The Directory

What this is

The directory is the surface of [[0mn1one]] that points at aligned commerce. It is rendered live at /directory — grouped by bioregion, then by tier — and every listing on that page is also a wiki entry in the same graph as the practices, species, ideas, and places it touches.

This wiki node is the hub: every listed business carries a [[directory]] wikilink, so the Obsidian graph view shows every listing wired back to this page. The directory page (the Astro-rendered one at /directory) is the interface; this wiki entry is the concept.

What the directory is filtered by

Not industry. Substrate-impact. Every industry has aligned and extractive operators — the filter is the work, not the label. Listings are organized into four tiers:

• Substrate-builders. Operations that build soil, water, microbiome, fiber, shelter — the substrates everything else stands on. Farms, mycology operations, hempcrete builders, watershed restorers.
• Circulators. Operations that move resources without depleting them. CSAs, co-ops, repair shops, refill stores, secondhand, salvage, vegan bakeries, natural-foods grocers.
• Knowledge & care. Skill-share, herbalists, midwives, libraries, land trusts, mutual-aid networks, independent media, yoga and meditation studios.
• Aligned services. Honest practitioners across the long tail — lawyers, builders, designers, mechanics — keeping people functioning.

A business can be more than one tier at once (an orchard that also runs a bakery and a CSA is substrate-builder and circulator). Listings are filed under their primary tier and the relations link back to the others.

How a listing earns its place

The single load-bearing rule: under-listing beats vouching. Every published entry has a substantive “Why it’s listed” section written from research, not from marketing copy. If a substantive case cannot be made, the entry is rejected rather than filled with placeholder. This is what keeps the directory from becoming a Yelp clone.

The full ingest pattern lives at _knowledge/playbooks/bioregion-small-business-densification.md (vault path); the bioregion-stub-on-demand process that lets the directory anchor new regions as listings arrive lives at _knowledge/playbooks/bioregion-stub-on-demand.md.

Bioregions

The directory is geographically open. Aligned businesses get listed regardless of bioregion, and when a listing’s region has no wiki entry yet, the bioregion entry is conjured on the spot so every region the directory touches becomes a real node — none orphaned, all available for future listings to attach to. As of 2026-05-11, bioregions with directory anchors include [[poconos]], [[staten-island]], [[new-orleans]], [[hudson-highlands]], [[driftless-area]], [[sea-islands]], [[harrington-delaware]], [[kittatinny-ridge]], [[shawangunk-ridge]], [[brandywine-valley]], [[lackawanna-valley]], and [[schuylkill-valley]].

Why this graph shape matters

Most business directories are flat lists. The 0mn1.one directory is a graph: every listed business connects upward to its bioregion entry, sideways to its tier-peers, downward to the practices, plants, and ideas it touches, and through this hub node to the directory itself. The Obsidian graph view shows this directly — businesses cluster around [[the-hub|the hub]], bioregions cluster around their constituents, and the full shape of the work becomes legible at a glance.

This is the point of putting the directory inside the wiki rather than alongside it.

See the live surface

• Directory at /directory — the rendered view, grouped by bioregion and tier
• [[wiki-index|Wiki index]] — every wiki node, of which the directory listings are a subset

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

• Shares approach with: [[wiki-index]]
• Rendered as: [[0mn1one]]