The core ideas that organize the BioConomy thesis, each treated at enough depth to stand on its own.
Overview
A concept page carries a substantive treatment of an idea the wiki’s frameworks and essays build on. Each opens with a one-sentence definition, expands into an overview, and treats the concept in enough detail that a reader can leave with a working understanding. Concept pages sit between the short definitions in the glossary and the argumentative treatments in the essays.
Seven concepts have a companion glossary entry (retention-logic, transvestment, mycelial-consciousness, mycelial-coordination, mycelial-patronage, cosmo-local-production, structural-prematurity). Where a pair exists, the concept page carries the deeper treatment and the glossary entry carries the short definition. Both link to each other.
Where to start
- Retention Logic. The organizing principle of the whole framework.
- Bioregional Economics. The discipline that makes coordinated economies at bioregional scale legible.
- Economy versus BioConomy. The five structural differences between the conventional economy and a BioConomy.
- Mycelial Coordination and its two siblings, Mycelial Consciousness and Mycelial Patronage. The trio that names the coordination substrate BioConomy work draws on.
- The Coercion Continuum. The twelve-thousand-year monetary history the Emancipation Architecture inverts.
- Commitment Pooling. The mechanism through which participants make binding forward promises.
- Water Retention Landscapes. The operational science of catchment restoration.
The full index of concept pages is in the navigation on your left.
How the folder is organized
Concepts are listed alphabetically by slug. No formal sub-structure. Where a concept clusters with others (the three Mycelial pages, the two Water pages), the cluster members cross-link at the top and in Related pages.
Related pages
Sources
- Life, B. (2026). An Introduction to Bioregional Economics (Part I)
Provenance
Written 27 August 2026 as the landing page for the concepts folder, alongside parallel landing pages for glossary, frameworks, essays, research, sources, and people. The page orients a reader arriving at the folder from an external link or the wiki structure table; the full file listing is generated by Quartz’s explorer plugin and not reproduced here.