Bioregional Organizer Case study
Tarun Bharat Sangh
📍 Rajasthan, India
A community-led water conservation organization restoring India's river systems through traditional knowledge and modern watershed management. TBS has revived 14 rivers, built thousands of water harvesting structures, and established a network of water stewards combining technical expertise with cultural revival.
💧Watershed Repair ⛲Water Management 🔘Governance Bodies ♾️Commons Governance Protocols +5
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Spruce Root
📍 Juneau, AK, United States
Spruce Root is an Indigenous-led Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) serving 23 communities, building a regenerative regional economy by supporting Alaska Native and rural entrepreneurs.
✍🏾Investment Vehicles 🪢Network Weaving 🎒Learning Programs 🔀Grants Programs +3
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Sinal do Vale
📍 Guanabara Bay, Rua do Catimbau, Paquetá, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 20397-210, Brazil
Sinal do Vale runs a bioregional hub in Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest, serving as a catalyst for regeneration through community-based entrepreneurship and systems integration.
🖼️Cultural Hub or Learning Center 🏞️Demonstrator Site ⛓️Value Chain Development 📷Visitor Experiences +6
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Resilience Earth
📍 Olot, Catalonia, Spain
Resilience Earth is a nonprofit worker cooperative based in Catalonia, Spain, dedicated to transformative change through community resilience, regenerative design, democratic innovation and the social and solidarity economy.
🪢Network Weaving 📐Participatory Strategies 🔘Governance Bodies 📊Socioeconomic Indicators +2
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Regenerate Cascadia
📍 Cascadia, OR, United States
Regenerate Cascadia implements a carefully structured approach that flows from bioregion to watershed to ecoregion to local landscape, integrating indigenous knowledge and stewardship practices across the Cascadia bioregion.
🪢Network Weaving 🏔️Geographic and Ecological Mapping 📐Participatory Strategies 🎒Learning Programs +5
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Regen Sydney
📍 Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Regen Sydney is taking a systemic view to help transition Sydney as a city and bioregion toward a life-affirming economy, moving from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism through neighborhood-scale programs and regenerative action.
🍩Doughnut Assessment 🪢Network Weaving 📐Participatory Strategies 📊Socioeconomic Indicators +1
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Reconnecting Northland
📍 Northland, New Zealand
Reconnecting Northland supports socio-ecological transformation and community-led regeneration across Northland, New Zealand. It empowers communities through long-term partnerships and localized projects that enhance biodiversity and resilience. They are working across approximately 150,000 hectares of forest, watersheds, rivers, wetlands and farmlands in Northland, with a goal of 800,000 hectares by 2050.
🪢Network Weaving 📐Participatory Strategies 🏵️Habitat Connectivity 📚Training and Employment Pathways +6
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ReVillage Green Valley
📍 West County Museum, 261 S Main St, Sebastopol, CA 95472, United States
ReVillage Green Valley is a place-rooted initiative reweaving community through land-based regeneration and collective care, responding to wildfires, housing displacement, ecological degradation, and social isolation.
🖼️Cultural Hub or Learning Center ♾️Commons Governance Protocols 💠Collective Ownership Models ⛓️Value Chain Development +4
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ReGenerOsa Collective
📍 Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica
ReGenerOsa is a biocultural regeneration collective led by women who are reclaiming land, language, and local governance in the face of rapid ecological degradation, cultural loss, and speculative tourism.
🔀Grants Programs 🌾Regenerative Agriculture ⛓️Value Chain Development 🍽️Community Food Access +6
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Panama Restoration Lab
📍 Panama Canal, Panama
The Panama Restoration Lab is an emerging field-building effort working to demonstrate that ecological restoration can serve as a strategic tool for climate resilience, drought mitigation, and livelihood regeneration—not only for Panama, but as a model for the world.
💧Watershed Repair 🌾Regenerative Agriculture 🌱Vegetation Planting 🐮Regenerative Grazing +4
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Northeast Bioregioning Collective
📍 ME, United States
Also known as (or closely overlapping with) Alliance for the Mystic River Watershed, this collective brings together Indigenous and settler organizations across New England to regenerate land, housing, and livelihoods through Indigenous governance, ecological restoration, and regenerative infrastructure.
🪢Network Weaving 📐Participatory Strategies ✍🏾Investment Vehicles 🪴Venture Cultivation +3
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Nila Vena Organizing Team
📍 Iliamna, AK, United States
A tribal-led initiative focused on protecting the Nila Vena (Lake Iliamna) region through Indigenous land trusts, cultural revitalization, and economic regeneration in partnership with health and conservation institutions.
🔘Governance Bodies 🔅Traditional Ecological Knowledge 💠Collective Ownership Models ♾️Commons Governance Protocols +1
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Mira River Guardians
📍 Odemira, Portugal
Mira River Guardians is a collective of concerned inhabitants working to regenerate the Mira River watershed in Portugal by focusing on its potential rather than its problems. Through mapping, relationship-building, and collaborative projects, the Guardians connect diverse stakeholders to create a polycentric network of bioregional stewards addressing desertification and ecological regeneration.
🪢Network Weaving 🧑🤝🧑Social or Network Mapping 🏔️Geographic and Ecological Mapping 🧪Citizen or Community Science +2
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MIKIA Kenya
📍 Lake Turkana Academy-Kalokol, Isiolo, Kenya
My Indigenous Knowledge in Action (MIKIA) works to document, preserve, and regenerate indigenous knowledge in Northern Kenya, particularly among Maasai pastoralist communities. Through intergenerational knowledge transfer, integration with scientific knowledge, and community-led initiatives, MIKIA supports climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and indigenous self-determination.
🔅Traditional Ecological Knowledge 🎒Learning Programs 🏔️Geographic and Ecological Mapping 🖼️Cultural Hub or Learning Center +1
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Landschaftspflegeverein
📍 Austria
Works to preserve and restore one of the most species-rich regions in Europe through network building, community involvement, and sustainable grassland management. They connect people and organizations to create a network of natural areas.
🪢Network Weaving 🎒Learning Programs 🐮Regenerative Grazing 🏵️Habitat Connectivity +1
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Kogayon Association
📍 Olănești, Băile Olănești, Romania
Oltenia de sub Munte is a collective of people working to preserve heritage, living traditions, and authentic ways of life in the mountainous region of Oltenia, Romania. Through guided tours, silk weaving workshops, traditional agriculture, and community-based tourism, they bring traditions into daily life rather than transforming them into museums.
🎒Learning Programs 📷Visitor Experiences 🔅Traditional Ecological Knowledge 🎨Art and Storytelling +4
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Koalisi Ekonomi Membumi
📍 Bali, Indonesia
A collective movement catalyzing sustainable investment ecosystems across Indonesia through their Value Chain Collaboration Canvas approach. KEM connects local governments, smallholder farmers, businesses, and financial institutions to build nature-based commodity value chains.
🪢Network Weaving ⛓️Value Chain Development 🌾Regenerative Agriculture 💧Watershed Repair +3
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Inabita
📍 Lago di Fiastra, Via Circonvallazione del Lago, 62035 Fiastra MC, Italy
A bioregional initiative in central Italy's Fiastra Valley, working to strengthen collaborative relationships and shared identity between villages through cultural celebration and participatory planning. Born from the Borgofuturo festival, the initiative has evolved into "Qui ValdiFiastra"—a 15-project action plan addressing built infrastructure, culture, environmental education, and local production.
📐Participatory Strategies 🪢Network Weaving 🍥Governance Design 🛐Cultural and Spiritual Practices +1
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Huwa Karu Intercultural Reserve
📍 AC, Brazil
HKY Intercultural Reserve is an Indigenous-led nonprofit initiative in Huni Kuin territory, dedicated to restoring Amazonian ecosystems while preserving and celebrating Huni Kuin culture. It aims to create sustainable livelihoods through agroforestry and cultural revitalization.
🔅Traditional Ecological Knowledge 🌾Regenerative Agriculture ⛓️Value Chain Development 🌱Vegetation Planting +5
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Hudson Estuary Resilience Effort
📍 New York, NY, United States
Supports regenerative transition through a guild-based approach focused on food, shelter, ecology, and culture, working across the Hudson River estuary region to foster local collaboration, fund place-based solutions, and steward long-term bioregional resilience.
🪢Network Weaving ⭕Community Governance ✍🏾Investment Vehicles 🔀Grants Programs +4
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Guayabillas DAO
📍 Guayabillas, Bolívar, Colombia
Pioneers a regenerative governance and financing model using blockchain technology for community-led conservation and restoration in the CABR biodiversity hotspot, combining participatory design, nested governance structures, and innovative funding mechanisms.
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Forever Sabah
📍 Sabah, Malaysia
A 25-year transformational program facilitating Sabah's shift to a diversified, equitable circular economy. Operating as a social collaborative movement rather than a traditional NGO, they weave connections across watersheds, forests, and coastal zones.
🐙More Than Human Knowledge 📐Participatory Strategies 🧪Citizen or Community Science ♾️Commons Governance Protocols +11
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Findhorn Watershed Initiative
📍 Findhorn, Forres, Scotland, United Kingdom
They practice "stealth bioregioning" - working within existing structures like the Rivers Trust while gradually introducing systemic change. Their approach integrates ecology, culture, and economics through careful relationship building and stakeholder engagement.
💧Watershed Repair 🌱Vegetation Planting 🏵️Habitat Connectivity 🐉Species Control +7
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Enlivened Cooperative
📍 HI, United States
A global network (with roots in Hawaii) dedicated to reimagining learning, research, and leadership as relational, regenerative practices. Rooted in diverse knowledge systems and shaped by place, the collective designs community-led, cross-cultural learning experiences that support collective action and ecological-cultural renewal.
🔅Traditional Ecological Knowledge 📍Territorial Zoning 🏔️Geographic and Ecological Mapping 🌾Regenerative Agriculture +3
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Diamante Barú Bioregional Consortium
📍 Costa Rica
The Diamante Barú Bioregional Consortium unites a diverse collective of community leaders, Indigenous allies, and regenerative projects in Costa Rica's southern region. Their focus is on land rematriation, water protection, and grassroots bioregional governance.
🔘Governance Bodies ♾️Commons Governance Protocols 🏕️Territorial Monitoring 🔀Grants Programs +6
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Curridabat Sweet City
📍 Curridabat, San Jose, Costa Rica
The city follows a distinctive "Sweet City" framework that treats pollinators and other non-human life as citizens– vital members of the urban community. This approach reimagines urban governance by recognizing biodiversity—and even emotion—as essential infrastructure.
🪶Interspecies Mutualism 🦏Rights of Nature 🍥Governance Design 📐Participatory Strategies
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Costa Rica Regenerativa
📍 Guanacaste, Costa Rica
A holistic development initiative launched in 2018 that focuses on demonstrating regenerative practices as viable alternatives to extractive systems, shifting from passive to participatory societies, upholding feminine principles and cultural preservation, and supporting locally led decision-making and inclusive economic models.
🍽️Community Food Access 🌾Regenerative Agriculture 🐮Regenerative Grazing 🏵️Habitat Connectivity +3
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Comunidad Indigena José Luis Caniulef
📍 Parques de Afunalhue, 4930000 Villarrica, Araucania, Chile
A Mapuche community in southern Chile working to document environmental changes, strengthen biocultural memory, and develop regenerative land management practices through the integration of traditional knowledge and scientific approaches.
🔅Traditional Ecological Knowledge 👁️🗨️Storying Place 🧪Citizen or Community Science 📉Ecological Monitoring +4
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Colombia Regenerativa
📍 Colombia
A network of regions working from the grassroots level to promote ecological restoration and agroecological production, focusing on returning fertility to soil and communities. The initiative collaborates with the Global Network of Regenerative Communities to share knowledge and experiences with other regions worldwide, particularly in Latin America.
🌀Systems and Resource Mapping 🪢Network Weaving 💬Peer Learning 🏔️Geographic and Ecological Mapping +2
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Carolinian Canada
📍 ON, Canada
Carolinian Canada is a cross-sector network working to regenerate the unique ecosystems of the Carolinian Zone in southern Ontario, from Toronto to Windsor. Grounded in the principles of reconciliation, the organization connects science, community, and business to support healthy landscapes, biodiversity, and climate-resilient communities.
🏵️Habitat Connectivity 🌱Vegetation Planting 🔅Traditional Ecological Knowledge ✅Result Based Mechanisms +1
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CEDPO
📍 Costa Rica
Centro Estratégico de Desarrollo de la Península de Osa (CEDPO) is a collaborative platform working to unify local, Indigenous, and institutional actors around a shared vision for a regenerative future in Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, rooted in system mapping, community governance, and ecological stewardship.
🌀Systems and Resource Mapping 🔘Governance Bodies 🔅Traditional Ecological Knowledge 🗂️Portfolio Development +4
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Burrenbeo Trust
📍 Burren, Ennis, Ireland
The Burren Programme supports sustainable farming in western Ireland through its "pocket, head, and heart" approach– creating viable economic incentives for farmers ("pocket"), offering technical guidance and knowledge-sharing ("head"), and fostering trust and emotional connection with local communities ("heart").
🌾Regenerative Agriculture ✅Result Based Mechanisms 📉Ecological Monitoring 🔀Grants Programs +8
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Bosque Fractal
📍 Observatorio Astronómico de Zaquencipá: Villa de Leyva, colombia, 154247 Santa Sofía, Colombia
Bosque Fractal is a biocultural regeneration initiative rooted in the Andean headwaters of Colombia, on sacred Muiska territory where male and female rivers meet. It began as a grassroots effort to protect an 80-hectare forest from private sale, and has since evolved into a living laboratory for land restoration, spiritual healing, and commons governance. Deeply grounded in place, the project weaves ecology, ritual, and relational finance into a vision of territory as teacher. Bosque Fractal does not aim to scale, but to inspire fractal repetition — a pattern of community-held regeneration that can ripple across other watersheds and sacred sites.
🖼️Cultural Hub or Learning Center 🛐Cultural and Spiritual Practices 📷Visitor Experiences 👁️🗨️Storying Place +7
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Blueprint for Impact
📍 GA-2, Blue Ridge, GA 30513, United States
Blueprint for Impact is a cross-sector collaborative formed in response to the catastrophic flooding of 2021 in Southern Appalachia. The initiative emerged as a grassroots response to the failures of conventional recovery systems and evolved into a long-term, community-driven effort to catalyze regeneration across multiple systems — including food, housing, health, forestry, water, and arts. Blueprint brings together over 50 organizations, practitioners, artists, healers, and policy advocates to build resilient, bioregionally grounded systems that can withstand future shocks.
🪢Network Weaving 🌋Disaster Relief 🫂Health and Social Care 🎨Art and Storytelling +5
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Blue Ridge Foodshed Fund
📍 Southern Blue, 132 W Bankhead St, New Albany, MS 38652-3313, United States
Blue Ridge Foodshed Trust emerged in the aftermath of Hurricane Helen as a response to the mounting instability of the global food system and the deep vulnerabilities of rural communities. The Trust's mission is to localize food systems by supporting small-scale farmers, building regenerative distribution infrastructure, and addressing food access through community-centered investment.
🍽️Community Food Access 🚚Regional Sourcing ⛓️Value Chain Development 🔀Grants Programs +3
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Bioregioning Tayside
📍 Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom
Bioregioning Tayside takes a non-anthropocentric, place-based approach to regional regeneration, centering ecological systems alongside human communities. Guided by the principle "change the frame, change the story," the initiative aims to cultivate new narratives of place that support resilience in the face of climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and economic instability.
🧪Citizen or Community Science 💧Watershed Repair 🌱Vegetation Planting 🏵️Habitat Connectivity +4
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Bioregional Weaving Alliance Ireland
📍 County Waterford, Ireland
BWL South East Ireland is a bioregional initiative functioning as a transition hub, learning centre, and living lab. It brings together a network of Irish stakeholders, partners, and the living systems of the region itself. Established as a non-profit in 2022 and formally constituted in 2024.
📍Territorial Zoning 🌾Regenerative Agriculture ✅Result Based Mechanisms 📉Ecological Monitoring +10
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Bioregional Learning Centre South Devon
📍 River Dart, Greenway Road, Brixham, TQ5 0, United Kingdom
The Bioregional Learning Centre (BLC) in South Devon works at the intersection of geosystems, human systems, and ecosystems to build long-term climate resilience and civic capacity. Its work is structured around four key pillars– developing place-based funding ecosystems; enabling citizen-led data collection and analysis to track vitality and adaptive capacity; supporting community groups with evidence for effective representation in governance; and fostering systems thinking through education and cultural engagement.
👁️🗨️Storying Place 🍩Doughnut Assessment 💧Watershed Repair 🧪Citizen or Community Science +5
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Bay Delta Trust
📍 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States
The Bay-Delta Trust, fiscally sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, operates as a weaving and convening initiative focused on improving network coordination and increasing regenerative investments in the bioregion. Their approach builds on a rich history of bioregional work in the area, including Peter Berg's influential contributions through the Planet Drum Foundation in the 1970s, which helped establish early municipal environmental programs.
🪢Network Weaving 🧳Immersive Journeys 🎒Learning Programs 🌀Systems and Resource Mapping +1
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Atelier LUMA
📍 The Camargue, Lieu-dit Arnella, 13460 Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France
Atelier LUMA operates as a biodesign lab in the Camargue region of southern France, connecting human and non-human elements through design interventions. The organization transforms undervalued local resources into valuable materials and products while maintaining a multidisciplinary team of approximately 20 people.
🎋Materials Transformation 🧦Clothing and Product Manufacturing 🏗️Construction and Housing 🏞️Demonstrator Site +3
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Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance
📍 Ecuador
Established in 2017, the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance unites indigenous nationalities across Ecuador and Peru to protect their ancestral territories. The alliance operates through indigenous-led governance, cross-border collaboration, integration of traditional decision-making, and strategic partnerships between indigenous communities and NGOs to safeguard one of the Amazon's most biodiverse regions.
📐Participatory Strategies 🔘Governance Bodies 🪢Network Weaving 🔅Traditional Ecological Knowledge +7
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Alvelal
📍 Chirivel, Andalucia, Spain
A collaborative alliance operating across over 1 million hectares in southeastern Spain, using Commonland's Four Returns Framework to reverse desertification and restore prosperity. Since 2014, AlVelAl Association has grown to more than 490 members including 280 farmers, developing regenerative businesses and coordinating landscape-scale restoration through the Altiplano Regeneration Manifesto, community machinery banks, and regenerative education programs that merge art, biodiversity, and emotional connection to land.
📐Participatory Strategies 4️⃣4 Returns 🏵️Habitat Connectivity 🌱Vegetation Planting +14
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Alliance for Scotland's Rainforest
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
A partnership of 25 organizations committed to collaborative action for Scotland's temperate rainforest. Formed to address one of the world's most biodiversity-depleted countries, the Alliance works to restore and double the size of Scotland's rainforest by 2045, creating a more resilient and better functioning ecosystem.
🌱Vegetation Planting 🐉Species Control 🏵️Habitat Connectivity 🔘Governance Bodies +3
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Aliança Mar i Terra di Mallorca
📍 Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
Bioregional regeneration work on Mallorca operates through multiple interconnected initiatives, from the quiet facilitation work of Daniel Christian Wahl to the formal Aliança Mar i Terra di Mallorca formed in 2022. The work centers on cultivating conditions for deep, place-based transformation through convening, listening, and connecting.
🪢Network Weaving 📷Visitor Experiences 🎨Art and Storytelling 🛐Cultural and Spiritual Practices +4
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Acción Serrana
📍 Cordoba, Argentina
Acción Serrana focuses on biocultural restoration, reforestation, community organizing, and building long-term ecological and cultural resilience in mountainous regions as part of the larger Acción Andina coalition.
🌰Seeds and Nurseries 🌱Vegetation Planting 📉Ecological Monitoring 📚Training and Employment Pathways +3
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Abundance Project
📍 Western Cape, South Africa
The Abundance Project in the Valley of Grace is working to create a living laboratory of different kinds of economies incentivizing all kinds of regenerative activities. Located in Western Cape, South Africa, the initiative addresses deep racial tensions from apartheid, climate change impacts from deforestation, and the challenge of building regenerative systems through a stewardship-based approach rather than ownership models.
☮️Community Reconciliation 🪢Network Weaving 💧Watershed Repair 🌀Systems and Resource Mapping +1
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ASPROCIG
📍 90 Chima, 232017 Chimá, Colombia
This community-based organization has operated for over 32 years. The organization explicitly rejects conventional development models in favor of an aesthetics-first approach that prioritizes beauty and harmonious living. Their framework emphasizes collective knowledge construction and views humans as indivisible parts of nature rather than owners of it. They take comprehensive approach to empower younger generations through innovative governance and financial structures.
🪢Network Weaving 💬Peer Learning 🌾Regenerative Agriculture ⛓️Value Chain Development +2
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7-Generation GTB
📍 Junction Area, Toronto, ON, Canada
An initiative fostering social and ecological regeneration in the Greater Tkaronto Bioregion through a Bioregional Learning Center, portfolio of regenerative projects, and bioregional funding ecosystem, weaving together Indigenous and Western knowledge systems.
🖼️Cultural Hub or Learning Center 🗂️Portfolio Development 🪴Venture Cultivation 🔘Governance Bodies +6
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Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council
📍 Alaska Hwy, Yukon, YT, Canada
An Indigenous-led grassroots coalition founded in 1997, uniting 70+ First Nations and Alaska Native Tribes across the Yukon River watershed. Guided by a vision to one day safely drink water directly from the river, YRITWC works through collaborative programs in water-quality monitoring, community education, stewardship, and sustainable resource governance. Their YRITWC Water Health Indicators complements scientific water quality monitoring with "cultural indicators", including elements like the taste of fish, the behavior of indicator wildlife species, and the quality of plants used for traditional medicines—dimensions of watershed health that conventional metrics might miss but reflect deep, multi-generational knowledge of the system.
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Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y)
📍 Bozeman, MT, United States
The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) is a pioneering transboundary conservation network that unites governmental bodies, Indigenous groups, NGOs, scientists, landowners, and communities across a 2,100-mile corridor spanning five U.S. states and two Canadian provinces and territories. Launched in 1993, Y2Y's mission is to maintain ecological integrity and habitat connectivity from the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem in Montana/Wyoming to the Yukon Territory. The organization’s success is reflected in a 300% increase in protected habitat since its inception, along with new corridors and species recoveries .
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Wij land
📍 The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
In 2016, Wij.land started exploring how the 4 Returns can help restore ecological functions of the peat meadow landscape in the Vechtstreek. This has grown into a learning network of almost 200 cattle farmers today who are futureproofing their farm by learning how to work more and more alongside nature and in connection with the landscape. It plays a key role in connecting different stakeholders in the landscape to create natural, social, and financial value and to inspire others in joining this cause.
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Whanganui River
📍 Whanganui, Manawatu Whanganui, New Zealand
In New Zealand, the Whanganui River catchment forms the basis for both ecological governance and cultural identity for local Māori iwi (tribes). The recognition of the river as a legal person (Te Awa Tupua) in 2017 acknowledged both its ecological significance and its central place in Māori cultural identity and governance traditions.
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Wellspring Commons
📍 White Mountain National Forest, 719 N Main St, Laconia, NH 03246-2741, United States
Wellspring Commons is a bioregionally grounded initiative dedicated to cultivating mutually thriving relationships between human communities and the larger web of life—from protecting ecological lifelines and developing local food systems, to building a forest-based materialshed and funding ecosystems for regenerative action. Wellspring Commons also contributes to a growing knowledge commons by sharing tools, information, and practices that align with the limits and generative capacities of place.
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Théra
📍 Toulouse, Occitanie, France
Théra is a Bioregional Learning Center in the southwest of France, through ecological restoration, economic self-reliance, and cultural heritage preservation. Projects include waterway restoration, affordable housing, and establishing regenerative culture facilities.
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Territoires à Vivres
📍 Montpellier, Occitanie, France
A community organization experimenting with new forms of cooperation to develop local, shared food systems that are more sustainable, more supportive, and more democratic.
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Terran Collective
📍 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States
A community of practice and care working to build the cultural, technological, and governance infrastructure for a regenerative future. Terran focuses on five core areas– community weaving, regenerative technology, commons stewardship, collaborative mapping, and cultural storytelling.
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Stroomgebied Zuid-Veluwe
📍 Veluwe, Purmerend, Netherlands
A collaborative network of stakeholders working to restore the relationship between people and place in the South Veluwe watershed through community gardens, regenerative agriculture, and cultural celebration that brings together diverse communities.
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Samsø Island
📍 Samsø, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Samsø is a Danish island community internationally recognized for its pioneering transition to 100% renewable energy. The community achieved energy independence through a combination of wind turbines, solar, and biomass district heating systems powered by local agricultural waste, with many installations community-owned. The island has set an ambitious target to be completely fossil fuel free by 2030, initiating conversion to electric transportation starting with the marinas.
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River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative
📍 Bridge of Ericht, Pitlochry, Scotland, United Kingdom
Award-winning initiative bringing blended finance approaches to nature restoration, focusing on Atlantic salmon spawning grounds. Combines riparian woodland restoration, peatland protection, and habitat enhancement. Led primarily by community organizations, addressing the funding gap in nature restoration while maintaining community leadership.
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River Dôn Project
📍 River Don, Five Weirs Walk, Sheffield, S9 3, United Kingdom
The River Dôn Project's fundamental approach centers on creating a framework that gives legal personhood to the river, challenging traditional dualistic views of nature and human systems as separate entities.
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Puget Sound Partnership
📍 Puget Sound Way, San Jose, CA 95133, United States
A state-led initiative in Washington dedicated to the long-term recovery of the Puget Sound ecosystem. Through its evolving Action Agenda, the Partnership outlines strategies and near-term actions to restore water quality, habitat, species health, and human well-being. The Partnership uses a science-based approach and tracks progress through its Vital Signs indicators, while also seeking public input to shape direction and improve accountability over time.
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Pioneer Valley Grows
📍 Springfield, MA, United States
This initiative provides flexible financing and technical support to farmers and food entrepreneurs in the Pioneer Valley, helping them grow resilient, community-rooted businesses. Their Pioneer Valley Agriculture Investment Fund is a community investment fund which provides due diligence and financing. Local resident investors are drawn by the potential for a local and viable food system, creating a pool of 'social impact notes' returning 0-2% per annum, with loan amounts ranging from $1,000 to $250,000 for all types of local farm and food businesses.
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OHAI Tonga
📍 French Polynesia
OHAI Tonga is a non-governmental organization working to strengthen climate resilience in the Kingdom of Tonga and across the South Pacific. Their Tongan Whale Corridor initiative establishes a whale corridor through the Tongan Archipelago as part of a broader plan to regenerate ocean ecosystems from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Building on the 2024 "He Whakaputanga Moana" declaration granting whales legal personhood, OHAI combines legal innovation, ecological stewardship, and Indigenous leadership through a Marine Keystone Species Treaty, a regional protection center, and a pioneering "Whales Bank" to finance whale conservation, treating whales as ecosystem engineers vital to ocean health and Pacific cultural identity.
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Long Tom Watershed Council
📍 LTWC, 751 S Danebo Ave, Eugene, OR 97402, United States
The council takes a collaborative, science-based approach to improving water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, and community resilience. Recognized as a model watershed council in Oregon, LTWC integrates rigorous data collection with public engagement to ensure that land and water stewardship efforts are effective, inclusive, and grounded in place.
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Laconia
📍 Sparta, Peloponneso, Palaiologou Konstantinou, 231 00 Sparti, Greece
A bioregional network in the Peloponnese region of Greece, connecting cultural initiatives, community associations, and local creators to honor life in all its forms and create transformative change through shared cultural experiences and collaborative action.
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Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance
📍 Lake Tekapo, Domain Rd, Lake Tekapo 7999, New Zealand
KMTT is a partnership of 17 iwi (Māori tribes), councils, and government agencies working collaboratively to regenerate land and sea ecosystems across the top of New Zealand's South Island. They blend Indigenous knowledge and Western science to deliver large-scale biodiversity restoration, climate adaptation, and regenerative economic development. The alliance strengthens local initiatives by creating shared strategies, aligning efforts across diverse actors, and facilitating community-led action.
Bioregional Organizer
Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)
📍 Greenland
An international non-governmental organization representing approximately 180,000 Inuit across Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka (Russia). Founded in 1977, ICC was created to unify Inuit voices across the Arctic and advocate for their shared cultural, environmental, and political interests on the global stage. With Consultative Status at the United Nations, ICC works to uphold Inuit rights, safeguard the Arctic environment, and promote self-determined development throughout the circumpolar North.
Bioregional Organizer
Green Releaf Initiative
📍 Philippines
Green Releaf designs and implements climate resilience programs through labs and learning journeys. They integrate indigenous knowledge, permaculture principles, and arts-based approaches to support communities recovering from climate disasters such as Category 5 supertyphoons. Their work spans watershed restoration, sustainable agriculture, and building collaborative partnerships among government, civil society, and local leaders to strengthen ecological and social resilience.
Bioregional Organizer
Fibershed
📍 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States
Fibershed began in California as a non-profit movement to connect regional fiber farmers, natural dyers, mills, designers, and wearers in a "farm-to-closet" value chain. The concept defines a strategic geography for fiber (a "fibershed"), similar to a foodshed, within which raw materials and textile production are linked... biodegradable textiles produced and eventually composted within the same bioregion, blending traditional crafts with innovation to meet local needs sustainably.
Bioregional Organizer
De Plaatsen
📍 Boxtel, North Brabant, Netherlands
The Dutch Foundation De Plaatsen (translated– The Places) is working with farmers and various system players (including banks, marketing cooperatives, supermarkets and citizens) on the realization of 700,000 hectares of sustainable soil management. A vital soil contributes to a better climate, more biodiversity, an attractive landscape, a healthier environment and the regionalization of our food system. There will be at least four Places for the four different soil types in the Netherlands. Cooperative "De Kleine Aarde" in Boxtel is the first Plaats in the Netherlands, focussing on the Zuidelijke Zandgronden bioregion.
Bioregional Organizer
Cuyahoga River Area of Concern (AOC)
📍 Cuyahoga River Bridge, Riverview Rd, Peninsula, OH 44264, United States
The Cuyahoga River Area of Concern is a major restoration effort focused on bringing life back to 46 miles of river. Local and state partners are working to remove long-standing environmental impairments—like poor water quality and habitat loss—through a Remedial Action Plan. The effort is guided by a diverse coalition of agencies, nonprofits, and community members, all contributing to a healthier, more resilient watershed through practical actions like wetland restoration, dam removals, and neighborhood-scale stewardship.
Bioregional Organizer
Cultivate Ireland
📍 County Tipperary, Ireland
A workers' cooperative committed to sustainability and regenerative practices based in the Cloughjordan Ecovillage. Their Community Climate Coaches initiative trains local facilitators to engage communities in climate resilience planning through a collaborative evaluation program. The program develops competency frameworks, toolkits, and training manuals for climate coaches who facilitate dialogues in four bioregional hubs. These coaches document community-led initiatives through specialized mapping systems, ensuring community perspectives directly inform local climate policy and create socially and politically binding outcomes.
Bioregional Organizer
Crown Managers Partnership (CMP)
📍 MT, United States
A voluntary collaboration among federal, state, provincial, Tribal, and First Nation agency managers and universities spanning Montana, Alberta, and British Columbia. The partnership works across jurisdictional boundaries to address shared ecological challenges in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, recognizing that no single agency has the mandate or resources to independently address the region's environmental concerns.
Bioregional Organizer
Coral Triangle Initiative
📍 Denpasar, Indonesia
The Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF) is a multilateral partnership launched in 2009 to safeguard the rich marine and coastal ecosystems of the Coral Triangle region. Comprised of six countries—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste—the initiative supports collaborative governance, ecosystem-based management, and community resilience across some of the most biodiverse waters on Earth.
Bioregional Organizer
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society
📍 Sundarbans, Kashipur Road, Khulna, Bangladesh
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) is an organization implementing integrated ecovillage solutions in Bangladesh's vulnerable coastal regions. Their holistic approach encompasses mangrove restoration, renewable energy provision, clean water systems, climate-resilient housing, and sustainable livelihoods. BEDS engages communities through participatory design processes, connecting ecological conservation with economic empowerment while preserving local cultural practices. Their work has restored 150 hectares of mangroves and provided climate adaptation benefits to thousands of families.
Bioregional Organizer
Association Française d'Agroforesterie
📍 Toulouse, Occitanie, France
The Association Française d'Agroforesterie (AFAF) supports the agroecological transition across France by promoting agroforestry practices. Since 2007, it has worked with over 130 partners through research and development, farmer training, knowledge dissemination, territorial coordination, and policy engagement.
Bioregional Organizer
Anou
📍 Casablanca, Casablanca - Settat, Morocco
The Anou Cooperative is a collective of over 600 artisans representing cooperatives, associations, and workshops throughout Morocco. It is owned and operated by members of the Moroccan artisan community and is open to artisans who demonstrate a commitment to quality craftsmanship and transparent practices.
Learning Network
Regenesis Group
Regenesis is a global pioneer in regenerative development, offering both consulting services and education to advance land use, community development, and the built environment beyond sustainability toward true ecological and cultural regeneration. Since its founding in 1995, Regenesis has worked to shift development practices from minimizing harm to actively contributing to the health of people and place, integrating deep systems thinking and a holistic understanding of natural and human dynamics.
Learning Network
Open Future Coalition
Open Future Coalition is a global initiative supporting place-based climate and community resilience by providing shared digital infrastructure, ecosystem-aligned funding, and coordination tools. Through the Open Impact platform, they help hundreds of organizations across dozens of countries align around shared goals, track progress, and access resources. Their work emphasizes bioregional approaches—supporting local stewards, regenerative initiatives, and landscape-level collaboration—while fostering long-term systems change through regional fellowships, learning exchanges, and the development of resilient funding models that prioritize equity, trust, and ecological integrity.
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Capital Institute
This initiative brings together a global ecosystem of over 1,500 changemakers who blend modern science, storytelling, and timeless wisdom traditions to guide the shift from an extractive to a regenerative economy. Their work focuses on fostering economic systems that support the long-term well-being of people, the planet, and business.
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Regen Network
Regen Network is a blockchain-based ecological accounting platform that enables the verification, issuance, and exchange of ecological assets—such as carbon credits and biodiversity outcomes—grounded in land-based regeneration. Built on the Cosmos blockchain, Regen Network supports transparent and science-based methodologies for tracking ecological health, allowing farmers, land stewards, and communities to receive compensation for verified ecosystem services.
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Regen Foundation
Regen Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the governance, equity, and cultural integrity of regenerative finance and ecological stewardship networks. It facilitates participatory research, funding, and capacity-building for bioregional groups, while stewarding commons-based structures that bridge blockchain innovation with community-led environmental restoration.
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Planet Drum
Planet Drum Foundation was founded in San Francisco, CA in 1973. In association with community activists and ecologists, they developed the concept of a bioregion. Planet Drum works to research, promote and disseminate information about bioregionalism, a grassroots approach to ecology that emphasizes sustainability, community self-determination and regional self-reliance.
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Ma Earth
Ma Earth is a values-driven network and movement committed to reweaving humanity's relationship with the Earth through the principles of care, reciprocity, and regeneration. With an emphasis on Indigenous wisdom, sacred activism, and embodied learning, Ma Earth supports transformative change by curating immersive experiences, creating aligned media content, and funding local leaders.
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Garrison Institute
📍 Garrison, NY, United States
Working toward biodiversity stewardship, ecological cultures, regenerative economies, and the common good. Organizer of bioregional efforts in the Hudson Valley through the Pathways to Planetary Health program.
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ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich, one of Europe's leading science and technology universities, includes interdisciplinary research centers and programs focused on sustainability, climate adaptation, and regenerative land use. ETH Zurich supports the design of bioregionally attuned solutions for food systems, water management, urban metabolism, and ecological restoration.
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Dark Matter Labs
Dark Matter Labs is a transdisciplinary research and design organization focused on reimagining the foundational systems of society—such as governance, finance, infrastructure, and legal frameworks—to support a regenerative and equitable future. Operating globally with a strong European base, Dark Matter Labs collaborates with cities, governments, and civil society to prototype new civic infrastructures and shift societal defaults toward long-term stewardship.