Choose the one that matches where you are. Paste it after the library.
Ask for governance drafts, land trust comparisons, facilitation plans, or the economics of your first community.
Design me a 4-week self-directed course for someone who wants to join or start a regenerative community. Include what to explore online and reflection questions for each week.
I want to start a regenerative community of 20 to 40 people on land in [your region]. Walk me through the key decisions I need to make and the tools I should be using at each stage.
Help me design a governance structure for a new intentional community that is consent-based, values land stewardship, and can scale. Give me a draft framework I can take to my founding group.
I have been involved in regenerative community work for [X years]. What are the newest tools, platforms, and movements I should be plugging into that I might not know about yet?
What does a regenerative community's financial model look like? Walk me through the key revenue streams, cost structures, and how a community land trust keeps housing permanently affordable.
How are AI and technology being used to support regenerative communities right now? What should I be paying attention to and experimenting with?
Help me prepare for a Village Consultation with Future Villages. Here is my land or land search, my people, my budget and my timeline: [details]. What should I bring, and what questions should I ask?
Maps ecovillages globally and offers design cards, courses, and a deep resources hub. If you want to see what regenerative community looks like at scale across diverse geographies and cultures, this is your map. Its annual and regional conferences are some of the most concentrated practitioner gatherings anywhere.
The most comprehensive directory of intentional communities worldwide, with maps, profiles, and a free Starter Guide PDF. Essential first stop for anyone researching, joining, or starting a community.
Practical guidance on joining or starting intentional communities, built from firsthand visits to 200+ communities. Founder Cynthia Tina authored the 2025 book Intentional Community.
Immersive, firsthand tours of functioning ecovillages. Seeing real communities in action bridges the gap between theory and practice. Nothing replaces it.
Connects people around regenerative gatherings, events, and community-building globally. A good hub for finding in-person learning and connection across the network.
Annual impact-focused festival in Oslo gathering entrepreneurs, investors, and changemakers around the future of humanity and the planet. One of the most energizing cross-sector events for people working at the intersection of technology, impact, and regenerative systems.
Curated legal structures, governance frameworks, funding guides, group process tools, podcasts, and software for residential intentional communities. Underused and genuinely practical.
An all-volunteer nonprofit building open source blueprints for sustainable and regenerative cities, covering housing, food, energy, education, social architecture, and economics. Their Duplicable City Center model is designed to be replicated and adapted. As comprehensive as it gets for full-stack community infrastructure design.
Actively maintained open-source wiki covering regenerative systems from composting to solar to water catchment. Think of it as a community-edited reference library for appropriate technology, updated regularly by practitioners and university programs worldwide.
Structured frameworks are starting points, not ceilings. Paste the principles from any of these into an AI and ask it to generate a governance structure tailored to your community's size, values, and context.
The most widely used consent-based governance framework adapted for communities and cooperatives. Worth knowing as a conceptual model, even if you use AI to customize it for your situation rather than following it prescriptively.
North American hub for community land trust legal structures, affordability covenants, and land stewardship models. Relevant for any community looking to hold land in perpetuity outside speculative markets.
Global hub for participatory democracy covering citizens' assemblies, participatory budgeting, and participatory policymaking. Their Participation Playbook is one of the most practical tools available for communities designing real decision-making infrastructure.
Online courses on ecovillage design, regenerative systems, and community development integrating the social, ecological, economic, and cultural dimensions. A structured learning path and a respected credential in the ecovillage world.
Regenerative innovation campus in Interlaken, Switzerland, backed by Ethereum co-founder Mihai Alisie. A living experiment in what a regenerative technology campus looks like when you combine blockchain infrastructure, ecological design, and intentional community. One of the most serious attempts to build a physical node for the Web3 and regenerative movements together.
Future Villages at Etherlaken →Month-long popup villages for builders in tech, science, and culture. Live experiments in governance, community currencies, healthy living, and new town design. A real-time laboratory for what opt-in community formation looks like when you remove legacy friction. Each event is both a gathering and a working prototype.
Residential startup society blending skills, health, and community governance. An interesting experiment in intentional residential culture combined with intensive learning.
Core framework for digital-first communities evolving into physical ones. Available free online. Increasingly relevant as communities explore parallel governance structures alongside physical infrastructure like Geoship domes.
This is the frontier of co-creation. These tools are being integrated into regenerative and civic systems in ways that serve communities rather than extract from them.
The most capable AI for the nuanced, context-rich work regenerative community builders do. Use it to draft governance documents, community agreements, land trust structures, meeting facilitation guides, grant applications, and vision documents, all adapted to your specific context and jurisdiction. Paste this entire library in and start a conversation.
For communities serious about data sovereignty: an on-premise AI appliance that runs 2,000+ open source models locally with no cloud required and no data egress. Sets up in 15 minutes. This is what community-owned AI infrastructure looks like.
Open-source social platform built specifically for purpose-driven organizations and communities. Better privacy, better group coordination tools, and better values alignment than mainstream platforms. Used by GEN-affiliated communities and regenerative organizations globally.
Ecosystem platform uniting individuals, companies, and communities through the intersection of heart and technology to regenerate the planet. Connects people and projects across the regenerative movement with a focus on both relational and technical capacity.
Open-source participatory democracy platform originally built for Barcelona City Council, now used by hundreds of cities, cooperatives, and organizations worldwide. Supports participatory budgeting, proposals, assemblies, surveys, and voting under a social contract designed to protect democratic principles.
Open-source platform for managing food hubs, CSAs, buying clubs, and local food economies. Directly applicable for communities building closed-loop food distribution systems.
Ecological engineer and National Geographic Explorer merging ecology and technology through the "Internet of Nature" framework: mapping, monitoring, managing, and reconnecting community nature using sensors, data, and ecological science. Her book The Nature of Our Cities is a number one Amazon bestseller. Her podcast and Substack are worth following for ongoing thinking.
Platform connecting AI innovators with global challenges including sustainable cities, food systems, and climate resilience. A useful entry point for communities exploring how AI can serve regenerative goals.
A civic AI platform in active development using LangGraph and Model Context Protocol to build community-scale coordination tools: a knowledge commons, coordination engine, and impact dashboard. One of the more serious real-world attempts at AI-native civic infrastructure for an actual community. Worth watching as a model for others exploring similar infrastructure.
The most important systems-thinking framework for regenerative community and cultural design. Situates community-building within a broader civilizational context. Read the book or follow his writing online.
Podcast and public work on regenerative economies, food systems, and symbiotic futures with a Symbiocene framing. Good for situating community-scale work within planetary-scale thinking. His Symbiocene and ALOHAS events connect local community design to planetary regeneration.
Aggregates articles, books, podcasts, and videos across ecovillage design, regenerative systems, and community governance. One of the best single places to find curated multimedia content.
A community that has been operating for 30 years sharing what they've learned. One of the most mature practitioner podcasts available.
Share a resource you've actually used, and say why it helped. A person reviews every submission, and accepted resources are credited to you by name.