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Taking place among experienced and new weavers, this project focuses on native populations of salmon and demonstrates how arts and expressive activities can be transformative on multiple levels at the same time, creating art, building skills, reconnecting with the natural world and its role in...

Covering a wide variety of socio-economic contexts, the stories range from the global south to the global north, from low-tech to high-tech, from small-scale construction rediscovering local materials to urban-scale approaches that promote inclusion, and more.

This will be a useful read for those...

Focused on addressing immediate challenges such as water stress, and nutrient loss, this article helps point the way to strategies that might be used without much retooling to establish circular and even regenerative systems. 

By , published in Modern Diplomacy  Originally published in Horizon

RFSI News is an online news source covering the latest developments in regenerative agriculture and food investment.

Excerpt: "The state of California is in the beginning stages of a months-long campaign to develop a definition for the term regenerative agriculture, an effort that could yield a common way of understanding it, at least among California officials, by the end of the year.

The endeavor seems simple...

The development of port facilities on the Indian island of Nicobar illustrates some of the ways such projects can go wrong when formal procedures and regulations are followed, but systemic design and impact issues are not considered. In this case, the habitat of endangered turtles and owls is...

Article provides a detailed description of the kinds of challenges faced by businesses when governments take initiatives toward circularity, in this case for Scotland on a deposit / return scheme. Even with attention to the needs and concerns of small businesses such initiatives are likely to demand...

This story highlights one of the tools that governments can use to help advance systemic innovation.

"Portugal has signed an agreement to swap Cape Verde's debt for investments in an environmental and climate fund that is being established by the archipelago nation off West Africa's coast...

Les habitants du quartier d'une partie de Genève se sont opposés à la remise en état d'un espace pavé pour une nouvelle micro-forêt, illustrant le type de défis systémiques potentiels auxquels sont confrontés ceux qui veulent réinventer les zones urbaines. Les habitants du quartier des Eaux Vives...

Article focuses on the case of Australia and the importance of cross sectoral collaboration and the "need to break traditional boundaries between brand owners, manufacturers and those in the business of waste management and resource recovery, and instead stimulate collaborative partnerships."

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