ReFi Roundup #47: ReFi Spring Season 2 & ReFi Villages 🛖🌿🌐
ReFi Spring Season 2 is off and away with a grants pool of $45,000 to support events all over the world! + the launch of ReFi Villages and, as always, the top news and events from the frontlines of crypto and climate this week. Enjoy :)
Happy 2023 Regens, Hereward here from ReFi Spring & Cash Upton here from The Block Explorer Podcast 👋
We're pleased to be coming into this next year working in this exciting and growing community, and what better way to start than to let you know about the launch of ReFi Spring Season 2. The aim is to accelerate the growth of this wonderful movement in a pluralistic and global manner, ensuring that at it's very roots Regenerative Finance is inclusive and ensures engagement from a broad spectrum of communities, cultures and perspectives.
Let's get into it...
ReFi Spring Season 2 Launch! 🎉
A new year and a new season of ReFi Spring to enable the continued exploration and growth of the Regenerative Finance movement worldwide.
ReFi Spring Season 2 is launched! 🚀
Today we at ReFi Spring are excited to launch our grants pool of $45,000 to support 30 ReFi events across the globe! A huge thanks to Climate Collective for their continued support of the ReFi movement.
With this grant pool, we hope to support the diverse events that are popping up around the world, engaging new audiences in the emerging conversations surrounding digital environmental assets, mass-coordination tools, carbon and eco credit markets, money legos and the many other aspects that are beginning to describe this regenerative financial system.
ReFi Spring will also be partnering with ReFiDAO to launch an Events Guild with 6 weeks of upskilling sessions and community calls to empower the growing network of community builders in the movement.
The Event Guild will be running from February 13th to March 24th, with entrance to the Guild reserved for applications received before February 3rd, so if you are keen to join the Guild, make sure to apply in January!
Interested in receiving funding for your event? Apply below! 👇
Beyond the Grant Pool and Events Guild
In addition to the Grant Pool and Events Guild, the ReFi Spring team is also working on many other projects to accelerate the growth of this movement.
A few hesdline initiatives to keep an eye out for:
- Spanish and Portuguese Language educational sessions for ReFi community builders (follow along on Twitter for updates on this)
- Support ReFibySouth in the establishment of ReFi Ambassadors in non-English speaking countries
- Release an introduction to ReFi Video Course (Sign up here to be notified)
All in all, an exciting 2023 awaits. It's a pleasure and a privilege to help this wonderful community evolve and grow, collectively we are building the technological and cultural stack to make climate impact at scale as we navigate the complex web of crises facing humanity.
If you have further questions, requests for support or would like to contribute to the ReFi Spring endeavour you can get in touch at program@refispring.com
ReFi Villages 🛖🌿🌐
From a cross section of ReFi & Ecovillage experts, we bring you the first article to define and explore the emerging phenomenon of a ‘ReFi Village’! Check it out below on our Mirror - any collections to support the work would be much appreciated!
Read here 👇
ReFi Podcasts 🎙️
Top audio and video content from creators across the web 😊
ReFi DAO Podcast: A Year in ReFi 2022 ⭕️
What a year 2022 has been for Regenerative Finance! There has been unprescedented adoption by TradFi as well as huge strives within the crypto ecosystem to offset legacy carbon footprints and adopt ReFi ethos. Take a deep dive below for optimistic developments for how blockchain is solving our environmental & social justice crisis. John sits down with Simar and is joined by ReFi friends Helena from Spirals and Brian from LOA LABS to reflect on the year...
Read the deep dive, listen on your podcasting favorite platform, or check out the episode on Youtube.
For more reflections on the year, check out this mega-tweet thread below! 👇
What a year 2022 was for #ReFi! 🌱🌳🚀
— ReFi DAO (@ReFiDAOist) January 13, 2023
Let's look back and reflect on some of the key moments and milestones in the story of ReFi so far... 🧵
< Let us know any of your favorite moments and what we may have missed - reply in the last tweet! > 👇
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Other 🔥 Podcasts on our Radar:
- Local Currencies & Basic Income 🏛️ | Greenpill episode #77 with Kevin Owocki
- Return Protocol with Founder Kieran White | Brave New Earth episode #6 with Harry
- Why Blockchain? With Santa Barbara Blockchain Institute | The Block Explorer episode #65
Special feature to ReFi getting a podcast with Wall Street Journal! 👇
Blockchains Can Trace Carbon Credits, But Can They Improve the Market?| Wall Street Journal with Zoe Thomas & Dieter Holger
ReFi NewsBites 🗞️
The latest updates across ReFi Twitter and beyond...
Gitcoin Alpha Round Launches January 17th!🎉
Gitcoin is decentralizing their public goods quadratic funding tool with the launch of their Alpha Round. 40 climate projects will be featured! The round will run from Jan. 17th - 31st.
Shelling Point @ ETH Denver Accepting Applications to Speak & Attend!🎉
Schelling Point, ETH Denver's "Unconference for planetary wellbeing & flourishing." Apply today to speak and attend Shelling Point! Happening March 2, 2023 in Denver CO, this will be an incredible day of panel discussions & workshops focussed around collaborative regernation of our planet!
- Apply here for Schelling Point!
Toucan Protocol Retires 2,126 tonnes of Carbon for the Holidays! 🎄🎉
DeSci London this weekend! 🧑🔬
January 15th-16th
KlimaDAO Launches ON SET - a Webinar Exploring How Carbon is Bridged On Chain 💪
Gregory Landua of Regen Network to Speak @ Davos 2023 🙌
@Gregory_Landua is at #Davos2023 next week to speak on #ReFi, in tandem with the @wef Annual Summit🇨🇭
— Regen Network (@regen_network) January 12, 2023
🏔️The Summit’s 2023 theme is “Cooperation in a Fragmented World.” Fitting as we work to “Out-collaborate the competition.”
Gregory’s schedule below👇 pic.twitter.com/teoBngZ9FM
Regen Investors Roundtable Jan. 20th @8am PT
Climate tech funding in 2022 represented more than a quarter of every venture dollar according to PwC’s State of Climate Tech 2022.
— ReFi DAO (@ReFiDAOist) January 12, 2023
As a response to the community,
we are excited to bring you
Regen Investor Roundtable
Jan 20th at 8 am PT
🧵
Register👇https://t.co/EQJ6VDFbkj
Looking Forward 📍
Make sure to grab some tickets and support the ReFi regenerative renaissance wherever you are from!
Want to find more ReFi, Climate or Crypto events for 2023? Check out this Notion Doc put together by LOA Labs and Regen Network! 👇
Or for more Crypto orientated events, have a look at this sheet by Simplicity Group:
Add your ReFi event! 👇🏽
Got a ReFi, crypto, or climate event coming up and what to have it featured in the newsletter? Add yours to ReFi Spring!
Impact Radar 📡
A showcase of new or exciting ReFi projects that crossed our radar this week!
View MoreReFi DAO launches the ReFi Impact 2022 Map + Dashboard!
As part of our ReFi Roundup 2022 we launched the ReFi Impact Map to reflect on how far we have come. See below for the first version.
We also launched the ReFi Impact Dashbaord, allowing anyone to vote on the top submissions 👇
You can expect much more on this coming in the following weeks to celebrate all this amazing impact. We will be updating the graphics and doing follow up posts here and on Twitter so it's not to late to submit your project if you havn't already!
Add your ReFi Project! 👇🏽
Have a project you want to add to our database? Click the button below to submit an application!
New gigs listed on ReFiJobs! 👇👇
Check out the ReFi Jobs platform for more! 👇
Thank you! 🤩
For being a part of the ever evolving movement to create a radically better future...
Have a fantastic weekend friends & we'll see you again next week 🫡
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