Tibet Sprague’s Post

It's been just over a month since we launched the Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) book and The BioFi Project into the world. The response has been totally humbling! This entire experience has been unlike anything I've experienced in my life to date. The vulnerability of putting out something I have poured so much of my lived experience into and that I believe in so deeply, and not knowing how it will land. How its provocations will collide with existing power structures.. And the clarity that this is something that needs to be said, and said now. During the hottest year on record with fires and floods and everything in between trying to wake humanity from our crazed march towards the sixth mass extinction. Thank you to everyone who has engaged with the work and provided feedback! I'm especially grateful to my amazing The BioFi Project team and the 215+ members of our growing BioFi Community of Practice (join us: https://lnkd.in/g_63aCra). Over the next few weeks, I am going to share snippets from the book to spark some discussion. Here goes! Starting at the beginning, the Foreword - a firey opening to match the firey times we are living in. "An effective and proportionate response to the ecological crisis requires urgent, large-scale regeneration of the biosphere rooted in ecological integrity, cultural revitalization, the centering of Indigenous wisdom, and the recognition of the interdependence of everything on Earth. This will only be possible through local actions taken by the many small groups all over the world that are living in 'right relationship' with place – in both rural and urban settings. There is currently a lack of connective tissue between those that hold and manage the large pools of financial resources seeking regenerative impact, and the coalitions of actors on the ground carrying out critical regeneration activities. Bioregional Financing Facilities can become this connective tissue – using a systemic investment lens to facilitate the flow of resources and regeneration benefits between these two currently disconnected groups of actors to support regeneration free of externalities, exploitation, and oppression. BFFs can serve as semi-permeable membranes between institutions rooted in the status quo economic paradigm and the emerging bioregional economies applying fundamentally different economic logic and value systems. The authors and team of advisors believe that BFFs are a critical piece of the financial architecture needed to respond to the ecological crisis, in particular, and the polycrisis more broadly." What does this spark for you? Do you see the need for this connective tissue in your work? How do you think we can grow this connective tissue together? More info at: https://www.biofi.earth/ Image: Exploring the redwood and oak forests of the Oakland Hills in my magical Bay Delta bioregion, near where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers find the sea. #biofi #regenerativeeconomy #systemschange

On this summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon, I could not be more excited to share the launch of the book 'Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet' that I have been working on for the past 9 months with my amazing co-author Leon Seefeld of Dark Matter Labs and incredible support from Tyler Wakefield, Nick Paul, and our team of advisors (tagged in comments). In this publication, we make the case for a new layer in the global financial architecture of Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) to serve every bioregion on Earth. BFFs are a new type of financial institution that has 3 objectives: drive the decentralization of financial resource governance, catalyze the design of project portfolios for systemic change, and support the transition to a regenerative economy. BFFs have 12 attributes, the first of which is that they aim to align financial flows with living systems principles and Indigenous wisdom. We believe BFFs can become the connective tissue between increasingly concentrated pools of financial resources, locked in the extractive economy, and the mycelial web of regenerative projects and organizations around the world. BFFs can enable integrated capital raised from a variety of sources to flow to aggregated portfolios of systemically coordinated regenerative projects in bioregions. Through BFFs, we believe we can put finance in service to life. Today, my incredible co-founder Edward West and I are also launching the The BioFi Project with our epic team (see comments). The BioFi Project is a collective dedicated to supporting bioregional organizing teams around the world to turn the recommendations in the book into action through designing, building, and implementing BFFs. Next steps: If you are a bioregion that believes your place is ready for a BFF and wants our support, please fill out the expression of interest form on our website. If you would like to learn more about BFFs and engage in peer-to-peer learning and collaboration, sign up for the BioFi Community of Practice on Hylo. It will be stewarded by Tyler Wakefield. You can also sign up for our newsletter. BFFs were born out of and aim to support the web of interdependent efforts of the broader bioregional and regenerative movement, which is decentralized, fractal, and emergent. This effort took a village and will in its next stage too! I could not be more grateful for the overwhelming support I have received (acknowledgements in comments). We believe that everyone has a role to play in catalyzing bioregional regeneration and hope that you will join us on this journey. Read the e-book and learn more at: www.biofi.earth (paperback and Kindle versions will be available for purchase next week). Press release and press kit linked in the comments. #bioregionalism #biofi #regeneration #biodiversity #regenerativeeconomy #decentralization #financeinservicetolife

On this summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon, I could not be more excited to share the launch of the book 'Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet' that I have been working on for the past 9 months with my amazing co-author Leon Seefeld of Dark Matter Labs and incredible support from Tyler Wakefield, Nick Paul, and our team of advisors (tagged in comments). In this publication, we make the case for a new layer in the global financial architecture of Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) to serve every bioregion on Earth. BFFs are a new type of financial institution that has 3 objectives: drive the decentralization of financial resource governance, catalyze the design of project portfolios for systemic change, and support the transition to a regenerative economy. BFFs have 12 attributes, the first of which is that they aim to align financial flows with living systems principles and Indigenous wisdom. We believe BFFs can become the connective tissue between increasingly concentrated pools of financial resources, locked in the extractive economy, and the mycelial web of regenerative projects and organizations around the world. BFFs can enable integrated capital raised from a variety of sources to flow to aggregated portfolios of systemically coordinated regenerative projects in bioregions. Through BFFs, we believe we can put finance in service to life. Today, my incredible co-founder Edward West and I are also launching the The BioFi Project with our epic team (see comments). The BioFi Project is a collective dedicated to supporting bioregional organizing teams around the world to turn the recommendations in the book into action through designing, building, and implementing BFFs. Next steps: If you are a bioregion that believes your place is ready for a BFF and wants our support, please fill out the expression of interest form on our website. If you would like to learn more about BFFs and engage in peer-to-peer learning and collaboration, sign up for the BioFi Community of Practice on Hylo. It will be stewarded by Tyler Wakefield. You can also sign up for our newsletter. BFFs were born out of and aim to support the web of interdependent efforts of the broader bioregional and regenerative movement, which is decentralized, fractal, and emergent. This effort took a village and will in its next stage too! I could not be more grateful for the overwhelming support I have received (acknowledgements in comments). We believe that everyone has a role to play in catalyzing bioregional regeneration and hope that you will join us on this journey. Read the e-book and learn more at: www.biofi.earth (paperback and Kindle versions will be available for purchase next week). Press release and press kit linked in the comments. #bioregionalism #biofi #regeneration #biodiversity #regenerativeeconomy #decentralization #financeinservicetolife

On this summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon, I could not be more excited to share the launch of the book 'Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet' that I have been working on for the past 9 months with my amazing co-author Leon Seefeld of Dark Matter Labs and incredible support from Tyler Wakefield, Nick Paul, and our team of advisors (tagged in comments). In this publication, we make the case for a new layer in the global financial architecture of Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) to serve every bioregion on Earth. BFFs are a new type of financial institution that has 3 objectives: drive the decentralization of financial resource governance, catalyze the design of project portfolios for systemic change, and support the transition to a regenerative economy. BFFs have 12 attributes, the first of which is that they aim to align financial flows with living systems principles and Indigenous wisdom. We believe BFFs can become the connective tissue between increasingly concentrated pools of financial resources, locked in the extractive economy, and the mycelial web of regenerative projects and organizations around the world. BFFs can enable integrated capital raised from a variety of sources to flow to aggregated portfolios of systemically coordinated regenerative projects in bioregions. Through BFFs, we believe we can put finance in service to life. Today, my incredible co-founder Edward West and I are also launching the The BioFi Project with our epic team (see comments). The BioFi Project is a collective dedicated to supporting bioregional organizing teams around the world to turn the recommendations in the book into action through designing, building, and implementing BFFs. Next steps: If you are a bioregion that believes your place is ready for a BFF and wants our support, please fill out the expression of interest form on our website. If you would like to learn more about BFFs and engage in peer-to-peer learning and collaboration, sign up for the BioFi Community of Practice on Hylo. It will be stewarded by Tyler Wakefield. You can also sign up for our newsletter. BFFs were born out of and aim to support the web of interdependent efforts of the broader bioregional and regenerative movement, which is decentralized, fractal, and emergent. This effort took a village and will in its next stage too! I could not be more grateful for the overwhelming support I have received (acknowledgements in comments). We believe that everyone has a role to play in catalyzing bioregional regeneration and hope that you will join us on this journey. Read the e-book and learn more at: www.biofi.earth (paperback and Kindle versions will be available for purchase next week). Press release and press kit linked in the comments. #bioregionalism #biofi #regeneration #biodiversity #regenerativeeconomy #decentralization #financeinservicetolife

On this summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon, I could not be more excited to share the launch of the book 'Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet' that I have been working on for the past 9 months with my amazing co-author Leon Seefeld of Dark Matter Labs and incredible support from Tyler Wakefield, Nick Paul, and our team of advisors (tagged in comments). In this publication, we make the case for a new layer in the global financial architecture of Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) to serve every bioregion on Earth. BFFs are a new type of financial institution that has 3 objectives: drive the decentralization of financial resource governance, catalyze the design of project portfolios for systemic change, and support the transition to a regenerative economy. BFFs have 12 attributes, the first of which is that they aim to align financial flows with living systems principles and Indigenous wisdom. We believe BFFs can become the connective tissue between increasingly concentrated pools of financial resources, locked in the extractive economy, and the mycelial web of regenerative projects and organizations around the world. BFFs can enable integrated capital raised from a variety of sources to flow to aggregated portfolios of systemically coordinated regenerative projects in bioregions. Through BFFs, we believe we can put finance in service to life. Today, my incredible co-founder Edward West and I are also launching the The BioFi Project with our epic team (see comments). The BioFi Project is a collective dedicated to supporting bioregional organizing teams around the world to turn the recommendations in the book into action through designing, building, and implementing BFFs. Next steps: If you are a bioregion that believes your place is ready for a BFF and wants our support, please fill out the expression of interest form on our website. If you would like to learn more about BFFs and engage in peer-to-peer learning and collaboration, sign up for the BioFi Community of Practice on Hylo. It will be stewarded by Tyler Wakefield. You can also sign up for our newsletter. BFFs were born out of and aim to support the web of interdependent efforts of the broader bioregional and regenerative movement, which is decentralized, fractal, and emergent. This effort took a village and will in its next stage too! I could not be more grateful for the overwhelming support I have received (acknowledgements in comments). We believe that everyone has a role to play in catalyzing bioregional regeneration and hope that you will join us on this journey. Read the e-book and learn more at: www.biofi.earth (paperback and Kindle versions will be available for purchase next week). Press release and press kit linked in the comments. #bioregionalism #biofi #regeneration #biodiversity #regenerativeeconomy #decentralization #financeinservicetolife