This week we spoke with Magenta Ceiba of Bloom Network, a community working towards a world where resources are equitably distributed and accessible in creative harmony with nature.
Working Towards Regenerative Culture
“What Bloom Network aims to do is help people and communities adopt regenerative culture practices,” Magenta told us. With 16 local Blooms across 7 different countries, Bloom Network helps local chapters begin tending to their bioregion by finding and contributing to existing movements in areas like permaculture, restorative justice, and cooperative economics. “Projects like these are difficult to find unless you happen to be in one of these subcultures. We connect the dots between existing movements and then help the general public find them,” Magenta said. Bloom Network also facilitates resource sharing across chapters and assists with troubleshooting when issues arise. “It’s a beautiful community of dedicated, earth-connected people.”
Magenta started as a local organizer within this community about a decade ago and quickly saw the need for an organizational transition from a corporate structure to a peer to peer collective. With a background in decentralized leadership, Magenta led that process of moving to a structure that was “resilient to power abuse,” as she put it. She continues to work towards positive organizational development for Bloom and is currently taking a token engineering commons course to learn how to build a token structure that incentivizes people to participate and share media about what is going on in local regions. Her desire is to see Bloom utilize a federated DAO structure and move towards compensating local labor.
Moving Forward
Today, Bloom Network is planning to launch the “Call to Bloom” campaign, inviting 100 new chapters to join their mission. They are part of the Regenerative Commons Coalition in our Panvala community, and they are participating in a variety of projects on the ground. For example, the Baltimore chapter is practicing bioremediation by planting sunflowers that help detoxify land with lead contamination. As a bioaccumulator, sunflowers suck up heavy metals through their stalks, eventually leaving soil able to produce food again. Other chapters are responding to Indigenous communities’ requests for ecological protection and assist with community needs that arise. All chapters are connected by a desire to share resources through decentralized networks and build capacity across diverse movements for positive social change. They are doing incredible work!
How to Engage with Bloom Network:
Find or start your local Bloom chapter
Join as a member of Bloom
Connect with Bloom on Discord
Support Bloom during the next grant round on Gitcoin
Help out with front end development
We are so encouraged by Bloom Network’s vision to inspire a billion acts of regeneration and thank Magenta and the Bloom community for interacting with the Panvala community!