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A history of Regen Foundation’s work and contributions encompassing:
BioFi Gathering during NYC Climate Week 2024
Bioregional Financing Facilities (e-book)
Book published by The BioFi Project, featuring significant contributions from Austin Wade Smith, who authored one of the main and most frequently cited case studies, as well as contributed core thinking for Chapter 6.
Ecological Institutions → Protocols to Grow Autonomous and Convivial Ecological Actors (Essay)
This essay, written by Austin Wade Smith, outlines tangible means by which we may evolve beyond advocacy for the living world into new patterns and processes of agency for non-human kin.
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Unpacking Scales of Governance in Decentralized Regenerative Economics (Essay)
Blog by RF Team illustrating its programmatic evolution and developing a sandbox to prototype regenerative commons
Commons Sense - The Social Life of Ecological ↔ Digital Linkages (Essay)
Essay by Austin Wade Smith in which they explore salient challenges and opportunities in regenerative economics and blockchain technologies
BxC Governance Paper (Prerelease Draft - Official Copy release Nov 24’) Paper by the Blockchain x Climate (BxC) on governance models of nature-positive impact Evaluation. Austin Wade Smith wrote section for Regen Network.
Undualing (Article)
This Essay is an exercise in collective imagination about a future where economic value is aligned to the ecological health of our planet, and what the systems might look like to make that future real.
DAO DAO Partnership Form (PDF)
Partnership form submitted by DAO DAO, outlining their interests and support needs.
Finance for Gaia Partnership Form (PDF)
Partnership form submitted by Samantha Powers, outlining her interests and support needs for collaboration with Regen Foundation.
Hyperbeings (Essay)
Essay by Will Szal expressing an animist ontology for bioregional scale entities such as watersheds. Dovetails with the concept of Ecological Institutions (hyperbeings are ideal use cases for EIs).
Community Meeting in Sharamensta
Report on ongoing work for development of migration corridor in the Chocó-Andean region, co-authored by Regen Foundation in collaboration with Terra Genesis International and Fundación Futuro
The Biocultural Paradigm: Redefining Conservation Finance (PDF)
Project brief of current work underway in Amazon sacred Headwaters Region in partnership with Fundacion Pachamama, Regen Network Development PBC, Stoknes Futures, Pachamama Alliance and Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance
Workshop development for Biocultural Units in Achuar Nation (Link)
Funds raised by Regen Foundation to support workshops in the Sharamensta Community of Achuar Nation, fostering collaboration between indigenous communities, scientists, and stakeholders to create culturally-informed ecocredits.
Terrasos White Paper (PDF)
Austin Wade Smith authored the governance section of the Terraso Biodiversity Unit (Tebu) Whitepaper
Biocultural Jaguar Credit Project page (Link)
On-chain project page for the issuance of ancestral stewardship credits from the Sharamensta Community
Workshop led by RF Team at Tempo Arts Centre in Nairobi
Chatafisha DAO Pilot Report (PDF)
Case Study report of the pilot demonstrating potential peer verification and validation models. The pilot is ongoing, and the report reflects only a portion of the work completed to date.
Chatafisha DAO Pilot MoU (Word Doc)
Co-authored by Regen Foundation and Chatafisha, outlining the goals and responsibilities for pilot testing peer verification and validation systems