Our philosophy
Our philosophy
Our philosophy
Our mission
Calor supports places and the peoples who inhabit them by supporting their collective right to self-determination in local landscape partnerships, accessing finance for their ventures and community plans, and catalyzing a bottom-up, holistic approach to radical collaboration for justice and equity.
Our mission
Calor supports places and the peoples who inhabit them by supporting their collective right to self-determination in local landscape partnerships, accessing finance for their ventures and community plans, and catalyzing a bottom-up, holistic approach to radical collaboration that creates a regenerative and just economy.
Our vision
We envision thriving and resilient local communities, cultures, livelihoods and the landscapes they steward.
Our vision
We envision thriving and resilient local communities, cultures, livelihoods and the landscapes they steward.
Our purpose
We exist to support indigenous peoples’ culture, livelihoods and leadership in landscape governance and integrated landscape management by providing capacity building resources, technical assistance and access to finance and markets.
Support indigenous peoples’ culture, livelihoods and leadership
We recognize the important role local communities play in protecting our economic, environmental and cultural futures- through means such as water security and climate regulation.
And we believe indigenous peoples have the creativity and determination to defend our homelands and community rights through stewardship.
It is imperative that we work together to develop our communities’ capacity to take action, on their own terms. By honoring and revitalizing traditional ecological knowledge and cultural values, leveraging social justice initiatives, and enabling capacity-building movements and investment, we can overcome systemic challenges and ensure community vitality and viability for generations to come.
Support regenerative landscape governance and management
We collaborate across different sectors to implement effective landscape governance that’s powered by local people and the places they inhabit.
We’re bridge builders, connecting land stewards, the public, the private sector, market forces and policy instruments. We work to strengthen the power of indigenous peoples and provide them opportunities to participate in equitable decisions and provide accountability for integrated landscape planning efforts that discuss, negotiate, and develop collaborative action to address landscape-level challenges horizontally.
We know that the management of landscapes impacts local communities and their livelihoods. By implementing a long-term holistic, bottom up approach to rural development and the conservation of working lands, we can enable significant outcomes.
Provide capacity building opportunities, technical assistance and access to finance and markets
We are working to dramatically scale up investment and shift decision-making power to indigenous and local peoples grounded in resilient and regenerative indigenous and ecological economics principles.
We know that regenerative financing has the potential to transform people, places and landscapes. By creatively mobilizing different types of flexible capital structures and providing up-front support for project readiness, we can help build a pipeline of potential investment for local ventures.
We also seek to help indigenous peoples and local entrepreneurs learn how to access investment capital on their own. This strengthens community livelihoods and self determination of indigenous peoples, and supports biodiversity, regenerative land management, and climate change adaptation.
Our purpose
We exist to support indigenous peoples’ culture, livelihoods and leadership in landscape governance and integrated landscape management by providing capacity building resources, technical assistance and access to finance and markets.
Support indigenous peoples’ culture, livelihoods and leadership
We recognize the important role local communities play in protecting our economic, environmental and cultural futures- through means such as water security and climate regulation.
And we believe indigenous peoples have the creativity and determination to defend our homelands and community rights through stewardship.
It is imperative that we work together to develop our communities’ capacity to take action, on their own terms. By honoring and revitalizing traditional ecological knowledge and cultural values, leveraging social justice initiatives, and enabling capacity-building movements and investment, we can overcome systemic challenges and ensure community vitality and viability for generations to come.
Support regenerative landscape governance and management
We collaborate across different sectors to implement effective landscape governance that’s powered by local people and the places they inhabit.
We’re bridge builders, connecting land stewards, the public, the private sector, market forces and policy instruments. We work to strengthen the power of indigenous peoples and provide them opportunities to participate in equitable decisions and provide accountability for integrated landscape planning efforts that discuss, negotiate, and develop collaborative action to address landscape-level challenges horizontally.
We know that the management of landscapes impacts local communities and their livelihoods. By implementing a long-term holistic, bottom up approach to rural development and the conservation of working lands, we can enable significant outcomes.
Provide capacity building opportunities, technical assistance and access to finance and markets
We are working to dramatically scale up investment and shift decision-making power to indigenous and local peoples grounded in resilient and regenerative indigenous and ecological economics principles.
We know that regenerative financing has the potential to transform people, places and landscapes. By creatively mobilizing different types of flexible capital structures and providing up-front support for project readiness, we can help build a pipeline of potential investment for local ventures.
We also seek to help indigenous peoples and local entrepreneurs learn how to access investment capital on their own. This strengthens community livelihoods and self determination of indigenous peoples, and supports biodiversity, regenerative land management, and climate change adaptation.
The Theory of Change
By connecting the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of development,
we enable the emergence of regenerative bioregional economies that create cycles of regenerative, mutually beneficial relationships.
The Theory of Change
By connecting the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of development,
we enable the emergence of regenerative bioregional economies that create cycles of regenerative, mutually beneficial relationships.
Our manifesto
Our manifesto
We are a collective.
We believe in the power of people to foster collective action. We are coming together to enable societal transformation built on regenerative principles. We aim to build a regenerative, collaborative and transdisciplinary ecosystem that banks on diversity and creativity.
We are a collective.
We believe in the power of people to foster collective action. We are coming together to enable societal transformation built on regenerative principles. We aim to build a regenerative, collaborative and transdisciplinary ecosystem that banks on diversity and creativity.
We support local action.
The only true response is a local one. A thriving planet operates through a global network of local phenomena. We need to develop agency in particular places, using approaches that are created in response to the unique processes of life in those places.
We support local action.
The only true response is a local one. A thriving planet operates through a global network of local phenomena. We need to develop agency in particular places, using approaches that are created in response to the unique processes of life in those places.
We recognize regeneration is developmental.
The most important thing for a community builder to leave behind is not the building, but the capacity to build community. If we genuinely want our projects to leave communities and natural systems healthier than we found them, then we need to figure out how to integrate regenerative capacities into what we develop because we play an essential role in our ability to improve the quality of our thinking process and that of our partners. We build capacities and capabilities in the systems that increase the vitality, viability and evolutionary potential through the landscapes and projects we engage with.
We recognize regeneration is developmental.
The most important thing for a community builder to leave behind is not the building, but the capacity to build community. If we genuinely want our projects to leave communities and natural systems healthier than we found them, then we need to figure out how to integrate regenerative capacities into what we develop because we play an essential role in our ability to improve the quality of our thinking process and that of our partners. We build capacities and capabilities in the systems that increase the vitality, viability and evolutionary potential through the landscapes and projects we engage with.
We believe in unique roles and interconnectedness.
Everyone has a role. We cannot live out our role unless we commit to change not just what we do, but who we are and how we think. What a community has to offer has everything to do with its natural, cultural, social and spiritual capital. It is time for communities to begin re-investing in those systems that make them special while re-aligning all local endeavors with the ongoing stewardship of those systems.
We believe in unique roles and interconnectedness.
Everyone has a role. We cannot live out our role unless we commit to change not just what we do, but who we are and how we think. What a community has to offer has everything to do with its natural, cultural, social and spiritual capital. It is time for communities to begin re-investing in those systems that make them special while re-aligning all local endeavors with the ongoing stewardship of those systems.
We embody worldviews and multidimensional seeing.
We are learning to see from one eye with the strengths of indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledge and ways of knowing. We are learning to see with these eyes together so we can honor the diversity of knowledge in our holistic and complex world.
We embody worldviews and multidimensional seeing.
We are learning to see from one eye with the strengths of indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledge and ways of knowing. We are learning to see with these eyes together so we can honor the diversity of knowledge in our holistic and complex world.
We practice integrated, adaptive learning.
We recognize that our processes by their very nature are cyclical. We can model this on how we learn as individuals, groups and communities. Learning together as a community is a practice for developing agency and self-determination that is intrinsic to indigenous peoples and local communities. This concept underpins and guides our thinking, learning and adaptations to our pathways. By exploring the values and principles that underpin the complexity of indegenous biocultural landscapes, we can work through the patterns, power, expertise, legitimacy and worldviews to thrive in this pluricultural world.
We practice integrated, adaptive learning.
We recognize that our processes by their very nature are cyclical. We can model this on how we learn as individuals, groups and communities. Learning together as a community is a practice for developing agency and self-determination that is intrinsic to indigenous peoples and local communities. This concept underpins and guides our thinking, learning and adaptations to our pathways. By exploring the values and principles that underpin the complexity of indegenous biocultural landscapes, we can work through the patterns, power, expertise, legitimacy and worldviews to thrive in this pluricultural world.
