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If you missed the
Equinox Round Table

This was the beautiful invocation for the SEEDS Equinox Round Table

Just as the caterpillar starts emerging from its cocoon, so do we enter the Equinox to align with the natural cycles of this home we call Mother Earth! High time to answer the call she's made to us all and start flying!
🌱To celebrate the passing to a new season with a new flow and new responsibilities as SEEDS ecosystem to the work we are all here to willing to do!"
On Sept 22nd and 23rd, Letty and Aryabatta held the space for around 50 members of the community to meet, celebrate life, nature and align intentions to walk meaningfully as a community for change.
Here, you can hear an overview of what happened, from Letty's perspective as the facilitator of the SEEDS Equinox Round Table.

Watch the Recordings

Community

GET TO KNOW ONE MORE REGEN CIVICS ALLIANCE PROJECT

Traditional Dream Factory

A PLAYGROUND FOR LIVING AND CREATING TOGETHER

Images from TDF @Instagram

Out of the thirteen projects integrating REGEN CIVICS Alliance, Season 1, Traditional Dream Factory (aka TDF) is a regenerative co-creation hub located in Abela, Alentejo region, Portugal. Sam Delesque started incubating the project 4 years ago on an old poultry factory built in 1972. They have been well connected with Seeds ecosystem from the beginning, and for the past 2 years have been working on the lands, sorting out the legal structures, architecture plans, permaculture, water systems etc, all while hosting a bunch of regenerative events such as: re:build, Primal Gathering, ReFi Spring.

Now ready with the architectural plans approved by the municipality, they are getting ready to go live with the $TDF token, which is how they plan to finance the project.

Their intention is to create beautiful, regenerative villages with a focus on communal living and personal growth. Here you can hear Sam introducing TDF from the year 2030. And if you want to dive deeper on understanding TDF's journey and model to become a DAO, you may enjoy watching the ReGen Civics Episode 15.

Visit TDF Website

Technology

ENF Announces $850K USD Grant to Bring
the Hypha Product Suite to the EOS Community

Hypha DAO welcomes EOS Network Foundation’s largest grant ever of $850k, which recognises the tremendous potential of Hypha DAO’s ‘Organization-in-a-box solution’, one of the most comprehensive tried & tested DAO solutions available today.

This grant will help fuel a powerful roadmap of new advanced features and bring DAO tools to the EOS Community. Hypha has advanced its DAO platform and is ready to bring critical infrastructure to the SEEDS community. Listen to this video where EOS Communications team interviews Joachim Stroh & Franz Allmayer, from Hypha on why Hypha got this grant from ENF.

SEEDS Commons

Governance Working Group

Evolving Governance Models

For the past months the members of the SEEDS Commons working group have been exploring the very complex and deeply nuanced subject of how to improve the SEEDS Commons Governance. Perhaps a total of nearly 200 hours of participants time have been spent discussing the many facets of the governance issue.

About 20 SEEDS members are working diligently to come to a common denominator on important issues related to the management of the SEEDS Commons and the broader ecosystem, aligning all their work with the SEEDS Constitution.

Everyone is welcome to join the Governance Working Group, every Tuesday 10 am Central Time https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86788141424

Seeds

People

Every month we spotlight Regenerative Leader(s) from the SEEDS ecosystem, that are doing admirable work locally, building community, spreading knowledge and engaging with like-minded people to create real impact in their places.

This month, our SEEDS hero is: GUY SADAN

listen to the Podcast with Guy

Guy Sadan

When one starts projects from the heart and gratitude becomes their language, opportunities evolve and grow like seeds. Organically and beautifully is what Guy has cultivated, a currency pilot in a village located in Relva, Portugal, inspired by Daya, another member of the SEEDS community. The model has taken a spark to other villages and the curiosity of other members who host farmers' markets in the region. One initiative in his model is buying Tetra Pak packages from the communities to plant trees with his SEEDS light wallet. Circular models that protect villages are amazingly forming and organizing. In this article, you can read this experience directly from Guy.

Gratitude Token Pot

Gratz Bot was the name given to this gratitude feature by @Julio Holon who created it. It resides at the #Gratitude channel of the main Seeds server on Discord and now also available on several of the other servers used by the community. Guy has been a relentless and enthusiastic Steward of the Seeds Gratitute Pot. Always promoting, inviting, encouraging people to increase the gratitude pot and to distribute and spread gratitude all over SEEDS ecosystem. Guy took the torch and ever since has not let the flame of the gratitude fade away or dim down in the community. Showing Gratitude at the click of a button – Seeds Gratz Bot is one way how Guy serves the community.

Seeds of

Inspiration & Awareness

Here are a few seeds we selected to nourish you with some inspiration, knowledge and awareness. This month our book reading recommendation goes to:

The Dawn of Everything

by David Graeber & David Wengrow

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.

Figure: By Kelvy Bird

An insightful article from Otto Scharmer: Protect the Flame
Circles of Radical Presence in Times of Collapse

"So, back to the big question: Are we sinking, or are we going to rise? In my view, the answer depends on whether or not we try to, and succeed in, creating new types of societal learning infrastructures for transformation — infrastructures that connect to and activate this human capacity for individual and collective transformation."

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If you missed theEquinox Round Table