Jan Konietzko, Maastricht University. 267 Elinor Ostrom: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. 268 Bioregional Weaving Labs: Weaving Complementary currencies – A form of currency or exchange medium that operates alongside the national currency system, providing a means of transaction and value exchange within a specific community or network. They are designed to complement rather than replace national currencies and “to facilitate transactions that otherwise wouldn’t occur, linking otherwise unused resources to unmet needs, and encouraging diversity and interconnections that otherwise wouldn’t exist.”269 Complementary currencies can take various forms including local currencies, time- based currencies, rewards programs, or digital/blockchain-based tokens. Conviction Voting – An approach to collective decision-making where individuals continuously express their preferences for the proposals they wish to support. They may change their preferences at any time, but the longer they maintain their support for a specific proposal, the greater the "strength" of their conviction becomes. This gives community members with consistent preferences more influence than short- term participants who may only seek to sway a single vote.270 Decentralization – The distribution of decision-making authority and management responsibilities away from a centralized or top-down authority and toward a larger group of diverse representatives, aiming to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and responsiveness of information processing, coordination, and decision-making (notably, resource allocation). Eco-credits – Attestations (i.e. validations) about ecological state which prove regeneration is occurring, has occurred, or will occur. It is our recommendation that eco-credits are based on community-developed and governed definitions of regeneration that are rooted in local context and include a composition of ecological factors (rather than a single, non-local parameter, such as carbon).271 Ecological integrity – The ability of an ecosystem to support and maintain ecological processes and a diverse community of organisms.272 Ecoregion – A relatively large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct assemblage of plant and animal communities. Ecoregions can generally be understood as encompassing biome subtypes (e.g. a grassland prairie biome can include multiple different grassland ecoregions — tall grass, short grass, etc.). Ecotones – A transition area between two ecosystems where they meet and integrate. It may be narrow or wide, and it may be local (the zone between a field and forest) or regional (the transition between forest and grassland ecosystems). An ecotone may appear on the ground as a gradual blending of the two ecosystems across a broad area, or it may manifest itself as a sharp boundary line.273 269 Bernard Lietar: Scientific Evidence of Why Complementary Currencies are Necessary to Financial Stability 270 Jeff Emmett: Conviction Voting: A Novel Continuous Decision Making Alternative to Governance 271 Adapted from input from Regen Foundation. 272 IPBES: Ecological Integrity 273 Wikipedia: Ecotone (“ecosystem” has been substituted for “biological community”) Emergence – “Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.” It is these “simple interactions” – from how we relate to the thoughts in our own heads, to how we show up in our relationships, to how we exist as local communities – that create the patterns that give rise to our ecosystems and societies.274 Financial sector – The segment of the global economy composed of institutions and markets that facilitate the flow of funds between savers, borrowers, and speculators managing financial assets and liabilities. It differs from the real sector, which involves the production and exchange of tangible goods and services. Financialization – A trend in which financial instruments and markets exert disproportionate influence over real economic activities and policy, prioritizing short-term speculative gains for the financial sector over long-term productivity and health in the real sector. Fractal – A pattern comprising parts, each of which is a reduced-scale copy of the whole, displaying self-similarity across scales. In nature, fractals can be observed in patterns such as snowflakes, mountain ranges, and the branching of trees, blood vessels, and watersheds. Gaia Hypothesis – Introduced in the early 1970s by James E. Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, the Gaia Hypothesis posits that Earth and its biological systems behave as a single, global entity with closely controlled self-regulatory negative feedback loops that keep the conditions on the planet within boundaries that are favorable to life. This way of looking at global ecology and evolution differs from the classical picture of ecology as a biological response to a menu of physical conditions.275 Indigenous – produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment.276 Indigenous peoples – A term holding immense complexity that is best defined within specific context.277 However, for general interpretation throughout this book, we suggest the term be understood as members “of a community retaining memories of life lived sustainably on a land-base, as part of that land-base,”278 particularly peoples practicing non-colonial knowledge systems rooted in relationships of reciprocity with more-than-human life, and as a term of self-identification used by those with “a special relationship with their traditional territory and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.”279 Note: In some geographic contexts, ‘First Nations’ is used as a more specific term.280 274 adrienne maree brown: Emergent Strategy 275 ScienceDirect: Gaia Hypothesis 276 Merriam-Webster: Indigenous 277 We encourage great care with this term and caution against simplistic categorizations that ignore historical contexts of interrelatedness between peoples, and between all peoples and the entire land-base of Earth. We encourage deep listening and relationship-building with sources of Indigenous knowledge and dialogue in your contexts. 278 This quotation is sourced from Tyson Yunkaporta’s book Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, which is an excellent resource for engaging with the depth and complexity of this term. 279 Wikipedia: Indigenous peoples 280 ‘First Nations’ is often used to identify Indigenous peoples of Canada (who are neither Inuit nor Métis) and to identify people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonization. Investment – For this book we have chosen to use the terms “investment” and “investing” to describe all processes of providing financial resources. This builds on an understanding that all forms of financial capital provision (equity, debt, donations, grant-making, etc.) ideally yield returns, as in the traditional notion of “investment.” However, sometimes these investments are designed to return financial capital and at other times additional or other forms of capital (see “Multi-capital”). “Investment” can also be used to describe the provision of non-financial capital, although this book does not apply this meaning. Islands of coherence – Ilya Prigogine, a renowned theoretical physicist and chemist, used the concept of "islands of coherence" to describe emergent phenomena in complex systems, particularly localized regions within a complex system where coherence or order emerges spontaneously amidst overall disorder or randomness. These islands of coherence are characterized by temporary stability or organization that arises due to nonlinear interactions and feedback processes within the system. Kinship – Encomposses a complex and interconnected understanding of relationships, identity, and responsibilities within human and more-than-human communities. It is not merely a biological or legal concept, but encompasses spiritual, cultural, familial, and historical dimensions. Land Back – Also referred to with hashtag #LandBack, is a decentralized campaign by Indigenous Australians, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Native Americans in the United States, other Indigenous peoples, and allies alike, that seeks to reestablish Indigenous sovereignty, with political and economic control of their ancestral lands. Land Back promotes a return to communal land ownership of traditional and unceded Indigenous lands and rejects colonial concepts of real estate and private land ownership.281 Living in relationship to place – Having an intentional, embodied, and perhaps spiritual connection and responsibility to specific lands, ecology, and place- based culture. In contrast, many people in modern culture may experience a “placelessness” – a disconnection from geographic roots due to factors like globalization, technological change, and dominant culture that considers humans as separate from nature. Living system – Living systems, as contrasted with nonliving complex systems – such as the stock market, computer simulations, or car traffic patterns – are characterized by the following set of key features: complexity, self-organization, interdependence, nested hierarchies, dynamic balance, and the emergent properties of cognition, adaptation, and autopoiesis – the capability of a system to produce and maintain itself by producing its own parts.282 281 Wikipedia: Land Back 282 Fritjof Capra & Pier Luigi Luisi: The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision Monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) – A process that ensures accuracy, reliability, and transparency in reporting and measurements. The goal of MRV is to verify that the data and information presented in reports, statements, or performance measurements are truthful, consistent, and compliant with applicable standards and regulations. More-than-human life – A phrase that intentionally values all living beings and elements of the natural world as interconnected and integral to life. This concept emphasizes the agency, consciousness, and relational significance of non-human entities. Multi-capital/Multicapitalism – A framework that acknowledges and values different forms of capital beyond traditional financial capital. A wide diversity of multi-capital frameworks and definitions – including Indigenous concepts – have been proposed in recent years to offer language for breaking out of the perception that money is the only form of capital flowing around and through us. Natural assets – The stocks of natural resources and ecosystems that provide essential services and benefits to Gaia, society, local economies, and the global economy. These assets include forests, wetlands, fisheries, clean air and water, biodiversity, and other elements of the natural environment that contribute to the well-being of life and economic prosperity. Nature – Perhaps an undefinable term (e.g. where does it end?) it is mostly used in this book to refer to the organic world (plants, fungi, animals (including humans), ecosystems) as well as world features (hydrology, geology, climate) that western science does not generally consider organic or alive, yet are being increasingly recognized as interdependent with the organic world (see Gaia Hypothesis). Within the context of other knowledge systems, it includes categories such as Mother Earth and systems of life, and it is often viewed as inextricably linked to humans, not as a separate entity.283 Nature-based Currencies – A type of complementary currency that bases its value on the health and vitality of the local ecosystems – the ecological wealth – in a given bioregion. While most currencies in circulation today are no longer linked to physical assets, such as gold, communities deploying these new currencies can use natural capital as a reserve asset to mint the financial capital needed to protect ecosystems and support the livelihoods of their local stewards.284 Partner states – Multi-stakeholder cooperatives or commons-based institutions responsible for the management and provision of certain public goods, common assets, or services that were once the responsibility of state governments, which instead provide funding and performance evaluation to partner states.285 283 IPBES: nature 284 Inspired by Open Earth Foundation: Nature Based Currencies 285 P2P Foundation Wiki: Partner State Place – Where geographic reality and human culture intersect. It is the foundation for culture and economy.286 Planetary boundaries – A scientific framework that presents a set of nine biophysical thresholds, “within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come.” Crossing boundaries increases the risk of generating large-scale abrupt or irreversible ecological changes.287 Polycrisis – “A time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering that is caused by many different problems happening at the same time so that they together have a very big effect,” (Cambridge Dictionary, n.d.). Polycrisis is often used interchangeably with “Metacrisis”, although some assert that “meta-” offers a preferable distinction by denoting the interdependence (rather than mere multiplicity) of crises and the worldviews/values that may be generating these crises.288 Public good – In economics, a “public good" refers to anything that is both non- excludable and non-rivalrous, meaning people cannot be barred access, and one person's use doesn't degrade another's.289 Street lights, public databases, and open-source patents or code are all examples. Public goods are different from common assets, which can be rivalrous and made excludable through governance. R Values – Jan Hania (Tuwharetoa, Raukawa-ki-teTonga, Te Atiawa of Aotearoa/ New Zealand and the Principal of Strategy Development for Biome Trust) uplifts the “R values” of relationality, reciprocity, responsibility, respect, reverence, regeneration, redistribution, and reconnection – noting that language must be contextualized and place-based.290 The authors also uplift re-membering, restorying, rewilding, and rematriation. Real sector – the part of the global economy that produces goods and services, rather than the part that consists of financial institutions and services. Regeneration – The process of a system regaining its needed energies, resources, and relationships to vitalize and sustain. Contrasted with “sustainability”, which is oriented towards preserving and minimizing negative impacts, regeneration is oriented towards restoring and revitalizing systems that have been degraded. Regenerator – The individuals, communities, organizations, and networks actively engaging in biocultural regeneration efforts. The specifier “on-the-ground” refers to those working in consistent, embodied, and intimate relationship with ecosystems and landscapes. 286 Credit to Capital Institute 287 Stockholm Resilience Center: Planetary Boundaries 288 Rowson, Jonathan: Prefixing the World 289 Wikipedia: Public good (economics) 290 The Regeneration Will Be Funded (Podcast): Jan Hania Returns – The outcomes (normally assumed to be positive, but could include negative) generated for investors, stakeholders, and human and more-than-human community across multiple forms of capital as a result of investments or actions. Rights of nature – The recognition that our ecosystems – including trees, oceans, animals, and mountains – have rights just as human beings have rights. Rather than treating nature as property under the law, rights of nature acknowledges that nature in all its life forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain, and regenerate its vital cycles. And we – the people – have the legal authority and responsibility to enforce these rights on behalf of ecosystems. The ecosystem itself can be named as the injured party, with its own legal standing rights, in cases alleging rights violations.291 Right relationship/ right relation – As an aspirational quality or state of relationality that can only be encountered in a unique web of relations and biocultural understanding, it is not possible to offer a comprehensive and specific definition of this term. Generally, however, “right relationship” connotes a harmonious way of relating that is active, reciprocal, consensual, and sustainable (or regenerative) across dimensions of past, present, and future, with respect to humans, more-than- human-life, lands, and waters. The term is most often used to refer to Indigenous ways of relating. Therefore, we recommend learning about relationality directly from Indigenous sources and relationships, as translation across languages and worldviews risks eroding its essential meaning.292 Stewardship – The responsible and ethical relating, tending, and nurturing of land, resources, and ecosystems for the benefit of present and future generations of human and more-than- human communities. Stewardship emphasizes a holistic approach that prioritizes the well-being of the entire ecological system over individual ownership rights, focusing on sustainability, resilience, and regeneration of natural capital.293 Steward-ownership – A corporate ownership structure that presents an alternative to shareholder value primacy. It ensures that companies prioritize their long-term purpose over short-term profits – by legally enshrining two principles of Self- Determination and Purpose-Orientation.294 Story of place – A holistic narrative that integrates the history, ecology, culture, and potential of a specific location, guiding sustainable design and development processes rooted in community stewardship and alignment with living systems principles. Note: Story of Place® refers to a specific educational concept and service offering of the Regenesis Group.295 291 Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature: What are the Rights of Nature? 292 For an in-depth academic discussion of relationality from Indigenous perspectives, please see Matt Wildat & Daniel Voth: Indigenous relationality: definitions and methods 293 A note of caution for spanish speakers: steward is often translated as ‘mayordomo’ – a term originating from colonial structures of domination and control of land and people. ‘Cuidador/a’ or ‘guardiano/a’ are closer to the intended meaning. 294 Purpose Economy: What's steward-ownership? 295 Regenesis Group: Story of Place Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) – The ongoing accumulation of knowledge, practice, and belief about relationships between living beings in a specific ecosystem that is acquired by Indigenous people over hundreds or thousands of years through direct contact with the environment, handed down through generations, and used in life-sustaining ways. It encompasses the world view of a people, which includes ecology, spirituality, human and animal relationships, and more.296 Transcontextual – The recognition that complex systems do not exist in single contexts, but rather are formed between multiple contexts that overlap in living communication and among living systems. “Warm Data” can be defined as: Transcontextual information about the interrelationships that integrate a complex system.297 Quadratic Funding – By allocating funds based on a quadratic formula that magnifies the impact of many small investments from the community (similar to crowdfunding) through a so-called ‘matching pool’ that is resourced by larger capital providers, Quadratic Funding encourages widespread participation and fosters a diverse array of projects that resonate with local communities. Projects that receive a given amount of community funding from a broader base of individuals receive more match funding than those that receive the given amount from only a few community investors.298 Quadratic Voting – A method of collective decision-making where individuals assign votes to reflect both the direction and intensity of their preferences. Participants can allocate more votes to express stronger support for specific options, allowing them to "purchase" additional votes on a particular matter, thereby aligning the voting outcome with the highest willingness to pay, rather than solely the preference of the majority. Payments for votes can be made using either artificial or real currencies, such as voting tokens distributed equally among voting members or fiat and complementary currencies with actual economic exchange value.299 (Lalley and Weyl, 2018) Wealth – True wealth is not merely money in the bank. It must be defined and managed in terms of the well-being of the whole, achieved through the harmonization of multiple kinds of wealth or capital, including social, cultural, living, and experiential. It must also be defined by a broadly shared prosperity across all of these varied forms of capital. The whole is only as strong as the weakest link.300 Weaving – Weaving is the practice of cultivating meaningful relationships, within, between and across socio-ecological systems. It connects people, projects, and places in synergistic and purposeful ways to help cohere fragmented change- making efforts. It seeks to strengthen the socio-ecological fabric and the system’s resilience by addressing the vital and relational aspects of trust, common meaning, capacity for learning, and capacity for self-organization.301 296 U.S. National Park Service: Traditional Ecological Knowledge 297 The International Bateson Institute: Warm Data Labs 298 Quadratic Funding (QF) – Unlocking the power of community funding. See (Buteren et al. 2020) for the seminal articulation. 299 Lalley and Weyl: Quadratic Voting: How Mechanism Design Can Radicalize Democracy 300 Capital Institute: The Field Guide to a Regenerative Economy 301 Hussain et al.: Socio-Ecological Resilience: ‘Weaving’ to scale Nature-based Solutions Web3 – In contrast to the current internet era (Web2) characterized by centralized platforms and services where user data is controlled by a few large corporations, Web3 represents an emerging internet that is decentralized, enabled by blockchain technology, where users have greater control over their data, identities, and interactions through peer-to-peer networks and protocols. Worldview – “A set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic makeup of our world.”302 302 Definition by James Sire, referenced in D.C. 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