Resources
Curated books, tools, organizations, and thought leaders for those ready to explore regenerative economics and distributed infrastructure.
Mariana Mazzucato
Debunks the myth that innovation comes only from the private sector. Shows how public investment has driven every major technological revolution—and why it should lead the next one.
Learn more →Mariana Mazzucato
How Apollo-style missions can tackle climate change, inequality, and other grand challenges. Blueprint for mobilizing public and private sectors around shared goals.
Learn more →Mariana Mazzucato
Why the current economic model rewards value extraction over value creation. Essential reading for understanding how to reframe economic thinking.
Learn more →Elinor Ostrom
Nobel Prize-winning research on how communities successfully manage shared resources. The foundational text for understanding commons governance.
Learn more →Charles Eisenstein
Traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism and outlines transition to economics of interconnection and abundance.
Free online →Paul Stamets
How mushrooms can help save the world. Deep dive into fungal biology that inspires the mycelial economics metaphor. Both scientific and visionary.
Learn more →Mycologist
Describes mycelium as "earth's natural internet." His work on fungal networks provides the biological foundation for mycelial economics metaphors.
fungi.com →Forest Ecologist
Discovered the "wood wide web"—how trees communicate and share resources through underground fungal networks. Scientific basis for distributed cooperation.
suzannesimard.com →Holochain Co-founders
Architects of agent-centric distributed computing. Their work enables the technical infrastructure for peer-to-peer coordination without blockchain's limitations.
holochain.org →Writer
Popularized "Bitcoin is The Mycelium of Money" essay series connecting fungal biology to distributed systems. Bridge between technical and philosophical audiences.
brandonquittem.com →Open-source payment software powering 1,500+ community currencies worldwide. Free hosting available through Cyclos 4 Communities.
cyclos.org →Worker-cooperative decision-making platform. Multiple voting methods, discussion threads, and integration capabilities.
loomio.com →Comprehensive citizen participation platform. Budgeting, proposals, assemblies. Used by Barcelona and 300+ organizations worldwide.
decidim.org →Bioregional community platform by Terran Collective. Place-based mapping, ecological integration, and cross-community networking.
hylo.com →Agent-centric distributed application framework. Each participant maintains sovereignty while participating in shared networks.
holochain.org →Content-addressed peer-to-peer file system. Self-healing networks where data persists as long as any node stores it.
ipfs.tech →Connects 1,250+ mapped intentional communities worldwide. Resources for starting and sustaining regenerative communities.
ecovillage.org →Global movement of communities building resilience and reducing carbon emissions. Templates for local economic transition.
transitionnetwork.org →Leading voice for circular economy. Extensive case studies and frameworks for regenerative business models.
ellenmacarthurfoundation.org →Research and advocacy for commons-based peer production. Extensive wiki documenting alternative economic models.
p2pfoundation.net →Research and consulting on community wealth building. Supports development of worker cooperatives and community ownership.
democracycollaborative.org →Hub for regenerative finance movement. Connects projects using blockchain and crypto for environmental and social impact.
refidao.com →Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Standardized security assessment for cloud services used by government.
fedramp.gov →National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines and standards for cloud computing architecture.
nist.gov →Social network connecting government officials. Resources for public sector innovation and technology adoption.
govloop.com →Explore our technical documentation covering distributed systems, Rust programming, cloud-native patterns, and economic coordination frameworks.
book.univrs.io →The knowledge exists. The tools are available. What's missing is people putting it all together.