Communities as the unit of change
Several concepts create shared assets, institutions, mutual support, or local capability rather than just standalone products.
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A portfolio of ideas for community capability, networked resilience, ecological renewal, and systems-level amplification.
71ideas
8catalogue clusters
6reading paths
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A coherent portfolio, not a uniform pipeline
The ideas are deliberately presented as a portfolio at mixed levels of maturity and intended scale. Some are early fragments or provocations; some are ready for discussion; a few are closer to market research. Scale markers should be treated as current working assumptions, open to exploration.
Network building as amplification
Some ideas become more useful as more people, places, suppliers, creators, or projects participate.
Systems thinking as multiplier
Many interventions look small, but connect to wider loops: waste, land use, information flows, behaviour, culture, and resilience.
Source and interpretation are separate
Original source fields are labelled. Strategic roles and clusters are an added reading layer, intended to make the portfolio easier to navigate.
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71Total ideas
5Non-profit (Yes)
66Ideas with notes
3With market research
Current status
Current intended scale
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Catalogue structure
Eight primary clusters
Each detailed idea appears once in the catalogue. The deeper reading paths point into these records rather than repeating them.
9 Community, civic agency, and local capability People organising together 11 Ecology, land, climate, and regenerative systems Regeneration as infrastructure 17 Food systems, fermentation, local production, and taste Taste, locality, resilience 7 Circular materials, waste, and low-impact products Waste becomes input 11 Everyday services, urban life, and practical resilience Lower-friction living 6 Digital trust, privacy, knowledge, and platform infrastructure Agency through better systems 5 Culture, leisure, identity, and experience Joy as adoption infrastructure 5 Frontier, speculative, and research-heavy ideas Option value and feasibility testing
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Subtexts that connect the ideas
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Community capability
The portfolio repeatedly returns to shared assets, local institutions, mutual support, and tools for collective agency.
Network building
Several concepts become more valuable as more people, places, suppliers, creators, projects, or local groups participate.
Systems amplification
Many ideas look for leverage points: waste becomes input, land becomes habitat, information flows improve, or behaviour shifts through small interventions.
Replicable local models
Scale can mean many coherent local instances rather than one centralised organisation. Some ideas are strongest as copyable patterns, federated services, or locally-owned instances.
Regenerative and circular flows
There is a persistent instinct to convert harms, wastes, and extractive defaults into restorative or lower-impact alternatives.
Joy as adoption infrastructure
The portfolio is not only instrumental. Taste, leisure, beauty, identity, and culture are treated as adoption paths for better systems.
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All ideas at a glance
01 Reforest Now Regeneration as infrastructure 02 Smart Privacy Agency through better systems 03 Wishlist Agency through better systems 04 Citizenry People organising together 05 Kash Agency through better systems 06 Nice Taste, locality, resilience 07 Prototyping for Startups Agency through better systems 08 Guilt Free Tinsel Waste becomes input 09 Community Business Incubation People organising together 10 Waste Not Regeneration as infrastructure 11 Growing Space (Allotments) Regeneration as infrastructure 12 Sacks Positive Waste becomes input 13 Makers People organising together 14 Shrooment Waste becomes input 15 Fast League Lower-friction living 16 On Yer Bike Lower-friction living 17 Tangy Veg Taste, locality, resilience 18 Salty Produce Taste, locality, resilience 19 She Sells Sea Shells Taste, locality, resilience 20 Tatoes Taste, locality, resilience 21 Kernel Taste, locality, resilience 22 Radical Taste, locality, resilience 23 Ossum Waste becomes input 24 Depth Taste, locality, resilience 25 Like my soul Taste, locality, resilience 26 Gnosis Regeneration as infrastructure 27 Session Taste, locality, resilience 28 Umami Taste, locality, resilience 29 Fruitstravaganza Regeneration as infrastructure 30 Reliabra Option value and feasibility testing 31 Heart and Soul People organising together 32 Brick by Brick People organising together 33 Red Eye Joy as adoption infrastructure 34 Gossamer Joy as adoption infrastructure 35 Kinema Joy as adoption infrastructure 36 High Level Concept Agency through better systems 37 Making Change People organising together 38 Obaith People organising together 39 Power Cube Option value and feasibility testing 40 Sisyphos Option value and feasibility testing 41 Icarus Option value and feasibility testing 42 Metis Regeneration as infrastructure 43 Quercoal Waste becomes input 44 Heavy Metal Fun-gi Regeneration as infrastructure 45 Poopcycling, To the Manure Born, Shytstrom Institute Waste becomes input 46 Susurrus Regeneration as infrastructure 47 Food Van Parks People organising together 48 Vegan Pork Scratchings Taste, locality, resilience 49 Smokey Regeneration as infrastructure 50 Life admin Lower-friction living 51 House buying agent Lower-friction living 52 Oiled Up Regeneration as infrastructure 53 Tasty syrups Taste, locality, resilience 54 Vampy look Joy as adoption infrastructure 55 Heating optimiser Lower-friction living 56 Microforests Regeneration as infrastructure 57 Center Parts Joy as adoption infrastructure 58 Growing veg that's great to eat Taste, locality, resilience 59 Secure digital address usage Agency through better systems 60 Coffee packaging Waste becomes input 61 House scents from plants, subscription Lower-friction living 62 Board/computer game rental Lower-friction living 63 isitoriginal.com Lower-friction living 64 Personalised info for calendars Lower-friction living 65 Home ferments Taste, locality, resilience 66 Party AV Rental Lower-friction living 67 AI Dubbing Option value and feasibility testing 68 Parceltopia Lower-friction living 69 Local Dairy Taste, locality, resilience 70 Potato Restaurant Taste, locality, resilience 71 Small Pharma People organising together
Catalogue cluster
Community, civic agency, and local capability
Tools, places, institutions, funding models, and shared knowledge systems that help communities organise, deliberate, create value, and solve problems together.
No ideas in this cluster match the current search or filters.
04
Citizenry
Digital citizen assembly app
09
Community Business Incubation
Community business incubator
13
Makers
Etsy but a platform coop
31
Heart and Soul
Pub owning company that is *nice*
32
Brick by Brick
Rehabilitating abandoned buildings
Restoring and refitting abandonded buildings for affordable housing, live-work spaces, and small and community businesses
37
Making Change
Community microfinance platform
38
Obaith
Community project knowledge sharing
47
Food Van Parks
More please, allergy friendly
Could be a roving, regular event like that SF one, with live music and pretty lighting.
Want more allergy info, very hard to rock up to a food van gathering and be confident will be able to eat, when have restrictions.
Want more allergy info, very hard to rock up to a food van gathering and be confident will be able to eat, when have restrictions.
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Small Pharma
Funding models for medical research that prioritise human wellbeing over profit
The profit motive has made the pharma research field perverse. Life saving medicine that would only affect a few thousand people is dropped because it can't be profitable, long-term treatments are prioritised over cures because cures don't lead to a continuous income stream
Ref https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/16/imagine-getting-life-saving-drugs-to-sick-people-without-relying-on-big-pharma-we-may-have-found-a-way
Ref https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/16/imagine-getting-life-saving-drugs-to-sick-people-without-relying-on-big-pharma-we-may-have-found-a-way
Catalogue cluster
Ecology, land, climate, and regenerative systems
Nature-based and land-based systems that connect ecology, climate adaptation, local production, carbon, biodiversity, and human wellbeing.
No ideas in this cluster match the current search or filters.
01
Reforest Now
Natural forest regeneration
Landscape or urban options, subscription funding.
https://www.reforest-now.uk/
https://www.reforest-now.uk/
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Waste Not
Compost business
11
Growing Space (Allotments)
Growing spaces as a service
Allotments, tools, training, services, events. Tiered pricing, cheap or free to home scale production, more expensive for regen ag startups (wework for regen ag), can scale to small farm levels
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Fruitstravaganza
Permaculture trio style mixed orchard
26
Gnosis
Rapid food tree breeding
Rapid growth and fruiting through total climate control, microcuttings, grafting. Breeding new tree species for food production normally takes decades or lifetimes. Could potentially be done in years. We will need perennial crops for new climates soon.
Related concept for creating tree plantation seedlings being trialled in Scotland https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/01/scotland-vertical-farming-boost-tree-stocks-hydroponics
Related concept for creating tree plantation seedlings being trialled in Scotland https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/01/scotland-vertical-farming-boost-tree-stocks-hydroponics
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Metis
Nature based solutions consultancy
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Heavy Metal Fun-gi
Mycoremidation of ex-industrial sites
Which are then used for other nature-based projects.
Met one guy doing this in UK, see if he still is.
Wax worm plastic eating enzyme story. Dose fungi with (variety of) engineered bacteria so they can use them to eat (variety of) plastics.
Met one guy doing this in UK, see if he still is.
Wax worm plastic eating enzyme story. Dose fungi with (variety of) engineered bacteria so they can use them to eat (variety of) plastics.
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Susurrus
On-shore wind plus ecology
52
Oiled Up
Essential oils from eco growing
Essential oils, mostly from perennials, grown in agroecological regen ag with alternate rows of mixed polycultures.
Oils extracted by traditional methods. Artisan.
Oils extracted by traditional methods. Artisan.
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Microforests
Microforests as a service
Narrow strips of land, usually at least 5m if you don't want to trim can be narrower with maintenance, very densely planted with trees and bushes. Need watering for first few years then self-sufficient, mature forest ecosystem processes start within a few years rather than many decades. Provide pollution barrier, noise barrier, air and water cleaning, mental health benefits, lots of habitat, can fit on small pieces of ground, can provide staging and corridors between larger habitats.
There's a TED talk, but it largely restates ideas documented in published work by the underlying Japanese researcher.
There's a TED talk, but it largely restates ideas documented in published work by the underlying Japanese researcher.
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Smokey
UK wood for US style barbecue
Mostly fast growing trees, on their own roots, from seed. Grown in 50% wild space.
* apple
* pear
* cherry
* plum
* oak
* some comparable to hickory, beech?
* apple
* pear
* cherry
* plum
* oak
* some comparable to hickory, beech?
Catalogue cluster
Food systems, fermentation, local production, and taste
Food ideas that combine pleasure, resilience, locality, ecological practice, dietary accessibility, and low-waste production.
No ideas in this cluster match the current search or filters.
06
Nice
UK native(ish) spice company
17
Tangy Veg
Artisan lactoferment food preserving
Organic, GF, probably vegan
Kimchi like things
Krauts
Brined veg
Garam https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/oct/08/how-to-turn-veg-scraps-into-garum-a-seasoning-recipe-zero-waste-cooking
Kimchi like things
Krauts
Brined veg
Garam https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/oct/08/how-to-turn-veg-scraps-into-garum-a-seasoning-recipe-zero-waste-cooking
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Salty Produce
Artisan salt food preserving
Organic, GF, probably vegan. Including British umeboshi from local prunus species
5 parts raw plums to 1 part salt, few days, dry.
5 parts raw plums to 1 part salt, few days, dry.
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She Sells Sea Shells
Seasonal seafood shack
GF by default, good veggie vegan options that don't feel like you're missing out on the main event. Minimal dessert list. 2-3 cocktails.
20
Tatoes
Rosti with toppings van
GF. Tatooooes.
Maybe rosti wraps, around fillings, so not sit-down required
Maybe rosti wraps, around fillings, so not sit-down required
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Kernel
History of gardening, living museum
22
Radical
Seeds (and info) as a subscription
24
Depth
Artisan dried mushroom powders
25
Like my soul
Goth forest and cafe
27
Session
GF microbrewery
Preferably with a sampling bar that does gf pizza.
Source grains/materials
* rice
* quinoa
* chestnut
* peas?
Source grains/materials
* rice
* quinoa
* chestnut
* peas?
28
Umami
UK soy sauce
48
Vegan Pork Scratchings
Shiitake mushroom scratching snacks
53
Tasty syrups
Macerated syrups for flavouring
Uncooked syrups from maceration (preserve complex flavour profiles), e.g. orange peel (ole sacharum or whatever it is), but also (possibly only) things that grow in the UK like mints, herbs, fruits? Rose? Edible flowers?
Vegan if beet sugar used?
Could buy ingredients in, could grow.
Gorse, sage, sweet cicely, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, lemon thyme, nasturtium, bay, juniper, rosehip, sloe, damson, apple blossom, honeysuckle, lemon balm, lemon verbena, samphire, quince, pumpkin flower
Wood smoke syrups?
Consult foraging experts in different locales for advice on undiscovered flavours, regional flavour collections
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/oct/01/how-to-turn-spent-citrus-peel-into-a-bartenders-secret-ingredient-recipe-zero-waste-cooking
Vegan if beet sugar used?
Could buy ingredients in, could grow.
Gorse, sage, sweet cicely, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, lemon thyme, nasturtium, bay, juniper, rosehip, sloe, damson, apple blossom, honeysuckle, lemon balm, lemon verbena, samphire, quince, pumpkin flower
Wood smoke syrups?
Consult foraging experts in different locales for advice on undiscovered flavours, regional flavour collections
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/oct/01/how-to-turn-spent-citrus-peel-into-a-bartenders-secret-ingredient-recipe-zero-waste-cooking
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Growing veg that's great to eat
How to grow food in your garden that's great to eat
Book? Website?
For those tired of spending 6 months growing a pumpkin, then finding it disappointing and watery.
Tips from experienced growers and eaters.
For those tired of spending 6 months growing a pumpkin, then finding it disappointing and watery.
Tips from experienced growers and eaters.
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Home ferments
Ferment at home subscription service
2-4 weeks delivery of ingredients for ferments, provide own cabbage, provide equipment on start, sell additional, replacement equipment
Hello Fresh for ferments
Not just krauts
Hello Fresh for ferments
Not just krauts
69
Local Dairy
Delivery of closest good butter, milk etc. To door in mornings
70
Potato Restaurant
seaosnal and speciality potato restaurant
Meats as separate dishes so easy to be vege or vegan.
All gf
Allergen friendly
All gf
Allergen friendly
Catalogue cluster
Circular materials, waste, and low-impact products
Products and processes that reduce waste, plastic dependence, extractive material use, and unmanaged by-products.
No ideas in this cluster match the current search or filters.
08
Guilt Free Tinsel
Compostable tinsel and glitter
I want lots of tinsel, without feeling bad.
C.f. https://glitterazzi.me/ (probably not compostable)
C.f. https://glitterazzi.me/ (probably not compostable)
12
Sacks Positive
Environmentally sound bean bags
14
Shrooment
Fungal cement
Sand, clay, flour, used coffee grounds. Pour in dry, add water, fungus eats biomass, binds everything else. As is for quick filler (e.g. temp pothole fix), bake for longer-lasting material. When it finally breaks down it's sandy soil
Bricks? Just enough biomatter and fungus to hold it together? Strong without being baked (in dry places?)
https://www.londonfungusnetwork.org/
https://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/
Bricks? Just enough biomatter and fungus to hold it together? Strong without being baked (in dry places?)
https://www.londonfungusnetwork.org/
https://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/
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Ossum
Light ceramics as plastic alternative
Light, strong ceramics as replacement for plastic containers.
Maybe based in Stoke?
Maybe based in Stoke?
43
Quercoal
British oak charcoal production
45
Poopcycling, To the Manure Born, Shytstrom Institute
Animal waste → power, heat, compost
60
Coffee packaging
Recyclable packaging for coffee companies
Catalogue cluster
Everyday services, urban life, and practical resilience
Practical services that make ordinary life easier, lower-friction, lower-carbon, more local, or more human.
No ideas in this cluster match the current search or filters.
15
Fast League
Last three mile bike deliveries
16
On Yer Bike
Secure, valet bike parking, in cities
50
Life admin
Like a VA but for life stuff.
Like an hour a week, or 'i have this boring but difficult admin decision to make' e.g. shortlist and commission an electrician, make a hard decision (but not the kind a therapist would be better for). Typical errands people often delegate within a family.
Accessed via digital platform?
Accessed via digital platform?
51
House buying agent
Start to finish house buying admin
Like location location location, but actually find people houses, and do the stressful boring legwork of the process (through to completion?). Like an American realtor ish.
55
Heating optimiser
Service that optimises your heating set up
E.g. setting optimal flow temperature on boiler, radiator temperatures, other stuff I haven't thought of. Qualified boiler people only. Could link with summer idea of person who assesses your house and window set up and tells you how best to keep your place cool in hot weather too
https://www.theheatinghub.co.uk/articles/turn-down-the-boiler-flow-temperature
https://www.theheatinghub.co.uk/articles/turn-down-the-boiler-flow-temperature
Industrial-scale energy and heating optimisation services exist—worth benchmarking vendors and analogues when shaping the offer.
61
House scents from plants, subscription
Scented plant subscription
Scented plants delivered before flowering, taken back after flowering and replaced with something else. Won't get used to it so will always smell nice
62
Board/computer game rental
Board game rental. Old fashioned Netflix for board games. Could also apply to physical computer games as way of trying premium games before buying.
63
isitoriginal.com
Date my house feature
Answers questions like "is this feature original?". Eventually like Seek by iNaturalist. To aid decoration decisions. Popular home-makeover-TV-style consultation as a service
64
Personalised info for calendars
Customisable 3rd party info in calendars as a service
Integrate sources of info into calendar service of choice, e.g. local bin collections, garden timings, local gigs
Will help 3rd party services integrate, strengthening position in market
Will help 3rd party services integrate, strengthening position in market
66
Party AV Rental
Short term rental and setup of cool AV equipment for amateur operators
Pop into richer sounds and give them £200 to set up a projector and sound system and provide blu rays for a party. Big deposit, fire waver.
68
Parceltopia
Stripe for delivery
Medium to large businesses use this service to enable customers to choose their delivery service courier.
Catalogue cluster
Digital trust, privacy, knowledge, and platform infrastructure
Digital products and platforms that increase agency, privacy, expression, coordination, or access to useful knowledge.
No ideas in this cluster match the current search or filters.
02
Smart Privacy
Privacy first smart-home devices
03
Wishlist
Privacy first wishlist app
Not just for items, for experiences, concepts, aim to be a default sharing option
Raindrops (on roses)
Raindrops (on roses)
05
Kash
Privacy first digital cash
07
Prototyping for Startups
Prototyping for digital startups
Rapid usable prototypes with open source components, cash and equity (for good ones) payments, clear handover and exit
36
High Level Concept
Concept expression, development tool
Tool for expressing, expanding, exploring, and sharing ideas and concepts. Better than a spreadsheet or word doc. Easy ontologies, concept graphing
59
Secure digital address usage
Use address without revealing it
PET crypto technologies allow encrypted data to be shared and used without revealing it. At some point the address for a delivery needs to go on a physical label, but it never needs to be directly recorded in a shop's database. The reference link to the third party serves as source of info and provides ability to validate data if things go wrong.
PET summary https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/29/privacy-problem-tech-enhancing-data-political-legal
PET summary https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/29/privacy-problem-tech-enhancing-data-political-legal
Catalogue cluster
Culture, leisure, identity, and experience
Ideas that use joy, culture, leisure, media, identity, and distinctive social experience as adoption pathways.
No ideas in this cluster match the current search or filters.
33
Red Eye
Cannabis comedy club
34
Gossamer
Inclusive dating app
35
Kinema
Platform to crowdfund TV
Platform to crowdfund, host, stream TV.
Good shows get syndicated, keeps costs for new shows lower.
Good shows get syndicated, keeps costs for new shows lower.
57
Center Parts
Naturist Center Parcs
Naturism is exploding, across age groups, skewing younger. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/15/nearly-7m-people-uk-identify-naturists-nudists-survey-naturism
Business has noticed, funding isn't unreasonable proposition. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/02/people-want-get-clothes-off-naturists-catch-eye-uk-businesses
Everything done around climate, ecology, sustainability front and center.
Business has noticed, funding isn't unreasonable proposition. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/02/people-want-get-clothes-off-naturists-catch-eye-uk-businesses
Everything done around climate, ecology, sustainability front and center.
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Vampy look
UV blocking eye makeup
UV blocking eye makeup
Eye shadow
Concealer
Primer
Under makeup
Mist over makeup
Not stingy
Eye shadow
Concealer
Primer
Under makeup
Mist over makeup
Not stingy
Catalogue cluster
Frontier, speculative, and research-heavy ideas
Higher-risk or research-heavy concepts where the immediate next step is validation, expert review, or feasibility testing.
No ideas in this cluster match the current search or filters.
30
Reliabra
Better bra
39
Power Cube
Water-based houshold energy battery
40
Sisyphos
Gravity-based USB power supply
2kg weight (e.g. random stone), lifted 1.25m, dropping over 1 hour, could charge a phone. Cheap, portable, adaptable.
Feedback on whether weight is suitable.
Feedback on whether weight is suitable.
41
Icarus
Extracting energy from spin of Earth
Magentic bearings on/off to switch frames of reference from Earth to gyroscope, localise angular momentum then extract as power. Terrible idea, would slow down Earth
67
AI Dubbing
AI dubbing with simulation of original actors voice in target language
Ingest corpus of spoken work in original work, annotate with dramatic intent notes from actor, needs model for dramatic intent, (create and ingest lines in target language if appropriate).
Output audio in target language with simulation of original actors voice preserving dramatic intent of original performance
Output audio in target language with simulation of original actors voice preserving dramatic intent of original performance
Dubbing tends to be badly acted and hammy, broadly unwatchable
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