Description
Catalyzing Regeneration for Over 25 Years
Hi I'm Mage. I've contributed my mycelial brain and compassion to the epic network of visionary leaders that is Bloom Network. Our Earth-changing approach, guided by Indigenous wisdom and shaped by grassroots leaders, redefines the role of social networks in supporting systemic transformation.
Since 2011, I’ve contributed over $500,000 of voluntary labor to build Bloom’s regenerative platform. The world can now see the see the beautiful impact happening across local regenerative nodes, and together, we've built the infrastructure to rapidly accelerate profound change. 🍄
My heroes in Bloom: Charles Mugarura, African business genius, Datu Lanelio Sangcoan (center), tribal chief of the Higa-onon in the Philippines, and Flávia Macêdo, leader of a successful regional currency project in Brazil. The hyperlinks bring you to their impact reports on Bloom where you can learn from them.
Regenerative R&D Since 2009
As a co-founder of BloomNetwork.earth, I've guided our community to develop a social network that prioritizes local empowerment and increases public participation in constructive solutions.
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Facilitated an extensive dialogue and healing process with Bloom's global organizers in over 30 countries, to design a system resilient to the power abuses prevalent in dominant financial and governance structures.
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Co-wrote Bloom's open source federated governance model for community-owned infrastructure, including sectors like technology, food, energy, and housing.
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Engineered Bloom's Regenerative Economic Protocol. It leapfrogs the investment gap to establishing lasting, place-based regenerative economies at both bioregional and global levels. I obtained several certifications in platform cooperatives and economics to invent it, and I'm unbelievably happy to say that it's working!!
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Ran our first Local Action Rewards funding round, incentivizing 75+ impact reports from local organizers worldwide, distributing $15,000. I built integrations with Inverter Network, Capsule Wallet, and Karma GAP, to make Web3 participation accessible to non-technical users, while streamlining reporting labor for grassroots leaders and increasing their visibility for grants. Last month I onboarded over 100 local impact doers to Web3 for the first time through our novel approach to retroactive public goods funding.
Education and Growth:
I have provided thousands of hours of business development guidance to cooperatives, venture studios, ecovillages, and other initiatives. This support has played a crucial role in establishing five stable regional regenerative economies in Uganda, the US, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil.
I played "human switchboard", sharing Local nodes' innovations with each other between the time our previous CEO suddenly took our social network down in 2012, and 2022. Our platform now facilitates direct peer-to-peer education across diverse issue areas our nodes have prototyped successful solutions in.
To start this journey, I trained for three years with Radical Women in women’s leadership and decentralized governance. I apply these principles to building decentralized finance tools, including a grants tool for the Ethereum Foundation.
Operational Support
I've contributed:
- Capacity Building: business development, grant writing, and communications for Local Organizers.
- Team Coordination: Led teams of dozens of professionals (Join us!) to develop a community-designed social platform.
- Platform Build: I upskilled to do our frontend development and graphic design. I also do our accounting, which has been useful in helping Local networks understand how to onboard to Web3.
- Revenue Sustainability: Positioned Bloom Network to become revenue-positive given, hopefully soon, strategic capital investment.
The cohesive operational support we’ve established as a global collective has enabled Bloom to be a driving force in the regenerative and bioregional movements for over 16 years.
Please support Meg Rivers and Danibelle Gennety’s Regen Citizen grant listings. They have contributed to Bloom Network since 2008 and 2013, respectively, based on world class careers in global telecomms, tech, and grants management, while being a single mother and grandmother.
Impact on Local Communities and Bioregions
My event production and local contributions have catalyzed 3 global movements alongside Bloom. I've been a local community organizer for 25 years. In the San Francisco Bay Area, I fostered collaboration between artists, activists, and technologists through events series like HiveMind, which blended elements of a hackathon, festival, and church.
- Facilitated connections that led to the successful decriminalization of plant-based entheogens in 10 cities, with over 100 cities engaging in similar policy efforts.
- Regen-Pilled Benjamin Life , who went on to start OpenCivics.
- Diverse movement leaders shared resources and methodologies to advance their missions and businesses.
- Cofounding a bioregional finance facility in the Northeast U.S. (Dawnlands).
2013:2024 - Chris Tittle, Sustainable Economies Law Center, at Hivemind at Cloud9 in Berkeley; NE BioFi initiation at Foundation House, Greenwich CT.
Feedback from events I’ve produced has been overwhelmingly positive: “life-changing,” “the most generative gathering of the pre-COVID era,” and “the most high-value gathering I’ve ever attended.”
The outcomes of my work empower communities to develop regenerative economies, sustain local businesses, and promote decentralized, nature-based governance.
What makes me most excited…
is thinking about Bloom transitioning from voluntary status to a fully resourced force. With the infrastructure we’ve built out, high-level talent will be able to exponentially increase the impact of the regenerative movement. We’ve answered the question: “How do you build a social network that unites diverse movements, shares knowledge, and channels revenue to regenerative communities instead of corporations? ” We built it with a phenomenal community of leaders, in a way no tech company could have achieved! I'm eager to connect more people to experiencing the effectiveness of community-led solutions, catalyzing transformative relationships at local, bioregional, and global levels. 🍄🌿