Permaculture Fundin formation

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Capital that behaves like a forest.

Permaculture Fund is a fund in formation. It intends to back open-source tools and regenerative enterprises that care for the earth, care for people and share what they grow.

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A fund drawn as a living commit graph One trunk called main grows up from the soil. Branches named earth-care, people-care, open-source and fair-share split off, sprout leaves, and merge back into the commons at the top. Below the soil, roots join neighbouring seedlings in one shared network. permaculture.fund / graph main merge: commons open-source fair-share earth-care people-care main soil shared roots · open network
Fig. 01 — Three ethics branch from one trunk, merge into the commons, and share their roots.
  • 01Open-source innovation
  • 02Permaculture ethics
  • 03Profit with purpose
// thesispermaculture.fund/why

Most capital plants a monoculture. We want to fund a forest.

A forest has no single crop and no single owner. Its trees trade water and nutrients through a network of roots. It takes its time. It leaves the soil richer than it found it.

Open-source software grows the same way. Code that anyone can read, use and improve becomes a commons that keeps on giving.

Permaculture Fund intends to put capital behind both: the open tools and the living enterprises that make a shared future more possible.

capital.diffhow capital behaves
  • @@ extractive -> regenerative @@
  • take what you can, then exit
  • keep the source closed
  • one crop, one owner
  • measure the quarter
  • leave the ground richer than you found it
  • open the source so others can grow it
  • many species, many stewards
  • measure the decade, and more than money
// pillars3 roots · 1 fund

Where three roots meet.

Each idea is strong alone. Together they describe the kind of work we want to fund: open, alive and able to pay its way.

  • 01open-source innovation

    Tools anyone can grow.

    Software, hardware and know-how published under open licences. What one team builds, every team can use, improve and share. We intend to favour work that stays open.

    • open licences
    • open data
    • open standards
  • 02permaculture ethics

    Earth Care. People Care. Fair Share.

    The three ethics of permaculture, used as a filter for every decision. Care for soil, water and living things. Care for the people who do the work. Share the surplus.

    • earth care
    • people care
    • fair share
  • 03profit with purpose

    Enterprises that pay their way.

    Good work has to earn a living to last. We intend to back enterprises with real customers and a clear purpose, where profit serves the mission and not the other way round.

    • pays its way
    • purpose-led
    • patient horizons
// how it intends to workintentions, not promises

How the fund intends to grow.

Slowly, in the open, and in the right order. Nothing below has happened yet except the first step. Each one is an intention, and each may change as we learn.

status: in formation. No fund is open. Nothing on this site is an offer.

  1. HEADwaitlistyou are here

    Gather the people first.

    The waitlist is open now. We want to learn who is drawn to this — investors, founders, growers and builders — before anything else is built.

  2. nextprinciples

    Write the rules in the open.

    We intend to publish the fund's principles as a working draft and invite comment from the waitlist, so the community helps shape them.

  3. thenstructure

    Form the fund properly.

    We intend to work with qualified advisers on a sound legal structure, and to offer nothing until formal offering documents exist.

  4. thenback

    Back open, regenerative work.

    Where the law permits, the fund intends to back open-source tools and regenerative enterprises that live the three ethics.

  5. alwaysshare

    Share what grows.

    We intend to report openly on what the fund does and learns, and to give a fair share back to the commons it depends on.

// waitlistopen now

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Be the first to hear as the fund takes shape. Tell us what draws you, so we learn who this is for.

  • 01You get occasional updates by email as the fund takes shape.
  • 02You can leave the list at any time.
  • 03Joining is not an investment, an application for funding or a commitment of any kind.
  • 04Nothing here is an offer. If a fund is ever offered, it will be through formal documents only.
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