Bloom Blog
Latest news and events from regenerative culture communities around the world
Preview of Bloom Network’s forthcoming platform
Thanks to our supporters on Gitcoin and Giveth, Bloom is now 3/4 complete with the social platform our community needs to connect with each other and the public. Here's a preview of what it includes! Public Features: Find your local Bloom to participate in...
Financial Report, Gitcoin Grants Round 12
Gitcoin Grants Listing for Bloom Network How were the funds allocated? $2200 Hannah Mitchell, facilitating the first Bloom Womb Pod to incubate regenerative projects $7000 Magenta Ceiba, DAO governance and tokenomics $20,000 Dustin and Danielle Kieb of Brainfog,...
Bloom Update
A couple local Bloom hubs in particular are popping off right now! Broadfield Permaculture Uganda Permaculture Arboretum Model is a forthcoming report that we are publishing through the University of Swansea in Wales. It describes the cooperative farm approach and how...
Save the Nudibranchs! (video)
Travel in the NudiBrilliant ‘submarine’ and visit 4 locations in the world with scientists studying nudibranchs.
Nature’s Spirit Speaks Through Art – June 2021 Theme Call
This Quarter’s Community Call featured two incredible Nature Artists, each tapping into World Gaia wisdom to share messages through their paintings. Introducing Luis Tamani and Jon Ching. You can watch the video of the call on Bloom Vision, our Youtube channel:...
What Happens in Local Blooms?
Today I gave a talk as part of MetaFest, a conference/hackathon/festival by MetaGame who are building tools for better human collaboration via Web 3 (crypto, blockchain etc). I tend to be more like the systems engineer for Bloom so I'm not always the best person to...
Nudibranch Dance deferred to September!
A blog from Hannah, Community Support for Bloom Network. Community Calls with Bloom Network in 2020 were an epic series of great topics and guests, ranging from Future Economies, Distributed Manufacturing & Bioregional Production, introduced people to the...
Bloom Network Development Blog
Hello there. I'm Magenta, and I'm working on some prototypes for Bloom Network's next website. We've reached a point as a collective where we need more app-like functionality with our site, to encourage peer-to-peer resource sharing among Bloom members and the public...
Muda: experimenting other economies based on happiness and abundance 🙂
Bloom Rio de Janeiro Reposted from the original blog on Cambiatus' Medium page: https://medium.com/cambiatus/muda-experimenting-other-economies-based-on-happiness-and-abundance-b31441f42f0d By Luiz Hadad My first Cambiatus post will share experiences participating...
Crypto Training – Bloom Diamante
Diamante Bridge Collective - Crypto Training Diamante Bloom in Costa Rica hosted a training on December 4, 2020, to teach their community how to use digital wallets, exchange crypto, and about basic tokenomics. The workshop happened at Diamante Luz. The desired...
Web3 Training, Sunday Dec 13
When: Sunday, December 13 2020, 5-6pm Eastern US Time Where: Bloom Network's Discord, in the Video Chat channel: https://discord.gg/AmgxJuQkas (Discord is a chat program built by/for gaming communities.)What: Learn how to use Ethereum and cryptocurrency, by donating...
Urban Soil Regeneration Project
by Hannah Mitchell, Bloom Whangarei, New Zealand An example of the kinds of things we can be doing to transform narratives around climate change, is helping design "how-to" guides for our local communities, on putting into practise hands-on regenerative practises that...
Bloom Network Governance Whitepaper
Bloom Network's governance whitepaper summarizes ten years of R&D across eleven countries. Throughout, we describe social and technical practices we have found effective for bioregional governance and rebalancing unjust power dynamics of today’s centralized...
Merry Christmush Art Exchange
This Christmas we are initiating an art exchange, on the theme of Mushrooms! Merry Christmush to everyone! The idea is for people around the world to make mushroom art, and send them to other Bloomers as Christmas presents. In a way we are activating our own mycelial...
Dancing to DisCO!
Future Economies II - October 2020 Focus Community Call LINK to raw transcript - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RedQsPEqZLGh9AzbWf7pfhB-J5hihFvDaIuHqTrNQTY/edit?usp=sharing VIDEO of this call SUMMARY KEYWORDS: DisCO(s), cooperative, people, commons, work...
Educar+ Education, Culture and Social Currency in Brazil
by Flávia Gonçalves Macêdo reposted from Bloom's member forumDear all, I would like to ask a little space and support to share two projects I am involved in and really proud of and also to share a bit of my story. I am Flávia, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and I am the...
Bloom Zoom
Did you know that Bloom Network is entirely based on collaboration? Rather than circumscribing existing groups under one umbrella, Bloom members collaborate with each other to create well-being in their communities. One way to illustrate this is to share what Bloom...
Distributed Manufacturing // Bioregional Production – August 2020 Theme Call
With panelists Kevin Carson, senior fellow of Center for a Stateless Society & author of The Desktop Regulatory StateJosephine Watson, a researcher organizing regional food system networksLorenzo Kristov who facilitates transitions to localized renewable energy...
Music in Bloom
One of my dreams is to be able to find amazing music and art through Bloom Network. I don't know how common this is, but I find it difficult to find music with lyrics I can relate with. At the same time, I love pop music and how tight the production is. So, I'll start...
Community Call Videos
Greetings blooming ones,Here are a few recordings from Bloom's monthly Community Calls. To view the whole archive, join as a member of Bloom. We ask for a small monthly subscription to help cover costs of coordinating these calls and instigating regenerative actions...
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