Striving towards a safe and sound world.
Catalyzing initiatives for systemic shifts.
Transitioning from unsustainable to sustainable.
Planting life nourishing societal root systems.
WHAT
SundRoot is building on mechanisms inspired by nature. Just as root systems signal one another and share their surplus nutrients to strengthen the entire forest, we apply the same logic to our communities. By paying the surplus forward into ecosystem funds, we ensure the support is there when you need it.
WHY
We all feel stress, frustration, and dissatisfaction with the state of the world. Something is preventing our lives from blossoming to new heights. We all experience our own personal symptoms of deeper structural flaws. Many of us long to escape systems that create exploitation, polarization, and violence. We all share the same basic needs, and we all long for lives that are more balanced and richer in time, memories, and experiences. The goal is to enable healthier lives with greater well-being and balance — time to heal and flourish. With practical, concrete strategies, we can find ways to unlock our potential.
HOW
By forging social cooperative bonds for common cause, we free up time to actually live, discover, invent, solve problems, and truly contribute to the world.
The following are the directions that SundRoot strives to seed and nurture:
* Cooperative Employment. We foster cooperative enterprises that provide fair livelihoods! Conditions that give ownership power to the workers so they can shape their own lives. The generated surplus is channeled into a common fund for common prosperity. Through courses, incubation, programs and networks we democratize the economy. This promotes the startup of more cooperatives that can give more people a fair livelihood. Surplus also finances cooperative startups in neglected neighborhoods where part of profits go to local funds for local development so that all areas are lifted — especially those that need it most.
* Local Community Economies. Empowering people in challenging neighborhoods to support one another through service exchange using complementary local currencies and other economic tools that forge network links for exchange, value creation, and community wealth building.
* Affordable Community Housing. Slash the biggest living expense! Free up your time, and unlock more of life through the power of collective ownership! A fund dedicated to finance community housing projects where surplus is reinvested for the ultimate cause of affordable housing and community land trust projects securing affordable real-estate for our cooperatives and community spaces that are enriching our lives.
Planting & Nourishing Seeds of Common Sense Systems.
Education, Solutions and Inspiration.
The question to ask is: which initiatives shift the paradigms toward decentralized power, broad ownership, shared benefit, and incentive structures aligned with socio-ecological effects?
Ask yourselves: which initiatives shift us into self-sustaining mechanisms for regenerative growth, and which keep us dependent on extractive systems?
Malmö, Sweden: A Case of Applying Systems Change
Exploring directions Malmö can implement to practically apply regenerative systems thinking to transform urban development and community engagement.