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Regenerative Futures: Redesigning the human impact on Earth
Source: https://www.thersa.org/regenerative-futures Regenerative Futures: Redesigning the human impact on Earth Good evening everyone and thank you so much for choosing to celebrate this award with me today. I am deeply grateful to the RSA for creating the Regenerative Futures programme. It is a powerful invitation to the global fellowship of cultural creatives — who are united by […]
Re-regionalisation as a pathway to diverse regenerative economies
Bioregions Map (Image Source: Ecotrust) Re-regionalisation as a pathway to diverse regenerative economies If we want to create healthy economies that protect rather than destroy local ecosystems, we will need to rewrite international trade rules in ways that include the social and ecological costs of production and consumptions, as well as trade. We need to protect […]
Nurturing vital diversity & resilience: Scaling out, rather than scaling-up!
Nurturing vital diversity & resilience: Scaling out, rather than scaling-up! There is an unfortunate knee-jerk response programmed into many people in leadership positions to want to ask: “How do we scale it up?” every time they hear a seemingly good idea. To a larger or lesser extent, many of the people who have this response have contracted […]
Qualitative systems thinking as a reflexive futures practice
Qualitative systems thinking as a reflexive futures practice Advanced praise for Anthony Hodgson’s forthcoming new book I have the pleasure and the privilege to count Tony as a friend, a mentor and a colleague for more than a decade now. We connected over a UNITAR sustainability workshop in Scotland that I co-organized and facilitated which his wife […]
Human and Planetary Health [Part II: Going Upstream]
Human and Planetary Health [Part II: Going Upstream] Transcript of Daniel Wahl’s ‘Findhorn Talk’ on Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystems Restoration at the dawn of the Century of Regeneration; October 13th, 2018 […Part I] We need to go upstream and look at this ‘crisis of perception’. We need to start rethinking the story of who we […]
Why do we need to think and act more systemically?
Why do we need to think and act more systemically? The power and majesty of nature in all its aspects is lost on one who contemplates it merely in the detail of its parts and not as a whole. — Pliny the Elder An increasing number of people are beginning to understand that the world we participate […]
Transformation of consciousness
Source Transformation of consciousness Excerpt from the Worldview Dimension of Gaia Education’s online course in Design for Sustainability “The materialistic consciousness of our culture … is the root cause of the global crisis; it is not our business ethics, our politics or even our personal lifestyles. These are symptoms of a deeper underlying problem. Our whole […]
Local and regional community resilience building is going global
Local and regional community resilience building is going global In recent years the resilience imperative has made it onto the agenda of local and national governments, business leaders and international institutions like the European Union and the United Nations. In 2010, the UN Office for Disaster and Risk Reduction launched the five-year Making Cities Resilient campaign […]
The degenerative impacts of our money system
The degenerative impacts of our money system “The way that a national economy preys on its internal colonies is by the destruction of communities” — Wendell Berry The creation of money with interest has two main impacts on the operation of today’s economies. Our monetary system creates the need for economic growth by design One of the […]
Thriving Communities & the Solidarity Economy
Thriving Communities & the Solidarity Economy A green economy is not an end in itself. Rather, […] it is a means towards a shared and lasting prosperity. But what exactly does prosperity mean? We propose a definition of prosperity in terms of the capabilities that people have to flourish on a finite planet. It is […]
