Co-Creating Indicators - Verifying Complexity

Key Premises

Ethos™ takes a whole-systems approach in order to enable robust monitoring and verification of regeneration. The program also recognizes that different standards, programs, and stakeholders may prioritize certain outcomes over others.

To support this diverse array of potential outcomes, the Ethos™ program is built upon these premises:

• By following a well-designed process, peer-to-peer data collection can be as credible as third-party data collection, while supporting the collection of rich primary data and delivering that data at lower overall cost.
• Secure digital data collection systems have high data integrity, scale more effectively than analog systems, and may be adapted to greater numbers of users overall.
• Data sovereignty is central to any regenerative process that relies on digital systems.
• Regeneration looks different in different communities, cultures, bioregions, and cropping systems.
• Stakeholders have the capacity to se the ‘threshold’ for when a process regeneration is underway.
• Regeneration is a holistic, community-driven process that must incorporate the perspectives and participation of all relevant stakeholders.

<aside> 👉 Regeneration of a place is assessed through holistic ecological and social indicators.

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Indicator Methodology

Design and Selection