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Local Adoption Pilot Projects

Assigned to: Fabi

Anchoring the global vision and purpose of SEEDS in local communities

Most of us were drawn to SEEDS because we care a lot about the future of life on planet Earth, and because we feel a calling towards regeneration. In SEEDS, this is often called the Regenerative Renaissance.

SEEDS, at its core, is about exploring, co-creating and gifting humanity – as steward of this amazing Earth – a diversity of tools, systems, resources, and cultures designed to joyfully co-create thriving civilizations [1]. 

Samara Branches' purposes is to make these tools, systems, resources and cultures for a Regenerative Renaissance accessible to leaders of change in the regenerative movement. As a decentralized community we foster and support grassroots movements, local initiatives, and indigenous communities in service of regeneration. Samara is here to support and empower change makers and regenerators to go out on their own and work toward systemic change on the ground in a democratic and autonomous way.

What is our understanding of a Pilot Project?

A  pilot project is defined as «an activity planned as a test or trial» [2]. As such, local adoption pilot projects aim at experimenting and testing out strategies and different approaches to activating local communities and plugging them into the SEEDS ecosystem – spreading both Seeds and SEEDS to support the Regenerative Renaissance. Pilot projects prepare the soil for SEEDS to grow and manifest its abundant regenerative potential. 

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Pilot Projects are initiated and led by SEEDS Ambassadors in their own context where they are active as change makers and regenerators. They listen and learn from the people on the ground to find the appropriate tools and approaches that deeply resonate with them and their needs.
We are asking the questions: What can we offer? How can we support local regenerators and change makers? How can we translate the available tools to make them accessible and useful?

Pilot projects come in all shapes and sizes whether you're in a small community or in a large city; if you have an idea how to spread Seeds and regenerate our Earth, then you're welcome to launch a pilot project. 

Pilot projects can be about...

  • weaving together local businesses to adopt Seeds as a transactional currency
  • helping regional incubators to form their minimum viable organization or decentralizing existing organizations
  • establishing a market platform to connect local producers, shops, restaurants and consumers to provide healthy and nutritious food
  • making sustainable & regenerative products and services (including educational offerings) more visible and accessible
  • making (non-monetary) value flows visible and attributing and distributing value to contributions
  • creating a knowledge sharing platform / stakeholder mapping / database
  • creating a crowdfunding platform to finance regenerative projects through participatory budgeting
  • creating and using a local token to strengthen the local economy
  • enhancing mutual support and collaboration in an existing network
  • offsetting carbon emissions locally (CO2 compensation schemes for individuals and orgs, linking them to local regenerative projects)

The insights and knowledge gained from the work in Pilot Projects are fed back to the global SEEDS ecosystem to further support and cross-pollinate local adoption pilots.
We continuously ask the question: What are we learning? 

I feel the inner transformation and human development is missing here. Perhaps someone can add? (@Drigo? Justin?) "Supporting local regenerators includes providing a framework for personal practice for inner transformation, leadership and growth. A regenerator needs to first and foremost take care of self, of intimate relationships, before he or she is empowered to regenerate society and beyond...." - FV

Objectives of Pilot Projects

It’s always good to start a pilot with a clear understanding of objectives – not only for you as the host / Ambassador, but also for everyone you speak with to join you. 

  1. Serve humanity and the planet with love, in practical and enjoyable ways
  2. Support the local sustainability / regenerative movement 
  3. Support regenerative organizations, social enterprises and grassroots movements
  4. Provide easy and joyful ways for people to coordinate and collaborate towards positive impact 
  5. Introduce a wider audience to better financial and governance systems, recognizing that many of our major problems come from today's dominant financial and governance systems
  6. Finding ways to collaborate towards building a long term, decentralized, democratic platform 
  7. Link local movements to an international movement and global network of regenerators
  8. To provide meaningful jobs / livelihood for the people running pilots 

Food as the foundation for regenerative life

We see food that is nutritious and healthy for the people and the planet as a foundation of this Regenerative Renaissance.

We have come to a very clear realization that the fundamental way we interact with Earth and practice self care is via the way we produce and consume food. Our diets play a key role in the impoverishment of our environment and at the same time in healing ourselves and our planet.

It is for this reason that we first focus on supporting pilot projects connected to the food system – making local regenerative food accessible to the local population

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Sources of Local Adoption Pilot Projects to input data into the Pilot Project Database

  • campaign co-op proposals
  • Ambassador Academy
  • welcome-community channel

[1] see SEEDS Constitution V 0.1.0 

[2] https://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/pilot%20project

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