Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet
The rationale, templates, and design principles for a critical layer of place-based financial institutions. Free download, in English and Español.
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Lecture2025The Promise of Bioregional Economies (Video)
Watch the 45th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture, with Samantha Power and Tyler Wakefield.
Guide2026A Guide to Donor Advised Funds
A practical guide for place-based organizations on how Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) can be used to source, channel, and govern capital for their work.
Guide2025A Guide to Bioregional Mapping & Planning
Ecological Design for Place-Based Regeneration. A method for mapping a region's assets, actors, and flows before designing a facility.
Case study2026ASHA: Building an Indigenous-Governed Bioregional Fund
An alliance of 28 Indigenous and civil-society organizations across Ecuador and Peru building a multi-jurisdiction fund with five investment windows under Indigenous governance.
Case study2026Relationship is the Strategy: Hawthorne Valley's Living Approach to Finance
How Hawthorne Valley in New York builds its finances on long-term relationships.
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A Self-Assessment Framework for Bioregional Organizers
Thinking about designing a BFF? This spreadsheet helps you see your initiative's strengths, areas for growth, and next steps. Also available in Spanish.
Video2026Returning to Place: Finding Meaning in a Chaotic World
Samantha Power in conversation with Katie Teague Films.
Essay2026Becoming Inhabitants
After seventeen years, the Turtle Island Bioregional Congress reconvenes.
Case study2024Regen Network and Eco-Credits
A novel funding mechanism for regeneration.
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Can AI Catalyze the Regeneration of Place?
Practical uses of AI for bioregional initiatives, questions of community control, and opportunities for collaboration.
Beyond Extraction: What Can AI Actually Do for Bioregional Regeneration?
A Deep Dive on the practical uses and limits of AI for bioregional regeneration.
The Maternal Gift Economy in Practice
Miki Kashtan and Selene Aswell of the Nonviolent Global Liberation community on putting the maternal gift economy into practice.
Exploring the BFF Landscape in Europe
Leon Seefeld on the Bioregional Financing Facilities and related initiatives emerging across Europe.
Regenerative Economic Zones
Stephan Martineau of SANE on regenerative economic zones.
Grassroots Economics and Commitment Pooling
Will Ruddick and Aude Péronne of Grassroots Economics on commitment pooling.
Returning to Place: Finding Meaning in a Chaotic World
Samantha Power in conversation with Katie Teague Films.
Ma Earth & Hypercerts Foundation: From Isolated Platforms to a Shared Impact Ecosystem
Ma Earth and the Hypercerts Foundation on connecting separate impact platforms into a shared ecosystem.
Turtle Island Community Capital & CDFIs for Regeneration
Alexander Sterling on Turtle Island Community Capital and how community development financial institutions (CDFIs) can finance regeneration.
Catalyzing Bioregional Economies
A session hosted by Ma Earth.
Grounding Regenerative Economics in Place
John Fullerton on his book Regenerative Economics: Revolutionary Thinking for a World in Crisis and how its framework can inform work in bioregions.
Beneath Our Feet
With Samantha Power, Austin Wade Smith, and Daniel Christian Wahl.
Activation Guide for Bioregional Organizing Teams
How to create the enabling conditions for BioFi, and then design and implement a Bioregional Financing Facility.
ASHA: Building an Indigenous-Governed Bioregional Fund
An alliance of 28 Indigenous and civil-society organizations across Ecuador and Peru building a multi-jurisdiction fund with five investment windows under Indigenous governance.
Becoming Inhabitants
After seventeen years, the Turtle Island Bioregional Congress reconvenes.
Blue Ridge Foodshed Commons: Building a Commons-Held Food Economy
A Western North Carolina design for food infrastructure held in a perpetual purpose trust, separating control, profit, and capital, starting with a farmer-designed creamery.
Bosque Fractal: Investing in the Infrastructure for Landscape Regeneration
A biohub in Colombia's Zaquencipá Valley using patient family capital for land, restoration, mapping, and relationships: the groundwork that comes before a fund or an investable pipeline.
Boston Ujima Project: Democratizing the Flow of Capital in a City Economy
A community-governed fund where Boston residents set business standards and vote on investments, pairing professional underwriting with notes sized for every level of wealth.
CEDPO: Turning Community Priorities into Investable Projects
On Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, a locally governed association develops small, community-nominated projects and channels right-sized grants to them through a participatory territorial council.
A Guide to Donor Advised Funds
A practical guide for place-based organizations on how Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) can be used to source, channel, and govern capital for their work.
Ecotrust / Salmon Nation: Thirty-Five Years of Building Bioregional Financial Infrastructure
How philanthropy acted as venture capital for a network of institutions, from a bank and a CDFI to tax-credit and working-forest funds, financing a bioregional economy across Pacific North America.
Hawai‘i Investment Ready: Coordinating Capital for an Island Economy
A Native Hawaiian-led nonprofit that grew from a social-enterprise accelerator into capital-system coordination, funder cohorts, and a first-loss-backed patient debt fund.
Igiugig: Using Capital to Return Land and Build Tribal Wealth
A Bristol Bay Tribe combining Landback acquisitions, a Tribally governed philanthropic fund, and a proposed salmon-business buyout to keep more of the salmon economy in Indigenous hands.
Relationship is the Strategy: Hawthorne Valley's Living Approach to Finance
How Hawthorne Valley in New York builds its finances on long-term relationships.
Salmon Returns: Building Bioregional Capital Flows
A cross-border platform across Salmon Nation that treats the bioregion as the portfolio, braiding grants, patient loans and investment capital around regional priorities set by Indigenous Nations and local leaders.
Seed Commons: Federating Non-Extractive Capital Across Places
A cooperatively governed national CDFI that pools capital and lends it through local member organizations, showing what a network of places can share and what must stay local.
Sinal do Vale: Financing a Regenerative Bioeconomy
A 15-year place-based lab in Brazil's Atlantic Forest moving from restoration, supply chains, and regenerative hospitality toward a blended bioregional finance architecture.
Spruce Root: Building a Regional Financial Ecosystem
An Indigenous-led CDFI in Southeast Alaska that has layered small-business lending, a $30M permanent trust for regional coordination, and a clean-energy bank into one place-based financial system.
Turtle Island Community Capital: Native-Led Financial Infrastructure from the Ground Up
An emerging Native CDFI in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic US pairing relational lending with technical assistance and community convening, and raising an $11.2M Watershed Fund.
What the Trade Routes Remember
Revitalizing Indigenous economies through bioregional coalition-building.
Inside Bioregionalism's Tech-Driven Revival
Doug Bierend in Noema on the resurgence of bioregionalism and the rise of bioregional finance (BioFi).
The Promise of Bioregional Economies (Transcript)
Read the 45th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture, with Samantha Power and Tyler Wakefield.
The Promise of Bioregional Economies (Video)
Watch the 45th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture, with Samantha Power and Tyler Wakefield.
Using Legal Structures to Liberate the Land
Jennifer Menke of Sacred Contract on the legal structures being developed with regional land stewards.
The Nurture Nature Argument
The Mint speaks with Samantha Power about her critique of the financial system and the vision behind the BioFi Project.
Reimagining Wealth: Trust-Based Infrastructure for Bioregional Regeneration
The Circletrust team on trust-based infrastructure for bioregional regeneration.
Brandon Letsinger and Michelle Lee on Bioregional Finance in Cascadia
Recorded at the Cascadia BioFi Conference.
Hylo for Bioregional Organizing Teams
Clare and Aaron from the Hylo team on using Hylo to support bioregional organizing teams.
The Maternal Gift Economy: A Primer
Tyler Wakefield's introduction to the maternal gift economy and the pathways toward it explored by the Nonviolent Global Liberation community.
Reimagining Finance to Regenerate the Planet
Samantha Power interviewed by Conservation Strategy Fund.
Urban Futures: Reimagining Finance for Regenerative Cities
Samantha Power of the BioFi Project with Regen City.
Connecting the Flows of Capital to the Flows of Life
The BioFi Project in conversation with Jeremy Lent.
Bioregioning 101 (Video)
Reality Roundtable #14, hosted by Nate Hagens.
Bioregioning and Our Felt Sense of Place (Transcript)
Read Reality Roundtable #14, with Nate Hagens, Isabel Carlisle, Samantha Power and Daniel Christian Wahl, published in Kosmos Journal.
Flow Funding
Marion Rockefeller Weber, Faith Flanigan, Ruth Andrade, and Sydney Harvey on flow funding.
A Transformative Conversation on Moral Economies
A conversation hosted by the Garrison Institute.
A Guide to Bioregional Mapping & Planning
Ecological Design for Place-Based Regeneration. A method for mapping a region's assets, actors, and flows before designing a facility.
BioFi Design Principles
Sixteen principles for designing BFFs, eco-credits, complementary currencies, and other BioFi mechanisms.
Our Biggest Deal
Aaron Perry's book on pathways to planetary prosperity, with contributions from Samantha Power and others.
A Self-Assessment Framework for Bioregional Organizers
Thinking about designing a BFF? This spreadsheet helps you see your initiative's strengths, areas for growth, and next steps. Also available in Spanish.
The Bioregional Weaving Lab in South East Ireland
An example of a multi-stakeholder process for bioregional regeneration.
BioFi Pathfinders Gitcoin Round: Bridging Bioregionalism and Web3 to Build Regenerative Economies
Emily Rogers on what we learned using Gitcoin's on-chain participatory budgeting for bioregional regeneration.
Complementary Currencies, MycoFi, and Credit Pooling
John Clippinger, Will Ruddick, and Scott Morris on complementary currencies, MycoFi, and credit pooling.
An Invitation to Mourn. An Invitation to Give Joyfully.
Tyler Wakefield's letter on the eve of the 2024 US election.
BioFi x Web3
Matthew Monahan of Ma Earth and Monty Merlin of ReFi DAO on Web3 tools for bioregional finance.
BioFi Pathfinders Gitcoin Round Overview
An overview of the BioFi Pathfinders round on Gitcoin Grants.
BFFs 101: What Are They and How to Build One?
The first BioFi Deep Dive: an introduction to Bioregional Financing Facilities and how to build one.
Eco-credits & Ecological Institutions
Becca Harman, Austin Wade Smith, and Sarah Baxendell on eco-credits and ecological institutions, the series’ first call with featured guests.
Presentation to the COBALT Community on the BioFi Project
An introduction to the BioFi Project for the COBALT bioregional learning community.
Bioregional Finance with Samantha Power
Season 4, Episode 1 of Regeneration Nexus from ReFi DAO.
Open Conversations: Samantha Power
Samantha Power in conversation with Earth Commons.
Weaving Bioregional Waves
A recorded conversation on bioregional organizing and finance.
Press Release: Bioregional Financing Facilities Book Launch
The announcement of the book by Samantha Power and Leon Seefeld, released on the 2024 summer solstice.
Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet
Samantha Power presents the ideas behind the book.
Bioregional Financing Facilities: Connecting Financial Resources to Regeneration
Episode 11 of the Capital Institute series.
Creating Bioregional Funding Ecosystems, Part 1
Joe Brewer and Samantha Power in conversation with the Legacy Project.
Earth Commons: Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs)
A session on BFFs hosted by Ma Earth.
Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet
The rationale, templates, and design principles for a critical layer of place-based financial institutions.
The Edge Prize
Scaling what's possible by supporting and connecting regenerative innovators.
The BioFi Glossary
Our perspective on 65 key terms and ideas for the BioFi movement, from anti-fragility to worldview.
Golden Bay and the Wellbeing Protocol
Participatory grant-making through quadratic and conviction voting in practice.
Growing New Ways of Seeing and Being in Place Through Bioregional Finance
Published in Culture Hack, Issue 7: Beyond the Carbon Fixation.
Hylo
A coordination platform for the future of bioregional organizing.
The Bioregional Learning Center in South Devon
Modeling bioregional hubs.
Nature States, Nation States
An essay by Samantha Power.
ReCommon
Regenerative common land trusts.
Regen Network and Eco-Credits
A novel funding mechanism for regeneration.
Regenerate Cascadia
Coordinated and coherent bioregional organizing.
Regenerosity
Flowing capital to grassroots regeneration by cultivating trust.
Salmon Nation: Envisioning a Nature State
How Salmon Nation is building toward a bioregional "nature state" across Pacific North America.
A Conversation with Ma Earth
Samantha's first interview on BFFs.
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