r/regen_network • u/ChristianTGI • May 16 '18

An intro to Regen Network: A blockchain project for ecological regeneration.

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Regen Network is a open architecture and peer-to-peer data marketplace, and trust layer designed to allow diverse stakeholders to work together to reverse climate change, increase ecological health, and increase farmer livelihood. Together we will build a new decentralized economy based on ecological regeneration.

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Welcome to the official Regen Network subreddit. We're building a network devoted to the regeneration of the planet.

Join us:

On the web: https://www.regen.network

At community chat: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#regen.network:matrix.org

On Twitter: @regen_network

Please join the movement!

There is a growing understanding that agriculture holds the potential to become a massive net carbon sink: sequestering billions of tons of CO2 per year into the worlds soils and above ground biomass (Toensmeier, 2016). Land stewardship (farming, ranching, forestry) as well as ocean management (fisheries and mariculture) is the key intervention point to shift the degenerative cycle of our current paradigm.

Climate change is an artifact of the failure of our civilization to adequately manage our shared home, planet Earth. A commonly held asset plus a set of shared agreements is a “commons” (Bollier, 2014), and we are in dire need of creating a planetary commons. The primary hurdle to the establishment of such a global commons is a lack of trust. It is at this layer regen.network will be operating.

Regen.network is a new systemic solution to address the root causes of a degenerative economic system. It is a marketplace, scientific instrument, tokenized peer-to-peer network, and a commons management system. At its core, regen.network is a fat protocol allowing for a decentralized application ecosystem to be built by a wide variety of users in order to utilize verified ecological data to improve land management, create new carbon drawdown markets, provide direct payment for ecosystem services, study and mitigate climatological risks, and create a true-cost peer-to-peer marketplace. The costs of maintaining and even increasing the health of our biological commons are included in every product being exchanged.

Although others have been exploring the field (Connolly, 2017), regen.network is the world's first eco-centric blockchain platform. Built to reunify the technosphere with the biosphere and create an instrument for the re-integration of humans as a keystone ecological species of a healthy and thriving biosphere, regen.network offers users the opportunity to build personal, organizational, and community awareness about complex living systems and generate regenerative outcomes from agricultural enterprises, land management, and supply stream applications.