Society rests within the womb of nature, and the economy rests within the fertile soil of society.
GaiaVision takes a living-systems approach to capital orchestration and institutional transformation.
GaiaVision grows from decades of trusted relationships — a web of allies, practitioners, and partners who have worked across years of shared projects, think tanks, investment networks, and civic efforts we care deeply about. Many in this circle are now actively co-creating the vision and developing projects together.
We work where promising regenerative possibilities already exist but remain fragmented, insufficiently structured, or disconnected from the relationships, capabilities, institutions, and capital required to move forward. Our role is to understand what is actually preventing movement, bring together the people and capabilities the situation requires, and help build the missing relational, institutional, informational, governance, and financial architecture.
Our Approach: Unlocking Capital & Capacity
Systemic Intelligence
We see and diagnose opportunities in context — drawing on decades of lived experience across regenerative economics, bioregional finance, and capital-markets innovation, and working inside complex adaptive systems, not just studying them.
Opportunity Formation
We bring fragmented people, projects, institutions, resources, and priorities into relationship — helping turn promising possibilities into coherent pathways people can understand and act upon.
Architecture & Co-Creation
We help design and assemble the relationships, partnerships, governance, financial structures, and other connective infrastructure an opportunity requires to move forward.
Pathways to Implementation
We help turn possibility into practical pathways — establishing what is required to proceed and, where the conditions are right, helping carry viable opportunities toward implementation.
Where We Can Help
We work with regions, institutions, enterprises, investors, coalitions, and networks where meaningful work is already underway and there is an opportunity to expand what becomes possible.
We bring complementary experience across economic and financial innovation, enterprise development, technology, convening, and institutional and systems design — helping reveal opportunities, bring together the right people and resources, and develop practical pathways toward implementation.
Our work can take many forms: advancing enterprises and investment ecosystems; helping regions connect priorities and projects with financial and implementation pathways; supporting place-based and bioregional initiatives; and creating Financial Innovation Labs, Living Labs, Deal Rooms, design partnerships, and learning environments where appropriate.
The intervention follows the diagnosis.
The form follows what the opportunity requires.
WE'RE LIKE BEES, YOU SEE, BEES THAT GO OUT LOOKING FOR HONEY WITHOUT REALIZING WE'RE PERFORMING CROSS-POLLINATION
- BUCKMINSTER FULLER
About Greg Wendt
Founder GaiaVision
Gregory Wendt has spent thirty-five years listening, learning, convening, coordinating, and leading teams across responsible investing, regenerative economics, cooperative finance, capital-markets innovation, and bioregional development. A veteran wealth adviser, Greg has organized teams across a range of green-economy, regenerative economic development, and capital-markets innovation initiatives — working in partnership with a wide range of groups. His work spans evolving food systems, community economic development, cooperative finance, bioregional governance, and the global impact investing movement.
He does not work alone. GaiaVision is being co-created with a growing circle of trusted allies who share the vision and are actively engaged in bringing it forward.
"The path of care is both the means and the goal."
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Where We're Located
Santa Monica, CA 90405