DELANO INSTITUTE · FULL ECOSYSTEM MAP

The Complete Vertical Stack

Ten projects. Five layers. One mission: create the market-based models where people are incentivized to carry out regenerative actions every day.

No single project in this ecosystem can achieve the mission alone. Each is strongest where the others are weakest. Together, they form the most complete regenerative program in the United States — from the individual volunteer to the continental infrastructure.

THE TRIMTAB STACK

Each level amplifies the one below it

Continental Repair
Continental Sponge redirects floodwaters at national scale
Civic Policy Change
Delano Institute translates community will into legislation
Bioregion Restoration
HealYourHood coordinates 2,100 volunteers across 10 zones
Community Activation
Festival activates 10,000+ people around a repair theme
Individual Action
Volunteer earns Karma Cash at neighborhood rain garden
↑ Each action at the bottom enables the next level up
MACRO-INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER

Continental-scale ecological restoration — the largest trimtab in American environmental history

CIVIC & POLICY LAYER

Institutional anchor, policy research, and civic infrastructure for the regenerative transition

CULTURAL ACTIVATION LAYER

The festival is the cultural and economic activation layer that makes the macro-infrastructure politically possible

ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER

Market-based models that incentivize regenerative action at every scale

HEALING & EDUCATION LAYER

Individual and community healing — the somatic and psychological foundation of regenerative action

THE CORE ARGUMENT

"The current models exacerbated by social media platforms are only feeding division and consumption. We need to create the market-based models where people are incentivized to carry out regenerative actions on the daily."

This ecosystem is the answer to that challenge. Karma Cash makes regenerative action economically rational. The festival makes it culturally desirable. HealYourHood makes it geographically organized. The Continental Sponge makes it historically significant. The Delano Institute makes it politically viable.