We're mapping the Regenerative Economy Ecosystem one story at a time. Click on the leaves to locate our Field Guide collaborators (numbered leaves hide multiple stories).


OUR STORIES

GRASSLANDS
A custom grazing business that generates real wealth over the long term while healing grassland on a vast scale through the implementation of holistic management practices. 
Theme: Regenerating the Land 
EVERGREEN COOPERATIVES 
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A remarkable experiment in cooperative-ownership, anchor-institution-based “green” job creation, and democracy-building in Cleveland’s inner city unleashing the energy of workers to become actors in history in their own lifetimes. 
Theme: Regenerating the City
PATIENT CAPITAL COLLABORATIVE
A fund pooling the expertise of a passionate community of angel investors who are partnering with holistic value enterprises to shape a more just and sustainable economy. 
Theme: Regenerating Finance
THE NEXT (REGENERATIVE) INDUSTRIAL AGE
The Manufacturing Renaissance is an unlikely partnership among leaders of government, organized labor, public education, and small manufacturers in an inner city Chicago polytechnic high school. 
Theme: Regenerating the City
EVERGREEN DIRECT INVESTING
A cash-flow-sharing investment architecture that enables large, perpetual investors and enterprise leaders to partner in shaping the regenerative economy. 
Theme: Regenerating Finance
CUTTING EDGE CAPITAL
An Oakland-based Investment Advisory firm helps small businesses launch direct public offerings, giving small investors a way to partner with small enterprise leaders in the creation of businesses that express their shared values. 
Theme: Regenerating Finance
BRONX COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
...is guided by a deep intention to discover the essence of the people, resources, and place of the Bronx, and to enable the members of the community to co-create the borough's regeneration. Theme:  Regenerating the City
MAINE FOOD SYSTEM CREDIT PROJECT
A former pension fund manager moves from New York City to Maine on a quest to found the country's first Sustainable Agriculture Credit Union. 
Themes: Regenerating Finance 
Regnerating the Rural Community
Artist of the Field Guide, Matilda Essig (coming soon)
Painter, illustrator, and photographer Matilda Essig invites us to stop, look, listen, and engage our imaginations with the “sheer beauty of life forms” as expressed in her own work, and the work of the artists she revers.  
Theme: The Doors of Perception
e3BANK...ON THE ROAD TO AN INTEGRATED CAPITAL SYSTEM  
Sandy Wiggins tells the story of the years he and Frank Baldasarre spent trying to create e3bank, a financial institution with holistic values, and what he learned from the experience.
Theme: Regenerating Finance
Photo credit: Christiana Aretta
Global Alliance for Banking on Values (coming soon)
A network of global banks that are practicing regenerative finance today. 
Theme: Regenerating Finance
Carbon Sequestration in Communities of Extreme Poverty in the Sierra Gorda of Mexico (coming soon)
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Photo: Roberto Pedraza
A carbon offset project that earns income for farmers in the Sierra Gorda Reserve through small reforestations, providing benefits to local communities and helping to conserve biodiversity. 
Theme: Regenerating the Rural Community
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