​Our 21-member Collective includes representatives from the Mashantucket Pequot and Eastern Pequot Tribal Nations, the Inter-Tribal Alliance, the Alliance for the Mystic River Watershed, Aton Forest, Bio-Based Materials Collective (BBMC), Center for an Ecology-Based Economy (CEBE), Connecticut River Valley Bioregioning Collaborative, Design School for Regenerating Earth, Garrison Institute, Mycelial Law, Northeast Healthy Soils Network (NEHSN), Sirius Ecovillage, and Wellspring Commons. This constellation has significant and deep expertise in social and ecological systems transformation.

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This team is supported by network and blockchain finance experts from Bloom Network, Capital Institute, r3.0, and Regen Foundation. Our members have conventional finance and investment banking experience, including managing DAFs, investment funds, and private placements; finance innovation experience, including DAO governance, community lending pools, federated cooperatives, retroactive public goods funding; and government grants.

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To further expand our diverse networks, we are actively communicating with and recruiting other key bioregional actors and working diligently to expand leadership and peer organizing to fully include the movements we aim to support.

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Co-led by intertribal groups, we are bringing together diverse stakeholders to strengthen relationships and create regenerative pathways for people and the planet. Our core goal is to increase coherence among regional actors currently working in largely siloed ways to address the interdependence of our regional challenges through systemic interventions.

 

Where is our Bioregion? For us, bioregions are biocultural - our bioregion is the Northeastern Woodlands Biome and Algonquin speaking cultural zone that includes regions commonly referred to as the “Northeast,” “New England,” the “Canadian Maritimes” and “the Dawnlands.” 

 

What is Regeneration? Humans working with Mother Earth and all our relations to heal, thrive, and flourish - creating vibrant forests, farms, fisheries, communities, and economies in the process. When we take care of the land, the land takes care of us

 

Mission: To regenerate our land, water, and communities by supporting Indigenous resurgence in culture, knowledge, and governance and by transforming human systems and cultural practices to be reciprocal with natural ones. 

 

Vision: We envision a bioregion where all beings can experience belonging and care within thriving interconnected ecosystems; where regional foods flow abundantly from healthy soils, forests, and fisheries; where the energy needs of all inhabitants are met in ways that promote ecological and social wellness; where communities actively foster the creativity and connection needed to develop a more regenerative and resilient built environment; the ways we meet our material needs embody our values; where poverty is eliminated and wealth is built collaboratively; and where the unique gifts of every individual and culture are honored, respected, and celebrated.

 

What Values do We Bring to This Work?  We commit bioregional regeneration with the values of respect, reciprocity (mutual aid), responsibility, and collaboration. We  commit to rebuilding right relations with the original inhabitants and co-creators of this landscape, the Algonquin speaking peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands. By addressing ongoing and historical violence against people and the land, we seek to heal and create a regenerative path forward for humanity. 

How do We Propose Embodying and Implementing These Values? By developing 1) a co-governance framework recognizing Tribal sovereignty and supporting self determination in collaboration with the nascent Intertribal Alliance for the Regeneration of Ancestral Waterways, and including the diverse regenerative orgs and actors in our region; 2) Supporting the development of bioregional learning centers and a knowledge commons around regional history, conditions, and potential regenerative futures; 3) Collaboratively developing a bioregional regeneration strategy that articulates and identifies synergies between the regeneration of culture, governance, food systems, health, watersheds, housing, energy, and infrastructures; and 4) The development of a Bioregional Finance Facility to channel funding towards regenerative interventions and enterprises.​​