Category:Regenerative Approaches

Topical Quotes

"Generative ownership designs are about generating and preserving real wealth, living wealth, rather than phantom wealth than can evaporate in the next quarter. They’re about helping families to enjoy secure homes. Creating jobs. Preserving a forest. Generating nourishment out of waste. Generating broad wellbeing."
— Marjorie Kelly, Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution

"To move from a zero-sum culture (win-lose) to a non-zero-sum culture (win-win) necessitates widespread collaboration in assuring that nature also wins (win-win-win) and wins first, as she is the provider of the abundance upon which we depend. Only if we collaborate in creating a healthier, diverse, vibrant and bio-productive planet, will we be able to create regenerative cultures where nobody is left behind and everyone wins."
— Daniel Christian Wahl, Designing Regenerative Cultures

Topical P2P Writers

• Daniel Christian Wahl
• Kate Raworth

Key Concepts of This Category

The concepts 'regenerative' and 'generative' are often applied in writings about a desirable future economy.

Generative is often contrasted with Extractive following the writings of Marjorie Kelly (q.v.) The term "generative" seems to be used mainly to indicate that a practice generates new resources, or more generally grows things. It is not specified what kinds of things are generated, so it can be applied to an economic practice, that may or may not be applied to natural systems.

"Regenerative", for example as used in "regenerative agriculture" has more of a flavour of restoring a system to a state where it operates in a naturally generative way. Regenerative agriculture would, for instance, be concerned with restoring and improving the health of the soil, and subtle, complex systems like fungal mycelium in woodlands; with restoring or increasing beneficial biodiversity.

The related concept of rewilding, popularised by George Monbiot, is defined by Wikipedia as "large-scale conservation aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and core wilderness areas, providing connectivity between such areas, and protecting or reintroducing apex predators and keystone species."

Useful Learning Resources

Introductory

• Regenerative Resource Compilation, Ecosystem Graph | 7Vortex http://ow.ly/ws7E30lJEHq
• Earth Repair Radio: series of podcast interviews on regenerative approaches to earth and ecology, by Andrew Millison [1] Sample podcasts in the series:
  1. Gregory Landua on Regenerating the Planet with Cryptocurrency‎
  2. John D. Liu on the Ecosystem Restoration Camps‎
• Investing in Regenerative Agriculture: includes over eighty interviews at June 2020 [2] Sample podcasts in the series:
  1. Thomas Rippel on Using a Blockchain to Help Farmland Stewardship Organisations Grow
  2. Shameek Chakravarty on Connecting Indian Urban Consumers Directly to Organic Farmers through Farmizen‎

Deeper Study

• Designing Regenerative Cultures. By Daniel Christian Wahl. Triarchy Press, 2016 [3]

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