<!-- YAML-SNAPSHOT:START --> | Key | Value | | --- | ----- | | **id** | regen-commons-principles | | **name** | Principles | | **description** | null | | **temporal focus** | null | | **scope** | null | | **function** | null | | **test** | null | <!-- YAML-SNAPSHOT:END --> ### **Life-Centered Stewardship** *Place the flourishing of life — human and more-than-human — at the center of decisions, designs, and actions.* - **Strong adherence**: Prioritizing life-supporting outcomes in all decisions, even if it means reduced profit, slower timelines, or added complexity. - **Weak adherence**: Using environmental or social considerations as one of several factors, but still centering growth or efficiency. - **Strong violation**: Actively exploiting people or ecosystems for gain, disregarding well-being entirely. - **Weak violation**: Overlooking ecological or human impacts in minor decisions (e.g., using extractive suppliers without due diligence). --- ### **Whole-Systems Thinking** *Work across ecological, social, cultural, and economic dimensions as interconnected parts of one living system.* - **Strong adherence**: Consistently designing with feedback loops and interdependencies in mind, seeking holistic outcomes. - **Weak adherence**: Occasionally recognizing system linkages, but treating domains (e.g., finance, ecology) as mostly separate. - **Strong violation**: Designing deliberately siloed, linear, or extractive systems that cause cascading harms. - **Weak violation**: Ignoring cross-system effects (e.g., ecological harm hidden by financial gains). --- ### **Reciprocity & Renewal** *Ensure that flows of value, energy, knowledge, and resources give back more than they take, fostering ongoing renewal rather than depletion.* - **Strong adherence**: Embedding reciprocity into all exchanges, ensuring surplus for people, places, and ecosystems. - **Weak adherence**: Giving back occasionally (e.g., donations, offsets, energy), but not proportionally or systemically. - **Strong violation**: Extracting resources, labor, or culture without giving back, leaving lasting depletion. - **Weak violation**: Taking more than is given in small ways (e.g., underpaying contributors, neglecting replenishment). --- ### **Equity & Justice** *Recognize and honor diverse ways of knowing, being, and belonging. Commit to fair and just participation in regenerative futures.* - **Strong adherence**: Centering equity in governance, redistributing resources, and embedding justice structurally. - **Weak adherence**: Including marginalized voices occasionally, but without shifting power or resources. - **Strong violation**: Excluding, exploiting, or actively marginalizing vulnerable groups. - **Weak violation**: Overlooking equity in decisions, tokenizing participation. --- ### **Relational Wealth** *Value trust, connection, and community as forms of wealth as essential as financial capital.* - **Strong adherence**: Actively cultivating trust, reciprocity, and community bonds as the foundation of work. - **Weak adherence**: Naming relationships as important, but treating them as secondary to transactions. - **Strong violation**: Exploiting relationships for gain, sowing distrust, or eroding community fabric. - **Weak violation**: Breaking small commitments, neglecting community care. --- ### **Resilience & Adaptability** *Design for flexibility, diversity, and adaptive capacity, ensuring continuity across generations.* - **Strong adherence**: Building redundancy, diversity, and adaptive feedback loops into every system. - **Weak adherence**: Having contingency plans but not integrating resilience deeply into operations. - **Strong violation**: Creating rigid systems that collapse under stress, harming people or ecosystems. - **Weak violation**: Ignoring signals of change, relying on brittle or centralized solutions. --- ### **Movement Building** *Act in ways that strengthen collective capacity — linking individuals, communities, and institutions into a regenerative movement greater than the sum of its parts.* - **Strong adherence**: Sharing resources, knowledge, and infrastructure to grow collective capacity and alignment. - **Weak adherence**: Participating in networks but prioritizing individual visibility or outcomes. - **Strong violation**: Fragmenting movements through competition, co-optation, or extraction of legitimacy. - **Weak violation**: Withholding contributions, failing to acknowledge interdependence. --- ### **Participation & Co-Creation** *Invite broad participation and distributed agency, trusting in collaborative intelligence to shape regenerative outcomes.* - **Strong adherence**: Distributing decision-making power and trusting collective processes. - **Weak adherence**: Inviting participation but retaining central control over decisions. - **Strong violation**: Actively excluding stakeholders, enforcing top-down control, suppressing co-creation. - **Weak violation**: Limiting participation to surface-level input, ignoring community wisdom. --- ### **Abundance Mindset** *Operate from the understanding that regeneration produces more possibility and vitality, not less, cultivating cultures of thriving rather than scarcity.* - **Strong adherence**: Designing systems that unlock shared value, cultivating cultures of generosity and thriving. - **Weak adherence**: Using abundance language but still acting from fear of scarcity. - **Strong violation**: Operating from fear and zero-sum extraction, perpetuating scarcity culture. - **Weak violation**: Hoarding resources, failing to share knowledge or opportunity.