Book: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet
Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) are a new layer in the global financial architecture that can drive the decentralisation of financial resource governance, the design of project portfolios for systemic change, and the transition to a regenerative economy at the bioregional scale.
They have the potential to become the connective tissue between financial resources and on-the-ground regenerators by enabling strategic, integrated capital raised from a variety of sources to flow to aggregated portfolios of systemically coordinated and supported regenerative projects on the ground.
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Why Bioregional Financing Facilities?
As awareness and understanding of the polycrisis grow, and regulatory pressure increases, actors from across the financial sector are beginning to direct financial capital towards supporting biocultural regeneration. While on the surface this might seem promising, there is significant risk that if these resources flow through the existing financial architecture, they could lead to further commodification, privatisation, financialisation, and centralisation of natural assets and wealth. Therefore, closing the “nature finance gap” alone is not sufficient. Where those resources are spent, how financing is structured, and who gets to make those decisions is as important as the quantum of capital. In particular, how those resources support the transformation of systems, relationships, and worldviews will determine whether they are successful in addressing the ecological crisis and polycrisis that we collectively face.
Bioregional Focus
Rather than focussing on thematic verticals, BFFs focus on one whole place or bioregion.
Systemic Portfolios
Rather than investing in discrete projects, BFFs orchestrate multiple types of Projects into Systemic Portfolios that address systemic risk.
Poly-Capital Orchestration
Rather than specialising in one type of finance, BFFs orchestrate many types of Capital and employ a diverse set of interoperable instruments.
Life’s Time Horizons
Rather than defining fixed timeframes, BFFs are established and invest across multi- generational time horizons.
Polycentric Governance
Rather than leaving decision-making to experts, BFFs employ many kinds of intelligence and decentralise allocation governance.
Bioregional Health Mandate
Rather than top-down mandate and single-point KPIs, BFFs derive their mandate from the Bioregional Plan and measure success with holistic Health Metrics.
What Pioneers Are Saying
“Bioregional Finance Facilities came at the perfect time, providing invaluable new language, structure, and practical points of reference for the role our organisation, a place-based watershed regeneration intermediary, has been instinctively seeking to fulfil.”
– Elle Adams, Executive Director, Findhorn Nairn & Lossie Rivers Trust
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“It is never clear which comes first – concept or practice. But they undeniably feed each other. In the Orne watershed, the Bioregional Financing Facility framework arrived both as a catalyst and a unifier. New concepts and semantics carry real transformative power. But they also come with risk when they create distance with more conventional actors. We are learning to navigate this tension, using the BFF language to orient our actions while translating it into more familiar terms when the vocabulary itself risks becoming a barrier.”
– Igor Louboff, Co-founder, La Coop des Territoires, Weaver for BWL Colina
This Book Is For
- Bioregional Teams
- Investors
- Funders
- Local financial institutions
- Governments and regional authorities
- Academics
Reach out!
If you have questions or thoughts about the book and the concept, feel free to reach out to our team.
Leon Seefeld
Capital Systems Lab
Dark Matter Labs
