Regen Civics Alliance

The Regenerative Civics Alliance is a program to pilot regenerative development projects, stewarded by a decentralized group of regenerative organizations. The first pilot cohort of 13 place-based projects were selected on May 24, 2022, commencing a year-long program designed to model regenerative development, and future pilot project cohorts.

Pilot projects

Regen Civics Alliance Pilot Projects - Project descriptions of the regenerative development pilot projects.

Program benefits

• Support for co-designing a shared crowdfunding campaign for all 13 projects
• Collaborating for shared storytelling and marketing for our crowdfunding and "crowdpooling (looking at all 10 forms of capital)" campaigns
• Support and free access to cutting-edge platforms to develop your own community currency, governance systems, and economy
• Pro bono legal advisement on how to transition from private to community ownership
• Pro bono decentralized financing advisement and economic design
• Peer regenerative development support as we learn how to launch and steward regenerative projects together
• Decentralized financing fundraising support
• Support in co-creating circular and regenerative economies
• Support in co-creating regenerative social systems

How to participate

• Submit your alliance profile here: https://forms.gle/9besSUYu7aEdWHi96
• The first 13 projects for the pilot project program were selected on May 24, 2022, and the next round is to be determined.
• Read about the Regenerative Civics Alliance: Program website
• Join the Regenerative Civics Alliance on Discord: Link
• Join the weekly calls on Tuesdays at 7pm-8:15pmUTC on Zoom
• Read about the 9-step incubator program in this primer: PDF link

Incubator Phases

This could be tied to the seasons if the incubator time period is one year.

1. Global, Expansion

• Prepare and run crowd-pooling campaigns consolidating a variety of the 10 forms of capital
• Develop storytelling campaigns, alliance building, forming teams, pooling resources

2. Local, Expansion

• Regen civics awareness-raising events for in-person regenerative activations
• Physically coming together and doing the work, putting our tools to the test.

3. Local, Consolidation

• Co-creating with our local communities while supported by our global networks, intentionally leaving space for and regenerating our inner selves
• Reflect, research, explore, & sensemake

4. Local, Expansion

• After a Season of reflection and grounding we are more prepared to make wise decisions for our communities
• Creating DHO/DAO structures, roles, quests, initial policies

Key dates

• February - Recurring meetups to develop the Regen Civics Alliance and pilot project program begin
• May 24, 2022 - 13 pilot projects selected
• July - Crowdpooling for projects begin
• August - Project festivals begin (on the ground events and festivals getting projects built).

Incubator Steps

Step 0: Start with Heart & Vision

Start with a catalyst. Every project has a catalyst role(s) who has an inspired vision for a regenerative project. RCI connects changemakers and those wishing to join projects with Catalysts in a process we call "crowd pooling the 10 forms of capital" where Catalysts identify all the roles and capital their project needs and people can browse all the projects to find one that is right for them. After the project launches the 'catalyst' role dissolves.

Step 1: Find your project

Do you already have the place in mind and know how much it is? 

Perfect!



• Land will be used to back your community's "Village Token".
• Land can be with or without structures.



Potential Project Ideas

• Cooperatively owned and governed local food systems or other enterprises;
• Circular economies;
• Sharing and material libraries;

Potential Village Sites

• Failed hotels, resorts, retreats, etc

• Rural abandoned villages and towns

• Degraded farmland in need of restoration
• Existing suburbia/neighborhoods


* Apartment buildings 
* Regional governments and municipalities

Step 2: Coordinate locally with DAOs & DHOs

A DAO (Decentralised Auotonomous Organisation) and a DHO (Decentralised/Distributed Human/Holonic Organism, pronounced DO) are tools that help groups coordinate. The DAO/DHO tools help you:

• Establish a local currency for your project ('L3' in the diagram below). It is designed specifically for your project, is unique to your project and is governed by the community. It can be backed by a regional (L2) and global (L1) currency so no single local entity (e.g. the market) ends up with all the local currency, which is the primary reason why local currencies haven't worked in the past.
• Manage your community currency in a secure, transparent and decentralized way so all community members can govern together.


• Create a fraud-resistant system for the community regarding policy, governance, role or other decisions.
• All community members can see and govern the flows of the currency together.

Step 3: Crowdpool resources

Pool resources with your Regen Civics cohorts by accounting for all ten forms of capital: natural, built, technological, social, historical/cultural, human, institutional, entrepreneurial, financial, potential exchange - through NFTs and FTs (cryptocurrencies) that represent any and all types of contributions to the project. Crowdpooling serves two purposes:

• Raise the initial capital required (in all ten forms)
• Form the founding community that will pilot the DHO tools and new local currency

Learn more

Step 4: Return land to common stewardship

The Regenerative Renaissance can be our period of time where we shift from all land being held in private, to land regaining its sovereignty and us shifting from "owners" who are free to mistreat and abuse the land, into "stewards" who are responsible for creating and maintaining a healthy relationship with the land and all the diversity of life we share it with.

Place-based Regen Civics projects may be represented by a legal entity. That entity then becomes the deed holder of the land and is instructed in its bylaws to abide by its constitution and DAO/DHO. Some legal forms:

• Trust, nonrofit, foundation
• 
U.S. Wyoming DAO LLC

• Community land trusts
• A UNA (unincorporated nonprofit association), Spiritual Ministry, etc

Step 5: Co-create globally with alliances

Currently there is no way to link to a page listing the alliances

Step 6: Co-create globally with other regenerative projects

Each cohort (a group of 12 projects) will use common tools so that members can quickly adopt each other's practices and successes. This also helps us start forming our own decentralised global culture, like the Hopewell Tradition of pre-columbian Native American cultures that created a decentralized culture (consisting of hundreds of unique languages) that enabled a member to travel from the east coast of North America nearly to the west coast and find community, shelter, food, and meaning along the way.

Step 7: Grow your own food

Communities can't be regenerative if they don't produce their own food.

Step 8: Regional economies

Allies Shareitt, SEEDS, Localscale and others provide tools for regions to set up their own circular economies and local marketplaces ('L2' in diagram).

Step 9: Collective impact for globally regenerative civilizations

You're encouraged to openly share learning, models, tools, and more with others so we can grow together in that shared goal. 

By uniting under a shared global economic system ('L1' in the diagram) we can coordinate more effectively regionally (L2) and locally (L3) towards a regenerative civilization.



Apply to the first cohort

https://explore.joinseeds.earth/3.-templates-for-regenerative-action/flow-outline/apply-to-the-next-cohort

The Alliance

Requirements

• 1-3 hrs/wk until formed - then one major session each quarter.

Benefits

• Shared fundraising
  • Shared approach to low-risk tolerant institutional investors seeking to "invest in systems change" to fund the alliance as a whole opposed to each member org dedicating time and resources to fundraising.
• Shared storytelling
  • Narrative and storytelling is more complete - as it's not feasible for any one of our organizations to create systemic impact

Initial governance

Changing governance, referendums, or policies and accepting new members into the alliance.

• Each organization has one Council Member representative.
• Governance activities take place once a quarter.
• Proposals require 80% support and 50% participation to pass.

Distributing shared treasury across member organizations

• Member organizations may each present a funding request during the quarterly governance council.
• Each Council Member creates their ideal budget on how to distribute funds to all member orgs.
• All suggestions are equally aggregated to create the final distribution of alliance funding.
• Organizations could risk losing their membership should members find their suggestions extreme or ungrounded.

Further details

Resources

• Regen Civics Alliance on Discord
• Regen Civics Alliance website
• Regenerative Civics meeting video recordings: Listing with summaries or YouTube playlist.