Regen Civics Alliance Pilot Projects Cohort 2

This is a listing of projects applying for the Regen Civics Alliance Pilot Project program for 2023. Here are the Regen Civics Alliance Pilot Projects for 2022.

Latin America

Cohere Network

• Representative Marcus AM, Contributor
• Location Guatemala
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How is the place-based/regenerative development project(s) you're representing regenerative? This may be a helpful resource: https://www.regenlive.org/what-is-regenerative: As Earth events intensify and systems continue to erode, our communities of values-aligned members — supported by resilient buildings, abundant water and integrated food production — create the conditions for the mutual thriving of people and planet. These communities will continue to expand over time — both in scope and scale — creating a global network of villages dedicated to intentional living. There is an ever-burgeoning emergence of crypto-first projects integrating social impact throughout their protocols. CohereDAO will champion the social and environmental impact and web3 intersection by enabling our members to support, foster, and scale initiatives addressing some of the world’s most challenging problems — backed by a truly powerful technological revolution. Through decentralized, permissionless networks, CohereDAO will fund and support public goods throughout the world, ranging from affordable housing accessibility to regulatory enforcement of environmental protection.
• What values, goals, and focus areas are guiding your place-based regenerative project? Diversity We celebrate and elevate our members’ diverse backgrounds and seek to understand and value each of our unique perspectives in our interactions with our fellow members. Creativity We are building a more joyful, prosperous, and beautiful world by leveraging the creative genius of our community, through art, technology and storytelling. Curiosity While exploring these new and uncharted territories, we aim to create a culture that encourages an open-curious mindset and an aptitude to learn from one another. Responsibility The work we’re doing is deeply rooted in enabling new regenerative systems that promote wellbeing for all on earth. We show up with integrity, honesty, and dedication to our service. Actualization We have discovered the joy of taking the grandiose visions that have been held for generations and grounding them into material form; we love to play with visioning, but we thrive from making that vision tangible. Coherence We value the inner-world as much as the outer, and know that what we hold inside ourselves will be manifest in our external reality. Our eternal journey is to seek coherence within ourselves to realize the beauty of creation. Passion We come from a place of unbounded play, and continuously work to release the fear of taking the leap and stepping into the unknown. Cohere, at its heart, is an expression of our collective play in action. Purpose We understand the world we live in today and, if nothing changes, where we are headed. That's why we are living our purpose to create a better quality of life for all involved — no matter the conditions of the world at large. Inclusion We invite all inspired individuals to come together and co-create their dream reality. Inclusivity, to us, is to hold respect for all humans on their journey and to celebrate the way they choose to walk it.
• Is the property/land associated with this project currently owned privately, publicly or cooperatively? Cooperatively owned
• What is the long-term ownership intention of this property/land: private, public, cooperative, fractional? It is to build on it and transform it into a thriving ecosystem of regeneration and impact - creating an inclusive and integrated economy.
• What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members? We have a Delaware C-Corp, we are also exploring a Panama foundation or CO LCA
• How many acres/hectares is this project? We have a number of properties in the network, with approximately 1,000 acres in commits
• How many acres/hectares is native/untouched/wilderness? Approx 80%
• How many acres/hectares will remain native/untouched/wilderness? 80% of that land.
• How many acres/hectares has been restored? We are still deploying our regeneration so will be able to give you further details in approx 6 months
• What is the status of your project’s governance structure, or DAO (decentralized autonomous organization)? What support do you need to develop it further? We are in the midst of setting up a DAO as we speak, we would like to figure our tooling mechanisms for our DAO.
• How are you integrating with the local community in your area? We work with local partners everywhere we go and our team leads for the community we work with is entirely aligned with ensuring that we have local representation and inclusion wherever we go.
• How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project? We need 4 people full time to maintain the property. We estimate we will have 40-60 people on our land. We have 20 contributors right now and over 600 people on our waitlist.
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes? If so, how are they being addressed and/or how are they impacting your plans? We work with local partners in engineering and construction to heed guidance on the above. Each country we operate has their own degree of regulation, we ensure to abide fully by their standards.
• What kind of funding are you looking for and what are you looking to do with it? We are raising $3M in seed funding to be used for land acquisition, operations, marketing, construction, and technology development.
• What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs? Our team is an experienced collective of architects, permaculture experts, developers, engineers, designers, and inventors - we are fully equipped to continue to build out regenerative spaces
• What do you think RCA should be looking for when selecting the 12 place-based/regenerative development projects in this first cohort of applicants? We believe longevity and financial viability of the project. Most projects fail due to a lack of economic incentives flowing the wrong way. By tokenising our shares we have addressed this problem.
• How do you personally want to support the 12+ projects in the alliance's first cohort and at what capacity and commitment level? We would be keen to onboard projects into the cohere ecosystem, we are also happy to share our learnings on the compliance front, and we would love to support in creating new economic models for projects to engage, we are also happy to share architectural and engineering insights.

Ekumal Land DAO

• Representative Andrew Hall founder, Diago Zamora owner of Ekumal
• Location Akumal, Mexico
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How is the place-based/regenerative development project(s) you're representing regenerative? This may be a helpful resource: https://www.regenlive.org/what-is-regenerative: Ekumal is a sustainably built retreat center which regenerates it guest through deep healing experiences. The DAO will be used to steward land under conservation rights, thus protecting the land and allowing nature to continue to regenerate itself.
• What values, goals, and focus areas are guiding your place-based regenerative project? Our values are to conserve land in its natural condition while giving contributors access to retreats and passive income through NFTs, thus tokenizing and distributing wealth without having to extract from the land that is tied to the NFT.
• Is the property/land associated with this project currently owned privately, publicly or cooperatively? The property of Ekumal is currently owned cooperatively.
• What is the long-term ownership intention of this property/land: private, public, cooperative, fractional? Fractional stewardship
• What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members? We will use a Mexican LLC and a Non-profit
• How many acres/hectares is this project? The first stage is 1,300 hectares
• How many acres/hectares is native/untouched/wilderness? 1,300 hectares
• How many acres/hectares will remain native/untouched/wilderness? 1,290 hectares
• How many acres/hectares has been restored? N/A
• What is the status of your project’s governance structure, or DAO (decentralized autonomous organization)? What support do you need to develop it further? The current status is a discord server, we are waiting for the Hypha tools to be available.
• How are you integrating with the local community in your area? We are tying the Ejido back into the DAO to have a governance position. We are also funneling 11% of all profits into a non-profit that will fund regenerative projects in the local area.
• How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project? Ekumal has about 8 people running it, there are about 8 people also involved in the project.
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes? No
• What kind of funding are you looking for and what are you looking to do with it? We are looking to raise 7M from NFT sales and to purchase the land with it.
• What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs? Personally I don't have much experience, I am relying on other team members for this but I'm sure support would be helpful.
• What do you think RCA should be looking for when selecting the 12 place-based/regenerative development projects in this first cohort of applicants? Sustainability of the project, innovation, alignment with regenerative principles, ability for the project to scale or be duplicated globally.
• How do you personally want to support the 12+ projects in the alliance's first cohort and at what capacity and commitment level? By giving creative insight and feedback on the projects, providing solutions & education.

Sanctuary OM

• Basic description:
• Representative: Julia Becker
• Location: Tulum, Mexico
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How is the place-based/regenerative development project(s) you're representing regenerative? This may be a helpful resource:
• What values, goals, and focus areas are guiding your place-based regenerative project?
• Is the property/land associated with this project currently owned privately, publicly or cooperatively?
• What is the long-term ownership intention of this property/land: private, public, cooperative, fractional?
• What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?
• How many acres/hectares is this project?
• How many acres/hectares is native/untouched/wilderness?
• How many acres/hectares will remain native/untouched/wilderness?
• How many acres/hectares has been restored?
• What is the status of your project’s governance structure, or DAO (decentralized autonomous organization)? What support do you need to develop it further?
• How are you integrating with the local community in your area?
• How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes?
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes?
• What kind of funding are you looking for and what are you looking to do with it?
• What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?
• What do you think RCA should be looking for when selecting the 12 place-based/regenerative development projects in this first cohort of applicants?
• How do you personally want to support the 12+ projects in the alliance's first cohort and at what capacity and commitment level?

United States

Eco Synergy Village Flat Rock

• Representative: Robert Schram
• Location: Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
• Video: https://youtu.be/qvcNTcB3Xnk
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How is the place-based/regenerative development project(s) you're representing regenerative? We are shifting from sustainable to regenerative because it makes sense to think beyond 'sustainable': It's also about future generations. Our project aims to implement positive feedback loops to learn and grow, either in/by sharing knowledge & wisdom, or by supporting other projects financially from surpluses off thriving projects.
• What values, goals, and focus areas are guiding your place-based regenerative project? We are supporting Humanity's Phase Shift in any way possible, however firstly by making all regenerative energies visible, and by connecting them.
• Is the property/land associated with this project currently owned privately, publicly or cooperatively? Privately
• What is the long-term ownership intention of this property/land: private, public, cooperative, fractional? To create a Eco Synergy Village for change-makers (help prototyping / showcase regenerative models) so we can activate the critical mass shifting towards a better world.
• What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members? LLC
• How many acres/hectares is this project? 58-697-acres
• How many acres/hectares is native/untouched/wilderness? 30%
• How many acres/hectares will remain native/untouched/wilderness? 30%
• How many acres/hectares has been restored? 10%
• What is the status of your project’s governance structure, or DAO (decentralized autonomous organization)? What support do you need to develop it further? Sociocracy & Holocracy
• How are you integrating with the local community in your area? Sufficient, however with expanding we will insensitive connecting with the local community on purpose of the project.
• How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project? 22
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes? Yes, according to current regulations. More details by owner.
• What kind of funding are you looking for and what are you looking to do with it? To support a highly conscious and gifted core-team of change-makers / people to build and expand a coordination and design platform towards manifesting a regenerative model. The Eco Synergy Village is part of a regenerative Hub Network. Together we spark and ignite the critical mass towards positive change.
• What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs? 75% experience for regenerative Utility systems: We need 25% advise / support on e.g. perma-culture.
• What do you think RCA should be looking for when selecting the 12 place-based/regenerative development projects in this first cohort of applicants? Activate realistic professional change-makers that (have) reached an sufficient level of maturity and consciousness that are able to organize, and adapt organically, to overcome major challenges. People that have a holistic understanding, and are willing to put their ego aside, in service of Humanity and Nature, and all well being of the Universe.
• How do you personally want to support the 12+ projects in the alliance's first cohort and at what capacity and commitment level? Support coordinating / building / advising / promoting the Hubs & Network.

Temple Mother Earth

• Representative Sonatta Camara, Project sponsor, building owner; Amani Mamodesene, tokenomics ambassador; Neil Takemoto, SEEDS ambassador, cooperative advisor
• Location Washington DC
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How is the place-based/regenerative development project(s) you're representing regenerative? This may be a helpful resource: https://www.regenlive.org/what-is-regenerative: Temple of Mother Earth focuses on regenerative development at the most human level. It is an international community gathering place for plant medicine and wellness created out of the need for more welcoming places serving people of color. The founding Temple is based in a predominantly BIPOC neighborhood in Southeast Washington DC, offering multi-faceted restorative and regenerative practices with a primary focus on sacred plant medicines. It is a safe container of spiritual resources and space holders to support everyone in its community as they step powerfully into their sovereignty. The Temple is about creating a community striving towards a holistic worldview. We teach our community to honor the world as a reflection of ourselves, taking great care of the Earth and each other. It is a shared sacred space open to anyone who wants to be a part of this community. We have a weekly gathering inclusive of all in our community to co-create our vision. Members mutually benefit by being served and serving the community. We are volunteer based offering public healing offerings such as holistic wellness classes, community integration circles, local forests clean-ups, beehive and honey production and a community garden.
• What values, goals, and focus areas are guiding your place-based regenerative project? Our mission is to make plant medicine accessible to all with a focus on the BIPOC community. The vision is for the SE Washington DC Temple of Mother Earth to serve as a model for other Temple of Mother Earth entities across the country, serving local communities and making plant medicine accessible to all with a focus on the BIPOC community. It is an international temple of consciousness, spiritual learning and healing center focused on providing the community with service, education, spiritual fellowship, healing practices, guidance, kemetic teachings, and plant medicine expansion. We believe in the rights of Mother Earth, and in protecting the practice of Mother Earth-based on spiritual traditions, ceremonies, and sacred indigenous natural medicines. What is of the Earth is our holy sacrament, and we retain the rights as citizens of this nation to use plant medicines as tools for the benefit of our physical health, spiritual growth, and personal evolution. Temple of Mother Earth is dedicated to being a safe space for the community to show up wholly as themselves to create unity as one community. We begin by educating our community on how to take a holistic stance on their own health, honoring their mind, body, and spirit. Through this journey of self-empowerment and individual healing, we learn to heal each other and our community.
• Is the property/land associated with this project currently owned privately, publicly or cooperatively? The property associated with this project is currently privately owned by Sonatta Camara and her husband King James Ellis, and is managed as a nonprofit.
• What is the long-term ownership intention of this property/land: private, public, cooperative, fractional? The Temple administers two adjacent privately owned buildings, with an intention for a community cooperative to purchase one of the buildings utilizing emerging NFT tools and practices.
• What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members? The Temple of Mother Earth is a 501c3 and the project building is being rezoned as a community church for the purposes of becoming a non-religious plant medicine church.
• How many acres/hectares is this project? 1 acre
• How many acres/hectares is native/untouched/wilderness? 0, as this is in a residential neighborhood, but adjacent to 3.7 acres of city-owned forest that has never been developed.
• How many acres/hectares will remain native/untouched/wilderness? 0, as this is in a residential neighborhood, and the community will support the adjacent property to remain native wilderness
• How many acres/hectares has been restored? 0, as this is in a residential neighborhood
• What is the status of your project’s governance structure, or DAO (decentralized autonomous organization)? What support do you need to develop it further? The Temple is organized as a 501c3 with two privately owned buildings, with an intention to establish a governance based on self organization and its own token, token economy. One of the buildings is a candidate for community ownership, to be governed by a self organization system and the Hypha DHO platform to establish its own local currency. It will be stewarded as a regenerative development pilot project by the MoM (Movement of Movements) DHO and the Changemakers program, to onboard its members into the SEEDS ecosystem, including completing the Partnerism and regenerative communications programs. "We steward 3.7 acres of native community forest located behind our property. We work with an arborist to learn about the forest's plant life as well as managing the invasive species of plants that threaten its health.
• How are you integrating with the local community in your area? We have daily integrative healing circles Monday through Friday – open to the community as well as spiritual ceremonies. Within these integration circles we debrief from ceremony in and out of the temple to help nurture our communities healing through discussion, sound, movement and community. Our circles often include yoga, sound healing, breathework, herbology, and other natural healing modalities.
• How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project? Because it is only one acre, it requires only one project manager. The Temple has a support network of about 300 people, given its role as a community center and plant medicine ‘church’.
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes? The building designated for community ownership is being rezoned as a community church (non-religious) to offer plant medicine ceremonies based on indigenous heritage. The property taxes are the standard rate for all properties in Washington DC and are currently paid for by the property owners. When/if ownership is legally transferred to the community, such as through a legal cooperative, that legal entity will cover the property taxes. The building designated for community ownership is being rezoned as a community church (non-religious) to offer plant medicine ceremonies based on indigenous heritage. The property taxes are the standard rate for all properties in Washington DC and are currently paid for by the property owners. When/if ownership is legally transferred to the community, such as through a legal cooperative, that legal entity will cover the property taxes.
• What kind of funding are you looking for and what are you looking to do with it? The community is seeking collective funding to purchase the property owner from the private property owners. The current property owners along with the community are fundraising to pay for the legal and administrative costs of transferring ownership from private to cooperative/NFT/fractional community ownership.
• What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs? The Temple would benefit from assistance with regenerative building and development systems as it relates to building/architectural permaculture design.
• What do you think RCA should be looking for when selecting the 12 place-based/regenerative development projects in this first cohort of applicants? The potential of the project being a fractal with the smallest barrier to entry. A model that can be applied to any building in any neighborhood in the world.
• How do you personally want to support the 12+ projects in the alliance's first cohort and at what capacity and commitment level? The small scale and controlled ownership of the property and the project allows a more rapid implementation of the regenerative renaissance ecosystem that can serve as a live laboratory for the other projects. It is also integrating the services of the SEEDS Commons DHOs through the SEEDS Changemakers program. It is a complementary learning laboratory to the LaLa Gardens project at the same scale.

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How is the place-based/regenerative development project(s) you're representing regenerative? This may be a helpful resource:
• What values, goals, and focus areas are guiding your place-based regenerative project?
• Is the property/land associated with this project currently owned privately, publicly or cooperatively?
• What is the long-term ownership intention of this property/land: private, public, cooperative, fractional?
• What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?
• How many acres/hectares is this project?
• How many acres/hectares is native/untouched/wilderness?
• How many acres/hectares will remain native/untouched/wilderness?
• How many acres/hectares has been restored?
• What is the status of your project’s governance structure, or DAO (decentralized autonomous organization)? What support do you need to develop it further?
• How are you integrating with the local community in your area?
• How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes?
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes?
• What kind of funding are you looking for and what are you looking to do with it?
• What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?
• What do you think RCA should be looking for when selecting the 12 place-based/regenerative development projects in this first cohort of applicants?
• How do you personally want to support the 12+ projects in the alliance's first cohort and at what capacity and commitment level?

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• Representative: Your answer...
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How is the place-based/regenerative development project(s) you're representing regenerative? This may be a helpful resource:
• What values, goals, and focus areas are guiding your place-based regenerative project?
• Is the property/land associated with this project currently owned privately, publicly or cooperatively?
• What is the long-term ownership intention of this property/land: private, public, cooperative, fractional?
• What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?
• How many acres/hectares is this project?
• How many acres/hectares is native/untouched/wilderness?
• How many acres/hectares will remain native/untouched/wilderness?
• How many acres/hectares has been restored?
• What is the status of your project’s governance structure, or DAO (decentralized autonomous organization)? What support do you need to develop it further?
• How are you integrating with the local community in your area?
• How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes?
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes?
• What kind of funding are you looking for and what are you looking to do with it?
• What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?
• What do you think RCA should be looking for when selecting the 12 place-based/regenerative development projects in this first cohort of applicants?
• How do you personally want to support the 12+ projects in the alliance's first cohort and at what capacity and commitment level?

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• Representative: Your answer...
• Location:
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How is the place-based/regenerative development project(s) you're representing regenerative? This may be a helpful resource:
• What values, goals, and focus areas are guiding your place-based regenerative project?
• Is the property/land associated with this project currently owned privately, publicly or cooperatively?
• What is the long-term ownership intention of this property/land: private, public, cooperative, fractional?
• What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?
• How many acres/hectares is this project?
• How many acres/hectares is native/untouched/wilderness?
• How many acres/hectares will remain native/untouched/wilderness?
• How many acres/hectares has been restored?
• What is the status of your project’s governance structure, or DAO (decentralized autonomous organization)? What support do you need to develop it further?
• How are you integrating with the local community in your area?
• How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes?
• Have you addressed zoning, building codes, and taxes?
• What kind of funding are you looking for and what are you looking to do with it?
• What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?
• What do you think RCA should be looking for when selecting the 12 place-based/regenerative development projects in this first cohort of applicants?
• How do you personally want to support the 12+ projects in the alliance's first cohort and at what capacity and commitment level?