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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...
Diamante Bridge Collective forms Costa Rican Asociacion Colectiva
The Diamante Bridge Collective has been founded as a Costa Rican Asociacion Colectiva with 28 signers of the constitution. https://twitter.com/DiamanteBridge/status/1473114343696965633 The constitution is in Spanish, here:...
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,...
No War But Class War
Portsmouth Creative Collective joined protestors Friday, February 11, to oppose escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine. No U.S. intervention! No NATO expansion! No war with Russia! No war in Ukraine!
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...
Green Drinks At The Book Club
The Portsmouth Creative Collective welcomes locals to join us for the new monthly Green Drinks meetup at The Book Club (620 High Street Portsmouth, Va) for a chance to gather and chat with people who care about environmentalism, ecology, and sustainability. Time:5:30...
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:...
Trainers of Trainees Permaculture Programme
Broadfield Permaculture Group I Education Department. (Bloom Kampala) Introduction to the TOT – Trainers of Trainees This curriculum is by Broadfield Permaculture, a local Bloom based in Kampala, Uganda. We teach trainers to teach permaculture in schools across...
Permaculture Community Gardens with Bloom Stroud
So been a slow burn startup here in Stroud, but eventually I have managed to hook up with Save The Oaks project here in the UK https://savetheoaks.org/ - initially I was going to plant 100 oak saplings, as my small part of the 50,000 national rollout this season, I...
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...
Building Bioregional Food Systems Post-COVID 19: The Northeast Healthy Soil Network & the power of regional food system reform consortium work
COVID-19 has reminded us, perhaps as never before, that we need an overhaul, not only of our health care system, but our food system as well. [1] As a steady stream of studies and articles point out, a priority of future food system policy should be 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...
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