How we produce, exchange, and steward resources. This is the domain of reciprocal exchange, circular systems, and transparent accounting. Here, we master roles like mutual aid weaver, cradle-to-cradle designer, and commons fund steward to create an economy of care and abundance.

Social Audit Facilitator: Ensures all communal economic processes and resource flows are open to scrutiny and evaluation by any community member.
Complementary Currency Keeper: Maintains and oversees any localized mediums of exchange designed to facilitate trade without enabling wealth hoarding.
Use-Value Cataloguer: Documents and makes accessible the available goods and services within the community, focusing on their utility and embedded labor.
Commons Land Trustee: Holds land and key assets in trust for the community, granting rights of use but not ownership or speculative sale.
Alienation Analyst: Works to identify and redesign any tasks that create feelings of powerlessness or meaninglessness, drawing from critiques of "bullshit jobs".
Voluntary Contribution Registrar: Tracks voluntary contributions to the commons fund based on ability, fostering a culture of generosity and collective responsibility.
Goods and Services, Land and Property use, and Labour and Employment hours.Commons Fund and all community projects, ensuring Transparency and Fairness.Finance and Money, Taxes and Levies are stored, debated, and updated.This Commons is the bedrock of trust in the economic system. It makes the abstract concept of "the economy" into a tangible, legible, and manageable system. It is the essential tool for the Social Audit Facilitator, the Commons Land Trustee, and the Alienation Analyst to perform their duties, preventing corruption and ensuring the system works for all.
A unified, public-facing dashboard that serves as the community's central nervous system for economic and regulatory data. It integrates all flows of value, not just financial, into a single transparent interface.
"The Vital Signs Ledger"
"The Transparency Commons"
To ensure the community's economic and regulatory systems are transparent, fair, and aligned with ecological and social well-being. They are the stewards of the community's economic integrity.
Transparency Guardians Pod Digital Headquarters
To manage the high-stakes scenario where a critical common resource (e.g., water, energy, housing in a desired area, a key material) faces unsustainable demand or acute shortage. This protocol prevents hoarding, conflict, and ensures a fair, transparent, and democratic response that upholds Transparency and Fairness.
Use-Value Cataloguer or Commons Land Trustee formally declares a state of scarcity in the Vital Signs Ledger, with full data on available supply and current demand.Social Audit Facilitator hosts public forums to decide the core values for allocation (e.g., need, community benefit, historical access, lottery).Alienation Analyst, brainstorms allocation methods, each assessed for their social, economic, and ecological impact.Complementary Currency Keeper and Voluntary Contribution Registrar may implement a tracking system for fair distribution.Transparency Guardians Pod leads a review of the process, using the data to propose long-term systemic solutions (e.g., increasing production, finding substitutes) to prevent future scarcity."Resource Scarcity & Allocation" Protocol Suite
Regulatory Evolution Toolkit
A comprehensive and brutally honest assessment of the health, fairness, and transparency of the community's economic and regulatory systems. It is the community's check-up on its economic conscience.
Annual "Integrity & Equity Audit" Report System

Cradle-to-Cradle Systems Designer: Plans and manages systems where all "waste" is redesigned as nutrient for another biological or technical process.
Food System Cultivator: Grows, forages, or prepares food with a deep understanding of its nutritional, cultural, and ecological significance.
Needs & Abundance Mapper: Creates a public, real-time map of community needs and available resources to optimize matching and minimize waste.
Public Utility Maintainer: Ensures the resilient and equitable operation of decentralized, renewable energy grids and water catchment/purification systems.
Post-Extraction Material Guardian: Manages the responsible and minimal use of legacy industrial materials, prioritizing their conservation in a circular economy.
Knowledge Sharer: Focuses on spreading useful information, skills, and innovations through popular education, rather than creating demand for unneeded goods.
Appropriate Use and Re-use).Goods and Services, Food and Drink, and materials.Water and Electricity usage, fostering collective conservation.Petroleum and Metals.Promotion and Dissemination of sustainable practices, not products.This Commons makes the community's material metabolism visible and manageable. It is the primary tool for eliminating waste, ensuring Appropriate Use and Re-use, and transforming consumption from a private act into a collaboratively managed process. It directly serves the Cradle-to-Cradle Systems Designer and the Needs & Abundance Mapper.
A dynamic, public platform that maps, manages, and optimizes the entire lifecycle of all physical objects and resources within the community, from sourcing to repurposing.
"The Circular Flow Hub"
"The Metabolic Center"
To nurture a community culture and practice where nothing is wasted, resources are valued and fully utilized, and consumption is a conscious, regenerative act aligned with ecological limits.
Circular Flow Stewards Pod Digital Headquarters
To govern the high-stakes decision of introducing any new, non-perishable good into the community's material stream. This is the primary mechanism for preventing waste, avoiding toxin accumulation, and ensuring all objects are designed for the circular economy from the outset.
Cradle-to-Cradle Systems Designer and Post-Extraction Material Guardian review the proposal, assessing its fit within the community's metabolic cycles and its potential to become waste.Needs & Abundance Mapper facilitates a discussion on whether the object fulfills a genuine need or duplicates existing Goods and Services.Knowledge Sharer then documents the object's successful integration for the community."New Object Introduction & Lifecycle" Protocol Suite
Resource Flow Optimization Toolkit
Annual "Metabolism of Things" Report System

Mutual Aid Network Weaver: Facilitates systems of non-monetized exchange and mutual support, strengthening the social fabric through generalized reciprocity.
Local Exchange Facilitator: Manages the logistics of distributing goods and coordinating services within and between bioregional communities.
Commons Fund Steward: Administers collectively managed resources for public projects, social care, and universal basic services, replacing coercive taxation.
Cultural Ambassador: Facilitates meaningful and equitable cultural and material exchange with other communities, ensuring visits are respectful and mutually beneficial.
Solidarity Coordinator: Manages the direct and unconditional sharing of surplus resources with other communities in times of need or imbalance.
Restorative Accountability Facilitator: Guides processes for addressing broken agreements or harms, focusing on repairing relationships rather than punitive debt.
Trade and Tourism and local Goods and Services transfer.Aid and Remittances and the Commons Fund.Debt and Liability agreements, ensuring they are structured fairly and transparently.This Commons makes the invisible economy of care, reciprocity, and resource flow visible. It is the primary tool for the Mutual Aid Network Weaver to connect people, the Local Exchange Facilitator to optimize logistics, and the Solidarity Coordinator to mobilize aid. It prevents the hoarding of information and resources, ensuring the economy remains a living, responsive system.
"The Livelyhood Flow Commons"
"The Flow Weavers Lodge"
To ensure the smooth, equitable, and resilient flow of all forms of value (material and immaterial) through the community, fostering deep reciprocity and preventing bottlenecks or exploitation.
Flow Weavers Pod Digital Headquarters
To manage the high-stakes, recurring situation where a highly desired or essential resource (e.g., a specialized tool, a limited harvest, housing in a prime location) cannot meet immediate demand. This is where "fairness" is most tested and where conflict over access can arise, threatening the principle of Reciprocity and Mutuality.
Local Exchange Facilitator, with all relevant details and a defined period for expressing need.Mutual Aid Network Weaver and Commons Fund Steward facilitate a process where claimants describe their intended use and need, moving beyond a simple queue to a more nuanced understanding of community benefit and urgency.Restorative Accountability Facilitator, with usage scheduled and tracked in the Commons."Scarce Resource Allocation" Protocol Suite
Exchange Optimization Toolkit
A beautiful and insightful assessment that reframes the community's economy not in terms of GDP, but in terms of the circulation of care, resources, and mutual support.
Annual "Flow of Gifts" Report System

Meaningful Livelihood Guarantor: Ensures every community member has access to a variety of meaningful tasks that provide purpose, dignity, and a claim on social wealth.
Vocation Mentor: Helps individuals discover their passions and aptitudes, and connects them to roles where they can best contribute to the common good.
Participatory Rotator: Designs systems to ensure necessary but less desirable tasks are shared equitably, and that power and interesting work are distributed widely.
Skill Deepening Coach: Facilitates continuous learning and skill-sharing to enhance the collective capacities and joyful mastery of the community.
Workplace Well-being Guardian: Assesses all tasks for physical and psychological risks, and advocates for and implements ergonomic and humane practices.
Care Network Organizer: Weaves the web of communal support for children, the elderly, and those who are sick or disabled, recognizing care as fundamental economic work.
Connection and Vocation).Participation and Equity).Care and Support for children, elders, and those in need.Health and Safety metrics and Capacity and Productivity in terms of community outcomes, not output.This Commons makes the entire economy of care and labor visible and manageable. It is the primary tool for the Meaningful Livelihood Guarantor to match people with roles, the Participatory Rotator to ensure fairness, and the Care Network Organizer to mobilize support. It prevents the exploitation and invisibility of care work and ensures everyone's basic needs are met as a right of membership.
"The Contribution & Care Ledger"
"The Livelihood Commons"
To ensure every community member has access to meaningful, dignified contributions and is supported in their overall well-being. They focus on matching individual passion with community need, distributing necessary work fairly, and guaranteeing a high quality of life for all.
Livelihood Weavers Pod Digital Headquarters
To address the high-stakes, recurring challenge of ensuring that essential but potentially stressful, repetitive, or undesirable work (e.g., waste processing, night safety watches, cleaning communal spaces) is distributed fairly, and that no one is overburdened to the point of burnout, while also ensuring these tasks get done. This directly tests the community's commitment to Equity and Care.
Workplace Well-being Guardian and Participatory Rotator collaboratively audit all necessary tasks, rating them for stress, desirability, and physical/emotional load.Meaningful Livelihood Guarantor and Vocation Mentor intervene supportively. They work with the individual to reduce their load and the Participatory Rotator to find others to share the work, potentially through a lottery or incentive system (e.g., extra leisure time, recognition).Care Network Organizer ensures that anyone undertaking a high-burden role has a dedicated support person and access to restorative practices.Skill Deepening Coach to train people in new methods.
"Burden & Vitality Balancing" Protocol Suite
Labor Optimization Toolkit
Annual "State of Work & Well-being" Report System

Community Resilience Steward: Cultivates robust, diverse, and adaptive local economies focused on well-being and stability, enabling the community to recover from and adapt to disruptions.
Circular Fabricator: Operates small-scale, ethical workshops for producing durable goods, prioritizing repair, reuse, and recycling in a closed-loop system.
Ecological Harvest Guardian: Manages the sustainable and respectful drawing of resources from nature, ensuring regenerative practices and preventing depletion.
Community Artisan: Creates objects of beauty and daily use that embed cultural meaning, strengthen local identity, and are made to last for generations.
Open-Source Solutions Designer: Develops appropriate, robust, and liberating technologies; all designs are shared as a common resource for all to use and adapt.
Capacity & Commons Coordinator: Matches community members' skills and passions with projects, while maintaining shared tools, spaces, and resource libraries.
Minerals and Metals, Petroleum and Biofuels, etc.).Design and Innovation).Extraction and Harvesting).This Commons is the antidote to the opaque, extractive supply chains of capitalism. It makes the entire material footprint of the community visible and manageable. It is essential for the Ecological Harvest Guardian to set sustainable yields, the Circular Fabricator to source materials, and the Open-Source Solutions Designer to share innovations. It turns production from a private, profit-driven activity into a public, ecologically-regulated process.
A dynamic, open-source platform that serves as the collective brain and memory for the community's material metabolism. It maps the entire lifecycle of resources, from source to reuse.
"The Regenerative Resource Commons"
"The Metabolic Workshop Complex"
To oversee and facilitate the healthy, circular, and equitable flow of materials and energy through the community, ensuring that all production and resourcing activities enhance, rather than deplete, ecological and social capital.
Material Metabolism Pod Digital Headquarters
To govern the high-stakes decision of whether to introduce a new material, technology, or production process into the community. This is the primary gatekeeping mechanism against "enshittification" and ecological harm, preventing well-intentioned but damaging innovations from destabilizing the system.
Open-Source Solutions Designer and Community Resilience Steward present the proposal and the review feedback in a public assembly, facilitating a discussion focused on long-term impacts (Planning and Vision).Ecological Harvest Guardian and Circular Fabricator establish clear metrics for success and environmental monitoring.Capacity & Commons Coordinator integrates the lessons learned into the community's knowledge base."New Resource & Production Proposal" Protocol Suite
Production Optimization Toolkit
An annual, quantitative and qualitative audit that measures the community's success in moving from a linear, extractive economy to a circular, regenerative one.
Annual "State of Our Metabolism" Report System

Appropriate Tech Evaluator: Assesses technologies for their durability, repairability, accessibility, and alignment with ecological and social values.
Decentralized Network Gardener: Maintains resilient, open-source communication infrastructures that are free from corporate or state control.
Mobility Systems Steward: Plans and maintains multi-modal transit (walking, biking, public transport) that is free/low-cost and minimizes ecological impact.
Ecological Builder: Constructs and retrofits housing and public buildings using natural, local, and non-toxic materials in ways that integrate with the ecosystem.
Popular Educator: Facilitates lifelong learning that is free and integrated with social life, focusing on critical thinking, cooperation, and practical skills.
Community Health Worker: Provides frontline, holistic healthcare and promotes public health, focusing on prevention and community-wide well-being.
Appropriateness and Robustness).Communications and Information platforms, free from corporate control.Transport and Movement, energy grids, and Water and Electricity systems.Construction and Building and public works.Education and Training on maintaining and understanding the technological commons.Medicine and Health Treatment.This Commons prevents technological enshittification, vendor lock-in, and planned obsolescence. It is the essential resource for the Appropriate Tech Evaluator to assess new tools, the Decentralized Network Gardener to maintain communications, and the Mobility Systems Steward to optimize transit. It ensures technology serves the community, not the reverse.
A unified, open-source repository and management system for all the community's foundational technologies and infrastructures. It treats these systems as public utilities to be stewarded for the common good, not owned for profit.
"The Symbiotic Stack"
"The Techno-Ecological Center"
To ensure the community's technological and infrastructural systems are resilient, liberating, accessible, and aligned with ecological and social values. They are the guardians and gardeners of the built and digital environment.
Infrastructure Stewards Pod Digital Headquarters
To govern the high-stakes process of adopting any new significant technology or infrastructure project (e.g., a new network protocol, energy source, or construction technique). This is the primary defense against technologies that create dependency, centralize power, waste resources, or have hidden social costs.
Appropriate Tech Evaluator leads a preliminary review of the proposed technology against core criteria: repairability, energy use, resource footprint, data governance, and freedom from coercive design.Medicine and Health Treatment, Education and Training, social equity, ecology) of the technology 10 and 50 years into the future.Popular Educator. The Decentralized Network Gardener ensures broad, inclusive discussion.Ecological Builder and Mobility Systems Steward monitor its real-world performance against promised benefits.Community Health Worker to inform future decisions."Technology Adoption & Impact Assessment" Protocol Suite
Infrastructure Optimization Toolkit
Annual "State of Our Infrastructure" Report System

Surplus Mobilizer: Manages the community's collective surplus, directing it towards productive investments in future resilience and shared prosperity.
Commons Archivist: Protects and curates the community's shared cultural and material inheritance, ensuring it is enhanced for future generations.
Universal Provisioner: Distributes the means of livelihood (e.g., via resource credits or universal basic services) unconditionally to all community members.
Housing Guarantor: Ensures high-quality, dignified housing is available to all as a human right, managed as a social good rather than a commodity.
Wealth Disparity Monitor: Tracks distributions of wealth and power within the community and proposes corrective measures to prevent harmful inequality.
Participatory Budgeting Facilitator: Guides the democratic process where the community decides how to allocate its shared resources for the common good.
Social Wealth and Heritage).Re-distribution and Apportionment.Housing and Subsistence, rather than personal Wages and Income accumulation.Wealth Disparity Monitor.This Commons makes the concept of "wealth" a public, democratic concern, not a private secret. It prevents the hidden Accumulation and Mobilization of power and ensures that the community's wealth is consciously directed toward Equity and Inclusion. It is the primary tool for every role in this subdomain to perform their function with full transparency.
A transparent, real-time accounting system that makes the community's complete material and social wealth visible and manageable by all. It is the definitive source of truth for what the community owns and how it flows.
"The Commonwealth Ledger"
"The Abundance Commons"
To ensure the community's collective wealth is recognized, nurtured, and distributed in a way that guarantees dignified livelihoods for all, prevents harmful inequality, and builds long-term resilience for the common good.
Wealth Stewards Pod Digital Headquarters
To manage the most high-stakes and potentially conflict-ridden process in the community: deciding how to spend the collective surplus (the Commons Fund). This is where the community's values are materially tested, and where competition for resources can threaten social accord.
Surplus Mobilizer and Wealth Disparity Monitor begin by publishing a clear report on the Commons Fund status and a needs assessment based on data from the Social Wealth Ledger.Participatory Budgeting Facilitator organizes a series of themed assemblies where proposals are presented, debated, and refined, with the Commons Archivist providing historical context.Universal Provisioner ensures all basic provisioning needs are met before discretionary projects are funded.Housing Guarantor and other role-bearers then receive a clear mandate and resources to execute their part of the plan."Wealth Justice & Redistribution" Protocol Suite
Multi-Capital Accounting Toolkit
Annual "State of Our Commonwealth" Report System
