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we got us. if you're concerned about your and your community's wellbeing amidst ecological and institutional collapse and chaos, OpenCivics has your back. 👀 this space.

We're thrilled to welcome @bbaue to the next OpenCivics Network Assembly, May 19th at 9am PST, for a Civic Innovator Session: "Bioregional Carrying Capacities: Multicapital MRV" RSVP here: luma.com/iu3zx6ow Bill is Senior Director of r3.0 (Redesign for Resilience & Regeneration) — a global common-good platform crowdsourcing open recommendations for the transformations humanity needs amid ecological & social collapse, toward a regenerative, distributive economy. He's spent decades doing the patient, rigorous work of digging past greenwashing and impactwashing. His insight: real sustainability requires respecting the carrying capacities of living systems — not merely improving incrementally against last year's numbers. His work has shaped a generation of measurement, reporting, and accountability standards — anchoring impact in the real ecological, social, and economic limits of the systems we depend on, and fairly allocating responsibility across the actors who shape them. His session proposes a framework for Bioregional Measurement, Reporting & Verification (MRV), grounded in the Carrying Capacities of Capitals — Natural, Social, Human, Financial, and beyond — within and across bioregions. It draws on r3.0's Thresholds & Allocations approach to Context-Based Sustainability: grounding every claim of "sustainability" or "regeneration" in a credible relationship to systemic limits and a just allocation of responsibility for honoring them. Why this matters for open civic innovation: A participatory, vital, resilient civilization needs shared instruments for sensing what living systems can bear, and how responsibility is fairly distributed across the communities and bioregions that share them. Bill's work sits at exactly that nerve: a credible substrate for bioregional coordination, aligned incentives, and the self-correcting feedback loops any open civic system needs to stay honest with itself over time. Come ready to listen, question, and weave. In Us We Trust. RSVP: luma.com/iu3zx6ow

Rich horizons visible on the @OpenCivics biweekly call today as @_newcubes_ discussed regional guilds for addressing climate catastrophe & other forms of transpersonal action the near future may occasion. Have you read your Edwin Hutchins & Anna Tsing lately? The future is weird

Becoming a Coordination Failure Response Swarm OpenCivics Q2 2026 Strategy ~ what were building this quarter and how to participate open.substack.com/pub/opencivics…

Who comes to CCG? 🧠 Commons builders & systems thinkers 🎨 Artists & speculative worldbuilders 💻 Hackers, activists & researchers 🎲 Game designers & storytellers 🔄 "Degens turned regen" First-timers & returning OGs alike. 🎟️ €80 until March 31. 🔗 cryptocommonsgather.ing

This week’s AOW offers a relevant backdrop to current events, exploring how social imaginaries shape the organization of the Ethereum community and its broader economic ecosystem. 👀 From December 2025, by @post_polar_ & @annbrody7 Available here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

What would an internet-native economy look like? Could economic power be shared within and among self-defined groups, without central authority? Could such a system secure collectively defined social and ecological benefits and create liquidity for their production?

Bread Cooperative is hosting a free webinar on community savings circles. Beyond the Bank: Practical Savings Tools for Underserved Communities. Thursday 26th February 10:00 AM PST / 13:00 EST / 19:00 CET No technical experience needed. Link in bio. More info in the thread

In appreciation of Benjamin Life (!@OpenCivics ): Copied from LI, by Fan Yang: "-Michel, I deeply resonate with your appreciation of Benjamin Life. I had the chance to meet him in Washington, DC more than six years ago, and what struck me was not only his clarity about complex systemic challenges, but the quality of presence he carries. There is a steadiness and integrity that quietly builds trust - the kind that doesn’t require long acquaintance to recognize. People who live with compassion, courage, and perseverance create a field that invites others to step into their own sense of purpose. Watching the evolution of OpenCivics and related initiatives has been encouraging, especially for those of us finding our own path in the commons space. And Michel, your own decades of visible and invisible work have shaped that terrain more than many realize. Holding space for inquiry and experimentation over time is no small contribution. I’m grateful for the continuity you’ve sustained for so many of us entering this work later. Mil Gracias!"

Let’s create a world worth believing in.

Inspiring @OpenCivics video & vision for 2026, where people are "evolving from isolated individuals to interconnected citizens opting out of structures of control & opting into networks of trust."💚🌱 Towards An Open Civics - Theory of Change youtu.be/W5iIpUGg7VA?si… via @YouTube

@ColeenChase @YouTube Thank you for sharing, @ColeenChase!

Do you feel like the world doesn’t make sense? Like we’re stuck between stories? Like authoritarianism and chaos are rising? We need a counter-narrative, a new social contract where everyone belongs and thrives. The new social contract starts with us. youtu.be/W5iIpUGg7VA?si…

4/ 📖 Read the full update → open.substack.com/pub/opencivics… 🗓 Next Assembly → luma.com/opencivics 🤝 Invite someone → opencivics.co/join PS. This has been an insane amount of work so we’re excited to CELEBRATE crossing this threshold with all of you!

3/ What hasn’t changed: Your time stays on your work. We exist to support, connect, and resource what you’re already doing. The movement is coming alive. But it needs you to participate in shaping it.

🌱 OpenCivics Phase 02 is live. We went quiet to build. Now we’re crossing from concept into practice. If you’ve asked us “hey, when are you going to be ready for us to engage” and heard the answer 🔜, now is that moment. 📖 Read the full update → open.substack.com/pub/opencivics…

From conceptual framework to embodied movement- how? Ep 15—"Catalysing Network Nations: Movement Building with Benjamin Life & Patricia Parkinson" Patricia & Benjamin, founders of @open_civics join Primavera De Filippi to discuss movement building without charismatic leaders, progressive protocolization, institutional self-negation, the concept of "senius" (collective genius), and why dual power-not exit- is the path to functional sovereignty. These two movement wizards are crystal clear thinkers and the conversation is a great summary of the lay of the land. 🔗Listen here: youtube.com/watch?v=SccLIO… @kosmicgardener, @omniharmonic,@yaoeo, @networknations_,@greenpillnet

From conceptual framework to embodied movement- how? In Ep. 15 "Catalysing Network Nations: Movement Building with Benjamin Life & Patricia Parkinson" Patricia & Benjamin, founders of @open_civics join Primavera De Filippi to discuss progressive protocolization, institutional self-negation, the concept of "senius" (collective genius), and why dual power-not exit- is the path to functional sovereignty. These two movement wizards are crystal clear thinkers and the conversation is a great summary of the lay of the land. We recommend you listen here: youtube.com/watch?v=SccLIO… @kosmicgardener, @omniharmonic, @yaoeo, @networknations_, @greenpillnet

1/ Network Nations are born from three major shifts in how we organize power and community 🧵⬇️