Development Strategies

Excerpt: "Together we’ll learn from te ao Māori approaches, harvest global doughnut, degrowth and circular thinking, celebrate local wellbeing and business success stories and learn practical skills.

With international keynote from Amanda Janoo, WEAll’s Global Policy Lead, MC’d by Michèle A’ Court...

Produced by the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming project in India, this animated video engages farmers and potential collaborators in understanding the vision, techniques, and cultural fit with this approach to agriculture.  It is not hard to imagine how this kind of approach could...

Excerpt: "It’s time we embraced science and viewed our cities as part of nature – as ecological systems whose survival is inextricably linked to the planet’s ecosystems. This shift in thinking will allow us to quickly decarbonise our cities and transform urban environments into healthier, vibrant...

The authors of this research have done a great service to the field in identifying core elements of regenerative business models and elaborating a coherent framework that makes them distinct. Demonstrating the evolution of this field from sustainable, to circular, to regenerative, each facet is...

Selar is the Founder and Managing Director of Future Value Global, a regenerative investment company, and is a values-based business advisor. He is an advocate and catalyst for transformational shifts to greater sustainability in human activities and a more democratic economy that creates wealth for...

A systemic consideration of the value of technological solutions labor and productivity shortages, the author challenges the inevitability and efficacy of technological development to fill labor shortages. He makes the case that greater labor mobility could better serve both national and global...

Departing from the roots of modern political and security thinking, author Nayef Al-Rodhan weaves together emerging understandings in human behavior and neurobiology, international relations to present a series analytic frames based on them which he applies to international relations in his Ocean...

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...