Measuring · Governing · Financing · Regenerating
Designing Living Bioregions
SEVA develops the measurement, governance, intelligence, and financial infrastructure that territories, communities, and ecosystems need to increase their vitality, viability, and evolutionary capacity.
How do we create territories that can thrive in an age of increasing uncertainty?
THE CHALLENGE
ECOLOGICAL
Living systems in decline
Planetary boundaries are breached as biodiversity, soil, and water systems lose their capacity to self-repair.
GOVERNANCE
The commons collapse
The shared resources that sustain communities erode without institutions designed to steward them.
FINANCIAL
Capital disconnected from life
Investment flows toward extraction, structurally blind to the living value it depends on.
One connected architecture for regenerating a territory.
THE RESPONSE
TERRITORIAL SCALE
Bioregions
The ecosystem as the unit of regeneration — where ecology, economy, and governance meet.
CATALYTIC NODES
Biohubs
Living laboratories where ecological, social, cultural, and economic innovation converge.
MEASUREMENT
ALIVE Index
A measure of developmental health, not just outputs — across vitality, viability, and evolutionary capacity.
INTELLIGENCE
Digital Twin
A living mirror of place: satellite, soil, water, biodiversity, and community data for adaptive stewardship.
INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Commons Governance
Stewardship, reciprocity, and collective intelligence — governing the commons in the age of AI.
FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Nature Finance
Living capital and bioregional financial facilities that put finance in service of life.
THE ALIVE INDEX
The three dimensions of aliveness.
The living state of the system right now — its energy, diversity, and flows.
Current health
VITALITY
Capacity to endure
VIABILITY
The potential to learn, develop, and become more complex over time.
Ability to adapt
EVOLUTIONARY CAPACITY
The system's ability to sustain itself and withstand shocks over time.
Together, these three dimensions reveal how alive a territory truly is.
A network of practitioners across ecology, governance, finance, and intelligence.
CAPITAL ARCHITECTURE
Ernesto van Peborgh
Founder & financial strategist. Two decades designing institutional capital structures at the intersection of finance and regenerative systems.
WHO WE ARE
REGENERATIVE DESIGN
Bill Reed
Pioneer of regenerative design. Four decades anchoring the conceptual and methodological framework behind SEVA's approach.
IMPLEMENTATION
Gisel Booman
Lead scientist & systems integrator. Anchors the scientific rigour of ALIVE — making biological health measurable and defensibly reportable.
Lourenço Bustani
Social entrepreneur and investor. Advises on strategy, narrative, and the venture pathways that carry regenerative work to scale.
ADVISORS
Tim Tensen
Co-founder of Terra Genesis. A decade implementing regenerative agriculture and agroforestry across multiple geographies and scales.
STRATEGY & INVESTMENT
WRITINGS
The thinking behind the work.
Essays on regeneration, living systems, finance, and the metacrisis — where SEVA's strategy is worked out in the open.