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Glossary

The words you will meet in Green Goods, in plain language. Each entry says what the word means, why it matters, and what it is easy to mix it up with. Formal definitions and technical reference live in the Builders ontology.

Everyday terms​

Commitment Pool​

A governed home for promises. It gives a garden rules and bounds for coordinating offers and requests.

  • For example: A garden pool coordinates transport offers under a charter.
  • Also called: pool.
  • Not the same as: Vault, Cookie Jar.
  • Read more: Open a Pool.

Season​

A garden's main stretch of time for its promises. It gives planning and reflection a calm common rhythm.

  • For example: A garden's autumn season holds its planting and repair promises, while a seed swap runs beside it as a campaign.
  • Also called: garden season.
  • Not the same as: a campaign, a network program period such as Season One or Season Two.
  • Read more: Open a Pool.

Contributor​

A person credited on a commitment. Joining a team and having a contribution recorded are different steps. The team cannot confirm its own promise.

  • For example: Two gardeners contribute approved work to a promise. Another eligible person confirms it.
  • Also called: Commitment Contributor.
  • Not the same as: lead provider, confirmer.
  • Availability: Team membership, contributions and contributor payouts are available; payouts need the garden's settlement account to be active.
  • Read more: Keep a Promise.

Garden​

A community and its shared place. It gives people, roles, records, and funds one accountable home.

  • For example: A campus solar team, a neighborhood waste crew, or a tree-planting group, each with its own people, records, and funds.
  • Also called: community garden.
  • Not the same as: a place only for growing plants, a personal wallet, a single project.
  • Read more: How It Works.

Action​

A reusable work instruction. It makes expected work and evidence clear before anyone submits it.

  • For example: Plant native species and capture before-and-after photos.
  • Also called: work template.
  • Not the same as: Work, Promise.
  • Read more: Manage Actions.

Promise​

What a member offers or asks for in a pool: a workshop, a planting, a repair. It keeps a shared record of who will do it, by when, and whether it was kept.

  • For example: A gardener offers a composting workshop, and the member who takes it up confirms it was kept.
  • Also called: commitment, as in the feature name Commitment Pooling.
  • Not the same as: a work record, a payment.
  • Read more: Make a Promise.

Work​

A field record of completed activity. It turns local action into portable evidence without waiting for approval to exist.

  • For example: Photos and a short description of trees a gardener planted, sent to a steward for review.
  • Also called: work submission, field record.
  • Not the same as: Work Approval, Assessment.
  • Read more: Submit Work.

Work Approval​

A reviewer's recorded decision on submitted work. It keeps what happened separate from the judgment about it, so neither can quietly rewrite the other.

  • For example: A steward approves a planting submission with feedback and a confidence level.
  • Also called: work review, approval attestation.
  • Not the same as: Work, Assessment.
  • Read more: Review Work.

Assessment​

A starting point and a plan. It states what a place needs and what good evidence should demonstrate.

  • For example: A soil-health baseline with targets and selected actions.
  • Also called: baseline.
  • Not the same as: Work Approval.
  • Read more: Make an Initial Assessment.

Impact Certificate​

One claim that bundles a body of approved work. It lets approved contribution records become a fundable impact claim.

  • For example: A certificate bundling a season of approved work.
  • Also called: Hypercert.
  • Not the same as: Attestation, Work Approval.
  • Availability: Still being built.
  • Read more: Mint Impact Certificate.

Vault​

A garden's long-term fund. A deposit can stay in place while what it earns supports ongoing work.

  • For example: A funder endows a garden, and what the deposit earns supports the garden's work.
  • Also called: endowment.
  • Not the same as: Cookie Jar, a guaranteed deposit.
  • Read more: Endow a Garden.

A shared fund for near-term needs. It covers smaller costs, with a limit on each claim.

  • For example: A gardener claims a small, capped amount for supplies and says what it is for.
  • Also called: jar.
  • Not the same as: Vault.
  • Read more: Donate to a Garden.

Gardener​

A person doing and documenting the work. Green Goods begins with evidence captured by people caring for a place.

  • For example: A gardener records a planting with no signal and uploads it once back in range.
  • Also called: field contributor.
  • Not the same as: Commitment Contributor.
  • Read more: Gardener Guide.

Steward​

A person stewarding garden operations. Stewards turn community policy into accountable review and coordination.

  • For example: A steward adds members and approves or rejects submitted work.
  • Also called: Garden Steward, Garden Operator, operator.
  • Not the same as: Evaluator.
  • Read more: Steward Guide.

Evaluator​

A person shaping assessment and impact rigor. Evaluators help communities frame baselines, methods, outcomes, and defensible claims.

  • For example: An evaluator authors a soil-health assessment.
  • Also called: impact assessor.
  • Not the same as: Steward, Work approver.
  • Read more: Evaluator Guide.

Funder​

A person or organization supporting the work. Funding connects credible evidence to durable community capacity.

  • For example: One funder donates to a garden's cookie jar, another endows its vault, and a grantmaker backs the same garden through a grant.
  • Also called: supporter.
  • Not the same as: Community Member.
  • Read more: Funder Guide.

Community Member​

A local person affected by the work. Community voice should shape needs and accountability, not sit outside the record.

  • For example: A resident reads the public record of approved work in a nearby garden.
  • Also called: resident.
  • Not the same as: Gardener.
  • Read more: How It Works.

Words in the app​

Offer​

A promise made by the person or garden providing help. The recipient or designated independent people normally confirm it.

You offer a repair session; the neighbor who takes it up receives the help. Guide.

Request​

A promise asking someone else to provide help. The person who asked normally confirms it. A request to take a promise up is a separate participation decision.

You request a repair session; the neighbor taking it up provides the help. Guide.

Take up​

Agree to the part described by a promise. Some promises allow direct take-up; others wait for a steward to accept the request.

Taking up a request makes you its provider. Taking up an offer makes you its recipient. Guide.

Campaign​

A focused period of promises. It can run beside the garden's main season or on its own. Both seasons and campaigns are commitment cycles.

A waste-cleanup campaign runs during the longer garden season. Guide.

Lead and provider​

The provider is the person or garden responsible for delivering the help. The lead coordinates its team. A person acting for a provider garden is not the same identity as that garden.

A steward takes a request up for their garden; the provider record names the garden. Guide.

Confirmer​

A person or garden eligible to check that a promise was kept. Providers and contributing team members cannot confirm their own promise, including through a fallback.

The recipient checks the evidence after the team finishes. Guide.

Confirmation​

A recorded decision that a promise was kept. The required confirmation count is the number of valid decisions needed. A confirmation cannot be taken back.

One of three required confirmations has arrived; two are still needed. Guide.

Proof​

Photos, notes or links supplied toward a promise about help or a service. Garden-work promises use the required work submissions and approvals.

A repairer adds photos and a note about the completed repair. Guide.

Work requirement​

An action and amount of work a promise requires. When an action appears twice, the exact requirement row matters.

Two planting rows may refer to different plots or amounts. Guide.

Linked and counted work​

Linked work points a submission at a promise's requirement. Approval reviews that submission. Counting applies eligible approved work toward the requirement. These are separate results.

Approved linked work can still be waiting for a steward to count it. Guide.

Recognition and split​

Recognition records contribution. A split describes its allocation and becomes fixed when the season or campaign opens. It does not itself distribute money.

A season records how recognition is shared before promises begin. Guide.

Commitment limit​

The pool's limit on a provider's open commitments. It helps keep more promises from being taken up than can be delivered.

A provider must finish an existing commitment before taking another when at the limit. Guide.

Seed promises​

Create promises for people to take up, one at a time or in a batch. Each row has its own result.

Three created promises and one failed row are a partly completed batch. Guide.

Promise states​

Offered or Asked for describes help available or needed. In progress and Partly approved describe work underway. Proof added and Waiting to be confirmed describe evidence awaiting a decision. Team set means the team and contribution record are fixed. Under review by stewards pauses ordinary confirmation. Kept means enough valid confirmations arrived. Withdrawn and Lapsed remain readable history.

Kept does not mean paid. A Settled list groups finished records; it is not a list of payment receipts. Guide.

Season and campaign states​

A prepared period is written down but not open. Open accepts promises. Reconciled is an ended period. Archived is final and prevents creating a certificate from that cycle later; history remains readable.

Leave a reconciled season unarchived if you want future cycle-specific certification. The current dashboard cannot create a certificate linked to that cycle. Guide.

Outcomes, metrics and targets​

An outcome is the change sought. A metric or indicator is how it is measured. A target is the result aimed for, within a reporting period. A domain is the area of work: Solar, Agroforestry, Education or Waste.

Measure soil organic matter twice a year, aiming to move from 1% to 2%. Guide.

Post or delta assessment​

A later assessment comparing results with a baseline. The current dashboard creates initial assessments only; it does not offer a delta submission.

Keep the starting assessment and later measurements together while agreeing the supported next step with the garden. Guide.

Account and wallet​

Your account address identifies your membership and records. A passkey account and a separately connected wallet are different accounts.

Changing sign-in methods can show a different garden list. Guide.

Passkey​

A sign-in credential unlocked through your device, such as with a fingerprint, face or screen lock. Recovery depends on access to the passkey, including a synced copy where available.

Sign in with the same passkey on a new phone if it traveled with your Apple or Google account. Guide.

Installed app​

The Green Goods website installed on your phone. Also called a progressive web app or PWA. It keeps work on that device while a connection is unavailable.

Record in the field, then send from the same account and phone. Guide.

Owner​

The garden role responsible for its highest-level permissions and setup. It is different from being the owner of a personal wallet.

Ask the garden owner or a steward to arrange the access you need. Guide.

Work states​

A Draft is unfinished recording. To upload is saved work waiting to be sent. Sending or checking is not proof of arrival. In review waits for a steward. Approved and Rejected are recorded review decisions.

A work item can be Approved while a related promise still waits for counted work or confirmation. Guide.

Donation​

A gift to the garden's shared fund. It cannot be withdrawn by the donor.

Support immediate supplies through Donate. Guide.

Endowment shares and earnings​

Shares represent a deposit's portion of the endowment. Earnings support its configured destinations, rather than a return for the depositor. The amount available to withdraw can be lower than the deposit.

Endowed is a historical deposit total; Available is the number used when considering a withdrawal. Guide.

Claim from a shared fund​

A gardener asks for a capped amount under the garden's fund rules and supplies a purpose. This is separate from taking up a promise, approving work, or confirming it.

A gardener claims for supplies from the cookie jar. Guide.

Network fee​

The cost of recording a transaction on the network. Wallet users need the network's fee token; passkey sponsorship depends on the supported flow.

A funding wallet needs a little ETH on Arbitrum for its fee. Guide.