Local Bloom Chapter Insights
Deep analysis of regenerative actions and impact patterns across all Local Bloom chapters in our network.
Global Network Insights
Network Activity by Category
102
culture
17
economy
52
education
28
environment
100
food
31
infrastructure
26
other
14
water
Top Reporting Chapters
Diamante Valley
451 impacts • 111 actions
Osa Peninsula
323 impacts • 76 actions
Turkiye
120 impacts • 24 actions
Sicily
75 impacts • 30 actions
Planet Earth
72 impacts • 16 actions
21
Active Chapters
1,345
Total Network Impacts
610
Total Actions
Analytics & Growth Insights
| Metric | Value | Growth Rate | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Pageviews | 26,181 | +9.8% | Monthly |
| Total Unique Visitors | 11,197 | +12.7% | Monthly |
| Total Platform Members | 483 | +14.08% | |
| New Members in the Last 30 Days | 68 | +385.7% | Rolling 30 days |
| Estimated On-the-Ground Participants | 30,000 | — | — |
Global Network Impact Summary
Network Activity by Category
102
culture
17
economy
52
education
28
environment
100
food
31
infrastructure
26
other
14
water
Impacts by Category Across All Chapters
Cultural Events
398 impacts• 700 Funding received (USD)
• 1 Community meetings
• Community wellbeing: possibility to connect and celebrate together
• We had local elders to play music and share the stories of their village
• 30+ people shared a potluck in the center of the village
• We are gathering to connect Locals and Foreigners, to come a bit closer to understanding and unity.
• Improved the center of our village, making it look more organized
• Improved the efficiency of any future community event that will need firewood
• Created a functional and practical storage to stack up a lot of firewood in 3 sections
• Held 6 biweekly governance, food, and cultural gatherings over three months, maintaining continuity for a rural commons during a quieter participation period.
• Maintained consistent participation from a core group of stewards across all gatherings, enabling sustained governance and land stewardship without paid staff.
• Produced and finalized new organizational bylaws defining membership criteria and staged rights paired with responsibilities.
• Created clear written proposals for future commons development, including a community nursery plan and a partnership framework with UCI.
• Prepared and shared community meals at every gathering, with donations collected to support a local community food fund.
• Integrated music and karaoke into governance gatherings, increasing participation from local Costa Rican neighbors and strengthening cross-cultural relationships.
• Strengthened stewardship capacity of core contributors, who are now actively caring for shared land, buildings, and community events across multiple sites.
• Sustained organizational hygiene and decision-making through regular in-person meetings, preventing drift or burnout during a low-growth season.
• Expanded bioregional collaboration by alternating gatherings between Diamante Luz and an upper-valley partner site, increasing relational connectivity across the valley.
• Demonstrated a replicable, low-cost method for maintaining governance, food sharing, and cultural life in a rural commons without reliance on constant growth or formal infrastructure.
• Community strengthening: We had a beautiful cultural event for the people of the community and guests.
... and 378 more impacts
Local Economy
72 impacts• Behaviour change: People coming together to share many things
• Economic resilience: People buying and selling locally and keeping money and resources local
• Community wellbeing: Sharing, eating, singing, play
• Community wellbeing: We have opened the space to host events such as local football matches, cabalgatas, and our new Saturday day market.
• Economic resilience: The opening of the Saturday market allows people to locally buy and sell within the community.
• Behaviour change: With the mostly completed space the community has a meeting point to come together.
• teaching and practicing Spanish with the Community
• offering more Spanish speaking opprtunities through digital interfaces
• Support local businesses
• One site made very welcoming in support of the Saturday market that we have hosted for years.
• Two massive higueron trees trimmed so that they don't ruin the built structures here
• 16 friends came together for a shared purpose and to break bread. Our community is increasingly cohesive and growing.
• Personally, I learned how to opperate a chainsaw safetly while in a tree, on a ladder, or on a rooftop. I also leaned how to deal with a disturbed nest of wasps (that fortunately weren't terribly aggressive).
• Reduced our landfill contribution by at least 70% through a mix of repurposing and recycling
• Was able to flow various items of use to different low resourced families with materials for use in their households
• Demonstrated upcycling and exchange principles weekly at our farmer’s markets
• Demonstrated to resourced clients of the market, how we can help them to flow things of value out into the community
• Engaged in bimonthly organizing meetings among farmers market vendors to encourage greater agency and ownership over organizing
• Having a regular rhythm for joining together as a community allows for ideas and plans to surface, be expressed and potentially be executed on.
• - By engaging in loosely structured meeting spaces, those with little familiarity with these types of structures build their capacity to engage.
... and 52 more impacts
Education & Training
245 impacts• Knowledge / skills increase: Gained experience in creating a roof with bamboo. Especially in preparing a geotextile roof.
• 3 Events or campaigns run
• 3 Campaign copy and strategic messaging
• Financial Capital: clearer case for support in upcoming presentations
• Social Capital: strengthened relationships with neighboring Bloom communities
• Social Capital: increased trust across regional organizers and allies
• Experiential Capital: shared lessons from on-the-ground regenerative organizing
• Living Capital: better recognition of the ecological context in which local livelihoods and stewardship are embedded
• Materials / equipment deployed
• 3 Partnerships activated
• 8 Workshops / trainings held
• 30 Training hours (internal)
• 2 Collection / cleanup actions
• 400 People reached / served
• Behaviour change: More gifting, art creation and collective responsibility for a safe, free and supportive space
• Knowledge / skills increase: Greater understanding of how "Burner" culture can work for Regenerative culture through practical application in the temporary village
• Community wellbeing: Earth Arts Village is on everyon'e's lips as the place memories were made, relationships strengthened, and a felt sense of home experienced
• 8 Workshops / trainings held
• 2 Events or campaigns run
• 2 Field days / restoration days
... and 225 more impacts
Environmental Restoration
106 impacts• 4 local community events were held
• 40 participants attended the events
• Participants responded well & were very grateful & thankful for this initiative & understood the need for such a project within the community
• Participants were educated on the various rivers, connections & flows of water within the Baru River catchment
• Deforested areas, cattle farms, erosion zones, impacts & other historical changes within the Baru River catchment were shown via satellite imagery, photos & 3D maps
• Local examples of rewilding, reforestation, agroforestry, silvipastoral & regenerative projects were highlighted, showcasing the real-world local examples that already exist in the Baru River catchment
• Negative impacts to the marine ecosystems at & around Dominical due to the sediments & chemicals flowing down from the Baru River catchment were shown & explained
• Various solutions, actions & implementation options were presented to the community & discussed after each event
• Questions & concerns from community members were address & answered, specifically around next steps, funding & volunteering opportunities to assist with the project
• The context of how this project will help improve both the local ecosystem health & that of the community, how this contributes to the local economic situation was clarified, as well as how this local project contributes to the larger bioregional improvement intiative
• Trees planted
• Slowing down the water
• Preserving natural springs and watershed
• Communities and projects finding alignment
• 555 trees planted
• 17 people got to escape from the city and reconnect with nature and simplicity
• Elders sharing their stories, perspective and wisdom help refine and focus the passion of the youth and activists
• 500+ fruit trees planted
• 1000+ support species planted
• 100+ fruit trees pruned for better productivity and ease of harvest
... and 86 more impacts
Food Systems
378 impacts• 8 Community meetings
• Community wellbeing: Foreigners and locals communing and weaving together
• pruned 100+ fruit trees
• 20+ people benefited from food qand medicine provided by the lands
• over 500 trees were cared for and fed with chop & drop as well as organic fertilizers, microorganisms, and amendments
• 5 people received tours and their first experience in a food forest and holistic homestead
• 5 paid workers were able to generate income to support livelihoods while contributing to ecological and social wellness in the short and long term
• 10 wheelbarrow fulls of root crops, fruits, and medicine. (Living Capital)
• - We are planting the roadside with dwarf coconuts, small fruit trees, berries and flowers to make it beautiful and welcoming
• - We removed + 20 kg of trash from this part of the garden, ready to be recycled
• We harvested the first FreeTheFood Champedak from the Soccerfield in Las Tumbas, 8 Locals loved it and would like more fruit trees to be planted around the soccer field
• Introduced over 60 people to indigenous language ceremonial songs
• created a consistent weekly community gathering for stabilizing local relationships
• seeded 3 additional locations for other offshoot song circles in the greater bioregion
• We bring awareness to our area : How can a Community Center benefit to making the village evolve ?
• By creating a welcoming and open gathering space, we help everyone connect in the Bio-Region
• A Community Center helps Information to become more accessible to everyone in the Bio-Region.
• By creating a roof and a playground, we invite all ages to enjoy, adults can meet, children can play..
• On January 18th we gathered 60+ people in Las Tumbas around games, sports, music and food... We shared the vision of Roof and Play.
• x
... and 358 more impacts
Infrastructure
140 impacts• 1 Materials / equipment deployed
• 2 contributing time and skills
• 20 People reached / served
• 220 Budget spent (USD)
• Community wellbeing: Improving access path to the Coliazul community space
• 4 Field days / restoration days
• 2 transport of building materials
• increased accessibility: easier and safer access to the Coliazul room
• 2 connections with land and eachother (Social Capital)
• 3 Shared knowledge about tree pruning, bamboo construction, general maintenance of structures and infrastructure (Intellectual Capital)
• 4 construction skill building, trail and stair creation, clear role communication, accountability and acknowledgement practices (Experiential Capital)
• 10 Harvested and shared 3 jackfruits with greater community, harvested yucca and tiquiske to share for meals after action days, grounded with the plants and land and eachother (Living Capital)
• A suitable space for the morning classes for the children 5 days a week, afternoon activities 2 times a week, and variable adult meetings is provided
• Cost efficiency for the Coliazul project through shared use of the house in which we live.
• Flexibility in the use of space, for example, for cooking activities in the kitchen or moving other activities here in case of inclement weather
• Almost always, one of us is at home and can provide support if additional materials or help are needed. Even in emergencies, it has proven useful to have one of us on site.
• The building is centrally located in the village and the children can walk to Coliazul.
• Building bridges: promoting acceptance and integration into the local village community
• Installed creek-side fence section, completing one of the most challenging perimeter segments
• Cemented and repaired broken posts, restoring structural integrity across the fence line
... and 120 more impacts
Other Activities
74 impacts• classes
• community
• yoga
• pilate
• HIIT
• cocreate
• Educated 2 people
• Having natural stones in the form you want, when you have none
• We built 6 gates out of recycle materials
• we cleaned up the salon communal completely and sorted the trash
• we fixed the sinks that were leaking for years
• we bought new lockers to improve our system when the salon need to be used
• We made a flyer for the coming soccer games that will bring funds to make more improvement in the salon
• We informed our bio region (3 villages) of our re-Opening
• We shredded + 60kg of non recyclable Hard plastic
• We made +10 Ecobales of accumulated soft plastics with the Ubuntu machine
• We are regularly recirculating glass jars and bottles in the local community
• We are educating individuals twice a month, offering a diversity of alternative to “trash”
• Christmas Presents For 32 Kids From low income families
• held the first silent immersion at Diamante Luz
... and 54 more impacts
Watershed Management
51 impacts• Created basemap for the Baru River
• Created DEM for the Baru River
• Created major river network for the Baru River
• Created Google Earth satellite imagery layer for the Baru River
• Created multiple layers of data from government & municipal data sets for the Baru River
• We are open twice a month on Fridays, offering this recycling service voluntarily for the local community
• We offer practical alternatives to stop send trash to landfills. We are regularly communicating about this on groups an social media.
• - We upgrade the structures at the recycling center in order to keep doing our Recycling work in comfortable environment
• we prevent the soaps and grey water from 3 houses to fall into a spring
• - we are bringing awareness in our local community that its possible to do something to protect water
• we are looking to make this creek a pilot project for more creeks an rivers to be protected
• Gathered information & first hand experience of the river
• Talked with local neighbors in the community
• Documented various impacts
• Mapped the river, headwaters & sources
• Reconnected with the land & water along the watershed
• We are creating a grey water system to protect a creek from soaps, oils and detergent dropping into the spring.
• We moved a cow fence further away from the spring so we can stop the cow dung going into the water.
• Instagram of Rios Limpios : rioslimpioscostarica
• We have been sharing information on how to build grey water filters on social media and local groups, to raise awareness about Grey Water.
... and 31 more impacts