🌍💧 What if a watershed could define an economy?
What if tokens were backed not by speculation, but by the real regenerative potential of land, water, and community?
After years designing landscapes across Portugal and Africa—always asking “what would it take to truly regenerate a region?”—I started exploring the missing link: finance.
Today, I’m sharing something new:
📄 A white paper draft on regenerative, decentralized economics—rooted in bioregional logic.
The Mira River Basin, where I live and work, became the prototype.
A real place, with real challenges—and now, the seed of a radically different economic model.
This is early-stage thinking, blending:
🔹 Watershed-based planning
🔹 Commons and decentralized governance
🔹 Blockchain-backed local currencies
🔹 And a new way to define “market cap”—one that includes forests, water, food systems, the active population, their skills, services and products, and the commons.
I don’t come from the world of finance—I come from the land.
As a designer working with water, soil, and communities, I’ve seen firsthand how the economy either regenerates or depletes life.
This paper is my attempt to bridge those worlds.
To root economic thinking in the realities of place, of people, and of ecosystems.
I’d truly value your thoughts—whether they come as questions, critiques, or ideas.
This is the beginning of a deeper conversation, and it’s one we can’t build alone.
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