Why the potential of people, and the places that communities inhabit, is the key to addressing the climate crisis [First published in the RSA Journal — link here — this is the pre-final draft without the edits by the journal editors.] Our times call for “stubborn optimism”, as Christiana Figueres…

Contribución al Congreso Futuro 2022: Lección de los errores (17/01/22) — Escribe el poeta Mapuche y ganador del Premio de Literatura 2020 Elicura Chihuailaf: ¿Qué busca la luz? Habitamos las sobras del conocimiento, y nuestra vida consiste en andar en busca de la luz. Avanzamos, poco a poco, y en cada paso nos borramos, lentamente. ¿Pero qué busca la azul la…

RSA Bicentenary Medal 2021 Award Address, 07.12.2021 — Good evening everyone and thank you so much for choosing to celebrate this award with me today. I am deeply grateful to the RSA for creating the Regenerative Futures programme. It is a powerful invitation to the global fellowship of cultural creatives — who are united by this…

Wiederherstellung von Ökosystemen & planetarische Regeneration im Ökozän (Erstversion in Englisch, Übersetzung von Joachim Born für die Estausgabe von ACHRONON Herbst 2021) Es wird in diesen Tagen viel über das Anthropozän gesprochen. Der Begriff — oder das Mem —…

First published in July 2021 by Sustainable Brands (see link) — In the autumn of 2018, Walter J. Thompson published a report entitled The New Sustainability: Regeneration. Interest in regenerative development had been building for years and the publication of Designing Regenerative Cultures and Regenerative Development in 2016, The Regenerative Business in 2017 and Regenerative Leadershipin 2019 all contributed to…

One way to avoid — or at least minimize — the risk that new ‘solutions’ will result in catastrophic and widespread unintended consequences is to limit the scale of experimentation. At the local and regional scale, feedback is faster and ecological limits are more immediately identifiable. Furthermore, by focusing on…

First published in KOSMOS Journal — Summer 2021 — Writing these lines at this point in our human journey has to be an exercise in humility. The theme of this issue is ‘Realigning with Earth Wisdom’. How would a white, middle-aged, academically over-educated male have something to say about that? Given the centuries of violation this particular demographic has…

Introducción del libro ‘Semillas: Somos la regeneración’ — Últimamente se pueden escuchar muchas conversación sobre ‘regeneración’. El enfoque ya se ha aplicado a temas como ‘culturas regenerativas’, ‘liderazgo regenerativo’, ‘agricultura regenerativa’, ‘empresas regenerativas’, ‘comunidades regenerativas’, ‘economía regenerativa’, ‘educación regenerativa’, y ‘diseño regenerativo’. Hasta el ‘turismo regenerativo’ y la ‘moda regenerativa’ ha llegado la exploración de esta manera de…

“True innovation occurs when things are put together for the first time that had been separate.” — Arthur Koestler and John Smythies (1969) The third horizon gives us a long-term guiding vision and invites us to expand the time horizons we are thinking in [more on the 3 Horizons pathways]…