# Foreword 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