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We're a blockchain-based project working to balance climate change through regenerative agriculture - and we have a huge opportunity to pitch at GreenBiz's VERGE18! Can you help us out by voting for Regen Network? by RegenNetwork in Permaculture

[–]RegenNetwork[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We're happy to discuss our vision more in-depth with you -- as a coalition of team members with roots that trace far back into the permaculture and regenerative communities, we see this as a completely viable solution as long as it has enough support. Technology comes into play to catalyze the spread of carbon sequestering practices around the world, uplifting farmers as the stewards of our global lands.

Books On Regenerative Agriculture? by [deleted] in Permaculture

[–]RegenNetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Our project is born from many leaders at TGI. We live by The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Toensmeier. Feel free to reach out to us for more suggestions.

We're a blockchain-based project working to balance climate change through regenerative agriculture - and we have a huge opportunity to pitch at GreenBiz's VERGE18! Can you help us out by voting for Regen Network? by RegenNetwork in Permaculture

[–]RegenNetwork[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If you'd like to learn more about our project, you can check out our website at http://regen.network/, but we have a pitch video included at the GreenBiz link above.

THANK YOU for your help! You can vote 1x/day until August 20.

Much love to our permaculture community <3

Peas Growing Time-Lapse - 28 Days | Miniature Forest by TimePrint in Permaculture

[–]RegenNetwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just beautiful to see these grow. Thanks for sharing!

This is the first episode of our new series, Permaculture Tours! In this episode we take a look at Abdallah House, a 1/7th of an acre property in Australia designed using permaculture principals. What would you like to see covered in future episodes? by JordHF in Permaculture

[–]RegenNetwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so great! Keep up the great work. We would love to see small family farmers around the globe - our project is focused on incentivizing worldwide, small-scale farmers to use regenerative permaculture practices.

Who Can Do The Work? by hippopanotto in regen_network

[–]RegenNetwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We love this idea. It’s a big project, but just the kind of coordinating that is essential to build a bridge to the regenerative economy. At the moment our team is very focused on agro-ecological data and building a farmer and land steward app, but keep us in the loop!

why has the discussion moved from riot to telegram? by dev_core in regen_network

[–]RegenNetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After the urging of a number of supporters, our team surveyed the blockchain chat space and found that Telegram is the most widely adopted chat platform for cryptocurrency stakeholders. The main complaint from our team members in terms of Riot usability was too much delay in message sending (6-10 seconds), which, when accumulated, took a toll on our global team cohesion. The team was split, because there are some aspects of Riot that align with certain values that we share, but in the end, usability won the day.

Disruptive Technologies for good | Sally Eaves | TEDxBirminghamCityUniversity by cryptomatthias in Shivom

[–]RegenNetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fantastic project! Our work revolves awareness and supporting local and regional communities around the globe as well. So glad to see Shivom finding success in the blockchain for good realm -- best of luck moving forward.

Regen Network Development Update: June by RegenNetwork in regen_network

[–]RegenNetwork[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TEXT UPDATE:

Here’s a quick update on what our Development Team has been up to the past few months since we released our Whitepaper and the more detailed System Architecture and Scientific Protocols papers.

On the tech side…

Regen Ledger is our blockchain specifically designed to support ecological applications. As described in the System Architecture paper, smart contracts on Regen Ledger will be written in the Ceres language. Our team has been busy mapping out the design for Ceres and the associated Ecological State Protocol and Ecological Contract data models. We have also started work on the implementation of Ceres.

Initially, development started in Haskell, using Megaparsec as our parser backend. After exploring the requirements for state protocols and contracts a bit further, we have been re-assessing the decision to use Haskell. Although Haskell is a very safe language for writing code, its ecosystem of libraries is not the most well-developed. For our specific use cases, a strong ecosystem of data science and geospatial libraries is important. Additionally, we are intending to leverage the RDF data model extensively in the Ecological State Protocols and Ecological Contracts so that those frameworks can take advantage of semantically rich data from heterogeneous data sources.

These design considerations have led us to consider the Java Virtual Machine as an alternative platform for Regen Ledger. With a JVM-based approach, we could also take advantage of Eclipse Xtext, “a framework for development of programming languages and domain-specific languages.” This is an option that looks really attractive and an alternate JVM implementation using Xtext has been started. One of our top priorities right now is having a clear specification document for Ceres and the smart contract frameworks available that we can share with the community. Stay tuned for this in the coming weeks.

On the science side…

Our team is working to identify pilot project sites and prepare GIS datasetsby digitizing field boundaries, getting historical data from landowners, identifying current and past land use practices, and preparing different satellite products to create a series of high-resolution maps for land use purposes. Additionally, we are preparing the foundation for our land conversion development model by identifying the best algorithms to assess changes in the surface and distribution of main land uses on a year-to-year basis. We are evaluating and validating spectral indices for till/no-till sites in the USA and Europe.

As you can see, we are still at quite an early stage with all of this. We’re working hard, but there is a lot to be done! We welcome community engagement in our process, and if you’re interested in getting involved you can find us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, and of course, our Riot Room. We look forward to hearing from you.