Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet Paperback – August 10, 2024

In the face of a deepening ecological crisis, a new approach to financing regeneration is urgently needed.Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet proposes a groundbreaking solution: a network of bioregional institutions designed to empower communities and channel financial resources to grassroots regeneration.As awareness of the polycrisis grows, a wave of capital is forming that is attempting to avert further ecological, social, and economic collapse. And yet, there is a significant risk that if this capital flows through a financial architecture rooted in the same inequitable power structures and logic based on abstraction, it will simply perpetuate, and perhaps even accelerate, existing extractive processes. At this pivotal moment, the authors propose a new layer in the global financial architecture, through the creation of Bioregional Financing Facilities to serve every bioregion on Earth.Bioregional Financing Facilities can drive the decentralization of financial resource governance, the design of project portfolios for systemic change, and the transition to a regenerative economy. They have the potential to become the connective tissue between financial resources and on-the-ground regenerators. They can achieve this by enabling integrated capital raised from a variety of sources to flow to aggregated portfolios of systemically coordinated and supported regenerative projects on the ground. In return, regeneration benefits can flow back to investors in a community-determined, non-extractive way. This book lays out how this infrastructure can put financial systems in service to life.What’s insideWhy we are at a turning point for the Earth and the financial sectorThe necessity of moving beyond “closing the nature finance gap”How we get financial resources to synergistic portfolios of bioregional regeneration projectsAn overview of Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) and their transformative potentialTemplates for four types of BFFs: the Bioregional Trust, Bioregional Venture Studio, Bioregional Investment Company, and Bioregional BankInnovative approaches for capitalizing BFFs12 inspiring case studies showcasing bioregional initiatives around the worldA provocative call to action for a wide range of stakeholdersAdvance Praise“Our institutions are no longer serving us. We must give birth to institutions that support a new kind of economy, a new kind of philosophy, a new kind of ontology, a new way of being on this planet. And Bioregional Financing Facilities can play a critical role in supporting that transition.”- Lynne Twist, Founder Pachamama Alliance“The regenerative economy I imagine MUST be built on a foundation of bioregionally adapted, landscape scale regeneration. Bioregional Financing Facilities are the critical missing infrastructure. A brilliant and timely clarion call!”- John Fullerton, Author of Regenerative Capitalism, and former Managing Director of JPMorgan"In the 50+ years of my work in the bioregional movement, I never imagined that anything like Bioregional Financing Facilities would come forth in my lifetime (or ever). BFFs provide a specific, fully integrated, comprehensive pathway for taking ecological economics and bioregionalism from the realm of the theoretical and visionary to operational implementation. In this astonishing work the epochal spiral comes around again in a living architecture of manifestation."- David Haenke, Author of Ecological Politics and Bioregionalism Read more