Ethics / Philosophy
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Postcards from Kamikatsu, Japan's 'zero waste' town
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...
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The New Possible: Visions of our World Beyond Crisis
A series of essays from a diverse group--some globally known and others who should be--this collection show the diversity of visions revolving around people-centered leadership, offering social, ecological, economic, spiritual, and ethical frames and practices to shift from the destructive and...
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The Shared Ingredients for a Wellbeing Economy
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.
From the publisher: "The paper...
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Three horizons: a pathways practice for transformation
A groundbreaking translation of the three horizons framework to and complex systems and regenerative development sense-making and scenario building.
Abstract: "Global environmental change requires responses that involve marked or qualitative changes in individuals, institutions, societies, and...
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GRC: Regenerative Insights Circle: Third Horizon Earth with Andrew Crosby
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...
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The Next Step in Impact Investing: Breaking the Shackles of Extractive Thinking
Examines why capital should be reoriented to social purpose, the opportunities and challenges, including the question "Can we finance mission-driven enterprises in a way that shifts the core emphasis to regenerative environmental and social benefits?"
by Stu Fram published in Stanford Social...
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Regenerative Insights Circle
Regenerative Insights Circle has been taking place since 2019, now in twice weekly sessions on Wednesdays at 9:30 CET and Thursdays at 9:00 Pacific / 18:00 CET.
Sessions include:
- Presentation and guest hosted sessions in which participants present projects, challenging ideas, and emerging questions...
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What's the Hang Up with the Sacred
Focusing on the concept of things sacred, the authors explore how this widespread concept can bring those things we cannot see, but know exist, into spaces in which we can work with them and use them to evolve. The article captures some essential elements in the work of many regenerative pioneers...
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Designing Regenerative Cultures
Foundational writing for the regenerative development movement, author Daniel Christian Wahl explores the meaning and transformations needed to call forth regenerative cultures and to become regenerative ourselves.
From the publisher, excerpt:
"We need to ask the deeper question of why we are...
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Radical Markets
Excerpt from the publisher, Princeton University Press "Many blame today’s economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking—and pretty much all conventional thinking about markets, both...