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Step forward the Regeneration Activator
Deshkan Ziibi Conservation Impact Bond model (source DZCIB Story Map)Part 3 of Bioregions as a Framework of ValueThis is the third and last in our series of blogs that explore landscape-scale regeneration and how it can be accelerated. It is also a synthesis of our...
Learning, not diamond-class carbon markets, is the bridge to landscape scale regeneration
Fig 1. An example map showing indicators to track towards regenerative goals. Drawn from work by the Bioregional Learning Centre, Devon. Part Two of Bioregions as a Framework of ValueIn our last blog — a survey of our current climate change predicament and the role of...
What does ‘regenerative investment’ mean now that Gaia is changing the rules of the game?
Source: StatisticaThat we live in a world of momentous upheaval and rapid change is not news. What is unprecedented is the scale to which climate change is upending long-held assumptions about how our societies and economies function, including our geo-political...
The bioregional vision of Donella Meadows
The bioregional vision of Donella (Dana) Meadows has been a guiding one for the Bioregional Learning Centre in South Devon. To mark our five-year anniversary we are publishing it here for the first time, with permission from the Academy for Systems Change that...
The long view on systems
The challenges that we face as a species today are systemic and global: think climate change, species extinction, failing freshwater resources, pandemic. At bioregional scale the response is systemic and local. An easy thing to say but not so easy in do in practice....
Design for a Regenerative Doughnut
Doughnut Economics, advocated by Kate Raworth, is a brilliant model that makes visible just how intertwined natural global systems (such as water or biodiversity) are with the social foundations of our societies. Designing an operating system for the Doughnut that...
So, What’s the Project?
CoP26 is over and the future looks a little less bright in the world of international diplomacy for averting more than 1.5 degrees of global warming. At times like this, I stop and ask myself ‘so what’s the project now, has it changed, what has been revealed?’. When...
Bioregioning
Bioregions are a framework for being human that is invisible and everywhere at the same time. We all live in a bioregion, just as we all live in places on this earth with a distinct identity: high desert, river valley, ocean city, tundra village, low-lying metropolis....
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