This all comes from the perspective of someone new to the idea, but the hope is that we can go on this journey together and meet a lot of wonderful people and projects along the way. So, for this week’s R Planet Together discussion, we are going to be looking at Regenerative Finance - what it stands for, how it works and why we need to get involved. At first I thought Regenerative Finance would be a new branding of these older concepts, which in some ways it is, but as I began to dig deeper and see the fantastic work being done I realised it was something new in its own right. In my previous life as a social justice and inclusive economics campaigner, I was familiar with many concepts that overlap with #ReFi - things like sustainable capitalism, microfinance, fair trade and the circular economy. People more concerned about the positive impact they were making for the planet as a whole than filling their own bank accounts.

Here were people using finance, crypto and web3 to change the world for the better. Suddenly I was seeing #ReFi everywhere, a refreshing change from the usual degen shill posts and engagement traps.

A member of the R Planet discord said we could see our efforts as regenerative (not knowing #ReFi herself) and from there… things took off. Do you ever hear about something for the first time and then start seeing it everywhere? This happened to me recently with Regenerative Finance.

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