The purpose of the tools mentioned in the last 4 posts, and the list isn’t exclusive, is to create future-proofed bioregional commons for socio-ecological regeneration as a form of generation wealth, and to develop localised systems of order through complexity that can act as the seed for further innovation for the evolution of the local culture and society
The Bioregional Permanent Fund is a way of capturing the full extent of the commons of a region, both past and future, and generating a local understanding of what can be achieved if people come together while also giving them a new lens to see value
The Bioregional Trust is a way of structuring these commons and establishing mechanisms for their conservation
Community Land Trusts are a way of giving the power back to the people for the creation, development, management, and value uplift of these commons for self-determination
The Bioregional Development Fund is a model for transforming existing capital into commons and seeding the creation of the other tools
To take it one step further, these initiatives can be stacked to leverage their power for innovation and value creation.
This could either be done sequentially over a long stretch of time that runs the risk of initiative collapse when the drivers are stretched beyond their energy, or planned out from the start needing a whole of region buy-in and blended investment with public and private backing
The strongest path to success is through a regenerative development framework that identifies the essence of the region, builds guilds and unifies the people to focus on achievable goals that work towards this higher vocation of place
To stack place sourced initiatives through a blended investment of time, effort, land, local legislation, money, will, and innovation, is the only tangible way I see actual change springing up through our civilisation without the driver of complete socio-ecological collapse on our doorstep… which it nearly is