Ecological
The nested living systems that replenish land, water, biodiversity, and climate resilience.
Three Pillars
Ecological × Social × Capital
Distinct territories. Shared consequences.
Each pillar has its own evidence and dynamics. Their consequences meet in the capacity of a place or institution to keep creating possibility over time.
Social
The relational field through which people build trust, share knowledge, and act together.
Capital
The circulation of productive resources through assets, infrastructure, reserves, and renewal.
Ecological regeneration
Ecological capacity
The condition and regenerative ability of living systems, including the relationships, thresholds, cycles, and resources on which human and economic activity depend.
Capital regeneration
Capital capacity
The financial, productive, infrastructural, institutional, and investment capacity that can sustain useful activity without treating ecological or social depletion as invisible.
Regeneration test
Ask the same five questions across all three territories.
Strengthened
What capacity is stronger afterward?
Depleted
What capacity is weaker or consumed?
Distributed
Who gains, who carries cost, and who has decision power?
Risked
Which thresholds, rights, dependencies, or uncertainties matter?
Made possible
What future options become more available or less available?
Evidence
Definitions become useful when they can be traced to evidence.
The evidence system keeps observation, modeling, community-grounded knowledge, proposals, and missingness distinct.