# The Promises and Pitfalls of Regenerative Finance

**URL:** <https://forum.celo.org/t/the-promises-and-pitfalls-of-regenerative-finance/3633>\
**Category:** Climate and ReFi\
**Created:** [May 23, 2022, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/the-promises-and-pitfalls-of-regenerative-finance/3633 "2022-05-23T08:37:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![papa\_raw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.celo.org/papa_raw/32/6248_2.png) [@papa\_raw](https://forum.celo.org/u/papa_raw)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/the-promises-and-pitfalls-of-regenerative-finance/3633/1 "2022-05-23T08:37:55Z")

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Hey folks,

We’ve (Curve Labs) been working on a brief article summarizing some of the key discourses around ReFi today. Cross-posting here for visibility.

I believe that as we develop the ReFi community on Celo we’re going to have to engage more and more with these types of debates.

Article:

> **[The Promises and Pitfalls of Regenerative Finance](https://blog.curvelabs.eu/the-promises-and-pitfalls-of-regenerative-finance-4910f0f6f690)**
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> Towards a Critical Yet Constructive Dialogue

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**Author:** ![rene\_celo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.celo.org/rene_celo/32/6763_2.png) [@rene\_celo](https://forum.celo.org/u/rene_celo)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/the-promises-and-pitfalls-of-regenerative-finance/3633/2 "2022-05-24T19:04:00Z")

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Thanks for sharing @papa_raw. Beautiful - and much needed - post!

+1 to this:

**There are diamonds in the rough, with sweeping topic areas such as** [**scientific research**](https://future.a16z.com/what-is-decentralized-science-aka-desci/) **,** [**ecological restoration**](https://twitter.com/shaylekann/status/1479481232035495938) **,** [**public policy**](https://medium.com/streamrblog/what-are-data-unions-how-do-they-work-which-ones-can-i-use-887e67fb7716) **and** [**community governance**](https://www.kolektivo.co/) **all benefitting from Web3.**

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**Author:** ![deana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.celo.org/deana/32/7019_2.png) [@deana](https://forum.celo.org/u/deana)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/the-promises-and-pitfalls-of-regenerative-finance/3633/3 "2022-05-24T19:32:35Z")

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thank you for sharing! this is a crisp articulation of a lot of the things that I’ve been thinking about but haven’t found the language for.

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**Author:** ![papa\_raw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.celo.org/papa_raw/32/6248_2.png) [@papa\_raw](https://forum.celo.org/u/papa_raw)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/the-promises-and-pitfalls-of-regenerative-finance/3633/4 "2022-06-13T10:08:06Z")

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We wrote a short article documenting our discoveries/work re: food forest tokenization / community economy work in Curacao:

> <https://twitter.com/curvelabs/status/1536272570676400130?s=20&t=xq5AJTLTPGaeByeUe8Syzg>

Sharing it in this thread rather than making a new thread to not crowd the forum 😅