Glossary: the vocabulary of the Regenerative Renaissance

Regenerative Renaissance: a cultural and economic shift where human systems work with natural systems. Where sustainability maintains the status quo, regeneration actively rebuilds and restores degraded ecosystems, communities, and economies.

Infinite Game: a game played to continue playing rather than to win. ReGen Civics designs its fund, game, and governance for impact that compounds across generations.

Ecovillage: an intentional community designed around ecological regeneration, shared governance, and local economy, typically on rural land with food production and shared infrastructure.

Intentional community: a group of people who choose to live together or share resources around common values, spanning ecovillages, cohousing, land cooperatives, and community land trusts.

Bioregion: a geographic area defined by natural boundaries such as watersheds and ecosystems rather than political lines. Bioregionalism organizes economy and governance at this scale.

Regenerative finance (ReFi): financial systems designed to fund the restoration of ecosystems and communities, aligning returns with ecological and social health.

HEIST framework: Holistic Ecosystemic Impact and Sustainability Toolkit, our method for evaluating land projects across whole systems, interconnections, measurable outcomes, and long-term viability.

Nine forms of capital: financial, social, intellectual, material, living, cultural, spiritual, experiential, and health. The first eight come from Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua's 8 Forms of Capital (2011). ReGen Civics added health capital, meaning body vitality, wellness, movement, rest, and care. See why we added a ninth.

Crowd pooling (CCEC): community-centered economic cooperatives that let groups pool capital and collectively invest in regenerative projects they believe in.

Quest: a structured action producing measurable regenerative impact, completed by players, verified by peers, and rewarded in $ReGen tokens.

Gratitude economy: a system where thanks is tracked as social proof, raising the reputation and future earnings of contributors.

Regenerative ikigai: the intersection of what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for, applied to planetary restoration.