As we close Q1, we want to keep the momentum going around Green Goods v1 by continuing to develop the Greenpill Impact Framework in public.
Over the past few months, we’ve generated a lot of ideas, documentation, and early thinking around impact, strategy, measurement, coordination, and capital formation. Now the opportunity is to begin weaving those threads into a more coherent framework that we can actually start implementing over the coming weeks and months.
For Season One, Green Goods is centered on four domains:
- Solar
- Agroforestry
- Education
- Waste Management
A core challenge in front of us is how to define meaningful outputs, outcomes, and indicators across these domains in a way that is both practical and adaptable. We want something grounded enough to use now, while flexible enough to evolve over time.
This thread is here to support that work asynchronously.
Alongside this thread, we’ll be hosting multiple working sessions and domain conversations over the coming weeks to continue refining the framework. This forum post is meant to be the async space where ideas, examples, critiques, and references can accumulate between calls.
What we’re trying to figure out
We are exploring questions like:
- What outcomes actually matter in each domain?
- What indicators help us understand whether those outcomes are happening?
- Which metrics are realistic to track early on?
- What should be shared across all domains, and what should remain domain-specific?
- How do we connect project-level progress, community coordination, and individual recognition?
- How do we think about impact across different bioregional contexts?
We are also thinking about how this framework relates to:
- strategy and theory of change
- balanced scorecard style thinking
- the Common Impact Data Standard
- partner frameworks and mechanisms such as DAOstar DAO-IP5 and Octant Vaults
- badging and recognition with Unlock Protocol
- the broader question of how impact data may later be verified, tokenized, and allocated
One of the more important threads emerging in this process is yield to impact: how value generated by a project relates to the impact it creates over time, and how that relationship changes depending on domain, geography, maturity, scale, and local conditions.
We want this first version of the Greenpill Impact Framework to be tangible enough to implement soon, while also giving us a foundation we can adapt as Green Goods expands into new contexts, domains, and funding mechanisms.
If you’ve been thinking about impact measurement, badging, attestation design, funding systems, or bioregional coordination, we’d love your input here. Notes, sketches, examples, critiques, and rough ideas are all welcome.