Publications & Frameworks
Books, articles, and design frameworks on regenerative finance, currency systems, and place-based economic transformation.
Books, articles, and design frameworks on regenerative finance, currency systems, and place-based economic transformation.
Co-author (with Stephen DeMeulenaere)
Published 2025 — This book argues for understanding interconnected problems and designing holistic solutions aligned with life's regenerative processes. It offers a framework for place-based economic systems architecting through a multi-stakeholder co-design process. Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork across community currencies, blockchain policy, and regenerative finance initiatives, it provides a practical methodology for designers, organizers, and policymakers working at the intersection of technology, commons, and ecology.
Editor & Co-creator
"Mycelial Design Patterns for Web3 & Beyond" by Jeff Emmett & Jessica Zartler — Drawing inspiration from fungal networks to design decentralized, resilient, and regenerative financial systems. This work has become a distinctive design language in the regenerative finance field, offering pattern languages that can be adapted across contexts from local currencies to DAO governance structures.
Framework Designer
A diagnostic and design tool for mapping value flows within economic ecosystems — monetary, social, ecological, and cultural. The compass helps practitioners identify leakages, circularity opportunities, and alignment points across stakeholder groups. Used in workshops ranging from community currency design to corporate ESG strategy, the framework provides a shared visual language for discussing complex value exchange patterns.
Author (Medium Article)
A deep-dive explainer on the Bancor Protocol's continuous liquidity mechanism — one of the foundational texts of modern decentralized finance. Originally published 2017, this article helped articulate the economic logic of automated market makers for a broader audience. Rewrote the original whitepaper with input from Bernard Lietaer, helping pioneer concepts that now underpin billions in digital asset volume.
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Author (Private Deliverable)
Report produced for Solidaridad following week-long series of incentive system design sessions with multiple teams (2019). This private deliverable explored potential applications of tokenized incentive systems for sustainable supply chain development and farmer livelihood programs across Global South contexts.
These writings and frameworks represent core thinking developed over fifteen years in the field. Interested in adapting these approaches for your organization? Let's talk.
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