The Lexicon

Financial Capital

The one capital priced in ordinary accounting — kept in proportion, not treated as the whole picture.

Ecological Capital

The health of the water, soil, and biodiversity a project touches, attested rather than priced.

Cultural Capital

The living traditions, language, and practice a place carries forward, attested rather than priced.

Social Capital

The trust, relationships, and governance capacity a community has actually built, attested rather than priced.

Generational Capital

What the next generation inherits from a decision made today, attested rather than priced.

MicroCity

The unit of deployment: a self-sufficient, nested settlement sized so energy, food, water, and governance can all be planned together instead of as separate contracts.

Hartwick’s Rule

Spend the rents, never the principal — the same resource-economics discipline behind Norway and Alaska’s sovereign funds.

Land Trust, Fixed Voting Weights

Ownership held so capital can never simply outbid its way into control.

The 144-Year Horizon

The same figure as the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace’s instruction to weigh a decision’s effect seven generations forward.

PrimeID

A self-sovereign identity credential, created once, held by no central authority.

Proof-Gated Funding

Money released against verified milestones, not against a pitch.

The Fifth Point

The party who holds the fit between the other pieces, so they compose instead of drifting apart.

The Ember

The single coal cupped and handed person to person before writing existed — shorthand for something small and real, carried forward.

The Lydian Lion

The first known standardized coin, struck around 600 BCE in the Kingdom of Lydia — the moment belief in value first became portable.

The Regenerative Wealth Reserve

A reserve that stores value in clean watersheds, thriving cultures, intergenerational education, and time itself — restoration over accumulation.

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