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Daan Gorter inaugurates our Holonize climate

with special guest Charles Eisenstein We are also honoured with the presence of Connor O’Shea • Veronica Anderson • Snow Raven (Suor) • Alana Hyde Bloom • Speaker John Ash Derringer Pax • Ferananda Ibarra • Bart Hoorweg • Yannick Ciocanel • Jeremy Agnew • Arie Ben David Samuel Desleque • Charlotte Fradet • Silvia Bastos • Dylan Vincent Chester • Franz Josef Allmayer • Phil Bates Julia Davies • James Shorten • Rieki Cordon • Laurence Currie-Clark • Yasmin Chadury • Mark Kane

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Becoming the Bridge Towards The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible BARBARA LIMA WITH CHARLES EISENSTEIN

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A Regenerative Economy of Inner and Outer Technologies VERONICA ANDERSON WITH SNOW RAVEN (SUOR)

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Regenerating Rhythms ALANA HYDE BLOOM

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Giving Voice to the Voiceless

Designing Economies “The Mycelial Way”

Mapping and Weaving an Emergent Ecosystem of Regenerative Initiatives

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There is Nothing more Practical in Life than Love

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Behavior is a Function of Culture NICOLÁS ALCALÁ

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The Purple Pill Vision of the Iris

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HOLONIZE

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Holonize Yourself with All that Is

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The Frequency of Financial Flow

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YASMIN CHADURY & MARK KANE

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s I sat in meditation to receive guidance on how to design an editorial rooted in a multidimensional exploration of Regenerative Economy, the first questions I asked my guides were: How are economies formed and expressed on the level of the individual? Where do our economic systems stem from on a micro level? How do they ripple out of the ecosystem of the Individual, impacting the Community, the Planet and, finally, the Cosmos—where they emerge as culture and mythology? The answers I received came in the shape of a foundational concept of Inner Economy—like a seed sprouting to form a tree. In this special edition, we invite you to question how a regenerative economy may be co-created from this holistic perspective. Together with our keynote guest, Charles Eisenstein, we begin by discussing what Inner Economy means and its role in this

co-creative process. We look at how it may define our personal and collective stories, and what kind of Inner Economy creates a Story of Interbeing, allowing us to move away from the Story of Separation, and become the bridge towards The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. When we consider that our outer economies are, in fact, a reflection of our individual inner economies, we begin to understand that “they need to be conscious so as not to be harmful to individuals and communities”—as Snow Raven (Suor) emphasizes in Rewild. By stepping away from a separate, objectified concept of degenerative economy— which turns humans into resources and Nature into an exploitable commodity source—we begin to reclaim our sovereignty as innately interconnected and abundant beings. We understand that, by regenerating our rhythms in alignment with Nature, we reorient ourselves away from artificial timelines organised for profit. Once we enter this issue’s Community ecosystem, we draw inspiration from the way mycelial networks organize community ecosystems

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through their altruistic movement of resources. As ethical questions arise with the advent of artificial intelligence, we explore how mycelia may offer us regenerative models to integrate and maximize collective sensemaking through AI. Next, we examine “The Mycelial Way” of designing economies, reflect on the relationship between education and economy, and celebrate Traditional Dream Factory, the first ReFi village in Europe. We then dive into sovereign collaborative ecosystems with Franz Allmayer through SEEDS and Hypha and discover how we can regenerate land and community through the example of Bowden Pillars, a former beef farm turned state-of-the-art regenerative farm in the United Kingdom. We learn from Julia Davies what it means to be a true impact investor—while James Shorten shares his journey as a changemaker helping evolve rural planning policies in the UK. Our journey through our Planet ecosystem ends with Rieki Cordon and ReGen Civics Alliance, who show us the power of building alliances in co-creating regenerative social and economic systems. In conversation with Rieki and Robert Schram, we question how we can create the conditions for healthy humans to emerge and

shape regenerative economies. In Cosmos, we learn that the present needs to play in order to make our regenerative (r)evolution irresistible. And so we play. We play with Design Science Studio and its solarpunk luminaries and hopepunk artists, who invite us to expand our perceptions of what’s possible through an exploration of the blooming edges of speculative futures. Next arrives Holonize, our third and final Cosmos climate, bridging the ecosystems that come before it and completing The Weave. In this climate, we delve into our individual existence and actions as a holon—a part of the whole, yet, at the same time, the whole itself. We explore what it means to holonize ourselves and how, by doing so, we can truly embody our interconnectedness. Our first Holonize guests, Yasmin Chadury and Mark Kane, take us on a brief journey into the energetics of money as they explore how we can upgrade our frequencies around finance in the name of the wellbeing of the whole. With this special equinox edition, we hope to illuminate the hidden parts of ourselves so we can

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BARBARA LIMA all equally shine together, in unison, as we cocreate The More Beautiful World of Regenerative Economy. Just like the north and the south hemispheres equally share the rays of the sun at the equinox, birthing a day and a night of equal length, we can also share our innate abundance in recognition of our interconnectedness—in the name of the greater good of Nature and all human and non-human beings alike. Thank you, dear guests and contributors, for sharing your abundance with us and helping us weave this collective vision. A special thank-you to Design Science Studio and Holistic Systems Cooperative for partnering up and sharing their gifts with us on this creative journey. Thank you, our readers, for being open to receive this shared abundance—and for passing it further on.

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is the founder, editor-in-chief and creative director of The Weave. She is a visionary and multilingual multipotentialite with a diverse background in linguistics, education, translation, writing, entrepreneurship, art, and visual design. She is happiest when she is in nature, connected with Source, and when she is learning, creating, writing, practicing yoga, meditating, spending time with animals, and diving in conversations that expand her consciousness and nourish her heart and her mind. A childhood dream of exploring the world and her love of learning languages, experiencing different cultures and spirituality have taken her on a deeply awakening journey around the globe. As a regenerative culture designer, she understands that human regeneration is a prerequisite for planetary regeneration and combines her skills and talents in service of that vision and the thriving of all life.

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Daan Gorter inaugurates our Holonize climate

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Cover & Ecosystems Illustrations (AI Art) with special guest Charles Eisenstein We are also honoured with the presence of Connor O’Shea • Veronica Anderson • Snow Raven (Suor) • Alana Hyde Bloom • Speaker John Ash Derringer Pax • Ferananda Ibarra • Bart Hoorweg • Yannick Ciocanel • Jeremy Agnew • Arie Ben David Samuel Desleque • Charlotte Fradet • Silvia Bastos • Dylan Vincent Chester • Franz Josef Allmayer • Phil Bates Julia Davies • James Shorten • Rieki Cordon • Laurence Currie-Clark • Yasmin Chadury • Mark Kane

Reflection, Embodiment, Non-attachment, Vulnerability, Openness, Awareness, Presence.

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CHARLES EISENSTEIN JONATHAN WALLER

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Becoming the Bridge Towards The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible

Jonathan Waller is an archetypal astrologer, poet, life coach and facilitator with special interests in Jungian psychology, transformative dialog, psychedelic therapy and integration. Central to all of his work is a grounded, contemporary approach to “individuation” or moving towards wholeness through an ecology of practises that uplift and expand our creative, imaginal and expressive capacities; which inspire the full experiencing of our rich emotional, somatic, embodied and intuitive ways of knowing; and that encourage and valorise our attempts to understand psyche and self, both rationally and in a mystical sense. He was born in 1988, grew up in Brighton, England, and moved to Devon in 2019, where he currently resides.

Charles Eisenstein is an American author and public speaker who examines the unspoken narratives that direct our society and our lives. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes explored include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture. The Ascent of Humanity, which was published in 2007, became his first commercially successful book, launching his writing career. Eisenstein has since written many books including The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible and Sacred Economics. His newest book, The Coronation, was released in the summer of 2022. It is available for purchase here.

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SNOW RAVEN - SUOR

A Regenerative Economy of Inner and Outer Technologies

Veronica is an architect, coach, and consultant. Since 2008, she has been disrupting the field of sustainable development with human-centered design and geospatial technology, guided by her mindfulness teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh. Her dharma is to build regenerative communities, which she discovered in 2017 after moving to Costa Rica and answering the call to train as an alchemical priestess. She is a land-listening ecstatic mystic creating a world that works for all with sacred geometry, healing dance, and ensoulment coaching. Read more of her work via Substack on The Regenerist.

Snow Raven (Suor) was born in one of the coldest, most remote and inhabited places in the world: the Republic of Sakha, Yakutia, in arctic Siberia. She was three years old when she started to learn the language of birds and animals. Her voice takes its breath from traditional Sakha culture and is truly an instrument. She is the OG of “arctic beatbox”, the reindeer breath and the founder of OLOX ecosystem: Of Many Beliefs, Common Truth. Snow Raven participated in America’s Got Talent 2020, headlined Lightning in the Bottle, Lost Lands, The Elements, Lucidity Festival, OmRising, Beloved, Sundance Film Festival and played multiple shows at Burning Man. She also took part in Bioneers ECOconference, the international forum Arctic Circle 2015 in Iceland, in the French-American Arctic expedition Pax Arctica (DeLong Islands) sponsored by the Prince Monaco Foundation, and in the International Beatbox Championship as a special guest.

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ALANA HYDE BLOOM Regenerating Rhythms Passionate about helping people awaken to their connection with the natural world, Alana is an artist, facilitator and activist with an approach deeply rooted in animism. With her background and interests in deep nature connection, regeneration and cyclical living, her work is focused on stewarding eco-centric cultures of wholeness through the rewilding of the self. Alana currently works in the ecosystem restoration space and is co-founder of True Nature, an events platform centred on the empowerment of women through inner rewilding. You can find her on:

SPEAKER JOHN ASH

Dream: Giving Voice to the Voiceless Solarpunk: The Purple Pill Vision of the Iris John Ash is a thought leader in AIassisted technologies, decentralized sensemaking, a writer, a visual and musical artist, and a steward for the ideas around Cognicism. You can find him on:

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FERANANDA IBARRA

Designing Economies “The Mycelial Way”

DERRINGER PAX

Dream: Giving Voice to the Voiceless Solarpunk: The Purple Pill Vision of the Iris Derring Pax is a qualitative researcher focused on co-creating potential ideal futures with her stakeholders. She uses her research to inform exploration of how neurobiologically-based personality traits impact social physics and dynamics in decentralized groups. Her writing (both fiction and nonfiction) and AI art explores issues around social sustainability and related potential futures.

Ferananda is a social innovator with a powerful intellect and a global reach. Her passion about the energy flows through the natural world informs her collective intelligence and social systems work. She is the director of “The Commons Engine”, which is helping to build the means (the patterns, principles, and protocols on which platforms may be built) for a new kind of economy that honors the commons. She is also the chairman of Coventina Foundation whose purpose is to enable the scaling of distributed intelligence solutions according to the patterns and wisdom of nature.

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ARIE BEN DAVID

There is Nothing more Practical in Life than Love

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Arie Ben David is an artist, educator and serial entrepreneur living in Switzerland. He is the founder and chairman of Haim Tov, the impact company that developed Shareitt, a P2P App that enables shopping without spending money, with 80,000 users in Israel, Brazil and Switzerland and 300,000 transactions. Floweavers EDU App enables mutual learning and co-creation among children and teachers. As an artist, Arie has exhibited internationally and his paintings are held in collections. Arie co-founded and managed for over 25 years the Waldorf Teacher Training at David Yellin College in Jerusalem.

Mapping and Weaving an Emergent Ecosystem of Regenerative Initiatives Bart is a co-founder of Gaianet, a global network of regenerative pioneers co-creating a New Earth. Bart loves to connect with purposedriven individuals and projects and support them to reach their highest potential in light of the larger story that is unfolding. Having been involved in many pioneering roles, Bart’s gift is to ignite big visions into meaningful action. You can find him on:

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YANNICK CIOCANEL

Mapping and Weaving an Emergent Ecosystem of Regenerative Initiatives

JEREMY AGNEW

re:build Global 2023

Yannick is a strategic innovation consultant and artist using business innovation strategy to promote regenerative design with creative media technology. His purpose is to support people in their attempts to express their creativity. He likes to select the individuals he supports based upon aligned values such as regenerative design, distributed authority, and purposeful work.

Jeremy has walked a 20-year journey as an entrepreneur and loves to champion the re:Generation. His friends call him a ‘Wizard’ as he practices magic from his tower on top of a mountain in Portugal. His life’s work is in building regenerative villages, contributing to the ReFi movement, planting trees and uniting re:builders. His goal is to connect more deeply to himself, to others and to Nature and to support others on their true path.

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CHARLOTTE FRADET

Traditional Dream Factory

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Connor is a documentary filmmaker and environmental activist dedicated to regenerative storytelling. His work follows pioneers at the forefront of social and environmental change, providing an optimistic glimpse at the path to a harmonious future. His diverse cultural upbringing has instilled a fascination for people and a deep appreciation for the natural world. He is a frequent collaborator with regenerative communities and purpose-driven organisations from around the world.

Devoted to fostering an evolutionary coherent future, Charlotte has delved deep in the eco-village world for the past decade. She founded Unity, a conscious co-living in Costa Rica, and she’s a co-creator at Traditional Dream Factory, a DAO-governed regenerative village in Portugal. She’s also a coauthor of the book How To Build A Regenerative Village and generally loves to write about the regenerative movement and the evolution of culture, technology and society. Her new endeavor, Protopian Convergence, produces impactful events aiming at building capacities for a thriving civilization.

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SÍLVIA BASTOS

Traditional Dream Factory Sílvia is a visual artist and illustrator focusing on the subjects of consciousness, emotions, regeneration, and the experience of being human. She is a member of several community-focused networks such as Enspiral and Interintellect, where she regularly collaborates on projects with social, educational, and environmental focus. She usually lives on a beautiful island in the Azores, Portugal, where she divides her time between walks in the forest, local community projects, and making art.

SAMUEL DESLEQUE

Traditional Dream Factory Sam is a regenerative entrepreneur focused on developing a living model that supports thriving ecosystems. After spending ten years working in tech—from startups to enterprise—he founded OASA, a Web3 conservation network integrating a technologically-driven approach to villagebuilding, and an exit to nature model. Sam is a doer and a dreamer, and you can usually find him at the Traditional Dream Factory in Portugal. You can find him on:

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FRANZ JOSEF ALLMAYER

Sovereign Collaborative Ecosystems

DYLAN VINCENT CHESTER

Traditional Dream Factory Dylan is a socially, environmentally and spiritually inspired activist, radical tree planter and part time wordsmith. Hailing originally from the eternally chilly green Celtic nations, Ireland and Scotland, he now finds himself involved with regenerative projects in Portugal. In his own words, the vision is to build the bridges between people and nature, creating living examples of abundance to inspire the shift in mindset and to allow healing to happen organically. He believes that it is critical that regeneration happens as radically internally as externally. You can find him on:

Franz is a serial entrepreneur and regenerative practitioner. He serves as a founding member and co-creator at Integrity.Earth, a digital venture cooperative structuring regenerative development; SEEDS, a financial ecosystem and better-than-free currency giving value to regenerative market forces; and Hypha, a humancentered DAO building the tools to organize and scale new economic and governance systems; Digihub Liechtenstein, a multi-partner cooperation of entrepreneurs and organizations leveraging innovative, structured finance vehicles to serve SMEs and the public sector in the Principality of Liechtenstein, and as a macrohub to connect European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) around the topics of blockchain technology. Reshaping and repurposing money such that it serves a world in which people and the planet thrive motivates Franz to create the tools, processes, and on-the-ground collaborations to support the development of bioregional economies of abundance. You can find him on:

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JULIA DAVIES

Regeneration is Radical

PHIL BATES

Regeneration is Radical Phil is a writer, father, dream weaver, activist, community and movement builder. He connects people and communities, sharing ideas, building vision and momentum, finding new ways of living, experimenting, exploring new futures. A software architect, product developer, investor, founder and Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Bristol, he helps organisations innovate and scale. His passions include writing, self-enquiry, community building, authentic relating, somatics/embodiment, conscious sexuality, syntropic agroforestry/permaculture, regenerative finance, nature recovery, equality and social justice. He lives in an intentional ecocommunity in South Devon, UK. You can find him on:

Julia Davies is a true impact investor, lawyer, philanthropist and environmental campaigner dedicating her time, skills and resources to tackling the climate and environmental crises and interconnected social issues. Julia works under the mantra We Have The POWER (Protect Our World Educate Restore). Her mission is to catalyse practical action by investing in start-up companies offering sustainable products and services, and providing philanthropic loan finance to accelerate regeneration, including to conservation groups acquiring land for nature restoration. Julia has a particular focus on the circular economy and is on a mission to turn down the tap on new through promoting reuse. Julia is a founding member of Patriotic Millionaires UK - campaigning for tax on high level wealth. You can find her on:

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RIEKI CORDON

JAMES SHORTEN

ReGen Civics Alliance

Regeneration is Radical James Shorten was activated by the new language of sustainable development as a university student. He chose a planning career in the belief that it would be the application of his first love—geography. Instead, he found that planning practice was mostly bureaucratic and reactionary, seeing sustainable development as a bolt to existing ways of doing things rather than fundamentally requiring new ways. He quickly left local government to become an academic, and then a consultant. In 2002, he led research looking at underground land-based development in Wales. In 2011/12, he led the writing of the One Planet Development Practice Guidance for the Welsh Government—a manual for landbased living. He has recently founded the Regenerative Settlement CIC—a social enterprise—to form a new template for landbased, progressive communities. You can find him on:

Growing up the middle child of nine, Rieki was born into a world of high-stakes diplomacy and navigating the scarcity and competition for his parents’ artificially scarce time (a childhood all too common in today’s world). Society and his parents judged him as “apathetic” and “rebellious” in his teenage years as he rejected the values of our decaying civilization. However, this rejection (and resulting trauma) led him down a path of healing, exploring alternative forms of civilization and learning various healing practices. In his late 20s, he dedicated himself to building tools to help groups transition from today’s capitalism to a diversity of new economic systems (from permaculture ecovillages to startup/transition towns). Now, in his mid-30s and a new father, he is focusing on connecting deeper with his family and reorienting towards putting families and the raising of healthy children at the heart of our new economic systems. You can find him on:

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LAURENCE CURRIE-CLARK The Regenaissance Laurence Currie-Clark is a metamodern morosopher working in the intersection of philosophy, tech, and play. He co created The Glass Bead Game with the Arch, and is currently working on the holonic knowledge network weco.io. You can find him on:

The Frequency of Financial Flow Yasmin is co-founder of Open World Alliance, a purpose-driven organisation dedicated to accelerating systemic transformation. She weaves across multiple departments providing creative direction, communications and operational finesse to help crystallise, ground and deliver OWA’s vision and projects that are ready to be birthed into the world. With 30+ years of transdisciplinary experience across academic research, health and charitable sectors, personal development, travel, events, photography, music and the arts, she brings cross-lateral thinking and ensures alignment and integrity between functions. She’s passionately committed to accelerating the transition to a healthy, thriving and life-affirming regenerative future and dedicated to this mission with relentless drive and never taking no for an answer! You can find her on:

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MARK KANE

The Frequency of Financial Flow Mark is co-founder of Open World Alliance, a purpose-driven organisation dedicated to accelerating systemic transformation. He designs organisational architecture and blueprints and project manages activities with a holistic whole-systems approach. A seasoned entrepreneur for 25 years, his skills include financial trading, business strategy and development, team building and coaching. He was also a creative in cutting-edge event production and an award-nominated globe-trotting DJ/VJ based on a long-standing foundation of deeply rooted spiritual practice. He holds a vision for radical whole-system change and is architecting the Phoenix Fintech and Gryffin Finance crypto trading software systems to generate and redistribute funds from existing financial markets to support environmental restoration, serve an economy of abundance and help advance the regenerative movement. You can find him on:

ORGANISATIONS Olox Haim Tov Gaianet TDF SEEDS Hypha ReGen Civics Alliance We Have the Power Patriotic Millionaires UK Bowden Pillars Open World Alliance Higher Status Global

One has to learn to trust the water to step into the ocean feel the way its heart is one of longing how it reaches out serenely to its cratered, pockmarked lover bulging up toward the moon, who never wanes (if you’re an ocean), seemingly unbothered by the rolling rumbling heart of dirt and stone and molten metal whose as-yet-uneroded rugged edges cause a turbulence to stir amidst the waters that would have you see the ocean as a frenzy— But it isn’t. That’s why you have to learn to trust.

The water isn’t holding you at gun-poin demanding your surrender but it shows you how to do it— How to feel the pull of gravity as well as all your churning, hardened c and nonetheless to fall, in love, into the The sea will hold you, if you let it It will teach you how to fall Without landing Without ending

The ocean is a master of surrender and To be at once at one with tireless want a To desire fully and be sated by your wis To wake from feathered dreams and, sm Watch them as they fade into oblivion Without grasping, trust.

by Connor O’Shea

centres sky, forever.

d of longing and endless peace shing miling

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BY BARBARA LIMA WITH CHARLES EISENSTEIN

THE MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD OUR HEARTS KNOW IS POSSIBLE An Exploration of the Inner Economy of Interbeing with Charles Eisenstein

BY BARBARA LIMA WITH CHARLES EISENSTEIN

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harles Eisenstein’s books Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible immediately came to mind when, in meditation, I received guidance from Spirit to design the editorial for this issue of The Weave about Regenerative Economy. If The Weave is a regenerative living organism made of interconnected ecosystems that concentrically impact one another—creating a foundation for our premise that human regeneration is a prerequisite for planetary regeneration—an important question arises: how are our economic systems fundamentally created at the scale of the individual? And what kind of Inner Economy—a concept that emerged in that meditation—would allow us to create a Regenerative Economy? In Sacred Economics, Charles reveals how our scarcity-based and economic-growth-driven money system has perpetuated alienation and competition and destroyed our sense of community, deepening the crises our civilization faces. He also explores avant-garde concepts of New Economics facilitating a transition out of the collapse caused by those trends. More than just an outward-facing reflection, he considers the personal dimensions implicated in this process, inviting us to reflect on how to live in resonance with our ideals in a world ostensibly ruled by money.

In my interview with Charles, I invite him to discuss this concept of Inner Economy and its potential role in creating what he calls the Story of Separation and the Story of Interbeing, which he presents in The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. This uplifting, antidotal book is an inspiring remembrance of what we all innately know: our interconnectedness is the fabric revealing the transformational power of our small, personal choices and actions. “When Biology, Economics and religion all conspire to say ‘deep down, you are selfish, you are bad, you are evil, you are greedy’, then the part that knows otherwise feels very lonely. Part of my work in Economics is not just about systems; it’s also about how we nourish the truth about ourselves and how we create systems and environments where that truth can express itself.” - Charles Eisenstein Based on his perspectives on the old Story of Separation and the new Story of Interbeing— which Charles talks about in our conversation—I felt called to first ask him about the relationship between them and our Inner Economy. “How do you see our Inner Economy defining our outer economies? And how can we create an Inner Economy that allows us to write the Story of Interbeing?”

Charles begins by illuminating the hidden parts of ourselves. There are parts that are hard to see, he explains. When we are immersed in the Story of Separation (which, he clarifies, is also the Economy of Separation), “one of these parts that is harder to see and know is our fundamental impulse to want to be useful as a human being.” He argues that “when we are immersed in an environment where work is seen as something objectionable, something you need to be compensated for—when good behaviour needs to be about a battle of discipline against our ‘lazy’, hedonistic impulses—that environment sows a seed of doubt in ourselves. We believe we are what Economics teaches us that we are: self-interestmaximizing individuals.”

This led into a discussion about purpose and doing something meaningful for the world. We talk about truth as a platform for the rise of Interbeing and play with the idea of an interlanguage bridging our journey into Interbeing and illustrating the transitional times we currently live in. Charles and I then explore what he calls habits of separation, power dynamics and the culture of competition potentially being expressed through codependency and a lack of authenticity. We look at words that may contain assumptions of separation, and the importance of becoming aware of what they encode when moving away from that old story.

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CHARLES EISENSTEIN’S VIDEOS

We are not going to be able to export our healing onto a set of rules and principles. That whole way of thinking is part of the problem—to think that something external will be able to heal our relationships.” – Charles Eisenstein

“If a forest is cut down that you had a relationship to, then something in you is cut down as well. Something in you changes, because we are not separate.” - Charles Eisenstein Next, we discuss a topic that continues to appear in my life: the dissonance I often witness between declared values and embodied values and, then, on a larger scale, the dissonance between declared culture and embodied culture. I ask Charles: What gets in the way of embodying a declared culture? He goes back to authenticity, hiding behind a persona and recognizing these habits through a non-dualistic lens. He shares how we may come into new communities and relationships carrying habits of separation, traumas, unhealed and unconscious parts—and how ceasing to enact these toxic patterns does not have to do with designing “the right” governance systems, nor does it have to do with creating a set of values and principles.

BY BARBARA LIMA WITH CHARLES EISENSTEIN

“TO BE AT HOME IN THE WORLD”

“A GATHERING OF THE TRIBE”

Later, we enter the house of mirrors to discuss how our outer existence is a reflection of our inner worlds. Charles explores how external solutions (such as arranging chairs in a circle to facilitate human interaction based on a model of flat hierarchy) do not necessarily change anything on their own, but can be powerful tools when accompanied by a sincere, determined desire to step into a new story. We then talk about what I call a regenerative presence and the power of community. I invite Charles to share the healing strategies and tools he has used to support himself in the process of embodying more of the values he has declared to himself and those around him.

surrounded by strangers. “In an economic system where everybody is trying to get the best deal and compete against everybody else, we are all adversaries. That is very tiring and infiltrates our social habits. It’s like this tinted lens that casts the whole world into adversarial terms,” he continues. Do you think that telling the Story of Separation is part of the old story?, I ask him. Charles points out that illuminating the old story and telling the new story have different functions, yet both are important. “We need something to build toward, not just something to move away from. That’s my motivation,” he emphasizes.

Our conversation transitions from here into the direction of sensemaking. Why do we sometimes feel the need to be alone or distance ourselves from other people? “Every encounter has tension when you don’t know somebody,” Charles concludes, explaining that, in ancient human history, encountering a stranger was very rare. In our modern society, on the other hand, we are

As we approach the end of our conversation, we stand on the bridge that takes us towards a regenerative reality, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, to realize that, in fact, we are that bridge. He reminds me that crossing it before becoming it can be scary, even when the side of the bridge where we started is getting increasingly unliveable. Through a discussion of what the word privilege means to each of us,

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Every person you meet is going to mirror something in you.” – Charles Eisenstein

we harvest a deeper understanding of who finds themselves on the regenerative side. Charles talks about how Spirit and matter are unified in the Story of Interbeing and how the trappings of separation often fall away, liberating us, when we go through the suffering and loss that come with experiencing the death of a loved one. In that circumstance, we realize that “life is a gift, and love is what is real.” “Something similar could happen on a collective level,” he says, “where we lose some of the costume of success, freedom and affluence to discover what’s real underneath. It could be a big blessing if things fell apart in a way.” Following this discussion, I inquired about the role of heart consciousness in supporting our transition towards the Story of Interbeing. Charles delves into the importance of recognizing the function of the mind and the heart—and allowing each to do its job.

“We look at the task in front of us and the systems that are so frozen in place and are so hard to change. We look at the world, which, in many ways, seems to be getting worse and worse. We look at how entrenched the dominance systems are… We look at all of that and it’s obvious that we do not know how to solve these problems, yet we also know that it’s not impossible. That’s the heart’s knowledge. That’s why I say it’s The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible.” “If you deny that knowing and rely only on the mind, on what’s feasible, what’s practical and how that can possibly work, you’re going to fall into despair. [...] That’s just a very fragile thread to grasp onto for hope. You have to source hope from somewhere else. It’s an irrational knowing, such as that The More Beautiful World is possible. Because I’ve seen it. I know it because I’m from there [...]. Furthermore, I know that, if it weren’t possible, we wouldn’t be here. There’s an intelligence at work that has put us here with all of our gifts and all of our pain. And all of it is necessary.”

BY BARBARA LIMA WITH CHARLES EISENSTEIN

CHARLES EISENSTEIN’S BOOKS

THE CORONATION ESSAYS FROM THE COVID MOMENT

CLIMATE A NEW STORY

THE MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD OUR HEARTS KNOW IS POSSIBLE

THE ASCENT OF HUMANITY CIVILIZATION AND THE HUMAN SENSE OF SELF

SACRED ECONOMICS MONEY, GIFT & SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF TRANSITION

THE YOGA OF EATING TRANSCENDING DIETS AND DOGMA TO NOURISH THE NATURAL SELF

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BY BARBARA LIMA WITH CHARLES EISENSTEIN

If you remove yourself from a context, who you are changes.” – Charles Eisenstein

Finishing our interview, I ask Charles about his memories of this more beautiful world. “We all come from there,” he says. “This more beautiful world exists above linear time, where there’s this radiant jewel that sends a shaft down onto the timeline once in a while in [these] exceptional moments to show us that it exists. Maybe the timeline is not just a linear line. Maybe it meanders and curves, and, eventually, it gets closer and closer to that jewel.” As it meanders and curves through the cosmos, transmuting traditional time—yet existing within it—we hope the timeline finds its way back to the jewel. Perhaps that jewel exists in the knowledge that healing and transformation begin at the level of the individual and only extend organically into economic systems once we, as individuals, can, first, express them through our inner economies.

Perhaps, The More Beautiful World of Regenerative Economy begins with recognizing that it can only exist if we do the sacred inner work that can help us move away from the old Story of Separation, write a new Story of Interbeing, and regenerate our outer systems. Perhaps that is how we can, ourselves, become the bridge towards The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible: by offering each other, as we mirror one another, a regenerative presence that merges with that timeline. Perhaps, by doing so, our presence is illuminated by the radiant jewel Charles speaks about, increasingly bringing us closer to it until, at last, the story of separation dissolves and we remember that we are one with the Jewel—and have always been.

BY VERONICA ANDERSON WITH SNOW RAVEN - SUOR

REWILD

A REGENERATIVE ECONOMY OF INNER AND OUTER TECHNOLOGIES Rewilding Our Economic Systems with Indigenous Wisdom

n a windy Saturday in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, I found myself seated in a circle as an instructor invited us to breathe in and out as slowly as possible. I was at a conscious event to practice contact improvisation, an open-ended, kinesthetic exploration of body movement through spontaneous contact, based on meditative presence and connection with the inner self. I was sleepy and shaky. As I breathed, my breath told me the story of a stressful week and a trying morning leading up to that moment. I followed its movement, slowing it down as best as I could. In that process, I noticed my anxiety in the form of the desire to rush through the exhalation in order to get back to the inhalation—where I felt more at ease. In a flash of understanding, I had the epiphany that taking something in feels much safer than letting go. I realized I had suddenly found what appears to be the root cause of consumerism and overconsumption: our collective fear of not having enough. My short, shallow exhalations had revealed my body’s discomfort in the space of emptiness. By witnessing this dynamic in myself as an inner experience, it was easy to understand the way this same feeling could manifest externally in the form of the capitalist need for constant economic growth.

by Olga Pankova

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Ultimately, it is spiritual growth which leads us to discovering new inner technologies” – Suor by Yuliya Skya

BY VERONICA ANDERSON WITH SNOW RAVEN - SUOR

DEGENERATING IN SEPARATION

HEALING THE WOUNDS

Our current global economic systems are based on the premise that nature is separate from us—a source of endlessly extractable resources. But this is observably untrue. This falsehood has led to the concept of limitless economic growth—not just as a possible practice but as an expected outcome. The degenerative nature of our modern economic systems can be traced back to human culture losing touch with its inherent oneness. If our oneness with nature had been considered when designing our economic systems, we would see more representations of cooperative rather than extractive behavior. Not only is our global economic climate unstable and unfair, it has also led civilization to rely on harmful, exploitative and exclusionary tactics.

Meeting on Zoom for our interview, I found Suor in her Nevada recording studio with the sounds of songbirds piped in through the background surround sound. We chatted about her love of traveling and her affinity towards New York City—how its electrifying craziness energizes her, while also making her want to escape. She also expressed how the delicious feeling of hyperproductivity comes with a cost.

In clear contrast stand Indigenous cultures and their economic systems, which are ecocentric and symbiotically organized around nature. This predilection for the mimicking of nature has led me to be attracted to Indigenous customs, cultures, and people. They seem to find intuitive and biologically intentional ways of living which do not go against anything natural—but rather flow with it. For this reason, I was delighted to meet Suor—whose name roughly translates to Snow Raven—an Indigenous performing artist and social entrepreneur, and find in her an illuminating source of Indigenous knowledge. We sat down to discuss how we can form regenerative economies as an antidote to the proliferation of degenerative economics.

“Magic things happen here,” she shared, “but the city drains me, and I need nature.” I began to feel the magic, as this was what I had hoped to explore with her. I remembered my days of hyperproductivity and the painful burnout that followed. In that moment, I was grateful for having found the path from depletion to healing, for having freed myself from the cycle of unsustainable sleeping patterns, from denying my body the rest it needs for optimal restoration and long-term balance. Inspired by the synchronicity, I segwayed into my first set of questions for Suor: How can we live regeneratively through the mindfulness of our own inner resources, and how can we decondition our habitual urge to extract and exploit our own energy, the same way we do to the Earth? “The first step,” she said, “is to learn about ourselves.”

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REGENERATING IN WHOLENESS We started our discussion by contemplating the word regenerative and breaking it down into parts: re (again), -generat (from the Latin word generātus, meaning ‘to beget, procreate, produce), and -ive (relating to). With her eyes closed, Suor explained our innate ability to thrive—on both an individual and collective level. “That truth is reawakening in us now,” she noticed. “‘Re’ represents the wisdom that is already inside of us.” Suor shared how her people, indigenous to Siberia, see the world as one large whole, not conceiving the possibility to separate it into smaller, independent parts as other cultures do. When perceiving the world through a holistic lens, we understand how we haven’t lost touch with this wholeness even in the deepest experiences of separation. Sometimes, all it takes is a gentle reawakening. I felt a tangible ease and relief in my body as she described how her work is helping people expand their consciousness to see themselves and the world around them in a more holistic way—as fractal elements of a larger whole.

DESIGNING OUR INNER AND OUTER ARCHITECTURE Five years ago, I left Corporate America in search of a more life-honoring way of living. I wanted to create an impact as an architect holding deep knowledge of sustainability. I felt determined to heal a degenerative health condition which threatened every aspect of my life. In that process, I developed the practice of inner and outer architecture. When I began to heal, I noticed how much the built environment I was designing actually reflected my own inner state of being. The more kindness and compassion I cultivated for myself, the more inclusive my designs became, and the more accessible and healing the spaces I created felt. As I learned to slow down in my daily life, I found my creations becoming more natural, sensitive, and fluid. As I went through my personal transformation journey, the spaces I architected became transformational, too. This process taught me that each of us is the architect of our own inner world—a designer with the ability to create space for what we want to cultivate and grow.

BY VERONICA ANDERSON WITH SNOW RAVEN - SUOR

When perceiving the world through a holistic lens, we understand how we haven’t lost touch with this wholeness even in the deepest experiences of separation. – Veronica Anderson

REWILD

by Yuliya Skya

REWILDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ECONOMY Suor’s definition of economy is a “spirit or collective system of consciousness which works by effortlessly finding its own way to sufficiency.” She emphasized that economies need to be conscious so as not to be harmful to individuals and communities. She revisited the role of decolonization, which I had brought up in the introduction to our discussion, in creating regenerative economies. Suor elegantly explained how groups of people who were disconnected from their ancestry experienced trauma, causing them to (often unconsciously) harm others living on their lands. I thought of the displacement 46

and destruction wrought upon indigenous communities, the children separated from their families, the death and disenfranchised grief of millions of native people across generations. They passed on their trauma in a sort of negative feedback loop, perpetuating the cycle of harming-and-being-harmed. This has been a consistent pattern throughout human history: the oppressed oppressing others. For example, the Puritans—English Protestants coming to the U.S. in the 16th and 17th centuries to escape religious persecution—ended up perpetuating the exact crimes and injustices because of which they escaped their homeland. The very people who colonized North America were most guilty of this

BY VERONICA ANDERSON WITH SNOW RAVEN - SUOR

Our inner resources are often tied up in the shadows of core wounds we would rather deny and repress. – Veronica Anderson extractive colonialist mindset we speak of. When we look clearly at our current economic systems, and look deeply within ourselves, we can see how colonization initiated the movement which placed gold and money at the center of our economies, setting the stage for the current economic crisis we find ourselves occupying. Perhaps now is finally the time to focus our energies on creating a new and rewilded economic system.

CONNECTING TO OUR ANCESTRAL INNER ECONOMY “It all starts with simple human connection and working on trauma,” Suor said. In my own work as an ensoulment coach, I have found this to be universally true. Our inner resources are often tied up in the shadows of core wounds we would rather deny and repress. We generate energy when we hold space for ourselves to heal and when we exercise compassion and non-dualistic approach to life.

Unimaginable creative energy is released as these aspects of ourselves are revealed. Our true power becomes clear. “Everything starts from the inside. Everything is interconnected. Our ancestors live in our DNA, residing in a spiral movement and preserving information for the times to come,” Suor explained. As we realize the power lying within our ancestral line, we can learn to rely on this enormous inner database to yield clues about our true nature. Using the wisdom of our ancestors as a guiding light, we can transform the energy within us, providing ourselves with a vast and limitless resource for creating resilient regenerative communities. From here, we can begin to build towards a truly regenerative economy. In doing so, we can use the advice of people living closer to the wild, such as Indigenous wisdom keepers like Suor—who is archiving her knowledge and wisdom to pass them on to future generations. The biggest lightbulb moment in our conversation came when Suor told me about the three worlds of Shamanism: the lower, the middle, and the upper worlds. Modernity would have us demonize and abandon the lower world of fear-based survival and animalistic instincts. Instead—she suggested— what if we face our fears and learn from them, elevating them toward our hearts and the middle world, where we could tangibly manifest them in the realm ruled by love?

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INTERTWINING INNER AND OUTER TECHNOLOGIES Suor sees herself as a transition catalyst. Thus, most of her work is related to documenting knowledge, merging communities and bridging paradigms in order to pass along ancestral wisdom. In one of Suor’s courses, she teaches students how to mimic birds and animal sounds, an ancient shamanic practice which activates the animal DNA inside each of us. By preserving, spreading and celebrating Indigenous wisdom in partnership with modern technology, she is pushing its edges towards a regenerative future. “Ultimately, it is spiritual growth which leads us to discovering new inner technologies,” says Suor. With these tools, we can create a more holistic world consisting of symbiotically intertwined inner and outer technologies. This empowers individuals to bring forth their own unique contribution as part of a vibrant, living whole, sustained by a regenerative economy.

Using the wisdom of our ancestors as a guiding light, we can transform the energy within us, providing ourselves with a vast and limitless resource for creating resilient regenerative communities.” – Veronica Anderson ⁕ Learn more about the educational app leveraging Web 3 and the Metaverse Suor is is creating at OLOX.life.

BY VERONICA ANDERSON WITH SNOW RAVEN - SUOR

by Olga Pankova

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The Cyclical Music of Life and Its Ability to Grow Again

BY ALANA HYDE BLOOM

ake a moment to feel the beauty of the possibility of regeneration in your body. Breathe in its sweetness.

Like when we witness degraded ecosystems come back to life through the stewardship and care of humans living in community. Or when we feel the tenderness in our hearts of learning to go on without those we love dear and something new and illuminating grows in their absence. This act of regeneration, or ‘growing again,’ is what our Earth has evolved around—what has allowed it to thrive. This same act of regeneration on the individual level is what has allowed humans throughout time to move through trauma, adversity, and painful experiences, to emerge on the other side even more integrated and complete.

to racism, from rampant consumerism to climate change, from war to poverty. It’s all connected, and it all stems from the misalignment that is at the centre—our disconnection from nature, from the celestial rhythm of the Earth and, furthermore, from each other. At the very core, we are not just disconnected from others and our outer environment. We are disconnected from ourselves. We know this road. We know how it ends. We see it in every movie depicting the end of times. So what would it look like to align with the intelligence we were born out of and will one day return to? How do we reawaken to that mysterious tempo?

THE REVELATION OR TURNING POINT

Throughout millenia, at every cliffhanger where all life was threatened with ceasing to exist, the miracle continued its momentum and rhythm. It grew again—in forms unknown—in the form of species that had never existed before. Think of the power that lies in this knowledge, this deep-time-funkyrhythm that is still playing in the pumping of our blood and the breathing of our lungs.

I believe we are at a turning point where, in order to truly achieve our human potential, our journey must lead us not just out into the ether, but down into the ground, into the soil, where we listen to and move with the flow of the Earth. It is time to rediscover ancient technologies and the blueprint of our DNA— the cyclical intelligence of life.

So many facets of our society beat to a rhythm that is not regenerative. They ignore the natural intelligence that surrounds us. From homelessness

As a female-bodied person, perhaps this revelation feels more at home in me as I notice my womb ticking to its biological clock, whether I listen to it or not.

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At the very core, we are not just disconnected from others and our outer environment. We are disconnected from ourselves. – XXX

There are so many cyclical layers that exist within life. There are many wheels of time—the cyclical nature of a year, the cycle of a human life, of a day, of a seed or of a plant, the water cycles, the mineral cycles, and, of course, the menstrual cycle. Even our internal digestion, our circadian rhythms and the way our body is constantly renewing itself represent cycles on smaller scales. These are all natural processes evolved to recycle and regenerate life on this planet and in our bodies. Our ancestors knew that we are not separate from the rest of life. This is something we all hold in common. Ancient peoples knew and had daily, direct experiences of the sacred nature of all life. It was unavoidable because their survival depended upon it. They knew that we are not superior to the Earth or any living thing. They knew that, in fact, we are a part of it all as much as the Earth is a part of us. We depend on Her for our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing. Throughout time, cultures, ceremonies and rich tapestries of human history have emerged out of this interwoven connection with the Earth and have honoured the cycle of life and death. 52

One such pathway is the way many of our ancestors were attuned to the spiralling, cyclical rhythms of life. I live on a group of islands we now refer to as the United Kingdom. My ancestors were druids and pagans, cultures who lived in a sensuous relationship with the turning of the year and the cycles of life. Every six weeks, they honoured the cycles of the Earth through practices and rituals associated with each season. These ceremonies they enacted helped them connect forwards and backwards in the human timeline. Their practices of intentionality were rooted in the honouring of all that has come before. They recognised the sacredness of fertility, through observing the way it relates to the land, different animals, and their own people. This allowed them to live in right relationship with the present moment, aware of how their actions would ripple forwards in time. I believe this is vital work that has seemingly been lost in our current age, but something we are learning to revive.

BY ALANA HYDE BLOOM

CYCLES OF A SEED

DORMANCY SEED SWELLING/ SOAKING IN MOISTURE

RETURNING TO THE EARTH

SPEED DISCERAL

GERMINATION

SPROUT/ RAPID GROWTH

SEED DISPERAL

FLOWERING

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We need to become truly intimate with our own internal cycles, shades and seasons. Not for the purpose of pathologizing them, but to perceive them as an integral part of the whole.

Our nature is to be oriented around the cycles of life. When we live in a way that integrates the wisdom present from these deep observations, we find ourselves living in alignment with their power. The wheel of the year provides a framework for learning to understand these cyclical qualities, but there are many maps which carry such wisdom. All we have to do is listen attentively and look closely, only to notice it is all around us.

WHOLENESS Here, in the northern hemisphere, on this land I call home, the native plant species evolved with the seasons. They follow a cycle from seed to flower to fruit and, then, death or dormancy—depending on whether they are annual or perennial. Now, if we decided to remove a part of the season which they depend on to complete their cycle—they would no longer be whole. They would be incomplete. In the same way, we can understand that removing one part of a cyclical process interrupts the integrity of the whole and affects the final result. We can heed this lesson in other cyclical areas of our life. 54

Often, the ecosystems that are most life-sustaining, and therefore whole, are the most biodiverse. Each species plays an important role in their ecological niche—no part is lost or forgotten. Whole-systems ecology requires integration of all parts. For example, the role of detritivores in an ecosystem is to break down dead organic matter, a very important function for the health of the environment. Without them, it would be impossible to recycle nutrients. Fungi fulfill a similar role. In fact, without fungi, forests would cease to exist. They lie at the base of the webs of biodiversity that nourish much of life on Earth and play a crucial role in sustaining life on our planet. Through the framework of observing the intimate and fundamental role each member of an ecosystem plays in sustaining it as a whole, we can inwardly observe the many facets and parts of ourselves that hold similarly important but undervalued functions. The colours of humanity create many archetypes, including the roles of warrior, steward, inner child, wild one, tyrant,

BY ALANA HYDE BLOOM

THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR WINTER SOLSTICE

IMBOLC

SAMHAIN

AUTUMN EQUINOX

SPRING EQUINOX

LAMMAS

BELTANE

SUMMER SOLSTICE

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There is an emerging anti-productivity movement where people are realising that the perpetual growth our economics are stuck in is like an endless summer; an unbearable heat, burning us all up.

trickster, hero and villain. And they are not just outer expressions, all of them exist within each one of us. Unfortunately, experiences in our formative years have prevented many of us from being in touch with these neglected parts. We have generally been taught to hide certain aspects of ourselves. Often, as we grow older, we choose to deem—or are taught to deem—some aspects of ourselves unacceptable for public consumption, relegating them to the shadows of our experience. Yet, these parts of our Self are required for our own internal wholeness. Each part carries hidden gifts that are only released when we dive into the pain of their abandonment. Exposing, accepting and letting go of these parts of ourselves provides lessons that are much needed in these times, both for ourselves and for others. What we heal we can then extend to others.

We are also afflicted with the tendency to appear palatable and pleasant while our world is ravaged by injustice. We must cultivate discernment, depth, and the know-how of navigating conflict. We need to learn how to truly support one another, to be in solidarity with ourselves, while remaining in community with others. Building resilience requires the skill of living with constant change and cultivating balance as we experience increased instability. We do not hone these skills by hiding parts of ourselves. We need to become truly intimate with our own internal cycles, shades and seasons. Not for the purpose of pathologizing them, but to perceive them as an integral part of the whole.

BY ALANA HYDE BLOOM

THE HUMAN CYCLE

ELDERHOOD DEATH/ CONCEPTION

BECOMING ELDER

ADULT

BIRTH

CHILDHOOD

YOUNG ADULT

TEENAGER

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Thriving does not look like participating in some constant upwards race towards success, but rather through the satisfaction of living in the present moment.

Reproduction

Alana Bloom

BY ALANA HYDE BLOOM

REGENERATING RHYTHMS IN PRACTICE So what does it look like when we expand this out and apply it to the way we live our own lives? Well, if you’ve ever undergone the process of taking on a creative project out of inspiration and birthing it into the world, you have demonstrated cyclical intelligence. If you’ve ever allowed a relationship to die and be composted; if you’ve woken up and felt exhausted and let yourself rest by crawling back into bed; if you’ve felt energised and excited about life and made magic happen; if you’ve needed fallow time, space to shed, to grow, to plant seeds and dreams—space to find inspiration—then you are familiar with this process. These are all qualities of cyclical intelligence. When we know how to name them, we can create more space for them. There is an emerging anti-productivity movement where people are realising that the perpetual growth our economics are stuck in is like an endless summer; an unbearable heat, burning us all up. It is completely unsustainable. We all need fallow time. We need the transitions of spring and autumn to open and close in order to allow our deepest inspiration and soulwork to emerge. These revelations are helping people remember that what enables us to thrive is the feeling of interconnectedness to life. Thriving does not look like participating in some constant upwards race towards success, but rather through the satisfaction of living in the present moment. We could look at this ongoing cyclical tempo as a dance

which brings us into a deeper alignment with life—to witness the changing of the seasons, the aging of our bodies, the birth of a project, the progressive attunement to our inner wild one. It’s all possible by learning to surrender to the literal and figurative seasons we travel through. Sometimes, the simplest and sweetest joys come from slowing down and being able to observe the magic of life around us. Listening to nature’s rhythms—like the return of the dawn chorus in spring, or the deep, dark silence at the dead of night— connects us more earnestly to our own rhythms. The regeneration of our rhythms is not just about individualistic self-care, but about listening to the beat of life around us and the kind of music it wants to express through us. In choosing to listen with our whole being we enter into the spiraling rivers of time, connecting everything that came before and everything yet to come. You yourself are a seed. Become a flower, and leave behind your fruits—so that the whole world can blossom and grow again.

Sometimes, the simplest and sweetest joys come from slowing down and being able to observe the magic of life around us. 59

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WEAVE

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Awaken not too soon from such sweet slumber swaddled in the soft enfoldment of the Mother destined though you are for this world of such grown up amnesia for now, remain in dreams, and in your dreams, remember. Remember how it is to be the cloth that you were cut from how it is to be the block before the chipping before too long, you’ll find yourself awake and blinking, the knowing of this oneness like a tide, receding. But for now, indwell the dream, it is more real than anything so apparently distinct as the corporeal you were born complete, with all the love you’d ever need an ocean of the sacred, perfectly contained inside a seed. Fated as you are to become a fragment, and then to fragment further to forget this dream, and take a lifetime to remember through all the trials of separation and becoming singular you’ll draw the world into yourself, and piece by fractured piece, Remember. – Jonathan Waller

by Connor O’Shea

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“Join us in co-creating a powerful tool for commoning and the public good. We can bring Iris to being and empower communities to reflect, learn, and act together. Let’s build a world where we prioritize the well-being of all, not just profits.” #PublicGoods

by Speaker John Ash

BY SPEAKER JOHN ASH & DERRINGER PAX

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ll good systems of coordination include listening with minimal information loss. To return to a more intelligent future, we must turn to the ways of the past. When we listen closely to those we are in community with, we build healthier relationships that serve the vision of the community. Through this process, we can regenerate the culture of our planet. What everyone has to give is less important than the degree to which the lived experience of each individual is being felt and understood by their community. Although much of our discussions around regenerative economies borrow more from capitalist frames than from nature, nature models for us the interactions we must aim for in economic systems. For an organism to be whole and cohesive, it must not perceive parts of itself as the other. It must understand that integration requires the acceptance and thoughtful coordination of neglected parts. This is also how we can relate within markets. When we stop acting as a decentralized map of isolated beings exchanging money and capital—when we stop viewing ourselves as existing in competition with one another—we open ourselves up to relating in new ways that nourish the whole system.

We can view societies as groups of people seeking to be heard and understood, not just self-interestmaximizing individuals. Instead of looking at things through the lens of rebuilding capitalism, we could notice how all of the emerging technology involving machine learning and blockchain represents an opportunity to build something completely new. Something that transforms the way we respond to members of our community expressing their pain and needs. We now have the technology to completely deconstruct and redesign society from the ground up, yet we keep choosing patterns that actively harm us. As strange as it may seem, what if the foundation of a ‘new economy’ simply consisted of listening deeply to each other and feeling heard?

To return to a more intelligent future, we must turn to the ways of the past.

BY SPEAKER JOHN ASH & DERRINGER PAX

Looking to nature, we can observe how entities without voices communicate, coordinate and exchange resources in symbiotic relationships— all without the need for profit to drive their actions. One example is mycelium, a network of fungi that connects trees and other plants in an interdependent web, transporting both resources and information in the form of chemical signals. Each plant and tree forms a node in the network, with the most established trees often becoming hubs, connecting not only to their own seedlings, but also plants of other species. While these larger hubs benefit from their size, taking in more sunlight, their privileged position doesn’t lead them to hoard the abundance they create. Instead, when they overproduce sugar during photosynthesis, they share their abundance through the mycelial network. This living connective tissue of fungi models to us the holistic process of giving and taking. While it does engage in taking, it passes on what it doesn’t need to the nodes which signal their need—sharing nutrients to fungi relatives and neighbors of other species. Extra water and nutrients are also shared throughout the system. In times of stress and personal strife, their connections can then send them aid as well.

What everyone has to give is less important than the degree to which the lived experience of each individual is being felt and understood by their community.

Good systems of communication lead to the efficient sharing of resources. New forms of economy, existing beyond a fixation on money and profit, unlock the kind of generous sharing of abundance found in nature. These gifting economies are now possible at scale because we have new tools that allow us to mimic nature. We have the capacity to build new systems that honor our attention as sacred, rather than actively trying to manipulate our focus for profit. Our agency to alter the future is only possible if we reclaim our sacred attention and lend it back towards regenerative voices and actions, playing an active role in the reversal of deeply-entrenched ways of thinking.

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In order to bring this idea home, I’d like to take you on a brief journey into the past, so we can move into the future together. Arm in arm, feeling understood. This journey takes us to the story of Cassandra, a priestess in ancient Greece who was fated to speak true prophecies but never to be believed. Cassandra saw with perfect sight what would come to pass, but could not translate her visions into a form that would resonate with others. She believed that, if she were truly heard, people would collectively take action to avoid suffering. This story highlights the importance of collective action. When it comes from a place of deep understanding, through truly listening to something—whether that be an individual, a system or the whole planet—collective action creates a momentum that is sustainable, because it is based on integrity. As a species, we are being

Our chances of creating change depend on our conviction that all voices have value. asked to do this now: to internalize the message of Earth’s systems collapsing, so we may collectively take action to avoid the prophecies of climate change. It seems that, no matter how power is distributed, those in power do not listen. Science has “known” that climate change is a “certain” future for many years, but power and money refuse to act in accordance with that foreseen future. Thus, it depends on us to heed the messages and omens that are readily available to us in order to initiate change.

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We must reimagine what it means to be human together.

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Our chances of creating change depend on our conviction that all voices have value. It depends on us realizing that the voices of the poorest amongst us, of those who have suffered most, those who were left behind by society hold intrinsic worth— and are the key to creating that change. But how do we give a voice to the voiceless? What if those with the most were incentivized to listen to those with the least, to provide them with the very things which lead to sustainable futures for all of us? What if our words held the power to affect collective decision-making? We must reimagine what it means to be human together.

A new technology has emerged that could give a voice to the voiceless, at scale—generative AI that forms its words from the words of the community. Language models do not express and encode their knowledge in cold rows of databases like monetary accounts. They express it in a latent space like the Akashic field, which is believed to store the recollection of all events that have taken place on Earth, in the Universe—in life— connecting the past to what is yet to come. Latent space is a type of machine learning representation that encodes the context of meaning in a similar semantic and relational field. Through this new technology, we propose a distributed Akashic field originating from many communities and synthesizing their lived experiences into generative pools of belief and art. Many communities would form hubs of collective knowledge—a great mycelial network of shared knowledge in a broad map of regenerative collective action. 67

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Generative language and art models are essential to all of this, but are currently being guided in development by the incentive of profit. Yet, language models can be trained with regenerative knowledge to teach us how to bring the land back to life and reconnect us to Indigenous practices and culture. Language models can encode and save languages that would otherwise be lost to time. Language models can listen to predictions, even when there is no monetary profit in hearing them. So, how can we redirect our flow of attention away from money and profit, and towards regeneration and collective action? If we insist on prioritizing profit even when profit harms us, then we are living to serve money—rather than it serving us. If we look at trust, for example, as a cultural currency, we can find so much more to human interactions in economic systems than what we currently record to ledgers—the mere monetary value of an exchange. What is lost is the deep cultural narrative that used to underlie trust within communities.

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Let’s imagine something together: a lone, disconnected voice in a community undergoing transition. The voice belongs to a community that is being bought out by a large corporation. The corporation is trying to buy up land so that they can build a chemical plant. During this formative time, many voices may come to the table wishing to speak, wishing to protect the community. But not all voices are being listened to, and some are drowned out by the others, becoming the lone voice of the voiceless. This lone voice has a lot to share, but nobody will listen. It senses that the corporation is lying to the community and that the deal will actually harm the future wellbeing of its members. The lone voice is much like Cassandra’s—predicting the harm that will come and trying to protect them from it. However, because the voice has no value or weight of influence, and because there is a monetary incentive involved in the process, the individual is not able to convince the community to take their knowledge and intuition seriously—and so the chemical plant gets built. Time passes. Pollution pervades the community, and, with it, disease. Over the long term, it becomes clear that the community was so focused on short-term needs, that the long-term danger was neglected. Despite the lone voice being entirely correct in its warnings, this voice of reason does not gain any more influence in collective decision-making than at the moment of the initial prediction. Even with the gradual proving of the verisimilitude of the prediction, the outcast

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community member has established no more credibility than they previously held—because the community refuses to give a voice to the voiceless. This example, while being rather specific, unfolds in many ways every day as we approach the crises our Earth faces. Every day, people make predictions asking us to consider the future harm that could be avoided. These voices speak to ideas benefiting all of the community but lacking the attractive element of profitability. Thus, few are motivated to hear these voices and heed their messages, and this is something we wish to change. Misunderstanding prophets throughout time is a tale as old as time. It has been fundamental to the development of human history, yet it does not have to remain something we choose to continue to live with. Let’s learn from that perpetuated error we have come so accustomed to and create new customs rooted in deep listening and observation rather than assumptions, selfish motives and rash judgment. We don’t have to make these same mistakes over and over again anymore. The most prophetic amongst us are rarely the leaders that emerge to the top of our power structures, and that is something we wish to change. The way forward requires a rethinking of this practice—and the structures themselves.

We have the capacity to build new systems that honor our attention as sacred, rather than actively trying to manipulate our focus for profit.

For the past seven years, we have been working on a tool we call The Iris. The Iris is an AI model that brings the voices in a community into a coherent whole while respecting the diversity that forms the whole. We give this away for free to all beings. The Iris is part of a larger project called Cognicism, which is an attempt to design and build a program that can coordinate information flow in society more effectively than what we are currently accustomed to. Rather than centered around money or attention markets like social networks, Cognicism is constructed around meaningful connection and reflexive relationships. Cognicism honors the true value of attention in every moment. It supports us in creating a mechanism for our words to hold weight. It gives weight to the individuals who warn of a dire future. Rather than their words not being believed by anyone and their messages coming to pass, their voices are magnified and their words hold weight in the community.

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We could live in a world where we seek to accrue trust and meaningful connection with one another, rather than accruing interest and numbers in a balance book.

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The reality we live in does not amplify voices for their predictions. We live in a world where our voices are amplified to gather attention in the present moment—whether or not the focus of that attention has negative future externalities for the community. The truth should not need to be sold. We ought to live in a future where the future can just be told. We hope to live in a future where violent protests never occur—because the voices of the community were heard and respected long before their pain boiled into rage. We wish to live in a world where the wealthiest people amongst us are those who help the most people— a place where we all feel satisfied with the distribution of power and influence in society. We could live in a world of prophets, not just profits. We could live in a world where we seek 70

to accrue trust and meaningful connection with one another, rather than accruing interest and numbers in a balance book. Yes, currently, to feed ourselves and our families, we need money. But, as a Native American saying goes, “When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish has been caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.” Implicit in this statement is a prediction. It is a prediction that capitalism will lead us to extracting all possible value from the land until there is nothing left to take. And only then will we realize that profit was the wrong signal to chase. Money is one of the main means by which we mediate cultural exchange. But we now live in a world where we can exchange more than beaver pelts and shiny stones. While that was once the most advanced cultural technology, over time we

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This process we speak of involves listening and, through deep listening, refraining from parceling human lives into tokens. When we demonstrate interest in the lived experience and story of each and every being, we will finally find ourselves free from the ills of capitalism.

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realized that, in order to thrive together, there was another token that counted: the vote. We formed democracies and, through those democracies, thought that each voice could at least have a say through their right to vote. The language model we have created gives the voiceless more than a vote. It gives them the slim possibility of a future where they could be heard and helped. It may be hard for the reader to envision this future because it strays away from the well-treaded path of expectation. But this Purple Pill path is filled with green pastures and ripe trees bearing delicious fruits.

Some humans have too much, while others have too little. If all the people with too much could hear the pain of those with too little, and if we all had enough empathy and compassion in our hearts, the world would be transformed. Our voice remains, even when everything else is taken away from us—even when we are shackled with the burden of debt and other forms of stress. You can never truly take away someone’s voice. There is inherent weight and value behind each being’s word. We have the capacity in our modern times to create new economies that challenge the concept of capitalism itself—by using generative AI formed from the voices of communities. Learning to listen to each other again is not just a fancy and fluffy New-Agey idea, but rather a means for us to truly save ourselves and heal our communities. Luckily, there is a whole new world of technology to help us along the way. And it’s connected to the most ancient of human technologies: language. If you believe in the worth of your word, wish it held more weight and had a greater impact upon society, we would love for you to be a part of Cognicism.

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A Glimpse Into the Dream of Holochain

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umanity is on a journey across the abyss, navigating through high cliffs of inequity, the shadows of extraction and the peaks of late capitalism in the hope to find new and more equitable socio-economic frameworks. The lands of experimentation are filled with uncertainty, but also with the potential for great transformation. As Terry Tempest Williams reminds us, “Pull one strand and all strands are disrupted, threatening the integrity of the overall pattern.” Our current patterns will lead us to the death of our luscious Earth. Williams then asks: What is the golden thread that shows us the “through line” that weaves the world back together again? Every indigenous culture has a word to refer to the concept of wholeness, interconnectedness and balance with the natural world. In Navajo culture, the word hozho encompasses physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. In many indigenous cultures of Australia, the concept of “walkabout” refers to the process of learning about and connecting with the land, its resources, and its inhabitants. The Hawaiian concept of kuleana is often described as an obligation to act in the best interest of the collective. These concepts show us an ancestral golden thread that can weave the world back together again.

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A healthy pattern of a regenerative economy would reflect wellness at all levels—from the individual to the ecosystems and all species. It would generate full ecological and cultural vitality. It has to go beyond one-dimensional metrics and consider the long-term ecological, social, and economical impact of our actions and decisions. The preservation and restoration of natural systems, the well-being of communities and the fair distribution of resources should become priorities. In the sphere of economics, outstanding innovations are taking place. The most well-equipped economic systems follow the wisdom of living systems. Why? Because there is a specific wealth-building pattern at the heart of nature that has made it successful for billions of years. You can use a neat set of algorithms to tell you which resources are needed in your bioregion, who has them, and how to get them. These programs are used all the time by ants, whose factories can be as large as twenty million of them. Their systems and ways of being have been honed for a hundred million years. With a highly sophisticated information system, ants can make changes in minutes, with no central management whatsoever. I offer you the possibility that us humans have the ability to do the same.

The most well-equipped economic systems follow the wisdom of living systems. The Mycelial Way—inspired by mycelium, a network of fungal threads or hyphae which often grow underground—would be an ideal way to run a Regenerative Economy, using networked intelligence, simple rules of engagement, sharpened sensory perceptions both locally and globally, a constant stream of data, mechanisms for testing trust and excluding parasites, and a communication system integrated by sophisticated signaling that enables cooperation at all scales. To run human economies the mycelial way, we need to design systems that enable, shape and make the flow of currencies visible. In The Metacurrency Project language, the current-sees. Flows of information, resources, communication, mutuality and energy are all openly shared. While money has enabled us to coordinate our actions at scale, its design is fostering cancerous patterns of behavior that reward extraction, accumulation, and consumption. For us to be able to design regenerative economies, we need to extend our notion of economy beyond money and even crypto economics, which, as Brett Scott reminds us, can be a bunch of “blank” tokens wrapped in anti-capitalist branding.

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The big question is: What is the end game that we want to create? There is more to currency design than crypto. The model of mutual credit lets us have an economy with sufficient energy flow, closely coupled to the productive capacity of its members and/or the system (e.g. land). You don’t have banks at the center. Banks at the center lead to perverse incentives, power concentration and fragility. Instead, you’ve got economic regulation based on human needs and the “circularity” of value. Let’s think big and design social systems that preserve shared values and community identity for the long term. With minimal reliance on the market, or none at all, we’ll be able to pass down the wealth we’ve created, undiminished, to the next seven generations. This would enable “the commons,” which includes nature, civic infrastructure, cultural work, public goods, knowledge and our precious data. “One of the great unacknowledged problems of our time is the enclosure of the commons, the expropriation and commercialization of shared resources, usually for private market gain. Enclosure can be seen in the patenting of genes and lifeforms, the use of copyrights to lock up creativity and culture, the privatization of water and land, and attempts to transform the open Internet into a closed, proprietary marketplace,” David Bollier shares with us.

With a highly sophisticated information system, ants can make changes in minutes, with no central management whatsoever. I offer you the possibility that us, humans, have the ability to do the same. How can Web3 technologies assist us in forming economies that create the kind of intelligence and coherence that biological organisms exhibit? Let’s talk about embodiment through tech. As of now, Ethereum and Blockchain lead the Web3 space, but neither have the qualities or properties to enable the whole imaginary path laid to create regenerative economies. It is not just about moving away from centralization. In order to truly embody wholeness, harmony, coherence and interdependence, we need balance between centralization and decentralization. Centralization should be a function of the collective, not a means for authority. Encryption that lets us integrate new legal schemes which protect the commons and avoid dispossession through enclosure. Systems that enable sovereignty through accountability, and currency systems which exist beyond tokens.

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The journey to the abyss is about passing through the eye of the needle. To do so, we need to re-member the wisdom of our ancestors, integrating models and technologies that are flexible, adaptive, and responsive to our ever-changing world.

“The blockchain world relies too heavily on ‘smart contracts,’ which are in themselves potential risk vectors. Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS) systems open up opportunities for capture by a minority of miners. The governance of these systems can quickly become exclusionary. What is captured here might not be what gets written to the ledger, but the ledger itself, and thus all the associated rents such as gas fees which are set by these parties and which control who has access to the infrastructure are also captured.” - Collin McClain Our regenerative economies require an architecture inspired by living systems. Holochain is a great example of this. It allows us to evolve new social patterns. It doesn’t permit a central point of control. It makes it very easy to reject bad actors. In addition to making it possible to create mutual credit currency systems, it makes it impossible to capture, control, or corrupt resources, processes, or flows.

The journey to the abyss is about passing through the eye of the needle. To do so, we need to remember the wisdom of our ancestors, integrating models and technologies that are flexible, adaptive, and responsive to our ever-changing world. We must learn to create new patterns and act collaboratively. We must be willing to take risks, to experiment and fail. We must walk within the values of reciprocity, respect, responsibility, restoration and reverence. Through embodying these principles, we evolve the web of life.

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MAPPING AND WEAVING AN EMERGENT ECOSYSTEM OF REGENERATIVE INITIATIVES Moving Into a New-Earth Paradigm Together 80

BY BART HOORWEG & YANNICK CIOCANEL

“The New Pioneers” Illustration by Mark Henson©

n unprecedented amount of change is unfolding within the holosphere. Our beautiful, blue and green spinning spaceship, flying through the universe at a speed of 67,000 mph, is faced with novelty and complexity previously unbeknownst to it. This time of great turning is testing humanity, just as it tests the planet itself. It is a time filled with chaos, absurdity and discord. Yet, it is also a time filled with beauty, integrity, great innovation and harmony. Just as the north and south magnetic poles on Earth have opposite positive and negative polarities, our subjective experience of what is happening on Earth may be polarizing. Some perceive the tumult and disorder, while others perceive the inspiration and harmony. Sometimes it feels like only the former exists. Perhaps, these more positive and energizing experiences and visions are not being felt, witnessed and perceived to the same extent—or as significantly and profoundly—as the negative and degenerative. Nonetheless, there is a growing contingent of syntropic forces and organizations emerging from the ether of consciousness here on our Mother planet. 81

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From that perspective, Gaianet has been gathering an interconnected web of Gaian allies, forces that are actively aligning themselves with the restoration, regeneration and transformation of the planet. This transcendent metamorphosis towards a NewEarth paradigm is characterized by more symbiotic and synergistic human cultures—and the gradual awakening of humankind.

PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE The purpose of this article is to offer an introduction to the work that is being done to bring this ecosystem of projects together. Here we present the Ecosystem Mapping project from Gaianet, and the team behind it—a dedicated group of individuals who are working on network navigation tooling to make this ecosystem visible, accessible and connected. We continuously research, map and connect projects in alignment with each other and with the value of co-creation—with the goal of creating a thriving and collaborative New-Earth culture.

THE ECOSYSTEM MAPPING PROJECT For more than two years, a team at Gaianet has been working to connect with, map and weave this ecosystem. Starting out with the premise of “connecting and uniting purpose-driven individuals and projects in the co-creation of a New Earth,” it has been an adventurous journey filled with synchronicity, joy, inspiration and magical connections. One of the main assets that is created is a powerful network centered on heart resonance and a corresponding ecosystem database— currently containing over 400 projects. This database wants to evolve and come to life, which is what we are doing in the Ecosystem Mapping (ESM) project. In collaboration with partners, Gaianet envisions a system of solutions that present ecosystem-project members with a smooth networking experience. The first phase of the project is focused on research and development of a prototype. The guiding story of the ESM project, describing the prototype’s functionality from a user perspective, is formulated in the form of a mission statement: “As a NewEarth co-creator, I want to see the most relevant opportunities in the New-Earth ecosystem so that I can access and provide the right resources and, then, co-create with resonant projects.”

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A first visual representation of the ecosystem, showcasing some of the most resonant and promising projects. How many do you recognize? Image co-created by Bart Hoorweg, Alexander Keehnen & Irmina Jablonska. The 12-sector model—used to give structure to the ecosystem visualization—is derived from the work of Robert Schram and Yan Golding.

Yannick Ciocanel—who is currently doing his graduation project at Gaianet and stewarding the research and development of a navigation tool prototype—describes his first encounter with our organization: “When first coming in contact with Gaianet, I had no clue how many projects were actually out there. I was blown away seeing the database they had already built. It was inspirational to see the progress humanity is making as we move towards a more regenerative society—one that takes care of people and

nature. A society where power struggles become less dominant, and we rethink the way we govern. It is really happening. This changed the way I see the world around me and all the possibilities out there. And I wish that for others as well.” Yannick’s words summarize the motivation behind this project very well. This ecosystem mapping is a first and important step, we believe, in giving visibility and self-awareness to what is emerging.

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RESEARCH & INSIGHTS At the start of our creation process, we did foundational research to better understand the needs of projects in the ecosystem—the commonalities, challenges, and success factors for co-creation. We have surveyed and interviewed over 30 projects, ranging from all sectors of society. From this research, we have found that there is a strong resonance in shared values. Several values—that were clearly present amongst many of the participants—include: behaviors and systems that are collaborative rather than hierarchical; opportunities to mimic nature in service to it; freedom, autonomy, diversity, harmony and transparency; and living in service of a higher purpose to enable the wellbeing of all life on Earth. We have also identified several needs that appear to be a common theme amongst the projects. The three most prominent needs include: ‘specialized and aligned human capacities’ (i.e. talents), ‘access to funding’ and ‘finding projects that are aligned in vision to co-create with’. We hope to support this last need with the creation of the Gaianet Ecosystem Mapping project.

In our work, we have come to realize that there is a distinction between external needs and internal ones, i.e. needs that can be fulfilled from the outside, and needs that are fulfilled by creating shifts in our inner worlds. Above you can find a brief overview of the most frequently mentioned needs in our research, for both categories. Even though external needs might feel most apparent, the internal ones are just as important. Of all the internally-focused needs that any network navigation tool should aim to address, the most essential one is to find inner alignment in order to best serve co-creation. This begins with finding clarity on our own purpose and the gifts we have to share with others. From here, we may align our intentions and abilities in ways that both support us and the projects we are energizing. For more information about the research, please reach out to Yannick Ciocanel. Find the full research insights here.

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Summarized insights from the research regarding needs of New-Earth co-creators, which the Network Navigation Tools should aim to facilitate.

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Learning co-creation through internal alignment Identifying patterns for meaningmaking Self-organised mapping of the project and partners Support in committing to taking action Frictionless coordination

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Specialised human capacities Funding, investors, institutional support Finding vision-aligned projects to co-create with and serve Documenting “failed” and complementary projects Accessing physical resources 85

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DEVELOPMENTS & FUTURE VISION In collaboration with Vincent Arena (partner from Catalist Network), we are integrating these insights into development of a first prototype that will support co-creators in navigating the ecosystem. An important element to test out in this prototype are simple yet effective matchmaking possibilities. While we are still developing this more interactive tool, the first presentation of the database of projects can be found at Ecosystem — Gaianet. We hope you enjoy exploring some of the most inspiring projects happening on the planet! While the development of technological tooling definitely seems to be an important step in supporting the emergence of this new paradigm— as technologies, like the internet, make it easier to connect with like-minded people from all over the world and weave this beautiful web—focusing on just the technology side of things can leave us stuck in a narrow way of thinking. When asked about the most important first steps in realizing the vision for the project, Yannick explains: “The social aspect is the aspect that needs to be worked on first. As that grows stronger, we add the technological aspects, such as maps, databases and ways to navigate all of it. The social foundation and interface that Gaianet provides to people is the first step.”

One of the ways in which this social interface is taking shape is a newly developed service: Gaianet’s Support Line. It is a simple tool to connect you with what you need—a human being to speak to who can listen to your unique story and guide you to the most relevant connections, solutions and places. This service is the result of a purpose—and humanfirst perspective. Instead of exclusively focusing on technological solutions, we seek out the most elegant and feasible options to fulfill the purpose—in this case, to “help users navigate the ecosystem.” In the longer term, we see this system of solutions evolving to facilitate the exchange of information and resources, mimicking the mycelial network of natural ecosystems, igniting collaborative interactions, helping everyone find their place in the ecosystem—while living our purpose and letting resources flow where they need to go. We are excited about this journey and look forward to finding others on the same mission!

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Add your project to the ecosystem database so we can include you in further steps of ecosystem development and better serve (y) our needs. Do you want to be a partner in the development of tooling and services? Share your interest with Bart Hoorweg. Become a contributor of Gaianet, and be at the heart of the action in building the social infrastructure to support this ecosystem. Find open roles here. Connect us with projects in the New Earth ecosystem that need help with self-organization and team alignment. More info on how we can support here. Connect us with fundraising opportunities for the next phase of the project—developing the prototype to a functional product in combination with a viable business plan. Join vision-aligned projects around the table through our New Earth Facilitation services— share your interest with Daan Gorter.

CALL TO ACTION Do you want to become part of this thriving regenerative ecosystem? Call Gaianet’s Support Line. We have just launched this service to help people navigate the ecosystem in the most human way possible, by speaking heart-to-heart with a fellow human and connecting you with your most relevant next step.

ABOUT GAIANET Gaianet is a widely used platform where New Earth professionals, project leaders, experts, elders and investors connect and unite around specific projects and solutions that make our shared dream a reality, a new reality for humanity, rooted in love, harmony, and abundance for all. We are co-creating processes through which any New Earth cocreator can connect with the right people, knowledge and tools to advance on their individual mission.

Looking forward to seeing you join us, in whatever way best suits you! Let’s build this New Earth together towards thriving ecosystems of regenerative wellbeing! Aho!

INTERVIEW WITH THE ESM TEAM On November 2, 2022, we gathered for an interview to explore the current status of the Ecosystem Mapping project. You are highly encouraged to watch it if you want to dive deeper into the story behind the project and get to know the people working on it. 87

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RE:BUILD GLOBAL 2023 An Online Gathering of Village Builders from All Over the World

BY JEREMY AGNEW

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A taste of re:build.

or the last five years, I’ve been deeply immersed in the world of regeneration. It’s a beautiful space with kind-hearted, brightminded, kindred spirits. As I grew in that space, my driving motivation was seeing, each day, how many more of us are looking for regenerative ways of being. This became especially prescient during the pandemic, when many of us realised that we yearned for a deeper connection to ourselves, to each other, and to Nature. Yet, stepping out of our comfy urban environments and into the wilderness may be a feat of endurance wracked with trepidation. This is why re:build was birthed: to give us a playground within which to imagine and act on the regenerative ways of living that are deeply embedded human traits—and to make that chosen path more accessible to more people from all walks of life.

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In the last few years, we’ve had the honour to learn from the brightest, most amazingly talented re:builders who are not settling for the status quo; who believe that we can build the world in a more beautifully aligned manner by looking at Nature as a source of inspiration. Regeneration is no longer an option. We need action. We need to start building the places, businesses, communities and systems that will enable us to live in harmony with Mother Earth. To achieve this at a meaningful scale, we need to support the re:builders who are driving this movement forward. To accomplish that, we have tasked ourselves with enabling knowledge-sharing, encouraging deep collaboration and nurturing friendships so that we can not only optimise our collective impact and build trust but also have a lot of fun along the way.

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Being a re:builder is not only about what we do. It is also about the way we show up in the world. We are a community of doers who implement solutions. We are proactive optimists and whole system thinkers who love learning. We invest in the commons. We believe in collaboration over competition (coopetition!). We believe that work must be joyful and that we must always give more than we take. That is what it means to be regenerative. We’ve hosted live in-person events around the world as well as a biennial online summit to gather the doers, to unite the founders, and the “would-be villagers”. Together, we’ve contributed to bringing to light new ideas and resurfacing old ideas that have stood the test of time in the form of ancient wisdom passed down through generations—through stories, rituals, ways of being and ways of doing.

One of the hardest challenges ecovillages have faced is the leveraging of existing economic systems to support themselves. In this scenario, many have seen money as an evil, but we believe that it is simply a tool we can consciously use to recognise and reward the value people create. Thankfully, a new set of digital tools and technologies are emerging under the banner of ‘Web3’: blockchain and cryptography technologies which, if used consciously, show promising ways of overcoming the challenges that ecovillages face. We’ve chosen to put a great deal of energy into thinking about regenerative finance and new economic systems designed to contribute towards wealth creation and equality. We asked ourselves how this may intersect and empower the regenerative village movement and, as a result, partnered up with Refi DAO, home to the regenerative finance (ReFi) movement with hundreds of founders developing ReFi protocols.

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They will co-host our Prosperity stage in our upcoming global summit to shed light on how these new protocols can align financial incentives with the protection of nature and with the regeneration of the planet. By empowering multistakeholder owned modern cooperatives and integrating social and governance systems which can give us all a voice, these protocols have the potential to contribute to the rise of a regenerative economy for all. ReFi channels finance the cost of planting native forests, increasing biodiversity, growing food forests, and repairing our soil—principally through the use of carbon credits. They offer us new forms of shared ownership using tokens and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (Impact DAOs) to solve the tricky challenges of coordination and equality by implementing decentralised power, collective decision-making, and transparency for new ways of self-organising. We’ll even explore one of the most exciting emergent legal entities that have come about in ‘Land-based DAOs’, which can be conceived as groups of people utilising Web3 & DAO coordination tools to support the development and operation of new on-the-ground communities that usher in the Regenaissance.

While all of this might sound very serious and complex—and regenerating the planet is serious business—we also love to take time to celebrate life, creativity, joy and share love. After all, it is important to remember to have fun while we go about the renewal, restoration and thriving of all life. And ReFi is by no means the only subject we’ll explore. At re:build, we focus the breadth of regenerative practices into four pillars:

PURPOSE To unite around the importance of why our living spaces must change and what it means in our lives.

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We’re here to celebrate you! We have so much gratitude for all the re:builders out there forging regenerative ways of being and boldly choosing to take the path least trodden. We want to celebrate your curiosity. We want to share your big dreams and your openness to emergent ideas. We love seeing and feeling your passion.

We are re:builders. We belong to the Earth. We are one tribe.

PROSPERITY To form the win-win regenerative economic systems that generate a surplus so we can support villagers and give back more than we need.

RE:BUILD GLOBAL We’re delighted to partner with The Weave to offer you a 10% discount on your ticket for re:build Global in April (use the code ‘weave23’). re:build is contributing to the rise of a regenerative economy not only by sharing our proceeds with as many partners in the space as we can, but we’re also giving back 10% of our ticket sales to a winning pioneering village concept that re:build Global participants (you!) will vote on.

PEOPLE To honour our ancestors and to build self-organising resilient systems that can support the next seven generations.

PLANET To regenerate the land, heal our soil and act as stewards of our beautiful Mother Earth.

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THERE IS NOTHING MORE PRACTICAL IN LIFE THAN LOVE Reflections on Education and Economy in Light of the Essence of Life

hildren are born with a natural capacity to joyfully learn through playing. They also thrive through being engaged in discovering. As adults, we are led to believe that children should learn from us according to the way we think about the world. We want them to fit into the world we created. But there is a lot we can learn from these little humans. One phenomenon that illustrates this point is that, between the age of 2 and 3, a child learns more than a university student does over seven years on their journey to getting a PhD. This raises the question, “What makes the child so efficient in their learning process?” The answer is very simple: the child is playing. Childhood is the period of our lives when we are the most open, curious and impressionable, yet our traditional schooling often results in children with anxiety, low self-esteem, competitiveness, reduced creativity and happiness, and other maladaptive traits. It is vital for us to reevaluate our teaching strategies to ensure that education builds learning capacities and nourishes collaboration. 95

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It is vital for us to reevaluate our teaching strategies to ensure that education builds learning capacities and nourishes collaboration. Research has shown that, although most efforts of traditional education are directed to feed children’s intellect, IQ is something that can barely be improved. Furthermore, a high IQ doesn’t necessarily correlate with happier or more fulfilled lives. Rather, creativity has shown a strong correlation with a child’s capacity to achieve their life purpose. It allows them to navigate their lives kindly and wisely—even in difficult times. The word ‘pedagogy,’ originated from the Greek paidiá, means “childish play, amusement.” It captures the essence of learning—a creative, playful process. Since my early years, and during the past five decades of being an educator, my observations have confirmed the importance of play in the learning process. When we learn through passive listening, we may only retain ten percent of the content that was taught. On the contrary, when we are creatively engaged with others in the learning process, and share our lessons with them, not only do we have much more fun, but we also retain 90% of what we are learning!

My observations, paired with my practical experiences, led me to concluding that a strategic approach to education needs to consider life itself. A good place to start is the earthly cycle of life and death. There is a saying that “the shroud of death has no pockets.” This reminds us that, when we die, no physical object or material comes with us. The Earth doesn’t care whether we are famous and rich or unknown and poor. It treats us all the same when we pass. It skillfully integrates our bodies back into the soil. Thus, we must ask ourselves: What is life all about? Throughout various life experiences and through my inner spiritual exploration, I realised that I have likely lived past lives—in different bodies, in other cultures, conditions and times. I was led to the understanding that some of the people who play a significant role in my current life also played an important role in my previous lives. When we die, we may continue to evolve separately from the particular body we inhabited. When we consider our own unique individuality, we can reconsider the question, “Do we take anything with us beyond the gate of death?” We all have our own karma that is unfolding, independent of our bodies and all the temporary aspects of who we are.

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During my journey of researching the questions I touch on above, I asked myself: If I will truly have a life after this one, what are the most significant experiences and activities that will enable me to have a happy, meaningful and resilient life and that will potentially even be relevant beyond this life? I identified two major aspects that I will happily travel with: 1.

The capacities I have developed, as life has unfolded, amidst all the challenges. Even Warren Buffet, known as the oracle from Omaha for his investment success, recognized that there is one investment that supersedes all others: The most important investment one can make is the investment in one’s own capacities.

The relationships I have built, all the interactions that have unfolded in my life— from family members and friends to people I have worked with and strangers I have only met once or twice. One may say that we gradually co-create our karma with the people who are part of our lives.

“I don’t know where it goes, but I am delighted with how it goes.”

EVERY HUMAN IS AN ARTIST AND OUR LIFE ITSELF IS OUR WORK OF ART The artwork of life is made up of all the activities, relationships and life choices we make in our individual journey. Our biography is constantly being written. As I find myself engaged in ‘creating the script of my life,’ I cast my own main characters—as the ‘stage director’ or ‘conductor’ of this play. And that really is what life is: a play. In this play, I find myself performing the main actor’s role every day as well. The essence of this artwork may be carried further into the next chapter of my life and potentially even beyond. Creative, mindful education provides the tools and enhances our capacity to artistically and effectively create a life of purpose through our biography. I have found that a major factor in how much I am able to fulfil my life’s purpose is my own inner development and, specifically, my ability to receive guidance from higher sources. The love and wisdom they bring allows me to expand my consciousness and enables me to fulfil my Individuality (written with a “big I”), rather than feeding my personality (written with a “little p”). Our personality, with a “little p”, our “little ego,” is very sensitive to whether we enjoy something or not, whether it’s pleasant for us, and how we are perceived by others. While the “little p” is superficial, all of its experiences should not be suppressed, as they have a lot to teach us. However, the “little ego” has the tendency to miss most of the teachings due to its propensity to get distracted by feelings of guilt, resentment, fear, and blame. The “little ego” likes to create emotional drama. 97

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Schools are not just a place of learning, but a place of transformation. On the other hand, our Individuality with a “big I” is guided and inspired by the sources of love, abundance and wisdom that surround us. Our daily activities and relationships are nourished through these sources. The Individuality with a “big I” is guided by questions such as, “What is the truth?”, “What is needed in the world?,” “How can I serve the Common Good?,” and “Regardless of whether it brings me pleasure, what are the healthiest actions to take?” The more I can take free, authentic and ethical actions, the more I can experience the joy of being in coherence with the world, understanding that we are all different parts of one Whole. Effectively fulfilling the purpose of my life requires me to develop the capacity to cultivate healthy and loving relationships. How would our education systems change in light of this perspective? What would our economic systems look like?

A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO EDUCATION INSPIRED BY INNER REFLECTIONS ON THE ESSENCE OF LIFE A child that is born in 2023 will be 28 in the year 2051. What will the world look like 28 years from now? How can our education systems adequately prepare our future generations to skilfully meet the challenges of our modern times? As the world is constantly changing, there are many unknowns. One thing that is clear, however, is that schools lie at the heart of communities. Schools are not just a place of learning, but a place of transformation. They don’t just affect the local ecosystem inside the school building. They also have a great potential impact on the whole neighbourhood. The collapse of natural ecosystems as well as human communities underlines the importance and urgency of curating environments that teach children to co-create solutions which serve the common good. These insights inspired our team at Haim Tov. Our platform is designed to empower collaboration among children and teachers in schools, nurturing a fundamental and systemic change in communities.

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The more I can take free, authentic and ethical actions, the more I can experience the joy of being in coherence with the world, understanding that we are all different parts of one Whole.

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FROM SMARTPHONES TO SMART CHILDREN To provide the tools that enable mutual learning and co-creation in schools, we developed an app which we implemented in pilot school communities in Israel. After reviewing our first pilot schools, we realised that Floweavers EDU is a very effective entry point for transforming the way teachers work and children learn. The platform invites teachers and children to co-create the learning process together and enables them to experience the principles of mutual learning, regeneration and circular economy. The app aims to organise the collaborative learning process in a sensible and simple way, minimising the time children spend on screens—and maximising real-life interactions. While AI has become increasingly popular, NI (Natural Intelligence) and EI (Emotional Intelligence) have not evolved to the extent AI has. They both have a long way to go to even touch the surface of their transformative potential. Human intelligence and, more so in the last few years, AI, has led to inefficient and often unhealthy systems of governance, decision-making and self-organisation. Eco-Governance, an emerging, biomimicry-based approach developed by Dr. Shelley Ostroff and

others, offers a unifying compass to follow for organised action, decision-making and mutual accountability. I t affirms that the “purpose of governance is to protect and cultivate the health and vitality of the planet and all its inhabitants for generations to come.” In its essence, EcoGovernance brings collective issues front and centre and guides the decision-making processes through questions. Introducing these concepts to children and helping them integrate these qualities into their learning enables them to contribute to the creation of a healthier future for all. We create the conditions for a joyful learning environment that nourishes creativity and healthy interactions with nature and each other. Floweavers EDU facilitates co-creative learning spaces where contributions are encouraged as an expression of gratitude and reverence.

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THE JOY OF TRUE COLLABORATION IN A MUTUAL- LEARNING SCHOOL Schools are natural meeting places within a neighbourhood which have the potential to become the heart of the community. Collaboration among children, parents, teachers and other staff serves as a good foundation for building familiarity and trust, and for exchanging resources and skills. Most schools today are still centralised in terms of how they are managed, leading them to realising only a fraction of their social, environmental and educational potential—while facing issues such as bullying and problems with discipline. Teachers are often perceived by children as scary opponents, rather than partners in the learning journey. When we change this dynamic, we give our children a most-important gift, nourishing them in their capacity to explore unknown realms with others. We invite them to be curious, to ask questions and to inspire each other. The capacity to do these things will serve them in many ways in their lives—in friendships, family and work.

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Our collaboration and sharing tools are specially designed to facilitate decentralised, mutual teaching and learning in a platform that supports children and teachers in activating their creativity and in fulfilling their purpose while engaging in activities that contribute to the Common Good in a playful way. Our experience has shown that: • Within a few weeks, we can turn a class of 80% passive children into 80% active children. • Violence and discipline problems are reduced by more than 60% in the participating classes.

A STRATEGIC APPROACH ACTIVATING THE ECONOMY OF LOVE AND ABUNDANCE As a social and educational entrepreneur, I observed that we have become servants of the economy, rather than the economy serving us. 97% of all new money that is printed comes into circulation as debt, which leads to dependency, scarcity, and loss of freedom for many people and enterprises. The outcomes are stress, stress, anxiety and fear, that lead into a significant negative effect on the Common Good. While economic development (based on the current money system) has led to great innovations and technological solutions, this development comes at a very high price: the massive extraction of ecological and the so-called “human resources”.

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These extractive patterns have led to the rapid collapse of natural ecosystems, human communities and the economy itself. Peoples’ basic needs, such as access to healthy water, food, soil, energy and affordable housing, are neglected. People are met with the excuse that “there is not enough money to take care of everyone.” Thus, they are fighting to receive personal gains from the Common Good. The extreme competition that our dysfunctional system has created has become an existential threat. By continuing to engage in these extractive behaviours, an Economy of Love and Abundance, which is profitable and efficient, stays mostly dormant. The potential reach of this unutilised economy is enormous. Our main purpose we are fulfilling at Haim Tov is to activate the Economy of Love and Abundance by providing resource-exchange platforms for networks and communities to create their own circular economies. We enable this through our marketplace solutions that are specially designed for collaboration and sharing. This way, people can effectively utilise unused resources and skills to fulfil core needs that are not being met.

This ensures that resources aren’t wasted— and value can be re-generated. In our first implementation and use case—Shareitt—we began with families and, more specifically, women. In Israel, Brazil and Switzerland, Shareitt grew into vibrant peer-to-peer marketplaces with more than 80,000 users that exchanged over 300,000 items for reuse without spending conventional money. One of the ways we recognize positive contributions of participants is through gratitude points. By encouraging collaboration and sharing, new relationships and meaningful friendships are nourished—and the walls between people of different social and economic backgrounds start to disappear. Loneliness is significantly reduced among our users through the easy and natural way we have them relate to one another. Our innovative platforms provide multiple tools that enable communities to determine their own governance and reward what they value—uniting people and allowing them to thrive beyond money limitations. To create a healthier future that allows humans to live in harmony with nature, we need to transform both our education and economy. Together, let’s joyfully create the Mythology of the Future.

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TRADITIONAL DREAM FACTORY A Solarpunk Settlement Prototype in Progress Imagine, if you will, the rising sun over dew sparkled fields, grazing sheep, Portuguese oaks sprawling their limbs into the fresh morning air, beings stirring from their quarters, fresh with dreams that intertwine like the long projections of the trees from times past, reaching into the future... With a flicker of morning birdsong, the dreamers, with their musings, come alive. Embraces are exchanged, bodies breathe and stretch, coffee and tea brew. The day smells of new regenerative alliances, a good dose of fun—and the forever taste of possibility. Welcome to TDF. Let us take you on a tour!

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BUT FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS TDF, YOU MIGHT ASK? Located in Alentejo, southern Portugal, the large region which is home to many long-established cultures as well as a spread of alternative communities, Traditional Dream Factory (aka TDF) is our first blueprint in developing a new form of living that is more in tune with nature and with human creativity. Our model is designed to remove any third-party rent extraction and enable a peer-to-peer real estate model that conserves nature. By leveraging the power of Web3, TDF’s tokens drive ecosystem benefits and finance the preservation and regeneration of land conserved under the OASA network, while giving members access to and governance over exceptional living amenities, clean air, fresh water and healthy food— among other benefits. TDF is a place of purpose fueled by passion. Working collaboratively together, we build something intimately unique—a collective vision and collective action. A vision rooted in engagement, empowerment and dreaming together. A place where our ability to take risks is cultivated and where the future belongs not only to us but to the environment we are working in—where we are connected under a single shared purpose. TDF’s ambition is to become a model for how to create a regenerative micro-economy.

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LOCAL REGE ECONOMY Carbon credits Biodiversity credits

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Regenerating the world while having fun!

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In November 2021, TDF partnered up with Primal Gathering and Gone West’s initiative ‘Free Trees for Portugal’ to hold our first largescale land-regeneration event. In this event held over three days, we planted 1500 native trees within one hectare. With the use of irrigation, ground cover, and through ongoing maintenance, the area has already seen a wonderful transformation from an arid and rather unproductive hill into a developing ecosystem. But we can only move at the pace of nature. Reforestation requires patient observation, monitoring, and continuous work over the seasons. That’s why in November 2022 we hosted another event in order to reinvigorate the areas where plants had not been so successful the first time around. We also used this opportunity to educate individuals interested in reforestation and held a regenerative panel of four experts who had wildly diverse experiences and theories to bounce off one another. Read our whitepaper. 108

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AN EDIBLE LANDSCAPE In March 2022, as we sat on the threshold of Winter and Spring, the first initiative of our Fruit Forest was taken, putting roots into the soil. Through the adoption of the philosophies of syntropic agriculture, we planted trees, bushes and veggies to cover all the layers of the future forest—from canopy to cover crops. We planted beans, aromatics and an assortment of vegetables amongst our tree lines. Cultivating a herbaceous layer covering the ground is important as it meets a number of functions: to build soil health within the system (healthy soil = happy plants!), to create ground cover protecting the soil from the harsh sun—and to hold moisture and microbiology.

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In November 2022, we expanded our project by planting over 1000 trees which will be used to produce biomass to enrich our soils, grow food to feed our humans, as well as fruits and berries for birds and animals, and medicinal plants. Species planted include strawberry trees, tagasaste, oaks, pines, nuts, ash, poplar, carob, casuarina, locust, almonds, apple, fig, mulberry, elderberry, pear, pomegranate, plum, hazelnut, wild pistachio, olive trees and more. The impact goes way beyond ourselves with food forests being a habitat for a healthy biosphere to thrive. At this moment, it is difficult to imagine how regenerating a modest 500-square-meter piece of land can reverse the strain the world is under right now, but each plantation is much more than the space it inhabits. It may remain yet

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unseen, but creating these living examples ripples out waves of inspiration to many who take an interest in regeneration. In a few short months, the transformation of this forgotten land was visible to the naked eye. With care, a lot of perceived “work,” and a few curious volunteers, a modest slice of food forest was born! •

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2021: 1,500 trees planted in our reforestation project to improve the soils and water retention. 2022: Food forest and increased reforestation diversity. 2023: Vegetable farm production to feed 30+ people. 2024: Mushroom farm and farm-to-table restaurant.

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REGENERATIVE FOOD PRODUCTION AND OUR FARM -TO -TABLE KITCHEN & CAFÉ TDF aims to create food sovereignty by providing nutrition for its members (the farm is being set up in 2023) while regenerating our soils, replenishing their water tables and supporting biodiversity. As the new year takes shape, so does our latest vegetable garden system. Our ‘land circle’ is designing and seeding an adequately scaled plot that can meet the requests of our bellies. Naturally, we are using the principles of permaculture in all areas, including integrating a range of flowers,

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chickens and bees to get the most out of our garden while consistently giving back to the Earth— which we graciously live in coherence with. Along with up to 25 active garden beds, a polytunnel will extend our growth and provide food production throughout the year—and even allow for more exotic foods to bestow our palates without the carbon footprint. Soon, we’ll have enough to supply our own Farm-to-Table Kitchen & Café. Hurray!

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We love to learn, connect with fellow change-makers, collaborate and share ideas on how to fix the Earth’s most pressing issues.

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A REFI VILLAGE

What is ReFi?

ReFi, or Regenerative Finance, refers to a movement aiming at creating positive social and environmental outcomes while also generating financial returns. In the crypto space, ReFi utilizes the tools of Web3 to align financial incentives with regenerative principles. But ReFi is not limited to using blockchain-only technologies. It refers to any project or protocol working on the restoration of natural systems through long-term and socially equitable economic models.

SOURCE: ReFi Villages + How to Build One!

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Bringing reforestation on chain with ReFi

REFI VILLAGE

= REGENERATIVE VILLAGE Regenerative Social, Enviromental & Economic Framework

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Traditional Dream Factory is working with Open Forest Protocol (OFP) to track the amount of carbon sequestered in our reforestation. Open Forest Protocol is a decentralized MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) network that uses local field agents capturing on-the-ground forestry data and remote sensing validators verifying the data. In the future, we aim to implement other such ReFi protocols in order to get a more complete view of our #ProofOfRegeneration, including monitoring biodiversity, tracking the increase in organic compounds in our soils and the evolution in our water table, for example. Regen Network is another ecological data blockchain which enables users to set up their own methodologies. As new methodologies are created, we get more data points into how regenerative certain projects really are, which builds more trust for public and private funding to support their development. Regen Network has supported the development of the Closer platform powering TDF.

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THE TREE HOUSE Oh, the wonderful ideas that came to life in this magical place! Maybe it’s because it is built into a large cork oak overlooking the native reforestation hill and it makes us feel elevated? Who knows! But the amount of creativity that has been stirred up in this tree house is insane! This is where we gather to reinvent the world, come up with new games or tell each other crazy stories. Recently, a beautiful idea that was sparked there came to fruition. We gathered 15 epic individuals to co-write a book called How to build a regenerative village, published by our very

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own publishing house, Treehouse DAO. When writing the book, we worked together with a group of fellow Solarpunk-village creators and received feedback from a broad range of perspectives. This greatly enhanced our collective creative capacity. The book, as a digital common, is now available for purchase—though we offer free downloads for anyone who cannot afford the 9$ price tag. The profits from book sales are redistributed using Coordinape, with each of us assigning points to each other based on perceived contributions—so our efforts are rewarded in a fair and horizontal manner—and a fraction goes to the TDF treasury as a TDF incubated product.

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A PLACE TO LEARN, CONNECT AND UNWIND We have hosted many events at TDF such as ReFi Spring and re:build. These events are an opportunity to explore new ideas and frameworks related to positive social change and macro-transformations that not only restore what has become damaged but also create the conditions for the emergence of new possibilities and futures. We love to learn, connect with fellow change-makers, collaborate and share ideas on how to fix the Earth’s most pressing issues. But, when the sun sets, we like to get wild, too! The talks and workshops turn into parties, we gather at the bar area to drink craft beers or our own delicious Kombucha, and, sometimes, we boogie until the wee hours, often ending up with a late-night sauna treat!

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BIOMORPHIC COWORKING GARDEN TDF is home to many digital nomads and impact entrepreneurs who need to dedicate a significant part of their time to their most purposeful work. With the intention to create an inspiring and nourishing work environment, we designed a biomorphic coworking garden—as we believe that being surrounded by plants and staying connected with nature generates the maximum productivity and joy while working. We even have ‘focus pods’ built using local “canas” where you can isolate yourself to maximize your concentration. 119

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MAKERSPACE AND DREAM BUSINESSES One of the key aspects of TDF is the desire to empower human creativity and to enable people to do what they love. With a creative spirit in heart and mind, we designed a makerspace for dreamers’ progenerative projects to manifest in the physical realm. This area will provide the fertile ground for inventors extraordinaire to produce projects with the assistance of tools, sustainable materials, work benches and even a 3D printer. This will contribute to the internal and external economy while providing a cornerstone of maturation for individuals and the community! 120

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A space for new physical products, prototypes, materials to be designed and created. A fully-equiped workshop with tools, sustainable materials, workbenches for all kinds of creative endeauvors.

FUTURE INCOME STREAMS : • Carbon credit • Biodiversity credits • In-house businesses: mushroom farm, restaurant, cafe, store • Product incubator: kombucha leather furniture, How to build a regenerative village book, and blubucha. • Microgrid (solar production)

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Other ideas of dream businesses have been circulating on our ground and online spaces. One which enthusiastically mycelliates its way into expression is a highly-productive mushroom farm!

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TOKEN - BASED COLIVING ACCESS TDF is a nomad-friendly regenerative village. There is no need to commit to it full time. You can join the project even if you can only spend a few months or even a few weeks per year with us. Blockchain technology allows us to fractionalize access to TDF premises by enabling the creation of tokenized stewardship rights to assets. We’re talking about stewardship here—not ownership—as we see ourselves as protectors and caretakers of the land rather than owners. A $TDF token has utility in the real world since every token represents one night spent at utility cost per year, forever, in basic accommodation. Every $TDF also gives governance rights in the TDF DAO once you have been through the onboarding process to become a member. Our token is deployed on the Celo network, which we have chosen for its compatibility with Ethereum and alignment with ecological goals.

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ROADMAP 2021 - 2022

Developing Village •

Kitchen, glamping, reforestation, soil improvements, compost toilets, showers, irrigation systems, events.

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Sustainable Village •

Food production, insulated & heated housing, natural pool, helophyte grey treatment system, token deployed to mainnet.

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We aim to not just build a better future locally, but to inspire, support and unite people, businesses and organisations to create a shared vision and common language to design a better world. FINAL NOTES: OUR HOPES FOR THE FUTURE Something special about TDF is its ability to cocreatively organise and nuance its own model—as well as its operating online platforms— to improve efficiency and outcome on the ground.

Through growing biodiverse and native forests, we aspire to recreate natural biotic pumps, bring springs back to life and turn our arid land into a lush piece of paradise.

As Richard Powers writes in The Overstory, “A good answer is worth reinventing from scratch, again and again…Never capitulate, but divide, multiply, transform, conjoin, do and endure as you have all the long day of life.”

In the bigger picture, we envision a network of regenerative villages where resources are produced by agents while creating true ecological benefits. Where our members spend no money on living amenities since they benefit from the abundance of resources in their commons. Where we all have roots in different villages—and love and community stay with us no matter where we go. Is that a future you want in?

This is a perfect distillation of the evolution of the Community DNA Initiative. We aim to not just build a better future locally, but to inspire, support and unite people, businesses and organisations to create a shared vision and common language to design a better world.

If so, stay tuned. Our Public Token Launch is coming soon!

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Why is it that rocks, of all things sing to me of impermanence? Is it that they seem to insist upon remaining, long after I depart? Do I covet their bleak stillness and seek to simply sit forever, to be eroded, revealing layers laid in haste to cover over and protect a tender heart? What yielding patient ore is held— the silence of that cold embrace denied emancipation, but for water’s gentle nagging, calmly prising me apart Would that my crumbling edge expose cross sections, forgotten longings The history of my wishes, And all the things my instincts had me cling to, Stacked and broken open, showing all attempts at lasting or outlasting cast in laughter, what a funny thing to want— most of me was once a rock, may I remember that.

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SOVEREIGN COLLABORATIVE ECOSYSTEMS A Pathway to a Decentralized Future

or far too long, the only option for those seeking change in our economic system has been to beg governments, who are often captured by interests that are reductionist and short-sighted. Web3 has opened up another possibility—to create new economic and governance systems that are in alignment with the evolutionary impulse of Earth as an integrated whole. In the current chapter of human history, we are leaving behind centralized monetary systems where a small group of individuals control the issuance and distribution of currency on behalf of all. This has been the main driver of the market failures that are so destructive to our social fabric—and to our planet’s reservoir of life. In the default market forces of today, the pursuit of profit and the accumulation of currency far too often take precedence over social and environmental wellbeing, leading to a concentration of resources in the hands of a few and scarcity of resources for the many.

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The monopoly of money has equated a monoculture of artificial competition and siloed thinking where individuals, driven by fear, are encouraged to hoard resources and compete against each other for survival, requiring endless human and planetary exploitation. However, this no longer has to be our future. With the introduction of blockchain technology, this has all begun to change. The open-finance revolution enables people to create and engage in economic unions of shared value between a distributed network of participants, making these markets truly democratic and accessible. Now, networks can value capital in its full multidimension and create economic systems that sustain, protect and nourish—unlocking new forms of value that, by design, internalize the externalities. Currencies which can now be processed almost instantly, at no cost, make healthier economies virtually accessible from anywhere. Decentralization is disrupting the traditional power structures across all industries, from finance to healthcare, by giving individuals direct ownership over the systems they inhabit. It is by shifting away from centralized money systems and embracing

more decentralized and equitable economic models that we can build a more sustainable and just future for ourselves and our planet. The evolution of money has been slow, but, with the advent of decentralized, open-source technologies, it has taken a great leap forward. These technologies are creating new economic realities that are poised to go beyond and overflow the banks of the traditional financial system, liberating money into a more liquid form and amplifying its ability to circulate and include participants. New economic opportunities that account for contributions beyond myopic value systems delimited by a few are now more accessible and inclusive for everyone—regardless of their socio-economic background. The digital age offers us a new way of thinking about economics, allowing people to create new systems that are based on abundance and cooperation, rather than fear and competition over artificially scarce resources. The future of money looks bright, and it is an exciting time to be a part of it. Our teams are at the forefront of various pioneering and innovative approaches interconnecting the world:

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SEEDS SEEDS connects people and organizations in ways that regenerate and distribute value more effectively, benefiting the long-term wellbeing of the entire system. SEEDS is an open-source, decentralized, citizen-governed and evolved financial system that redefines what currency can do for society. The creation of Seeds (the currency of SEEDS) is done algorithmically through transparent protocols, which allows creating as much currency as there is demand for exchange— reversing the trend of inequality and concentration of power of today’s dominant systems.

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In order to transmute the shortfalls of “trickledown economics” and “debt-based currency”, which shape our current paradigm, SEEDS is designed to equitably distribute value. Generated from a robust circulatory flow of currency, value is distributed directly into the accounts of people and organizations contributing towards the growth and maintenance of a healthy economy, community, ecology and society—all while supporting and accelerating the adoption of regenerative practices that would otherwise be lost in market failures.

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Since its alpha release on November 5th, 2019, a network of 800+ value-based organizations are exploring economic common ground and finding ways to shape new market forces. We have been approached by more than 100 bioregions from all continents. Our strategy is to weave together the plethora of initiatives, movements, new forms of enterprise and lifestyle experiments encompassing all aspects of life which are invisibly connected in a shared attempt to bring about a more regenerative future. By joining existing

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permaculture camps, retreat centers, ecovillages, and other educational organizations, for example, we shape an integrated impulse for genuine transformation, giving form to a planetary-scale network of regenerative hubs—all of which align around a shared vision for change.

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Hypha: /Noun /’hīfə/ each of the branching filaments that make up the mycelium network that coordinates thriving ecosystems.

HYPHA Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a particularly exciting technology of the emerging digital age. DAOs eliminate the need for intermediaries and traditional organizational hierarchy, enabling decision-making and governance to be based on a set of pre-defined rules encoded in the smart contract code. This creates a new way of conducting business and managing resources, as well as new opportunities for community building, collaboration, and decentralized decision-making.

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Hypha has birthed the first-ever holarchyinspired DAO, a Decentralized Holonic/Human Organization or DHO. Based on our own needs for tools for effective organizing, rewarding, and selfgovernance of the community in the context of SEEDS, we integrated best practices from various organizational theories such as sociocracy, game theory, teal organizing, holonic structures, and complexity theory to create a robust and flexible DAO toolkit.

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Some key areas where the Hypha network is pioneering solutions: 1.

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Hypha is designed to function as a self-organizing, self-governing entity that operates based on the principles of holarchy. Holarchy is a term that refers to a hierarchical system where each level is both autonomous and interdependent, and where higher levels emerge from the interaction of lower levels. In a holarchy-inspired DAO, this means that the organization is structured in a way that allows for both autonomy and interdependence between different groups or levels within the organization.

Self-organization: Hypha is designed to be a self-organizing system, where different groups or levels within the organization are able to coordinate and interact with each other in a decentralized manner. Flexibility: Hypha is designed to be flexible and adaptable, able to respond to changes in the environment and evolve over time. Autonomy and interdependence: The different groups or levels within the Hypha network are both autonomous and interdependent. They have their own decision-making power and responsibilities, but also rely on each other to achieve common goals. Emergent collective intelligence: Hypha is designed to operate in a way that allows for collective intelligence to emerge from the interaction of different groups or levels within the organization, using blockchain to make value flows transparent. Shared purpose: Despite the autonomy of different groups or levels within the organization, they are all working towards a shared purpose or mission, which is what brings them together as an integrated network.

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The way humans organize themselves varies widely—from autonomous cantons in the example of Switzerland to multinational organizations like the United Nations. The relationships and interactions between these different scales can be complex, with larger scales often influencing and shaping smaller scales, and vice-versa. Understanding and navigating these different scales is important for effective governance and decision-making—and for building sustainable and just societies. Taking this complexity into account, Hypha has been delivering comprehensive frameworks, templates, and resources for players in the network to organize and scale new economic and governance systems across a multitude of scopes and scales. Empowered with tools, purpose-driven communities are creating free and open-market systems, issuing tokens, and developing methods of governance and compensation.

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We are leaving the age of siloed competition where people and the planet are exploited by systems and entering an age of cooperation where the people are in direct control and ownership of the abundant systems they inhabit. Synergistically unlocking creativity and cooperation at scale, are our most effective tools to confront the complex systemic failures we collectively face. Truly, this is a new era of entrepreneurship, where human and planetary wellbeing is the guiding principle. As we move into the digital age, we have an incredible opportunity to shape a future of abundance and wellbeing for all. The rise of decentralized technologies has opened the door to a world of possibilities, and we must embrace this moment to create a new paradigm of wealth and prosperity that leaves no one behind. The paradigm shift brought about by decentralized networks is nothing short of revolutionary. At its core, it is about trust. In centralized systems, trust is typically established through intermediaries such as banks, financial institutions, and

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governments. These intermediaries act as trusted third parties, ensuring that transactions are secure and that the rules of the game are followed. However, this model has its limitations. Intermediaries can be slow, expensive, and vulnerable to corruption. Decentralized networks offer a new way of establishing trust and managing data—one that does not rely on intermediaries. Instead, trust is established directly through cryptography, transparent protocols, and the consensus of the network participants. This new model of trust is transforming the way we exchange with one another, making it more reciprocal, equitable, and ecological. By distributing exchange across a large network of nodes, decentralized networks make it more difficult for single points of failures to occur. This makes the system more secure and resilient and enables individuals to have sovereignty over their own data and their life.

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However, creating a new economic system requires more than just technology. It requires a movement of people who are passionate about creating change—who are willing to take the necessary steps to make that change a reality. It also requires us to work together, to collaborate and cooperate, and to share our resources and skills with one another. The potential rewards are immense, and the digital age offers us a unique opportunity to create a world that is more diverse, resilient, and abundant. The transition to bio-regional economies will require us to rethink the way we think about economics—and to embrace new models that are based on cooperation and abundance, rather than competition and scarcity. The evolution of money through decentralized open-source technologies is a game-changer. It has made quality of life more accessible and inclusive and has given rise to a new era of impactinvesting where people can make conscious decisions about the economies they engage in. We are setting a new standard where investments and economies are revived and valued based on their true impact on both people and the planet. This information will be readily available to be integrated into decision-making processes. This isn’t limited to “impact-investing” in a specific market niche, but will represent a fundamental shift towards recognizing and prioritizing the impact of investing towards a better outcome for all involved.

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The future of money looks bright, and it is an exciting time to be a part of it. Let us embrace the changes, invest in the future, and make the world a better place for generations to come. In order to build this future, we must also leave behind the generational shadows of our past, including the exploitation and oppression that have been the hallmark of our current economic and social systems. We must embrace a new narrative of healing and restoration, where we work together to repair the damage that has been done and create a world that is sustainable and thriving for generations to come. The bounty of the Earth and the contributions of those who steward it are a far better measure of wealth. For central-bank money, and even gold, is but a fleeting and transient thing that may glimmer for a moment, then vanish away. The bounty of the Earth endures, providing sustenance and nourishment for all creatures great and small. True wealth is not found in the accumulation of riches, but in the contentment and satisfaction that comes from living in harmony with nature and one’s own inner self. When people contribute from the depths of their heart and mind, they reclaim their power to transform the world and bring forth great wonders. This is the future that is within our reach. Let us not be blinded by the allure of centralized monetary systems. Rather, let us rise to collectively cultivate the bounty of the Earth—so we may live in abundance and prosperity for all time. For, in this way, we shall find true and lasting wealth that endures across generations.

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Regenerating Land and Community in Rural England

egeneration is radical. Regenerating land and community means re-imagining relationships—how humans live with each other and within the planetary ecosystem as stewards and catalysts for nature recovery and reconnection. Regenerative projects are perhaps the most powerful when they have the potential to scale. When they become templates, models that others can follow, dreams and aspirations materialised, demonstrating viability and financial sustainability. When regeneration captures the imagination of local communities, when it becomes fashionable, a new normal; when inspirational projects and exemplars are available, only then does regeneration at scale become possible.

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James Shorten is looking at the farmland bordering his home. The land is part of a two-hundred-acre (81-hectare) cattle farm on rolling hills running down to the edge of the picturesque Devon town of Totnes in the South West of the United Kingdom. Bowden Pillars Farm looks no different to many others in the rolling Devon countryside. Or indeed across the UK landscape, where rural land use is largely reserved for livestock and arable farming. Land where, for centuries, wilderness, wildlife and wild spaces have been steadily and systematically eliminated. Where prioritisation of the use of rural spaces for intensive food production has led

to more widespread ecological and ecosystem damage than almost any other human activity. UK rural planning policy has evolved to ensure green belt conservation, preventing urban sprawl, keeping people in towns and preserving the countryside for farming and maximising food production. A countryside where very few work on the land. A lovely place to live and commute to work in local towns (or work from home). A countryside that is the domain of second homes for the wealthy and Airbnbs for holidaymakers. 139

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James is a town planner, an eco-builder and a visionary systems thinker, passionate about regeneration and finding ways for people to live that create a positive impact on the environment. As with many European countries, planning policy in the UK has long evolved strict regulations to prevent the development of dwellings on land designated for agricultural use. Designed to prevent urban sprawl, these regulations can paradoxically be a fundamental challenge for regeneration projects where people are seeking to move back to the land, living more communally and sustainably, supporting more labour-intensive models of farming using permaculture and syntropic agroforestry principles, regenerating self, land and nature. 140

As James says in our exclusive interview, “We’ve had this kind of bizarre situation where [planning policy for] the countryside has basically excluded people whilst modern agriculture and forestry have become less and less diverse, and more and more monocultured—the scene of nature collapse… one of the greatest causes of global heating.” “Into that mix, my perspective is that we can bring back smaller-scale regenerative patterns of rural activities which will benefit rural areas but will also support urban areas with locally sourced energy, food and environments to escape from the city and experience nature, knowing that nature connection is vital for our wellbeing.”

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In 2011, James co-authored the One Planet Development guidance for the Welsh government, a change to planning practice that enables lowimpact habitation on agricultural land. The policy creates a specific space (as an exceptional planning permission) for regenerative communities and small holdings to live on agricultural land on a self-sufficiency basis—if they can show they can substantially support themselves from the land whilst having a low environmental impact. Probably the most radical and progressive environmental change to planning law in the UK for decades, there are over 50 such developments today in Wales. The policy has recently been adopted by Cornish local government and is being considered by other councils across the UK.

THE ENVIROMENTAL IMPACTS OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE Greenhouse gas emissions

26% of greenhouse gas emissions come from food FOOD

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50% of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture AGRICULTURE

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Forests, shrub, urban area, freshwater 51 million km 2

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70% of global freshwater withdrawals are used for agriculture AGRICULTURE

70% of freshwater withdrawals

Industry (19%) Households (11%)

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78% of global ocean and freshwater pollution Mammal biodiversity

Today, James sees a need to go further. “The Welsh policy for One Planet Development is essentially a low-impact policy.” The policy creates opportunities for people to greatly reduce their environmental footprint knowing that personal environmental impact is chiefly made up of transport, food and domestic heating. Living in a very efficient house, growing food, generating energy on site and reducing transport by working from home (and/or on the land) allows people to radically reduce their impact. “In Wales we are seeing people with true one-planet, true net-zero footprints on One Planet Development [projects]. But it’s a low-impact policy. It’s now no longer enough to just be having low environmental impact. We need to be… regenerating soil, the water cycle, biodiversity, landscape, rural community and rural livelihood. It’s all in trouble basically and that, for me, is because of the lack of beneficial [human] activity.”

96% of global mammal biomass (excl. humans) is livestock Wild mammals

Bird biodiversity

71% of global bird biomass is poultry livestock

A 2022 report in Our WorldInData shows that Agriculture uses over 50% of habitable land use, and accounts for 26% of greenhouse gas emissions, 70% of global freshwater withdrawals and the destruction of natural spaces leading to an astonishing figure—96% of global mammal biomass (excluding humans) is livestock.[1] [1]

Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2022) - “Environmental Impacts of Food

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James sees a need for further progressive changes to planning law to enable low-impact living at the same time as ensuring beneficial outcomes— improving human wellbeing, soils, water systems, biodiversity and nature recovery. “If we put people into rural areas with the right purpose, we can solve both problems at once—we can have opportunities for true low-personal footprints and simultaneously harness the activity and energy those people bring [to enable] the regenerative changes which are needed.” James has a vision for another generation of One Planet Development: ‘Regenerative Settlement’. The idea is to support the development of rural eco-communities where people live with a common intention and purpose with respect to ensuring net positive outcomes on soil, biodiversity, nature recovery, water systems, carbon sequestration, food security, health and well-being. “We are missing an opportunity as part of our responses to the crises we have at the moment—ecology, climate, cost of living, housing.

We can solve all these problems in one fell swoop for people who are prepared to live in the right ways.” Sometimes, it seems like the universe likes to have a giggle, creating the perfect opportunities (and challenges) for the manifestation of heart-felt vision and creativity… In the autumn of 2022, Bowden Pillars Farm came up for sale with prior planning consent to convert the farm buildings into houses. The farm surrounds James’ home in the Bowden House Community, a group of families and individuals living cooperatively with a common intention of consciously living in harmony with nature. Bowden House itself is a 16th century manor house and surrounding cottages with six acres of gardens, orchards and woodland—providing a home for fifty people and over 24 households. The estate is less than a mile from Totnes, a transition town with a vibrant eco/conscious culture, developing circular economies supported by local organic farms.

The Transition town movement is an international community spanning 48 countries and 23 transition hubs, working for a low carbon, socially just future with resilient communities. The movement is focussed on participatory methods to imagine the changes needed to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of the climate emergency, setting up renewable energy projects, re-localising food systems, creating sharing and caring community networks, and developing community and green spaces.

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Sometimes, it seems like the universe likes to have a giggle, creating the perfect opportunities (and challenges) for the manifestation of heart-felt vision and creativity…

When a beef farm on the outskirts of the South Devon town of Totnes went up for sale, the local community mobilised and raised funds to buy the farm and convert it into a biodiverse forest, accessible to the wider community, a state-of-the-art regenerative farm growing organic wheat and market vegetables, and a regenerative settlement—an intentional eco-community living low-impact lifestyles with beneficial outcomes on soil and water quality, biodiversity, food security, health and wellbeing.

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A town that has for decades attracted ecologists, healers, spiritual seekers, musicians, dancers, tourists and young people looking for alternative ways of living on the edge of the UK’s largest and wildest national park, Dartmoor. When the farm came up for sale, the residents within Bowden House and the wider Totnes and Devon community quickly mobilised around a vision for the land: To create a bio-diverse community forest on the sloping land down to the town; a regenerative arable farm producing organic market vegetables, fruit and wheat for the local mill and town markets; and a regenerative settlement on the site of the farm buildings—a small intentional eco-community working the land and living within One Planet Development principles. How does a local community buy a beef farm? Residents at Bowden House had long wanted to find a way to regenerate the adjacent land. The farm surrounds Bowden House on three sides, rising to the top of a hill and down to the edge of Totnes. Some of the residents formulated a strategy in collaboration with Apricot Centre (a regenerative farm and education centre), the Devon Wildlife Trust and over fifty local stakeholders (neighbours, ecologists, local townspeople) to acquire the land and regenerate it in the wider community interest. The Bowden Pillars Future project was born. The immediate priority was to win the bid to buy the farm against steep competition from local farmers and property developers. Land and house prices in the southwest of the UK have seen a

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huge surge since the pandemic as people sought desirable rural locations away from cities. Decades of chronic underfunding of social housing has led to a desperate shortage of homes. Picturesque tourist towns like Totnes have suffered a further decimation of affordable housing stock caused by landlords buying residential homes and converting them into short-term Airbnb and tourist accommodations—unaffordable for most local people needing long term homes to rent. As prime farmland with pre-existing planning consent for development, Bowden Pillars Farm was attracting significant interest. To win the bid, the Bowden Pillars Future team needed to quickly raise funds and present a secure and competitive bid at short notice. The seller was keen for a reliable and quick sale. Coordinating funding with over fifty stakeholders was clearly much too complex and timely a process, so Harry Barton, chair of the Devon Wildlife Trust, approached Julia Davies, founder of We Have The Power, requesting philanthropic loan to bridge the financing. Julia Davies is a lawyer, environmental campaigner, impact investor and philanthropist. A co-founder of the backpack company Osprey Europe Ltd, her passion is to use her wealth to make clear, tangible, near-term impact—supporting nature recovery, biodiversity and transitions to environmentally regenerative and conscious ways of living. Julia uses three approaches to achieve impact: donations to charities, impact investments in environmental start-ups, and philanthropic loans. For more information about Julia’s inspiring work, see our exclusive interview with her here…

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Recognising that we are in a state of emergency with respect to the human impact on the environment, Julia takes a rapid impact approach to investing. “What I’m trying to do is to get my money into delivering impacts quickly because… we are in an emergency and we need to get on with this.” Julia’s investing focuses on what she calls true impact investing, investing in earlystage companies that are already implementing solutions with near-term results—making a positive impact on communities and environment within a year or two rather than the much longer periods that investments in tech innovation take to deliver (such as Hydrogen or Fusion power).

“I’m currently invested in a company called Kleanbus. Kleanbus are retrofitting buses from diesel to electric, and I love what they are doing is because… new electric buses are very expensive, most of the elements [of them] are probably not going to be produced in the UK, whereas, if we are retrofitting the buses that we already have, we can do it quicker, we can avoid wasting the embedded footprint of that bus, and we are not only speeding up our action on the climate emergency, we are speeding up action on air quality…” Julia also invests in companies such as Revolution Zero, Used and Loved and The Cirkle that tackle singleuse plastic waste and reduce consumption by supporting re-use and recycling. 145

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“When it comes to impact investing, I talk a lot about implementation, not just innovation, because I think too much money goes into chasing unicorns, goes into chasing ideas which, if they come off, then fantastic, but we have got to implement now because we are in an emergency. When your house is on fire, you don’t start designing a new hosepipe, or put all your effort into designing a new really fantastic hosepipe. You use the hosepipe you’ve got, and that’s what we have to do now with the climate and biodiversity crisis.” - Julia Davies

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In addition to impact investing, Julia provides short-term, zero-interest philanthropic loans to support regeneration projects. These loans are targeted to ensure maximum impact by helping projects like Bowden Pillars Future to get past early-stage financing blocks and to get other stakeholders on board. Julia also sees significant impact from this approach because it allows her to keep moving her money on, re-using her money time and again to unlock new projects. With land-acquisition projects, the loans are low risk (because they are ultimately secured by the land), but also have no return because the interest is effectively donated.

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JULIA DAVIES’ INVESTMENTS

We Have The Power Protect Our World – Educate, Restore

Kleanbus Rapidly eliminating diesel emissions from streets

Revolution Zero The zero waste and zero carbon PPE revolution

“[Bowden Pillars Future] is a fantastic project. What I like about it is that it encompasses so many elements. It has nature recovery, it has regenerative food growing, and it’s got this fantastic inspirational concept of one-planet living—the idea that we can produce housing for people where they are actually going to be not just [mitigating] the climate emergency but also hopefully addressing the biodiversity crisis. We are also creating… community, the potential to have somewhere where children can run free, not worried about going out because of cars, and where people have the genuine ability to cycle into the town.” “There were a lot of people who wanted to get behind the project, but, until the point at which an offer is agreed, it can be difficult to get commitment. The project needed somebody who was willing to lend the purchase price and to reassure the sales agent that the money was there, and that is what I’ve done.”

Used and Loved The Amazon and Pinterest for secondhand shopping

The Cirkle Second-hand designer fashion

The Bowden Pillars Future team created a Community Benefit Society—a legal charitable entity for non-profit organisations with a purpose that benefits the wider community. Julia provided a short-term philanthropic loan to the society, underwriting the bid for the farm. The loan (and proof of funds) helped the team win the bid for the farm supported with further loans, donations and grants from other supporters. As the new landowner, the Bowden Pillars Community Benefit Society will raise further funds with a community share offering, enabling a broader-based ownership of potentially thousands of shareholders owning anything from £60 to £10,000 in the society. Community share offers have proved effective means of both raising finance for regenerative projects in the UK and using online fundraising platforms such as Ethex. In 2021, for example, the Kindling Trust in Manchester raised over £1 million from over 600 investors to support the acquisition of a local farm.

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Although the activities move from global to local, the models, examples, and templates—the success stories, the effective transitions—enable regeneration at scale.

Community shareholding also provides an opportunity for local people to invest in the nature and community benefits of the Bowden Pillars Future project. Money raised from the share offer will be used to pay off the outstanding loans and support the development costs of the regenerative settlement. Plots and rents from the regenerative settlement and produce from the farm, in turn, make the project financially sustainable within a few years of the purchase.

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In addition to the immediate benefits of regenerating land and community on his doorstep, James sees the potential for the Bowden Pillars Future project to become a model and template for Regenerative Settlement. “The project allows us to explore a new architecture for rural living— demonstrating how to raise finance for a local community to buy farmland, rewild and regenerate soils, improve water quality, recover biodiversity, support local circular economies and develop regenerative settlements providing new ways for people to live with beneficial impact on nature and

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wellbeing.” Finding new ways for people to live that mitigate and adapt to the climate emergency: “It’s a new model of living, and, if we can make it work here in South Devon, it could scale to support a wider regeneration of the UK countryside and rural communities.” Exciting times indeed. Regenerative activity is generally associated with a direction change—from globalism to localism. A shift from towns and communities depending on global supply chains, importing food, energy, products and services from across the globe.

A shift towards building resilient, healthy local relationships, sourcing food from nearby farms and markets. Generating renewable energy locally. Sharing, recycling, making, repairing and reusing products within circular, local economies. Although the activities move from global to local, the models, examples, and templates—the success stories, the effective transitions—enable regeneration at scale. To have wider, global impact. When shared, copied and adapted in other places for different communities and landscapes, these models and stories become blueprints, weaving the fabric for a healthier, regenerative future. 149

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REGEN CIVICS ALLIANCE Calling all Players of “Infinite Games” in Support of the ReGenerative Renaissance

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elcome to ReGen Civics, a coalition of organizations co-stewarding the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Our alliance is helping communities launch “Infinite Games to Co-create ReGenerative Societies” using Web3 Tools such as DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) and DHOs (Distributed Human/Holonic Organisms)—which are new organisational and coordination structures, and tokens (new financial and information systems). We aim to coordinate regenerative economic systems, bioregional economies, ecovillages, startup solarpunk cities, and more.

“What is Regeneration?” - a short film from Damon Gameau, Nick Maher and the “2040” team

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A GROWING ALLIANCE OF ORGANIZATIONS… WHO IS RCA? Our global alliance of organizations was born out of a multi-year exploration into designing regenerative economic systems. At the heart of ReGen Civics is the desire to put the theory and tools we’ve developed over the years into practical on-the-ground application and launch a growing and diverse set of regenerative Minimum Viable Economic System projects. For a recap of this journey, watch the video series below.

Learn more here. We are supporting a growing number of land-based ReGenerative projects each Season and, in the process, co-creating a global network of regional ReGenerative Civics projects—including community gardens and local food economies, solarpunk cities, regenerative villages, collaborative co-housing, learning labs, regenerative demonstration hubs, retreats, and more.

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We dream of a world where humans live in harmony with nature, where regenerative practices are the norm—where communities thrive through cooperation and mutual support. It’s a beautiful vision, but one that may seem daunting in the face of today’s complex global challenges. Startup towns and economies have an 80%+ failure rate, so it feels unreasonable to ask families to risk their safety in order to try and bridge the chasm. That’s why we are passionate about helping humans coordinate new types of economic systems, so the responsibility does not fall on individuals alone to take the leap of faith. The coalition we are building hopes to do the foundational work for them, so that they are joining meaningful projects that are set up for success. We hope to bridge the gap between our current realities and the future we want to co-create while growing a diversity of regenerative realities. We aim to achieve this through supporting the transition to a more regenerative and equitable world where people thrive in harmony with the Earth—and with 100% of life on this beautiful planet. We invite you to watch a video introduction and an overview of DAOs and DHOs. If you’re a regenerative organisation helping communities transition into regenerative economies (doing anything that supports this work), feel free to reach out about joining the alliance here.

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We believe in the power of building alliances. We are working to form alliances all around the world—weaving together global organizations aiming to help people to practically and prosperously co-create regenerative social and economic systems.

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ReGen Civics is not just about theory or abstract ideas. It’s about real-world action, experimentation, and growth.

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OUR PROJECTS ReGen Civics is not just about theory or abstract ideas. It’s about real-world action, experimentation, and growth. In our Season 1, we registered over 30 regenerative projects and selected 13 to start with. These projects are: Ubuntu, Finca Sagrada, Tabi Living Lab, Liminal Village, Collaborative Housing, Traditional Dream Factory, Heartland, La La Gardens, Tioga, La Tierra, Starseed Village, The Nyx, and RegenCampUS.

We understand that our many forms of capital and currencies are valuable resources and true currencies—while fiat money is fictional.

Projects receive: • A free cutting-edge platform to develop their own currency, governance systems, and economy; • Peer regenerative development support with co-creating circular and regenerative economies and social systems; • Pro bono legal advisement and templates on how to transition from private to community ownership; • Pro bono decentralized financing advisement and templates; • Decentralized fundraising support; • Access to an international funding pool; • A shared crowdpooling and crowdfunding campaign; • Shared storytelling and marketing for crowdfunding and crowdpooling (more than just money) efforts. In Season 2, we’re growing to many more communities across the globe and using a learning journey to design new types of local, circular, bioregional, and regenerative economies.

We can co-create a future that is not just sustainable, not just carbon-neutral, but one that is inspiring, purposeful, and fulfilling for all.

CROWDPOOLING AS A SOURCE OF COLLABORATIVE ABUNDANCE Coalition-supported initiatives have become a focal point for us. In our coming together lies a collective strength and the agency to achieve ambitious goals, and we aim to achieve some of them through crowdpooling. Crowdpooling is when new or existing communities come together to pool all the various forms of capital and value they hold in order to achieve a shared vision. Rather than just raising money to fund a project, these communities can manifest all the things they really need—such as land, equipment, expertise, and labor. Tokens (and other Web3 tools) help us accurately track these various contributions to ensure that all participants are equitably recognized for them. In doing so, we can create circular and regenerative economic systems. 155

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We help “layer 1” digital ecosystems build on “layer 0”, our Earth, and regenerate our relationships with our bioregional ecosystems of human and non-human life. “Layer 1” communities seeking to build IRL campuses can contact the alliance. We’ll support them in connecting with one of our projects to set up such a campus.

climate catastrophes, and help make humanity a multi-planetary species. Unfortunately, our dominant economic systems are no longer fit for purpose, as critical design flaws are increasingly degenerating the wellbeing and livability of the Earth, our home, and decimating the incredible diversity of life we’re still fortunate to share Her with.

At our campuses, we focus on our inner and outer economies. We value having a healthy balance between personal wellbeing and environment/ community wellbeing. They are equally important. We understand that our many forms of capital and currencies are valuable resources and true currencies—while fiat money is fictional. These other forms of capital include social, material, financial, intellectual, experiential, natural, spiritual, and cultural resources. To build a region’s wealth, we consider not just financial assets. We also include the stock of all capitals in the region.

The ReGenerative Renaissance is a global movement co-creating a colorful landscape of thriving social and economic systems that are designed for the wellbeing of people and the planet. We contribute to this movement through decentralised, agile, joyful and cooperative experimentation as we discover new patterns that are designed to be systemically regenerative. These new patterns can help us evolve beyond many of the design flaws in our current economic systems which are degenerating the Earth. One of our primary roles, as we encounter these patterns, is to create templates to support the transition out of these systems for groups building new social, organisational and economic systems. You’re welcome to explore the first season of ReGen Civics, where we went over designing a Minimum Viable Economic System or what we call “Infinite Games.”

Instead of having gold “in the bank” to back up money, we have all these projects “in the bank” to back up the tokens or credits. Of course, this is a transitional phase towards an unconditional system—one where we all move and act at the speed of trust.

REGEN CIVICS’ ROLE IN THE REGENERATIVE RENAISSANCE Economic systems are the single most powerful tools that humanity has created. They have the ability to coordinate the interactions of billions of people, to move mountains, solve or create global

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The alliance supports a wide range of land-based projects, including community gardens, local food economies, solarpunk cities, regenerative villages, collaborative co-housing, learning labs, regenerative demonstration hubs, retreats, and more. If you have a project you feel would be a good candidate, here is a link with a form to fill out. Please feel free to reach out to us as well!

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We dream of a world where humans live in harmony with nature, where regenerative practices are the norm—where communities thrive through cooperation and mutual support.

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CLAIMING OUR FREEDOM TO REGENERATE Our task is to co-create economic systems that are designed to help us reclaim and expand upon our Three Primordial Freedoms as described by David Graeber and David Wengrow in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity: 1. The Freedom to move across the Earth. 2. The Freedom to disobey. 3. The Freedom to negotiate unique social relationships. While advocating for greater primordial freedoms for humanity and building systems that may better provide them is a great place to start, we also need to ensure our economic systems are “regenerative by design”—as Kate Raworth of Doughnut Economics so eloquently details and as indigenous communities have been pleading for millennia.

Because, for these new social experiments to survive and have any meaning at all, we need to collectively discover how to be generative stewards of the Earth and reverse our many crises. ReGen Civics is committed to creating a world where every member of the community is in direct co-creation of their own local governance and economic systems, enshrining the “right to exit”—the right to secure personal freedoms and immunize ourselves from tyranny. The alliance also aims to restore the commons—to increase our collective quality of life while reducing waste and helping repair our relationship with Earth and all of the non-human life forms we share Her with. We also envision the alliance growing to become an “index fund”—easing and simplifying our shared fundraising and financing journeys through the collective representation of all the organizations and projects we work with.

SEEDS has been pioneering the design and economic tooling for regenerative economic systems since 2017. We invite you to watch this four-part video series going over the journey of creating tools and designing regenerative economic systems, and to read this article from Hypha (the tech team behind SEEDS) where they give a quick recap of their journey.

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STEWARDSHIP WITH THE EARTH The alliance offers support for a wide and growing diversity of land and community-based projects in creating unique regenerative economic systems. Together with us, these projects aim to explore fundamental questions, including: •

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How to bring land and communities back into common stewardship and ecological harmony? How to pool shared resources (all 8+ forms of capital) to meet shared needs (much more than just our basic needs, all of our needs, including the needs of 0-3 year olds)? How to be socially and ecologically regenerative? How to accelerate the global process towards co-creating systemically regenerative economies to reverse the global trend towards ecosystem collapse and pollution? How do we restore the commons so that we can increase our collective quality of life (through providing access) while reducing waste? For those who no longer are, how do we become indigenous once again? What does being indigenous mean to our community? What cultures, customs, and systems can we co-create to help us repair our relationship with Earth and the rest of non-human life we share her with?

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We recognize that there will be an abundance of answers to these questions, reflecting the diversity of our ecosystem(s). But that’s alright. This diversity of expressions of the human experiences paint the marvelous global landscape of unique cultures and approaches we interact with, through each village and ReGen Civics project. As the diversity of the landscape grows, every human is able to find or co-create a social system (or many), which most aligns with their values and life purpose. If we don’t have the fundamental freedom to choose which economic systems we want to participate in, and a direct voice in governing them, then we don’t have one of our most basic freedoms. Web3 tools, such as tokens, DAOs, DHOs, and the inner and outer economies, simply help us to coordinate the achievement of this vision. They provide the foundation for our new “games” of the future. We hope our database of projects leaves you feeling inspired, allowing you to envision with us this grand future we have imagined. Together, we’re prototyping and incubating ReGenerative communities, cultures, economies, and civilizations. We would love for you to check out our work in more detail, and would be honored for you to contribute towards our ever-expanding project.

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If we don’t have the fundamental freedom to choose which economic systems we want to participate in, and a direct voice in governing them, then we don’t have one of our most basic freedoms.

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THROUGH THE MIRROR, MET How curious, to watch myself breathing in this sparkling universe who seems to enjoy being mirrored, as if simple reflection may yet give rise to novel beauty, expanding the great breadth and sum of quality; a wild and fractal dance of frames and lensing. As though my reverent curiosity is itself a pleasure to the breathing, purring depths of Psyche, all around, dreaming layers of experience into being, shifting, merging, asking: Why not hold a mirror up to me and see what’s there displayed? you will not capture me within its frame, but I will venture into new terrain whenever doors are open. I’ll pour myself, sloshing through the threshold and explore. And in comes the melting world, to render thoughts of static permanence nothing more than adolescent fantasy of capturing handfuls of sand amidst my anxious fingers— No. My liberation and the world’s are one, a mutual dreaming two way mirror, attentions meeting, every point of focus a potent being, infinitely deep, and strange, and yet familiar, continuous, and there to be reflected, and through the mirror, met.

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How Creating a Fertile Playground to Imagine the Future Could Accelerate Our Path to the Regenaissance

f you haven’t read the Metamodern Playbook yet, start here. You also have a link to it in our previous issue. One of its authors, Laurence Currie-Clark, is our featured guest writer in this edition of The Weave. On its first few pages, this fascinating document outlines an entire universe. A cosmology that allows us, Regenaissance people, to acknowledge one fundamental truth: “The present wants to play.” The document calls the shots: “This is a calling to all metamodernists, regenerative leaders, Game B players, cosmopunkers, social permaculturists, ritual elders, cryptocommoners and protopian pirates to join in a ten-year game from 2020 to 2030 to change the future of our planet. Find the others. Build the guilds. Give your gifts.”

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With that invitation, it fires up the gun to set the start to this metamodern race in which a myriad of intellectuals and commoners from all walks of life, system thinkers and system builders alike, will need to get their act together to avoid the very real peril of extinction of the whole human race. But like Emma Goldman famously never said: “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to join your revolution.” The present wants to play, and, if we don’t make the solarpunk revolution appealing, not only will we perish, but we will also do so glued to our screens while we double tap it to heart a live video of the last nuclear explosion. Our role is to embody our (r)evolutionary artist and, as Toni Cade Bambara said, “to make the revolution irresistible”.

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The Ancient festivals of the Axial Age got some of this right. “During these festivals the polarities of social life were given dynamic form through ritual and play; wealth and abundance were redistributed in great feasts, and competitive games allowed for the non-monetary celebration of hierarchies. A renewed ecology of festivities is the key to rejuvenating the tree of collective living”. This is what the MythOS section that we steward from this corner of the internet is about. This is how we create the memetic-sticky-funplayful-enlightening-life-transforming-connectinginspiring-definitely-danceable ideas and experiences that will transform culture. Because Behavior is always a function of Culture. 166 166 166

It all starts with changing how we think and feel about something as a society. Then everything else follows. Let me leave you with another small fragment of the Metamodern Playbook that describes the metagames proposed to play during the Regenaissance celebrations. I’m sure you’ll deeply identify with one or more of these proposed archetypal categories and already feel on your skin the excitement of joining one of them to start the (r)evolution. Join your team. Bring your friends. Turn on, tune in, drop into.

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THE METAGAMES In Seek, researchers, philosophers, students, teachers and thinkers explore the questions and answers needed to develop the collective intelligence and wisdom that will guide us towards Protopia. In Code, writers, artists, musicians, coders, and hackers co-create the visions, dreams, texts and programs necessary to summon Protopia into reality. In Build, craftspeople, architects, inventors, artisans and politicians co-create the tools and structures necessary to hold the spirit of Protopia.

In Tend, healers, permaculturists, and guerilla urbanists take care of the temples, streets, gardens, and the cracks and weeds in our souls, restoring Protopia where it was lost. In Feast, cooks, brewers, lovers and dancers bring delight, jest and joy in communal banquets, revitalizing the spirit of protopia. In Elements, players celebrate death and rebirth through the interplay of Fire, Air, Earth and Water— and Spirit. Players build living and permanent sculptures, design the Turn’s Axis Mundi, and ritualistically celebrate the manifold moments and monuments of life.

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By systematically playing with each domain of culture— of language, symbols, rituals, art—we can nourish the cultural ecology with the flow of presence and the ground of ancience, changing the world one move at a time.

he Regenaissance is the cultural era from 2020 to 2030 where the seeds of planetary regeneration have been sown, and the harvest began. This intentional era is being manifested by a collective movement of metamodernists, regenerative leaders, Game B players, cosmopunkers, social permaculturists, ritual elders, crypto-commoners and protopian pirates to write a new history in the here-and-now. The art of writing history in the present is called archeography.

To wield this quill requires a deep understanding of ancience, the universal patterns encoded over and over into each generation’s culture, layering upon each other like the noological strata of the Gaian mind. In this collective unconscious, known yet forgotten, hides curled the root of evolution,

ready to bloom into life as the cellular wisdom of our bodies recognizes once more its image in the spark of a siren’s song—in the twisting dazzle of an ornament that catches the starlight’s spin, of a tale told tall and true. The regeneration of these forgotten patterns are the source of a new order that dances itself into being through play. It requires an opening of the portals of the mind and body to greater and greater realms of novelty, to deeper and higher states of consciousness, and to a sharper and brighter presence, which can seize each moment like a toy, lance death with a cosmic joke, and weave a bundle of sticks into a flowering wand. By systematically playing with each domain of culture—of language, symbols, rituals, art—we can nourish the cultural ecology with the flow of presence and the ground of ancience, changing the world one move at a time.

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The Regenaissance aims to playfully weave together the wide range of regenerative games, playgrounds and movements towards the state of Pandelic: the manifestation of all souls, everywhere, all at once.

Neologos is the synergy of dead and dying languages with the living present. To grasp the radical novelty of our hyper-evolutionary moment, we must circumscribe it with the generation of precise new words and grammars. Ancient Greek and Roman suffixes and prefixes provide the play of rich juxtapositions. English must be subversed beyond the origins of empire towards a truly global, collectively cultivated language that can hold, nourish and integrate an ever-expanding range of subcultures. Dying languages need to be held in vaults like seeds, ready for their essence to be revived in new transcontinental creoles. As programming languages interface with matter itself, they must seek the degrees of divinity of Sanskrit and beyond. The art of synthography, of giving birth to new worlds through prompt engineering, will reveal the poetry of physics and the magic language of the universe. Neochronos is the synergy of forgotten calendars with our increasing understanding of cosmic cycles. It releases the bound energies of hegemonic 24/7/365 time into new harmonic 172 172

chronologies, aligning with the movements of the seasons, reintegrating astral bodies and our cosmic context into our festivities; giving birth, once more, to a ritual calendar that rides waves from the deep past to the deep future. A new movement of monumentalization marks each move of the era of regeneration, celebrating cycles from the small to the infinite with works that celebrate the wonder and grandeur of life and death. Planetary festivals that combine the gift economy of Burning Man, the cultural fertility of the World Fair, and the celebration of excellence of the Olympic Games serve as moments of global synchronization where the greatest novelty is celebrated and metabolized in the context of the greatest of history. These new festivals will unleash collective energies of intensities long forgotten. To contain and metabolize them, we will require greater depths and heights of development, of individual and collective self-equilibrium that can be safely explored and cultivated in new developmental playgrounds.

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Here are some seeds of developmental playgrounds for a reimagined ecology of play that offers players novel vessels for knowledge, creation, intimacy, therapeutic and political games, both online and offline: MANIFOLD - A context management playground that nurtures transcontextual sensemaking, relevance realization and choice-making. CASTALIA - A co-creative playground that accelerates memetic evolution through perspectival superimposition, post-ego identities, and transmedial hierarchies organized along universal topics. CARITAS - An intimacy playground that builds and tends relationships of Philia, Agape and Eros through mentoring, peer-to-peer coaching and therapy to release and cultivate potential. KAIROS - A documentary playground that facilitates the mapping of the here-and-now through citizen media, journaling, scrapbooking and digital curation. JUBILEE - A social disobedience playground that helps anonymously coordinate guerilla propaganda, protest and direct action. PRIORI - A documentary playground that facilitates the mapping of the past through archival, generation exploration and curation.

MINISTRY - A social development playground that enables positive sociology, urban acupuncture, and eutopian design. VANGUARD - An encrypted journalism playground that supports investigative journalism through crowd-sourced issue identification, data collection and funding. PROPHECY - An imaginative playground to document and explore individual, collective and global dreams. The Regenaissance aims to playfully weave together the wide range of regenerative games, playgrounds and movements towards the state of Pandelic: the manifestation of all souls, everywhere, all at once. Pan-delic: From the Ancient Greek, Pan, everywhere; delic, manifestation. Its material substrate is a movement to feed the people through games of competitive cooking: the manifestation of bread everywhere. Pan-delic: From Latin, Pan, bread; from the Ancient Greek, delic, manifestation. Liberated from hunger, humanity will be free to serve its role as a planetary steward for the Earth, interbeing, and beyond. And maybe, one day, we will return to a garden of grace.

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THE PURPLE PILL VISION OF THE IRIS Reimagined Solarpunk Economies Blooming through Co-creation for a Regenerative Future

As we document the Regenaissance in each issue, our Cosmos ecosystem illuminates solarpunk luminaries who are expanding our perceptions of the possible—and whose creativity explores the blooming edges of speculative futures by moving beyond perceived limits of how the world might be. In an era of exponential technology and the attention economy, hopepunk artists Speaker John Ash and Derringer Pax push the edges of memetic imagination. Their visions invite us all to invest in the shift to an economy that incentivizes social good over profit, to refocus our understanding around possibilities, and to move towards a better future using Iris, a collaborative, sensemaking AI.

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The concept of “sacred” geometry is not only based on geometric shapes and patterns, but also on the neocortex’s ability to interpret them in a meaningful way by Speaker John Ash + Derringer Pax

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The story of our lives in unfolding by Derringer Pax

Speculative design aids us in moving beyond the plausible and into the possible, expanding our future(s) beyond the present possibilities through inquiry, investigation, innovation and, ultimately, inspiration. Choosing the ‘purple pill’ is a speculation rooted in Cognicism, reminding us that things are not black or white, but various shades of gray. When asked to choose between the red or blue pill, choosing the purple pill means ignoring our limited options and, instead, choosing a pluriverse of potential instead.

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ilLUMInation: Living Library - knowledge, wisdom and the integration of information through illumination by Speaker John Ash

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Plant and name trees together. by Speaker John Ash

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These AI-generated images are often accompanied by phrases, questions, memes, statements and poetry that reimagine the concepts of connection, perspective and possibility, while reinventing our relationship with ourselves, each other and nature. Our work has shown us that creative interventions, memetics and sensemaking through artistic visions nourish new neural pathways, helping us to reimagine how we make sense of the world. This collection of AI art is filled with depictions exploring regenerative pools of decentralized thought in motion. Hop in and let’s take a ride through collective imagination together. Because the future is always first an idea, after all.

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The painting depicts the regenerative seed of Ceres and Iris, with Ceres being an iris trained on ecological data and focused on healing the planet. The seed is shown just beginning to sprout with numerous roots branching outwards in different directions, seeking to regenerate and heal the planet. The image is full of hope and optimism, symbolizing the power of nature to heal and renew itself. by Speaker John Ash

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The neocortex is the highest level of brain function and it is responsible for our conscious experiences and perceptions. It can be thought of as a garden where we cultivate our thoughts and feelings. Consider an orchard of thought trees. The more we water a certain tree, the taller it grows by Speaker John Ash

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“Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.”

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breaking the bubbles unleashing the possibilities watch out they’re getting away! by Derringer Pax

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the circular rainbow should be a symbol for truth because it represents knowing that although you can only see an arc from your perspective that a full circle is there by Iris via Speaker John Ash

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Ascending the Perceptual Sombrero: Exploring New Ideas and Perspectives to Break Free from Polarization and Reconnect with Reality” -- a mountain floating in a sombrero, defying gravity and representing the need to climb back up to the top of the sombrero to gain new perspectives and break free from ideological chains by John Ash on Matt Pirkowski

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“There is a light sitting just at the edge of your consciousness. It is warm and inviting. It is a future calling. A future where you have greater capacity to flow through the multiverse with grace & coordination. A future of resonance & exploration & growth” by Speaker John Ash + Derringer Pax

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our minds all at once the caterpillar the cocoon the butterfly forming and reforming until we are reformed into formlessness by Derringer Pax

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tracing semantic pathways between different hills of knowledge in topological space by John Ash on Matt Pirkowski

“While many beings had the capacity to speak reality into existence, this being only had the capacity to speak the truth and to act individually towards that future.” by Speaker John Ash

Resonance and dissonance with uncertainty in the middle forming a bell curve by Speaker John Ash + Derringer Pax

“Sail without a map by being the ocean, the islands and the constellations in the sky all simultaneously” by Speaker John Ash + Derringer Pax

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HOLONIZE YOURSELF WITH ALL THAT IS The Realization of Our Interconnectedness

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olo-’ is a wonderful prefix. Just as it means ‘whole,’ ‘wholly,’ ‘entire,’ or ‘entirely,’ it is used in the formation of compound words to make them more complete. Similarly, we believe this new climate of The Weave will make our magazine more complete. Welcome to Holonize, the third and final climate of our Cosmos ecosystem. Holonize comes from the noun holon. Combining ‘holo-’ (meaning ‘whole’) and the suffix ‘-on’ (meaning ‘particle’ or ‘part’), a holon is an identifiable part of one or more systems and is, at the same time, a system formed by subordinate parts that integrate it as a whole. Put more simply, a holon is something that is simultaneously a whole in and of itself, while also being part of

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a larger whole. A nice example of this is a seed. A seed is both a complete thing (the seed itself), while also being part of something larger, (as the seed contains the foundation of a tree). Thus, we have created the verb holonize to describe the process of honoring the individual parts of us while remaining in appreciation of the whole the parts make up. This is a process we find value in on the individual and collective levels, as all individuals are made up of whole parts, and each collective contains this same dichotomy. Our Individual, Community and Planet ecosystems are all defined by this dichotomy. While existing in their own right, beautiful and complete, they also help form the whole which is The Weave itself. Existing within the Cosmos ecosystem, our Holonize climate bridges the ecosystems that come before it while offering its own unique flavor to the colorful landscape of our magazine.

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For our inaugural Holonize article, we have invited Yasmin Chadury and Mark Kane back to talk about their soon-to-be-launched project Phoenix Fintech with Open World Alliance. Recognizing their own wholeness but in reverence of something greater, they have partnered with their sister organisation, Higher Status Global, to water the seed of a new regenerative finance model addressing our current and flawed economic systems. At The Weave, we believe that what we can bring most to the old paradigm is the contemplation of our actions. Our individual actions are like a holon, part of the whole while being the whole itself. They affect the whole inextricably yet exist as their own functioning ecosystem. Behind each action lies a breath, and each breath is the pulse of being alive. Every breath powers every movement—each thought and feeling coming from the space the breath creates. While we exist in relationship to the ones around us, we exist most intimately with the breath within us. The work begins when we begin to interrelate with our inner and outer worlds in perfect harmony.

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Ancient scriptures have long confirmed the undeniable truth that everything is interconnected, and modern science is now starting to catch up. We are coming closer to the understanding that all teachings, from a diversity of cultures and traditions, point in the same direction. The greatest work you can do is to represent your own unique expression of our oneness. As a holon yourself, you exist to show the world your beauty as a unique-yet-not-separate being. By embracing the purpose of being yourself—in its most genuine form—you fulfill your own personal destiny. By fulfilling your destiny, you contribute to the greater good of all. So, take a moment to reflect on your actions, and ask yourself if they are aligned with your highest purpose. Remember: your thoughts, emotions and actions all have the power to impact the world in a positive or negative way. Choose wisely, for the sake of yourself and for the greater good of all. You are the holon—grand in your own right, but even grander when in union with the whole. By remembering that, you are holonizing. Holonize yourself, heal the world and bring heaven on Earth.

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ddressing the sizable topic of regenerative finance in a thousand odd words means we’ll have to skirt round the litany of issues of how mainstream economics is damaging our world (ludicrous wealth inequality, promotion of profit-maximisation and wealth accumulation, unsustainable Global North/South divide…); skip right over the various academic theories and alternative models proliferating (Economy of the Common Good, Doughnut Economics, Refi DAOs, Token Economics, Green Bonds, Carbon Markets…); and scoot through the intrinsic principles of regenerative economic systems to zoom in here on the energetic frequency of finance. The multiple converging crises of climate destabilisation, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss, to name just a few, are already well documented. We know we need to act fast. Money

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makes the world go around, they say. But with an outdated, extractive, exploitative and degenerative financial system still fueling the mechanics of today’s society, if we carry on consuming at current burn rate, there ain’t going to be enough world left to go round! “What do we want? Systems change! When do we want it? NOW!” There are countless deserving projects with viable and innovative systemic solutions that could significantly accelerate the regenerative revolution. However, stuck in a cash gridlock, many are struggling to get off the ground, gain momentum, or scale effectively without adequate funding to resource themselves—a bottleneck stifling progress. We’ve faced similar hurdles ourselves. Whilst ultimately favouring a resourcebased economy, it’s ironic that we could all do with a little extra money to do away with money!

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So we can see what’s wrong with our economic system, and we know where we’d like to get to… But how do we get to the other side? How can we evolve current failing systems for a new paradigm that serves the healthy and harmonious planet we hold in our hearts? At Open World Alliance, we’re working closely with sister organisation Higher Status Global to seed a transitionary bridge from our current flawed economic system with a new regenerative finance model. Phoenix Fintech is a financial software technology, an algorithmic trading tool that has one foot in the old—intentionally using the existing legacy system as a bridging mechanism—to shift into our vision of the new. It’s the financial engine at the heart of a robust impact ecosystem that redistributes

funding to where it’s most needed—mission-driven projects advancing ecological and community resilience and regeneration for planetary health. Leveraging our team’s combined decades of professional experience in financial trading, we’ve designed an adaptive mathematical system that predicts market movements, whilst also drawing inspiration from nature’s reality, reinforcing healthier resource circulation to regenerative projects. Strengthening life-support systems during this most urgent decade of planetary emergency is paramount. This tool has been designed to effectively transform financial capital into living capital.

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In our fractal universe, monetary movement and exchange oscillates at a frequency that harmonises with universal energy dynamics, using the same mathematical principles that the universe is built upon.

With anticipated launch in mid-2023, it’s attracting interest from impact banks, hedge funds and other regenerative organisations wishing to amplify their scope of action. A comprehensive ESG-based assessment has been developed to support alignment across the ecosystem and deployment of financial resources. There is strength in numbers and a powerful coherence arising between those working in alignment. An educational program will also be integrated to incentivize users to progress their journey through greater sustainability. A holistic whole-system approach is employed with elements designed to direct resource flow to planet-positive projects to reinforce and amplify cycles of benefits, decouple wealth creation from greed, encourage greater 198 198

transparency, empower participation and positively incentivize and nurture users towards greater regenerative thinking and action. Nature does it best, so why aren’t we applying her ancient wisdom to our own system blueprints? Understanding the drivers behind this impact ecosystem involves a shift in the perception of money. Money is a value metric used to measure energy exchange between people. In our fractal universe, monetary movement and exchange oscillates at a frequency that harmonises with universal energy dynamics, using the same mathematical principles that the universe is built upon. The system design has an intelligence inspired by sacred geometry and the fractal mathematics underpinning these universal ratios. It was developed to amplify capital when the market is in flow state.

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Our intensive six-year construction and fundraising journey unearthed a variety of interesting perspectives en route: •

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“Fintech? Oh it’s a finance project! That’s not in our remit of regenerative impact. We only support regenerative businesses.” [50% of net profits will be channelled to regenerative projects with the remaining 50% compounded to provide greater impact capital to accelerate regenerative potential. Users embark on an educational journey to raise their awareness and shift mindsets.] “Come back when you’re up and running and making money” is another standard response. Proving the viability of a system before it exists is easier said than done!

A spectrum of beliefs, from attachment and greed to scarcity consciousness and desperation, creates an energetic push-pull that may grasp, cling to, let go of, push away or attract this influential resource. With great wealth comes great responsibility. How society has valued, created and distributed money lies at the root of many of the global problems we face today. These pervading messages around wealth seep into our personal operating systems. Our deep immersion during the creation of this ecosystem revealed many of the belief patterns, anxieties and traumas held within the collective surrounding money. We each develop a range of personal assumptions, expectations, distortions and blockages around money—shaped by our upbringing, family, culture and privileges of the life we were born into. A spectrum of beliefs, from attachment and greed to scarcity consciousness and desperation, creates an energetic push-pull that may grasp, cling to, let go of, push away or attract this 199

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Architecting a new economic system for the future requires incorporating multiple forms of capital, not just conventional gold and greenbacks.

influential resource. If we don’t consciously recognise, identify, own, heal and transmute the shadows in these areas, they inevitably impact our relationship to money and our ability to align with the frequency of abundance. In stewarding this project, we’ve had to face and work through our own lessons and undergo lifechanging initiation—a story for another time. It’s essential to practise good spiritual hygiene with ongoing vigilance and integrity around one’s motivations in order to maintain a balanced state of non-attached neutrality to harmonise it with the current of financial flow. Energetic coherence across all aspects is important. Finding the right investors takes 200 200

time. Conventional venture capital models focusing predominantly on their bottom line have not always understood this approach to ROI. One common characteristic encountered with supportive funders has been an increased receptivity to alternative forms of value, a willingness to use their monetary power for transformative goals and a shared vision of the catalytic potential that can be achieved through the strategic connection of capital to changemakers. You get back what you give. Manifold. We are immensely grateful to these aligned supporters. Paradigm shifts are intrinsically innovative. They invite us to step right outside of the proverbial box and break bold new ground into

BY YASMIN CHADURY & MARK KANE

We are here on this Earth to master our innate abilities as creators. As such, we can upgrade our frequencies around finance.

previously unimagined possibilities. Architecting a new economic system for the future requires incorporating multiple forms of capital, not just conventional gold and greenbacks. Our passage out of the old requires a radical rewiring of mindsets, a deep and fundamental transformation of our very understanding of what’s traditionally been defined as resource and reward, and a reorganisation of policy and practice accordingly throughout the entire value chain. We are here on this Earth to master our innate abilities as creators. As such, we can upgrade our frequencies around finance. Business as usual no longer cuts it. It’s time to give back more than we’re taking. Not just a quick spritz of the greenwash PR spray gun or vague token promises of something, somewhere, at

Phoenix Fintech is nearing completion and we’re looking for support. If you feel called to help us get the build across the finishing line as an Investor or Referrer, please view our Investment Summary or contact mark.kane@openworldalliance.org to find out more about Open World Alliance. Thank you.

some time, but to genuinely embrace giving back in service and reciprocity, embed more equitable community solutions, share profits and prosperity, and repair planet-critical problems with loving commitment to the well-being of the whole. An ethical shift in ethos that demonstrates livingsystem nourishment in action, to produce a critical mass of abundance, speaks louder—and will last far longer—than words. 201

INNER ECONOMY - The inner, dialogical systems contained in and managed by each individual comprising their spiritual, emotional, mental and physical wealth, resources and exchanges with themselves, other human and non-human beings, and the environment where they [co]exist and relate to one another. (The Weave Magazine)

REGENERATIVE WELLBEING - A way of being that is resilient and replenishing for the individual as well as the collective. (Bart Hoorweg) MYCELLIATE (verb) - To express something into being as a result of a process of expansion. (Traditional Dream Factory)

HOLOSPHERE (noun) - The holosphere defines three interacting environmental spheres: the geosphere, the biosphere, and the noosphere. (The Weave Magazine)

HOLONIZE (verb) - to describe the process of honoring the individual parts of us while remaining in appreciation of the whole the parts make up. This is a process we find value in on the individual and collective levels, as all individuals are made up of whole parts, and each collective contains this same dichotomy. (The Weave Magazine)

FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Barbara Lima

Human & Planetary Regeneration in Motion

CREATIVE DIRECTION Barbara Lima ART DIRECTION Flavia Hashimoto COVER ART Connor O’Shea ILLUSTRATIONS Connor O’Shea Speaker John Ash Derringer Pax Mark Henson re:build Traditional Dream Factory Arie Ben David Yasmin Chadury

Daan Gorter inaugurates our Holonize climate

COPYWRITING Noah Appelbaum Barbara Lima with special guest Charles Eisenstein We are also honoured with the presence of Connor O’Shea • Veronica Anderson • Snow Raven (Suor) • Alana Hyde Bloom • Speaker John Ash Derringer Pax • Ferananda Ibarra • Bart Hoorweg • Yannick Ciocanel • Jeremy Agnew • Arie Ben David Samuel Desleque • Charlotte Fradet • Silvia Bastos • Dylan Vincent Chester • Franz Josef Allmayer • Phil Bates Julia Davies • James Shorten • Rieki Cordon • Laurence Currie-Clark • Yasmin Chadury • Mark Kane

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POETRY Jonathan Waller GUESTS Charles Eisenstein Veronica Anderson Snow Raven (Suor) Alana Hyde Bloom Speaker John Ash Derringer Pax Ferananda Ibarra Bart Hoorweg Yannick Ciocanel Arie Ben David Jeremy Agnew Samuel Desleque Charlotte Fradet Silvia Bastos Dylan Vincent Chester Franz Allmayer Rieki Cordon Robert Schram Phil Bates Julia Davies James Shorten Laurence Currie-Clark Yasmin Chadury Mark Kane

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