Welcome to GreenPill India's digital garden - Gulshan! The word borrows its roots from classical Persian - “gol” (rose, flower) combined with “*šēn” (place, populated place; village, hamlet; inhabitation). The word is commonly used to reference a garden of flowers in Hindi.

Gulshan is our home to explore, cultivate, and evolve ideas to realize a regenerative future enabled by culture and code.

Over time, we want to chronicle our collective journey and build an explorable space for pathfinders and pioneers reimagining alternatives to the extractive economic systems.

What is GreenPill?

GreenPill is a meme to explore how crypto can help regenerate the world. It introduces powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, and market regenerative web3 era applications and digital assets with positive externalities. At its core, it is about creating cryptoeconomic systems using programmable money that:

• Cultivate regenerative versus extractive economy

• Drive sustainable longitudinal transformation versus short-term wins

• Are designed for shock resilience

About GreenPill India

As a chapter of the GreenPill Network, GreenPill India is committed to converging regenerative digital infrastructure with grassroots efforts in India to drive local outcomes for global problems in coordination.

Now that technology offers ways to embed transparency and automation with greater finesse, how do we use it to build the institutions of tomorrow?

In addition to the technologists, we believe we need the builders in the physical world, the community organizers, the coop founders, the bureaucrats shaping government policies, the volunteers on the ground, the creators, the artists, the farmers, and all the makers out there need to embrace and push for the change.

Last year, we helped kindle the spark with India's first ReFi Summit, followed by a 5-day GreenPill Festival bringing together creators and builders over climate workshops and hackathons by the beaches of Gokarna. Besides this, the core team at GreenPill India continues to push the realm of possibilities, building peer-to-peer impact networks for climate and social justice, using regenerative design to enable sustainable livelihoods, creating a capital network to address gaps in climate finance, and raising the bar of sustainability in the construction industry.

But we can only go so far alone. GreenPill India aspires to create spaces where dialogues can flourish and debates can be hosted to bring code and culture together to challenge the status quo and build plural pathways for an equitable future.

What can you expect here?

Our public goods are withering. The environment we live in, the infrastructure in our cities, social security for the neediest, access to unbiased news, and even the missing library in the neighborhood are all examples of public goods that need a revival. The current political landscape, welfare structures, financial systems, and philanthropic initiatives have not been able to overcome the failures in coordination.

With the current systems, we keep losing the game over and over again.

The forces leading to the gradual worsening of public goods arise from short-term thinking, individual ambition over community growth, apathy for community collaboration and lack of tools for collective action in the rare situations where there is intent.

Gulshan will be our digital garden to share our current understanding of what it would take to bring change at scale with and for those impacted. We will collect insights and plant them here to build a shared vocabulary for the diverse voices we need to build and thrive the future public goods!

Join us

Join GreenPill India on Twitter or Telegram to sow the seeds for a regenerative future! For a deep dive on the GreenPill Network, check out the GreenPill book and the podcast, or find a local chapter close to you!