ReCommon

$681.89 crowdfunded from 293 people

$6,271.17 received from matching pools

63%
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Developing a web3 platform to facilitate community land acquisition and governance using regenerative design, innovative financing, and governance models for sustainable community stewardship and bioregional regeneration.

We are building a platform for regenerative community land acquisition and governance.

Our mission is to facilitate the reclamation and stewardship of common land by supporting the emergence of resilient bioregional communities.

To achieve this, we leverage web3 technologies, alternative capital-raising mechanisms, and innovative governance frameworks to secure communally stewarded lands for current and future generations to thrive on.

Regenerative Community Land Trust The RegenCLT is an evolution of the classic CLT model that embeds regenerative design principles into the governing documents and is organized by bioregion. This perpetual stewardship entity allows for place-based decision-making while staying connected to the greater network. It is governed by a balanced 5-part stakeholder system.

Commons Credit The Commons Credit is a means for activating capital to acquire property that is held in bioregional trust, to be stewarded by the community, and used regeneratively for generations. It decouples land investment from ownership and use of the property and aligns speculative investor behavior with a non-extractive system of support for regenerative community development.

The ReCommon Platform We are building a platform that weaves all this together, with a governance portal and an impact dashboard that connects the property level, to the bioregional level, to the global level.

Implementation We are building a partnership and collaborator network to pursue the first full-scale implementation of these systems into a regenerative community development project. This will likely be in Colorado, USA, and will be a small place-based community, serving as a focal point for bioregional regeneration and a template for the regenerative communities of the future. This village will weave together landscape-scale restoration, bioregional governance, sustainable building, good urbanism, permaculture, regen ag, and more.

SINCE GG18 we have...

  • continued research on the feasibility and implementation of the Commons Credit
  • explored other legal structures that handle contribution accounting for the development of physical and digital ecosystems
  • honed-in on our implementation strategy to bring the emergence of a resilient network of regen bioregional community closer to a reality

We are a 501(c)3 non-profit based in Colorado, USA with team members elsewhere in the country and abroad, and we are currently deep in buidl mode.

Thank you so much for your support 💚

ReCommon History

  • accepted into OpenCivics Genesis Round 11 months ago. 42 people contributed $124 to the project, and $1,638 of match funding was provided.
  • accepted into Climate Round 1 year ago. 129 people contributed $387 to the project, and $3,317 of match funding was provided.
  • accepted into Climate Solutions Round 1 year ago. 122 people contributed $171 to the project, and $1,316 of match funding was provided.

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