Introduction and Overview › Glossary for Networking Language · 1 min read
Local cycles describe systems in which resources, knowledge, responsibility, and value creation continue to have an impact as close as possible to where they originate.
They emerge where people do not separate supply, production, processing, distribution, learning, and care from one another but instead bring them into relationship.
Local cycles strengthen a region's ability to learn from its own experiences and build its own structures.
This is not about isolation.
It is about anchoring.
What arises locally should be able to be understood, supported, maintained, and further developed locally.
Local cycles can help to:
In recursive network economics, we do not view local experiences in isolation.
They can be documented, shared, and further developed in other contexts.
This way, each local cycle remains independent while also contributing to the network's collective learning capacity.
The goal of local cycles: to interconnect supply, knowledge, and responsibility in such a way that living, resilient, and syntropic relationships emerge.
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