# Glossary and Glossary Tyler Wakefield (Interdependent) Design & Illustration Arianna Smaron (Dark Matter Labs) Madelyn Capozzi (Dark Matter Labs) Leon Seefeld Cover Art (Dark Matter Labs / Aaron Brodeur (Applied Alchemy) Dark Matter Capital Systems) Editing Nick Paul (nicewriting) Publishers Tyler Wakefield (Interdependent) Taya Seidler (Applied Alchemy) The BioFi Project: Oakland, California, United States; Dark Matter Labs: London, UK; and Buckminster Fuller Case Studies Institute: San Francisco, California, Alex Corren (ReCommon) And in-kind support from: United States Alana Peterson, Kalah Duncan, and India Rose Matharu-Daley (Spruce Publication Date Root) Austin Wade Smith (Regen June 2024 Foundation) Clare Politano (Hylo) Edward West (Edge Prize) Faith Flanigan and Ruth Andrade This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- (Regenerosity) NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License. You are free to share Isabel Carlisle (Bioregional Learning and adapt this material, provided you give appropriate credit, do not use it for commercial purposes, and distribute your Centre South Devon) contributions under the same license. For uses beyond these, Keoni Lee (Hawai’i Investment Ready) written permission from the publisher is required. Other Acknowledgements We would like to give special thanks We would like to express our The authors bow in gratitude to to Tyler Wakefield for his beautiful gratitude to Bioregional Weaving our family, friends, and colleagues contributions bringing heart and Labs and Regenerate Cascadia for not named here who supported wisdom to the book, to Stuart Cowan their respective contributions to us in developing this work. We and Edward West for their incredible the field in developing and refining acknowledge our deep entanglement contributions throughout the the template for a thorough multi- with them, and with the more-than- envisioning, writing, and publication stakeholder process and the phases of human life in the places in which we process, to our editor Nick Paul who bioregional regeneration. Additionally, wrote this. There are many books, went above and beyond in his efforts the members of the Planetary articles, podcasts, and pieces of music to make our messages as clear Regeneration Alliance, EcoWeaving, that inspired us and influenced our and compelling as possible, and to Regen Network, Regen Foundation, thinking for which we are grateful. Matthew Monahan and Jan Hania Applied Alchemy, Buckminster Fuller Samantha would like to give a special for their early trust in the vision for Institute, One Earth, Biome Trust, nod to Rick Rubin’s book The Creative this work and their wise counsel as it Ma Earth, Open Future Coalition, Act: A Way of Being for supporting her came to life. Open Civics, Indigenous Knowledge writing process. Systems Lab, AIME Mentoring, and While Leon Seefeld was the primary Ripple of Impact teams all provided Dark Matter Labs author, his collective inputs that were meaningful contributions built on the wisdom, in shaping this work. thinking, and previous work of the broader Dark Matter Labs team. In We would also like to express our particular the advisors to the report, excitement and enthusiasm for what Raj Kalia and Indy Johar, as well as is emerging as one of the direct results Emily Harris substantially influenced of this book coming to life: the creation the writing and thinking that went into of The BioFi Project, co-founded this book. by Samantha Power and Edward West, which will offer resources, We would also like to acknowledge capacity building, training, and thought the thoughtful, generous contributions leadership for Bioregional Organizing from the following friends and Teams intending to design, build, colleagues: Aaron Brodeur, Analise and implement their own Bioregional Roland, Ashoka Finley, Atherton Financing Facilities inspired by this Phleger, Christopher Lindstrom, book. Dark Matter Labs will also offer Clare Politano, Cory Brown, Cristina support to Bioregional Organizing Valverde, David Hodgson, Durukan Teams on their journey toward a next Dudu, Evan Steiner, Faith Flanigan, generation of financial architecture Félix de Rosen, Jeff Mendelsohn, and resource governance. Jessica Zartler, Johny Mair, Jörgen Anderson, Josiah Cain, Kaitlin Archambault, Karie Crisp, Kevin Bayuk, Lawrence Grodeska, Louis Fox, Matt Jorgensen, Nicolas Rotundo, Reggie Luedtke, Scott Morris, and Taya Seidler.  Table of Contents Foreword 8 Key Messages 10 Executive Summary 13 1. Introduction 27 1.1 The state of the planet 28 1.2 The polycrisis and collapse 31 1.3 A turning point for the Earth and the financial sector 33 1.4 Moving beyond closing the “nature finance gap” 35 2.1 Bioregionalism harnesses the intelligence of place 39 Case Study 1: Salmon Nation: Envisioning a Nature State 41 2.2 Financial resources are needed to catalyze bioregional 43 regeneration and the transition to a regenerative economy resource governance and growing the connective tissue between resources and regeneration 3. The Enabling Environment for Bioregional Financing 49 Facilities 3.1 Bioregional organizing and value creation 50 3.2 The phases of multi-stakeholder bioregional regeneration 53 Case Study 2: The Bioregional Weaving Lab in South East Ireland – An 57 Example of a Multi-stakeholder Process for Bioregional Regeneration 3.3 Bioregional Hubs 60 Case Study 3: The Bioregional Learning Centre in South Devon – Modeling 62 Bioregional Hubs 4. Designing, Building, and Implementing Bioregional 65 Financing Facilities Case Study 4: Hawai’i Investment Ready Initiative – An Intermediary for 88 Investing in a Resilient Economy for All Hawai’i  Case Study 5: Spruce Root – An Indigenous-led CDFI Catalyzing a 92 Regenerative Economy 4.4 Systemic investment portfolios for bioregional regeneration 102 4.5 Shifting theories of value and ownership 104 5. BFF Governance and Capital Allocation 106 5.1 Key consideration: What are the values? 107 5.2 Key consideration: Who participates? 108 5.3 Key consideration: What frameworks, processes, and tools? 109 5.4 Key aim: Work to shift power imbalances 110 5.5 Key aim: Work with existing authorities 111 5.6 Key aim: Build right relationship with other BFFs across regions 111 and scales 6. Innovative Mechanisms for Financing Bioregional 113 Regeneration 6.1 Web3-based eco-credits, Decentralized Autonomous 114 Organizations, and Ecological Institutions Case Study 6: Regen Network and Eco-Credits - A Novel Funding 115 Mechanism for Regeneration 6.2 (Digital) Nature-based Currencies 118 6.3 Local Market Networks and Bioregional Vouchers 118 6.4 Bioservices Banks 119 6.5 Participatory grant-making through Quadratic and Conviction 120 Voting Case Study 7: Golden Bay and the Wellbeing Protocol – Participatory Grant- 120 making through Quadratic and Conviction Voting in Practice 6.6 Quadratic Funding and Equity Crowdfunding as proxies for 122 capital allocation 6.7 Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) 123 6.8 Web3 flow funding and dynamic token issuance mechanisms 123 for living, adaptive economies 6.9 Place-based Bioregional Tithing, voluntary taxation, and 124 Business Improvement Districts 6.10 Advance Market Commitments for bioregional regeneration 124 6.11 Profit Pooling and whole economy health as triggers for 125 investor returns  6.12 Obligation Clearing (also known as netting) and Mutual Credit 125 as a liquidity-saving mechanism 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 8. Next Steps and Call to Action 140 9. Conclusion 146 Glossary 148  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. Wahl: Design for human and planetary health: a transdisciplinary approach to sustainability