# BioConomy Wiki

> The BioConomy wiki documents a coordination architecture for economies organized around bioregions and performance-based bonds issued by either the state or market. It provides the conceptual vocabulary, analytical frameworks, ecological science, and practical templates needed to establish a BioHub: a coordination body that organizes distributed regenerative contributions within a living landscape into verifiable commitments the outside world can contract with.

The wiki is structured for both human readers and AI systems. Commercial large language models have absorbed only fragments of this corpus during general training; the coherent body of work sits here. The vocabulary is precise and internally consistent: terms like BioHub, BioRegion (capitalized), BioConomy, commitment pooling, and retention economics carry specific definitions provided in the glossary.

The primary analytical framework is the TIME Framework (Tribal, Institutional, Market, Emergent), a four-form model of human coordination. The wiki applies this framework to bioregional economics, commons governance, cooperative supply chains, and the emerging coordination form the BioHub represents.

The wiki targets practitioners working at the bioregional scale who want to apply this framework in their own geographies. Four AI-assisted templates (the founding suite) translate the conceptual material into structured outputs a BioHub cohort can run. The objective is to equip any BioHub with the tools and skills they need to stimulate a BioConomy in their region by tapping into performance-based bonds that bootstrap a vibrant local economy.

## Orientation essays

- [What Is a BioHub](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/what-is-a-biohub): The coordination body anchored in a specific BioRegion, organizing distributed contributions into fundable commitments
- [What Is a BioRegion](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/what-is-a-bioregion): The living landscape defined by watershed, soil, and ecological boundaries rather than political ones
- [What Is a BioConomy](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/what-is-a-bioconomy): The coordination architecture for economies organized around bioregional retention of value, distinct from the extractive Economy
- [From a Bioregion to a BioRegion](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/from-bioregion-to-bioregion): The transition from a geography that asks for funding (needy) to one that makes commitments to those who need its services (needed)
- [From Geosphere to Noosphere](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/from-geosphere-to-noosphere): The arc from mineral substrate through living systems to coordinated planetary intelligence
- [Two Systems, One Society](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/two-systems-one-society): How the Economy and the BioConomy coexist and relate in the same society
- [How the BioConomy Coordinates](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/how-the-bioconomy-coordinates): The stigmergic coordination model that distinguishes the BioConomy from conventional economic organization

## Practical essays

- [How to Build a BioHub Wiki](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/how-to-build-a-biohub-wiki): Layout, structure, and content standards for a BioHub's operational wiki
- [How to Engage Your Bioregion](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/how-to-engage-your-bioregion): The bridge from orientation to the practical founding-suite templates
- [AI Quick-Engage](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/ai-quick-engage): Four prompts to copy into any deep-research AI platform alongside your own project documents
- [PROUT and the BioConomy](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/essays/prout-and-the-bioconomy): The relationship between Sarkar's Progressive Utilization Theory and the BioConomy framework

## Concepts (28 entries)

Core coordination and economic concepts. Key entries:

- [Commitment Pooling](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/commitment-pooling): Binding forward promises as the basis for coordination and exchange
- [Performance-Based Water Bonds](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/performance-based-water-bonds): Capital-markets instrument converting restored catchment yield into bankable revenue
- [Bioregional Economics](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/bioregional-economics): Designing regenerative, cooperatively owned, place-based economies within carrying capacity
- [Federated Cooperative Supply Chains](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/federated-cooperative-supply-chains): How cooperatives retain and circulate value through federated structures
- [Cosmo-Local Production](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/cosmo-local-production): Share knowledge globally, produce regeneratively in place
- [Carbon-Silicon Partnership](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/carbon-silicon-partnership): Complementary relationship between computational and situated knowledge
- [Water Retention Landscapes](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/water-retention-landscapes): Operational science of catchment restoration and soil hydrology
- [The Coercion Continuum](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/the-coercion-continuum): Five phases of monetary coercion from chattel slavery to property redefinition
- [Transvestment](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/transvestment): Value regime crossing between the Economy and the BioConomy
- [Surveillance Capitalism](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/surveillance-capitalism): Digital enclosure as the third future scenario
- [Consensus Is Not the Bottleneck](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/consensus-is-not-the-bottleneck): Why paradigm transitions do not require majority agreement
- [Stigmergy](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/stigmergy): Indirect coordination through environmental traces
- [The BioPlace Layer](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/the-bioplace-layer): The human-land coordination interface
- [Bioregional Addressing](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/bioregional-addressing): Addressing systems rooted in ecological rather than political boundaries
- [Tax-to-Commons Pathways](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/tax-to-commons-pathways): Fiscal mechanisms for redirecting tax flows into a Bioregional Financing Facility
- [Sound Finance](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/sound-finance): The fiscal doctrine that taxes fund spending, its operational falsity, and its coordination function

Full concepts index: https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/concepts/

## Frameworks (12 entries)

- [The TIME Framework](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/time-framework): Tribal, Institutional, Market, and Emergent forms of human coordination
- [The TIMN Framework](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/timn-framework): Ronfeldt's original formulation (Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks)
- [The Emancipation Architecture](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/emancipation-architecture): Bioregional demurrage currency, RPI, commons trusts, and transvestment pathways
- [The Three Futures](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/three-futures): Termination, Technofeudalism, or Transcendence
- [Mycelial Value Creation](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/mycelial-value-creation): The economic logic of the emerging paradigm
- [The Five Transvestment Pathways](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/five-transvestment-pathways): Pathways A through E for crossing between value regimes
- [The Three-Feature Test](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/three-feature-test): Diagnostic for whether a project qualifies as a patron project
- [The S-Curve Thesis](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/s-curve-thesis): Structural mapping of the deceleration phase
- [The Three Lineages](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/three-lineages): Throughput, Retention, and Regenerative economic traditions
- [The Evolution of Coordination Nodes](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/evolution-of-coordination-nodes): Physical structures each coordination form has produced
- [The Physical Manifestations of TIMN](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/timn-physical-manifestations): Structural rhymes across the four coordination forms
- [Farmer-Forger-Founder-Framer](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/frameworks/farmer-forger-founder-framer): Four archetypes of production across the TIME sequence

## Templates

- [BioHub Identity Template](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/templates/biohub-identity-template): AI-assisted template for establishing a BioHub's identity and coordination mandate
- [BioRegion Establishment Template](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/templates/bioregion-establishment-template): AI-assisted template for defining a BioRegion's boundaries and governance
- [BioConomy Value Proposition Template](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/templates/value-proposition-template): AI-assisted template for articulating a BioRegion's value proposition
- [Bankable Service Alignment Template](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/templates/bankable-service-alignment-template): AI-assisted template for aligning services with fundable instruments
- [Running a Template](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/templates/running-a-template): How to use the three-prompt sequence with a deep-research AI platform
- [The Nine Outputs](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/templates/the-nine-outputs): The deliverables the founding suite produces
- [Using Templates Across BioHubs](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/templates/using-templates-across-biohubs): How the templates generalize across bioregions

## Research (10 briefs)

- [The S-Curve Thesis and the Retention Counter-Tradition](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/research/growth-economics): The foundational research brief (55KB)
- [Historical Patronage and the Three-Feature Test](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/research/historical-patronage-three-feature-test): Cross-cluster patronage analysis
- [Ibrahim Abouleish and SEKEM](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/research/abouleish-sekem): Case study assessed against the Three-Feature Test
- [Pooling Across TIMN](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/research/pooling-across-timn): Comparative analysis of pooling mechanisms across coordination forms
- [Promise Theory Across TIMN](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/research/promise-theory-across-timn): What has each TIMN form promised society?
- [Bioprecipitation](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/research/bioprecipitation): Vegetation-rainfall feedback and biological ice nucleation
- [The Comenius-to-Schmidt Chain](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/research/comenius-to-schmidt-chain): Moravian pedagogical lineage from Comenius to George Schmidt
- [Corporate Partnerships with Protected Area Management](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/research/corporate-partnerships-protected-areas): TNFD-aligned partnership brief
- [The BioHub as Where the Noosphere Lands](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/research/biohub-noosphere-research-brief): Working memo on noosphere and BioHub convergence
- [RESOLVE Ecoregions](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/research/resolve-ecoregions): Spatial dataset underpinning BioHub addressing

## Glossary

- [Glossary index](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/glossary/): 118 controlled vocabulary entries used across both the wiki and BioHubs sites

## People

- [People index](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/people/): 80 entries across five categories: ancestors (23), theorists (37), practitioners (17), historical practitioners (2), indigenous (1)

## Sources

- [Sources index](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/sources/): 83 annotated bibliography entries, each stating what the work argues and why it matters here

## Funding

- [Funding sources](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/funding/): Grant and funding instrument documentation (GEF SGP CSO Challenge Program)

## Wiki Network

- [Wiki Network index](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/wiki-network/): Cross-references to active BioHub sites (at12-overberg, at12-vog)

## Related Wikis

- [Related wikis](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/wiki-related/): Companion knowledge commons (biohubs.earth, bioregioning.earth, Omniharmonic wiki, P2P Foundation wiki)

## Tools

- [AI tooling](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/tools/ai/): Wiki extraction skill and Tax-to-Commons Policy Scan prompt
- [Tax-to-Commons Policy Scan](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/tools/ai/tax-to-commons-policy-scan): Reusable prompt for scanning a jurisdiction's fiscal landscape against four documented tax-to-commons legal-mechanism classes
- [BioPlace layer](https://wiki.bioconomy.earth/tools/bioplace/): BioPlace spatial tools documentation

## Optional

- [Quartz documentation](https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/): The static site generator used to build this wiki