The art of progress
is to reserve order amid change,
and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
Products of Our Work
This is us working to help legitimise and normalising the most ambitious version of the provocations we have tested and built with our partners on the ground.
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Bioregional Briefing Room Ep. 2 – Thomas Homer-Dixon & Shandell Houlden – November 2025
Recorded on 4 November 2025, this session features Shandell Houlden, postdoctoral fellow at Royal Roads University in Victoria, B.C., where she has been researching online misinformation, flexible education, and education futures, in conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon, political scientist and author…
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Exploration: Bioregional Health Framework
Bioregional Financing Facilities derive their ultimate mandate from and find their core purpose in strengthening Bioregional Health. But what is Bioregional Health? And how do we know it is strengthened? Yes, fundamentally, Bioregional Health Metrics need to be defined by…
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Bioregional Briefing Room Ep. 1 – Audrey Tang – August 2025
Bioregional Briefing Room is a rolling, recorded series hosted by the Atlantic Isles Bioregional Finance & Governance Community of Practice. While our conversations happen in a closed room, we are sharing the recordings publicly because the ideas, tools and stories…
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Interview with Rosa Brand, co-designer of Bioregioning Tayside’s new Bioregional Financing Facility
As we are progressing our partnership with the team of Bioregioning Tayside, our colleague Rosa was interviewed by the team to talk about ReFi vs. bioregional finance, how the partnership is going and what lies ahead.
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Concept Note: Bioregional Observatories
Bioregional Observatories (BOs) offer a distinct, place-based infrastructure to generate, interpret, and apply knowledge in service of bioregional health and regeneration. Their value lies in enabling long-term, whole-system intelligence, grounded in both rigorous data and lived experience.
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Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative Bioregional Plan 2030
Important Disclaimer: Dm has not been involved in this work in any way and we don’t claim any credit for it. The only reason why we try to elevate the work of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative here is that…
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Poem: 🌿 How do Bioregional Financing Facilities live?
A living system, not a static fund. A Bioregional Financing Facility is not built—it is grown in dialogue with place.It does not merely distribute capital; it tends to the relationships that transition. It resists the illusion of control. It listens…
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Tay Bioregion – Stocktake & Gap Analysis
In January 2025, we reached the first milestone of our long-term partnership with Bioregioning Tayside in Scotland. In preparation for the Bioregional Financing Facility, we conducted a Stock Take and Gap Analysis. In this foundational phase of the partnership, we…
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Tayside BFF – Kick-off Interview
When kicking off the BFF work with Bioregioning Tayside, Leon was interviewed by the BT team on the plans for 2025 and opportunity of innovating new financial architectures in the Tay Bioregion.
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Towards an eco-social contract: the Living Stewardship Agreement
The Radicle Civics team has been developing the Living Stewardship Agreement as an emerging response to the question: What could a new social contract become in a more-than-human civics? This has emerged from deep reflections on the limitations of Rights…
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Towards multivalent currencies, bioregional monetary stewardship and a distributed global reserve currency
This 4-part blog series has been written to explore why money in its current form is a primary driver of the metacrisis and what an alternative system could look like. We have divided our reflections into four sections to address…
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Bioregional Financing Facilities – Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet
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…