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Radical Realism

By Otto Scharmer, Medium.com

Dear Friends, as we enter the new year, I would like to take a moment to reflect on 2021 and to set the intention for 2022. What did we learn in 2021? Three things stand out for me. Humility. Whatever we thought or predicted would happen in 2021 probably changed multiple times over the course of the year. Starting with the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, the accelerated impact of climate change, not to mention Delta and Omicron, time and again we saw that reality keeps changing around us. Our established concepts and ways of knowing need to soften and make way for what Prof. Edgar Schein calls “humble inquiry.” Reflexivity. Reflecting on how societies respond to these challenges has made me aware how often we look for the source of the problems we face outside of ourselves rather than inside- inside our own country’s boundaries or inside ourselves....

  • January 20, 2022
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Regenerative Futures: Redesigning the human impact on Earth

By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium.com

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 over 260 year old institution — to take time to consider regenerative development and design and its significance to all our future. More importantly it invites culturally creative discourse, creativity and experimentations with pathways that may bring about such a future. Personally, I am deeply touched and humbled by the honour of being awarded the RSA’s Bicentenary Medal 2021. Thank you! Acknowledgment from established institutions is rare for the many people around the world who are already finding purpose and deep meaning in reconnecting to life’s regenerative impulse. This award is for the many generations before us...

  • January 20, 2022
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Where are the municipalists in the US and Canada?

By Eleanor Finley, Aaron Vansintjan, Minim

The very “incoherence” for which US and Canadian municipalists are criticized is a sign of a evolving movement grappling with historical problems on a civilizational scale.

  • January 19, 2022
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The power of community: Scaling the potential of regenerative aid in times of climate emergencies and other vulnerabilities

By Sarah Queblatin, Medium

Over the last few years my organization, Green Releaf Initaitive, has been prototyping our permaculture gardens on select sites affected by disasters and displacement. At the core of our theory of change is not just “design” but regenerative design that invites us to go beyond sustainability and ways that we can apply it in contexts of aid and development.

  • January 19, 2022
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Planting Agroecology in the Sacred Desert of Wirikuta

By Diana Negrin, Esperanza Project

All had come to Las Margaritas to attend a free intensive agroecology workshop led by Gerardo Ruiz Smith, a Mexican regenerative agriculture expert, and coordinated by the Wixarika Research Center as the first stone of a long-term project that seeks to restore and regenerate the desert in what many have come to call the “botanical garden” of Wirikuta.

  • January 19, 2022
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Commoning and Changemaking

By David Bollier, Schumacher Center for a New Economics

Please accept the invitation made by The Commoner’s Catalog and apply your talents and imagination to the challenges of commoning. We have much to learn from each other and a new world to build!

  • January 18, 2022
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France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 1

By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020

Marion and Benjamin welcome us in the farm yard with a big smile. Their farm, “Le Buis Sonnant” in Brittany, is a place that quietly questions the current state of farming and how it’s changing. Buying land, succession, sharing of responsibilities… discussion around the hot topics is even-handed and open-minded.

  • January 18, 2022
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