The frameworks, theory, and resources that enable meaningful participation in the impact-based economy. Open to read, free to build on, and revised as our collective understanding grows.
The foundational essay of Impactivism. Why traditional models systematically fail to measure what matters, and how an economy organized around measurable impact — rather than extraction — changes every incentive downstream.
Governance exists to serve people, communities, and planetary well-being — not the accumulation of wealth or power.— From the framework
Externalized costs, concentrated power, and the optimization of extraction over regeneration.
The three pillars that turn impact from an aspiration into a functioning economic system.
On building frameworks rather than empires — and why the infrastructure of value must be a commons.
What changes when equality and dignity extend to all sentient beings, known and unknown.
Structured routes from first principles to practice. Begin anywhere — each path stands on its own.
The philosophy, the failures it answers, and the shape of an impact-based economy. No prerequisites.
Methods for quantifying social, environmental, and economic outcomes — and verifying the claims.
Participatory, accountable decision-making — from first models to operational standards.
Open methods and instruments for putting honest numbers to real-world outcomes.
A shared specification for capturing, scoring, and verifying outcomes across social, environmental, and economic dimensions.
What an impact claim must disclose to be accountable — sources, method, and the limits of certainty.
Methods for estimating what would have happened anyway — so impact is the difference made, not the activity logged.
A composite measure for whether value cycles replenish their sources or deplete them over time.
Models for participatory, transparent decision-making — each at a different stage of collective review.
Power structures designed to resist concentration and keep agency local and legible.
AdoptedHow governance stays answerable to the communities it serves, between decisions as well as during them.
In reviewOpen processes for collective choice over shared resources, with the reasoning visible to all.
In reviewKeeping human dignity and fair contribution central as automation and AI reshape labor.
DraftWhy participation must be voluntary, transparent, and revocable to remain legitimate.
AdoptedHolding AI and automation as instruments accountable to people — never as authorities over them.
DraftEssays, frameworks, measurement methods, governance models — if your work advances how the impact-based economy is understood or built, there is a place for it here.