Bioregional
Finance
for Planetary
Regeneration
We are a collective supporting bioregions to design, create, capitalize, implement, and evolve 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
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
The BioFi Community of Practice
Are you curious to learn more about Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) and engage in peer-to-peer learning and collaboration around designing, creating, 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!
How we support bioregional organizing teams transition to regenerative economies
Building their capacity by helping them to design, create, capitalize, implement, and evolve BFFs
Supporting them with storytelling for fundraising and attracting multi-capital support
Providing technological and procedural expertise in eco-credit, complementary currency, & other mechanism design
Matchmaking them with a network of technical partners supporting the flourishing of regenerative economies across diverse bioregions
Facilitating learning and coordination processes with other bioregional organizing teams to build collective capacity, coherence, and solidarity across bioregional economies
Building a network of aligned funders to invest in portfolios of BFFs
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
Support our work
The BioFi Project is fiscally sponsored by The Buckminster Fuller Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization which supports a whole systems approach to "make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest time possible." All contributions are tax deductible. The tax-payer identification number is 95-3273023.
