The Bioregional Builders initiative aims to enhance connectivity between builders, developers, and community organizers at the bioregional scale. This initiative facilitates collaboration to co-design infrastructures that support bioregions in regenerating their environments and creating regenerative economies. Through a series of online calls, a podcast, and potential in-person events, this initiative seeks to leverage the power of web3 to foster regenerative economies and new forms of bioregional and watershed governance.

Partners:
Bioregional Builders is an invitation to explore partnership between OpenCivics, Celo, ReFiDAO, Green Pill Network, Regenerate Cascadia, and others.

Objectives:

1. Increase connectivity between bioregional groups, blockchain developers, and coordination networks.
2. Facilitate collaboration to co-design infrastructures that support regenerative economies and fund regenerative collective action.
3. Organize hackathons in 2025 to deploy web3 infrastructure in bioregional contexts.
4. Raise awareness of bioregionalism within the web3 community and web3 within the bioregional community.
5. Map ReFi Local Node, GreenPill Local Chapters and other regionally based ReFi/Web3/Climate projects by bioregion.
6. Host a side event at New York Climate Week (contingent on funding).

Activities:

1. Online Calls:
   • Facilitate a series of online calls between bioregional groups, blockchain developers, and coordination networks.
   • Objectives of these calls:
     • Build relationships.
     • Identify collaboration opportunities.
     • Plan hackathons for 2025 to deploy web3 infrastructure in local communities.
2. Podcast:
   • Host a guest season of the Green Pill podcast titled "Bioregional Builders."
   • Focus on telling the story of bioregionalism and applying its design principles in Web3.
   • Hosted by Benjamin Life and Todd Youngblood.
   • Increase awareness of bioregionalism in the Web3 community.
3. Hackathons:
   • Organize hackathons in 2025.
   • Bioregional community organizers lead these hackathons to determine how to deploy web3 infrastructure locally.
4. New York Climate Week Side Event:
   • Host an event during New York Climate Week (contingent on funding and partnerships).
   • Focus on the intersection between bioregionalism and web3.
   • Increase visibility and engagement with the initiative.
5. Mapping Initiatives
   • Providing a database for bioregional and web3 groups to make visible place-based relationships and networks

Outcomes:

• Strengthened relationships between bioregional groups and web3 developers.
• Co-designed infrastructures supporting regenerative economies and collective action.
• Increased awareness and understanding of bioregionalism within the web3 community.
• Successful hackathons deploying web3 infrastructure in bioregional contexts, with participatory design led by bioregional partners
• Enhanced visibility of bioregionalism and web3 integration at New York Climate Week.
• Mapped relationships to support ongoing collaboration.

Funding Requirements:

• Lower Funding Level: Coordination and podcast production.
• Higher Funding Level: Host in-person event at New York Climate Week and organize hackathons in 2025.

Project Leadership:

• The initiative is facilitated as a collaborative initiative within the OpenCivics network.
• Co-led by stakeholders from Celo, RefiDAO, OpenCivics, and bioregional partners who will be invited to participate.
• Key Stewards: Benjamin Life and Todd Youngblood.

Conclusion:
The Bioregional Builders initiative represents a transformative approach to integrating bioregional principles with cutting-edge web3 technologies. By fostering collaboration, innovation, and participatory co-design, this initiative aims to build regenerative infrastructures and economies that sustain and enhance bioregional communities.