# Exploring "Why Shiro?" through a doughnut lens ![Doughnut Economy](https://i.imgur.com/9hGB43P.jpg) Basically, what I was playing with was using the doughnut economics lens to consider how it would apply to a community of collaborating buyers clubs (Shiro). This is trying to illuminate **Why** we would want to create Shiro. What it's **aims** are. As a way to short of an introduction I would say that the doughnut economics model looks at environmental impacts of some "system" as the external boundaries (systems should not transcend) and social needs as the inner boundaries that "the system" must fulfill. I stretched the concept to have a way of thinking about what the environmental inter-play this system would be focused on enabling and what possibilities for social system improvements it might foster. Another way of talking about that picture would be what systemic flows, categorized as **"social" / "human"** and **"environment" / "non-human"**, this system could help induce. Interesting *currents to see*, **flows to make visible in order to shape**. From the image created, I can make out the following as flows Shiro would be interested in fostering. ### "Environmental" / "Non-human" flows: * Water * Increased water retention * Increased density of cloud seed bacteria (Sue) * Bioregional water planning efforts * Microbiology * Increased availability of compost * Increased availability of mycorhizal innoculant * Increased availability of loaded biochar * Increased availability of fish hydrolysate * Increased availability of biofertalizers * Diversity * Increased availability of local diverse seed (through seed exchange) * Increased availability of adapted perennials (through cultivation trials) * Increased availability of wider range of "agro-ecology" food * Nutrient/Chemicals * decreased rate of run-off * decreased chemical fertalizers * decreased use of bio-cides * increased nutrient/mineral buildup in soils * decreased volitile heavy metals though biochar lock-up * Regeneration of land * Increased relative amount of small holder land-access (community investment) * Better Farmer-to-land matchmaking (community land allocation) * More land held in commons (working things like the common land model) * Oceans * Increased demand for 3D ocean farming and marine permaculture, yealding: * Habitat for ocean life trophic cascades * Large amounts of carbon recapture and sequestration * Nutrient/compost/biochar source * Sustinance * Increased focus on food cultivated for feeding a healthy microbiome * Increased food diversity * Increased amount of perennial foods * Higher degree of fungi in diet * Higher degree of high-quality artisanal foods ### "Social" / "Human" flows: * Increase of food-based community building * Increase of food-based ecology of learning * Increased available community finance of new enterprise * More effective demand aggregation and producer discovery * Increased skills and demand for food-based craftmanship * Increased number of thriving farms and right-lively hoods * Growing of a food commons * Increased availability of organizational support
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