Development Strategies

In 2003, Kamikatsu became the first municipality in Japan to make a zero-waste declaration. Since then, the town has transformed its open-air burning practices for waste disposal into a system of buying, consuming and discarding with the goal of reaching carbon neutrality. Now, the town estimates it...

The final update from Al Baydha Project Co-founder Neal Spackman, 9 years in. How desertification resulted from the loss of an indigenous land management system, and how the land has changed since all inputs to the project were ceased in 2016. Neal moved on from Al Baydha in 2018 and can now be...

From the article: "Tordoff says that what set the collaborative apart from other outside funders of Southeast Asia conservation and development projects was its commitment to helping local organizations set the tone for their own objectives—taking a bottom-up approach instead of a top-down one, with...

Connect with inspiring scholars, practitioners and creatives working on transformations towards regenerative and just futures. This unique conference will take place in Sydney, Australia, along with our European Hub Conference in Prague, July 12th-14th 2023. We also weave in the online conference...

A well-designed comparative analysis of several different approaches to wellbeing economies. This will serve as a useful reference for those comparing models as well as those entering the field and trying to understand the differences and similarities of approach.

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A masterpiece in helping us understand how some of today’s leading ideas for saving ourselves on this Earth could translate into politics, action, and systems that will transform humanity. All packed into a fast paced novel with great characters.

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"A core aspect of regenerative practice is the ability to move beyond the fragmentation that is inherent when clients, stakeholders and community leaders fix their minds on single issues or problems that they want addressed.

In our work, we accomplish this through a methodology that orients us to...

Regenerative development is about reweaving a co-evolutionary relationship between human beings and ecological systems–work that is even more urgent now than ever before in the face of the interrelated crises of climate disruption and biodiversity loss. But how do we work on this?

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This Wednesday we'll be doing a focus session with Andrew Crosby and Third Horizon Earth, (https://thirdhorizon.earth), a Swiss nonprofit  dedicated to identifying, making sense of, and helping to spread the practice and knowledge of pioneers, like you, in the regenerative development community who...