A collaborative research publication and interactive directory documenting 152 place-based regeneration initiatives across 44 countries. Four organizations run it: Metabolic (systems change consultancy), Anura Capital (regenerative real estate), Artistree (sustainable design), and Basin Collective. The research draws on more than 30 practitioner interviews and dozens of reviewers.
BioHubs.earth is the primary reference for the empirical scale of the BioHub field internationally. Its 152-initiative census and its pattern analysis across diverse geographies give the BioConomy corpus the empirical grounding it needs to treat BioHub coordination as a live global pattern. Metabolic’s whitepaper (the site’s central document) supplies the “five-year threshold before results attract sustained support” observation and the seven-ingredient design framework that several BioConomy essays draw on.
Editorial approach
The site combines three modes: a research whitepaper (the primary intellectual contribution), an interactive map with a searchable repository (the empirical layer), and a resource library of frameworks, guides, and networks (the practitioner layer). Editorial framing is explicitly systemic and regenerative. The design framework uses a cooking metaphor with seven recurring ingredients, which BioConomy work has referenced as a complementary vocabulary to the BioStack framing.
Where its coverage is strongest
Empirical documentation of the international BioHub field. This is where BioHubs.earth is unmatched. If the question is how many BioHub-shaped initiatives exist, where they are, and what they have in common, this site answers it with primary field data. The BioConomy corpus treats the site’s census as a canonical reference.
Case study material. Individual entries carry organizational background, physical infrastructure, activities, and vision. This depth is useful when a BioConomy essay or research brief needs a concrete example to anchor an abstract claim.
Pattern analysis across geographies. The whitepaper identifies success factors and recurring obstacles that hold across cultural and ecological contexts. This is the kind of empirical grounding the BioConomy framework benefits from and does not itself do at scale.
Traffic between the wikis
BioConomy pages that already draw on BioHubs.earth material include the Mycelial Coordination concept page (which cites Metabolic’s May 2026 assessment as one of three lines of evidence for the framework), the BioHub glossary entry (which lists Eva Gladek as a source), the Eva Gladek person page, and the Gladek et al. (2026) BioHubs: A Pathway to Regional Resilience source page.
BioConomy pages that should probably grow explicit links to BioHubs.earth include the BioHub and BioStack glossary entries (as the empirical anchor for the field), the Templates index (as a comparator to the seven-ingredient framework), and any future research brief on BioHub design patterns.
Related pages
- Eva Gladek
- BioHub
- Mycelial Coordination
- Gladek, E. et al. (2026). BioHubs: A Pathway to Regional Resilience
- Bioregioning Earth
Provenance
Entry created 4 September 2026 as part of the related-wikis/ buildout. Substantive detail on the site’s structure, operators, and content areas verified against the site’s current main page on the same date.