The BioFi Project

Come work with us on a Bioregional Fund for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters! Candidates should be based in Ecuador or Peru. More details in the scope of work below. #biofi #bioregionalism #amazonprotection #indigenousguardianship

We are very excited to share our latest publication, "A Guide to Bioregional Mapping & Planning." This was written by The BioFi Project's own Félix de Rosen, but input came from so many allies and collaborators (many tagged below) and of course was inspired by Gaian intelligence and Indigenous knowledge systems. The BioFi Project hopes this can be a resource which serves folks working in a range of contexts to reconnect with and regenerate their place. #bioregionalism #investinlife #ecologicalplanning #regeneration

Happy Earth Day! To celebrate 🌍 we are launching Season 3 of the 4Nature Podcast with this inspiring conversation between David Meyers, Kim Bonine, and Samantha Power, Co-Founder & Director of the BioFi Project. 💧 What if money flowed through landscapes like water - nurturing life and creating abundance - instead of extracting value and leaving depletion behind? From community-governed trusts to venture studios supporting Indigenous entrepreneurs, BioFi's four models challenge the assumption that finance must operate in opposition to nature. Already transforming economic relationships from California to the Amazon, these approaches build local capital aligned with living systems rather than extracting wealth from them. Join this paradigm-shifting conversation to discover not just how to increase investment in nature, but how to fundamentally reimagine our relationship with capital to serve life itself. 👂Listen anywhere you get your podcasts, and check out Samantha's book "Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet" to learn more about her innovative approach. https://lnkd.in/emX3kUwq

🌲 One of the most exciting things to watch since launching The BioFi Project 10 months ago has been how the meme has spread and taken on a life of its own! One of the most exciting ways this has manifested is in the amazing Regenerate Cascadia team taking on the task of organizing the first ever 'Cascadia BioFi Conference' in Seattle from May 16-18. 🌊 We are so inspired by what Brandon Letsinger, Clare Attwell, Darren Zal, Taya Seidler, and team are creating with this gathering! The BioFi Project team is very excited to be represented there by the brilliant Michelle Lee who will be setting some context on what BioFi is at the opening. 🐝 The BioFi Project team has also been passing along names of amazing thinkers, doers, and creators in this space to the organizers and we are sure this is going to be a catalytic gathering to bring more financial flows back into alignment with the flows of life. 💸 If you are BioFi curious and are wanting to find ways to plug into the space, or wanting to get more deeply engaged in the bioregional movement in Cascadia, this is a great event to be a part of! Tyler and I will be cheering the team on from down here in Redwood Nation as we wrap up our BioFi Cultivator. 🤓 If you go, we'd love to hear what you learn and what you would like to learn more about in this space together! Feel free to share if you'll be there and what you'll be bringing in the comments below. 🔗 Link to the conference and our take on what BioFi is in the comments. #biofi #refi #regeneration #investinlife #BFFs

We are very excited to share our BioFi Resource Garden! 🌿 🌳 🌼

The BioFi Project is so excited to be co-designing a Bioregional Fund with the brilliant and big-hearted Alianza Cuencas Sagradas team! Check out their recap of the BFF Design Workshop we co-hosted together in Quito last month. Stay tuned for how this develops! cc: our workshop facilitators - Tyler Wakefield and Samantha Power - and our incredible ACS allies - Uyunkar Domingo Peas, Atossa Soltani, Karla Maass, and Rafaela Iturralde.

🌿 The BioFi Brief – Equinox Edition is live! We hope each of you is tuning in to the equalizing days and nights at this beautiful time of the year and cultivating balance in your life. In this edition of our quarterly newsletter, we will share what we’ve been up to since the Solstice, including launching some exciting updates and new resources: 🤓 Our newly launched BioFi Resource Garden a ‘garden’ of multi-capital resources that we believe can support bioregional organizers 🌏 Progress from the 2025 BioFi Cultivator cohort of 21 bioregional organizing teams from across Central, South America, North America, and the Pacific 🌀 Deepening BFF Co-Design Partnerships with Amazon Sacred Headwaters and Salmon Nation CoLabs 🥾 Reflections from Samantha Power and Tyler Wakefield's fruitful trip to the Amazon, co-hosting a Bioregional Fund Design Workshop with ASHA 📚 The BioFi Book is now available in Spanish (!) 🌲 Upcoming BioFi and partner events like the Cascadia BioFi Conference hosted by our friends Regenerate Cascadia We are constantly learning, from all of the regenerators we are in relationship with and from our direct experiences, how much on-the-ground, bioregional work can do to balance us. This work reconnects us with our agency, our communities, and the living fabric of our garden planet – even as so much around us feels uncertain.

Join us on Wednesday, Mar 19 for our next BioFi Deep Dive!

This week my team at The BioFi Project and I launched the 1st cohort of our 'BioFi Cultivator' learning and design journey. And we could not be more excited about it. While all parts of the BioFi journey so far have been valuable, this is the part I have most been looking forward to! When we get to build financial institutions that serve high-integrity, biocultural regeneration and raise capital into them so that resources may flow to life. We are embarking on this journey with 19 incredible bioregional leadership teams (BLTs!). While we are in relationship with amazing teams around the world, as a place-based initiative, we decided to focus this first Cultivator on the Americas - where most of our team are based. We have one practice group based in North America and one in Central and South America (see comments for the list of these BLTs and read more about them on the Cultivator Notion page). Through the BioFi Cultivator, we will deliver a curriculum (with input from our amazing partner network) to support these BLTs to design, create, capitalize, and implement the world's first Bioregional Financing Facilities. We are asking: 'what are the most important people and activities we could invest in in these times?,' building portfolios of those projects, raising aligned capital, telling stories about these important investments, and building relationships foundational to it all along the way. We will be regularly harvesting learnings from the Cultivator to share with the broader BioFi Community of Practice (https://lnkd.in/g_63aCra). We will also bring some of these Cultivator teams to share what they're working on in our BioFi Field Building Calls (calendar here: https://lnkd.in/gD5DaJtc). Amidst a great sense of loss, turmoil, and angst in North America and around the world, we are also feeling a profound sense of hope about the potential for the emerging and resurgent bioregional and regenerative economics movements this year. And particularly how those movements can weave together with the powerful, tireless work of Indigenous communities. Amidst the increased dysfunction and collapse of old systems, as well as the loss of bioregional ways of life, ecosystems, structures, and perceived stability, there is space for new institutions and new ways of seeing and being to emerge. The BioFi Project team is very excited to spend 2025 bringing #BFFs4Life to life. Stay tuned for more! Grateful as always to the brilliant Tyler Wakefield, Edward West, Taya Seidler, and Karla Lopez for their support in making this possible. We are also SO excited to add the amazing Michelle Lee to The BioFi Project team that's hosting the Cultivator. You'll be seeing more of her soon! https://lnkd.in/g3S7PiVm #biofi #bioregionalism #regeneration #grassroots #powerbuilding #investinlife

I am very excited to share that the BioFi book is now available in Spanish! (https://lnkd.in/gHZqMHuY) It came out Monday - the day Tyler Wakefield and I arrived in Ecuador for a three week trip to work with the incredible Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance. We are celebrating this beautiful timing and are hopeful that this translation will allow the book to serve more people in Central and South America and beyond in funding the biocultural regeneration of their places and transitioning to regenerative, bioregional economies. I have shared previously about the BioFi Cultivator (https://lnkd.in/gicufw2k) that the BioFi Project launched in January. In parallel to running this program, The BioFi Project team will be deeply engaged in ‘BFF Co-Design Partnerships’ with two of the bioregional organizing teams participating in the Cultivator. After a several month-long sensemaking and relationship building process that was guided by the question of “how to best serve the whole?” the BioFi Project carefully selected Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance and Salmon Nation CoLabs as its first BFF Co-Design Partners based on on a multitude of factors. You can read more about our BFF Co-Design Partnership program here: https://lnkd.in/gf5G8_iv. It is an honor to be traveling to the Amazon for my first time to the territories of the Achuar and Sapara peoples to learn more about their ways of listening to, learning from, and tending to that sacred forest. It is truly a dream come true to get to serve the heart of the Earth in this way. The Amazon is nearing a tipping point. Resourcing and empowering its Indigenous stewards to act synergistically is absolutely urgent and critical to averting the Sixth Mass Extinction. All life on Earth depends on the health of the Amazon and the rain that it generates. A huge thanks to Atossa Soltani and Belén Páez for inviting us to support their truly transformative work in this way, to Manari Ushigua (https://lnkd.in/gxF9Q9nJ) and Uyunkar Domingo Peas for welcoming us in as they have and sharing their wisdom, to Rafaela Iturralde for doing such an incredible job organizing the trip to the jungle, to our amazing translator María del Mar Iturralde Barba for so carefully translating the very unique BioFi language so that it can be best understood in Spanish, and to Edward West, Tyler Wakefield, and Karla Lopez for their thoughtful contributions to this process. Thanks to my co-author Leon Seefeld and our co-publishers Dark Matter Labs Buckminster Fuller Institute. #regeneratetheamazon #investinlife #biofi #regenerativeeconomics