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What is Green Goods?​

Green Goods helps communities name their needs, make promises, document regenerative work, review it together, and turn the record into support.

People who care for soil and trees, clear waste, maintain solar panels, or teach a class record their work in a phone app, even without a signal. Someone from their community reviews it. The public record helps supporters see what happened and decide what to fund.

A tended growing space with tools, a field notebook, and compost bins beside a wooden shelter.

Find your path​

Choose the guide for what you came to do.

What is a Green Goods garden?​

A garden is a community doing regenerative work together in one place.

The word is a picture, not a job description. A garden is something a group of people tends over time, and it does not have to involve plants. A garden can be:

  • a campus team keeping solar panels working,
  • a neighborhood crew that collects and sorts waste,
  • a farming collective caring for soil and growing trees alongside crops,
  • a group running classes and workshops.

Every garden has its own people, its own list of the work it tracks, and its own funds. Green Goods currently covers four areas of work: solar, agroforestry, education, and waste.

How it works, in one minute​

  1. Plan. The garden writes down where it is starting from and what it is aiming for.
  2. Document. Gardeners record their work with photos and a few details, in the field.
  3. Review. A steward from the garden approves each piece of work, or sends it back with a reason.
  4. Certify. Approved work can be bundled into one claim, called an impact certificate. This step is still being switched on.
  5. Fund. Supporters give to the garden, and the garden uses that support to do more work.

Commitment Pooling connects the plan to specific promises. A pool gives a garden shared rules for offering or requesting work and support. People record evidence toward a promise, and its designated reviewers check whether it was kept. Any agreed payment has its own conditions and steps; approving work alone does not pay anyone.

Garden promises are included in the 2.0 release where the pool is open. A promise can carry a G$ reward, paid after it's kept. Start with Make a Promise, or run the pool as a steward.

How It Works walks through each step.

The app's Media step shows Upload Media, one added image, and the Details button.

Follow Submit Work to record photos and details for your garden’s review.

What Green Goods is not​

  • It is not only for gardening. Any community doing regenerative work can be a garden.
  • It is not a payroll. Approving work does not pay anyone. How a garden rewards its people is a separate step, and each garden decides it.
  • It is not an outside audit. An approval means a steward from the garden looked at the evidence and stands behind it. It does not by itself measure environmental results.
  • It is not private. What gardeners submit becomes a public, permanent record. That is the point, and it is worth knowing before you take the first photo.

Have a question first? The FAQ answers the common ones, and the Glossary explains the words.

Next step​

See the whole loop, from a plan to a funded garden, and what an approval really means.