Bioregional

Finance

for Planetary

Regeneration

We are a collective supporting bioregions to design, build, and implement Bioregional Financing Facilities that connect financial resources and regenerators.

Connecting the flows of capital to the flows of life

The ecological crisis requires urgent, large-scale regeneration of the biosphere rooted in ecological integrity and cultural revitalization.

This is possible if we ensure  financial resources flow to the many small groups all over the world doing the critical work of on-the-ground regeneration – acting in a coordinated, synergistic way.

We envision nothing less than the creation of a new layer in the global financial architecture of Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) that enable both flow and organization.

It is our work to ensure that every bioregion on Earth gets a BFF to support its transition to a regenerative economy – so that finance can serve life.

The Book

The recently published book, Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet, lays out the rationale behind this approach and templates for Bioregional Trusts, Bioregional Venture Studios, Bioregional Investment Companies, and Bioregional Banks.

What People Are Saying

“Our institutions are no longer serving us. We must give birth to institutions that support a new kind of economy, a new kind of philosophy, a new kind of ontology, a new way of being on this planet. And Bioregional Financing Facilities can play a critical role in supporting that transition.”
- Lynne Twist, Founder: Pachamama Alliance

“A comprehensive articulation of some of the many possibilities to re-align financial capital with social and natural capital. It is rich with working examples from around the world that follow Jane Jacobs’s observation that economic development that mimics ecological development, a constant process of “differentiation emerging from generality,” offers hope of a more reliable prosperity.”
- Spencer Beebe, Founder: Ecotrust

“The regenerative economy I imagine MUST be built on a foundation of bioregionally adapted, landscape scale regeneration. Bioregional Financing Facilities are the critical missing infrastructure. A brilliant and timely clarion call!” 
- John Fullerton, Author: Regenerative Capitalism

Bioregional Financing Facilities provide a specific, fully integrated, comprehensive pathway for taking ecological economics and bioregionalism from the realm of the theoretical and visionary to operational implementation. In this astonishing work the epochal spiral comes around again in a living architecture of manifestation."
- David Haenke, Author: Ecological Politics and Bioregionalism

“We’re out of time to wait for governments, multilateral financial institutions, banks, donors, and others to get it right. They won’t. Creating locally based, Bioregional Financing Facilities is an approach too long ignored. By spelling out how to do this, the authors have done all of us who seek a finer future a great service. This is an idea that just might work and make a real difference.”
- Hunter Lovins, Author: Natural Capitalism

"This book opens the vitally important discourse about what kind of Bioregional Financing Facilities need to be established urgently to enable divestment from globalized patterns of degeneration and reinvest in bioregional regeneration."
- Daniel Christian Wahl, Author: Designing Regenerative Cultures

“Bioregional Finance Facilities are an aikido move to bring finance into right relationship with place, people and planet. Samantha and Leon have drawn a roadmap to shift the relationship between financial institutions and mechanisms from extractive and degenerative, to reciprocal and regenerative.” 
- Gregory Landua, Founder: Regen Network

The BioFi Community of Practice

Are you curious about learning more about Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) and engaging in peer-to-peer learning and collaboration around designing, capitalizing, implementing, and evolving BFFs?

Want to meet other newcomers, seasoned practitioners, and wisdom holders in this space? Want to learn from active case studies and share your real-world experiences?

Learn more and sign up for the BioFi Community of Practice on Hylo!

We are helping bioregions transition to regenerative economies

Supporting bioregions to design, build, and implement BFFs and complementary programs, including eco-credits and nature-based currencies

Supporting bioregions to design capital allocation programs to effectively support regeneration – including through participatory budgeting

Fostering the BioFi Community of Practice to support the development of BFFs around the world

Supporting bioregions to raise aligned financial resources for BFFs

Matching bioregions with the appropriate technical partners to support them in their transition to a regenerative economy

Providing tools and resources to support BFF implementation

Does your bioregion need a BFF?

The BioFi Project will serve as a capacity-building and resource center dedicated to supporting bioregional organizing teams to turn the recommendations laid out in the book into action.

If you are interested in bringing a BFF to your bioregion, please fill out this expression of interest form and the BioFi Project team will be in touch.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
• R. Buckminster Fuller

Our partners

The BioFi Project partners with organizations at the leading edge of regenerative economics and finance, Earth law, systems change, bioregional organizing, Indigenous rights, local regeneration, technology, and MRV.

It’s going to take all of us

Deep change  is only possible through actions taken by the many: thousands of small groups all over the world committed to creating new institutions that serve planetary regeneration.

We invite stakeholders from around the world to engage with us and each other to support the decentralization of financial resource governance, the design of project portfolios for systemic change, and the transition to regenerative economies.

Bioregional organizers, regenerators, Indigenous communities and nations, investors, philanthropists, policymakers, multilaterals, development agencies, innovators, technologists, futurists, economists, financial services experts, storytellers, artists, designers, and academics – all have a role to play.

We hope that you will join us on this journey