Re-regionalisation as a pathway to diverse regenerative economies
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
Re-localising and re-regionalising economics — while maintaining international collaboration and fair trade — creates jobs and community resilience.
Bioregional Regeneration for Planetary Health
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium.com
Bioregional regeneration is about refitting human patterns to the bio-geo-physical patterns through which life creates conditions conducive to life.
Nurturing Vital Diversity & Resilience: Scaling Out, Rather than Scaling-Up!
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
Of course we need to find a way that regenerative practice and careful restoration of healthy ecosystems functions spreads from community to community and bioregion to bioregion to reach global impact as quickly as possible. We need to reach scale, but not by scaling-up!
A Brief History of Systems Science, Chaos and Complexity
By Daniel Christian Wahl, P2P Foundation Blog
On the one hand I believe it is vital to accept uncertainty, not-knowing, and unpredictability fully to the point of deep humility. On the other hand, I also believe that we need to choose to act from the conviction that we can design for positive emergence in complex systems even if it is not an exact science and we cannot know with certainty how our efforts will turn out to affect transformative change.
Avoiding Extinction: Participation in the Nested Complexity of Life
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
So how do we aim for appropriate participation by designing for positive emergence? How do we design for human and planetary health? To do so in ways that are elegantly adapted to the bio-cultural uniqueness of place will require us to pay attention to the qualitative aspects of interactions, relationships.
Making the Most of the ‘UN Decade on Ecosystems Restoration’: Bioregional Regenerative Development as a Deep Adaptation Pathway
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
The path of ‘deep adaptation’ to the imminent breakdown and the path to avoid short-term human extinction are one and the same: we need to restore healthy ecosystems functions and we need to redesign the human impact on Earth by engaging in regenerative bioregional development — everywhere!
Qualitative Systems Thinking as a Reflexive Futures Practice
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World is a timely book offered by an experienced elder so that we may collectively learn to make the best out of the turbulent times ahead.
A Science of Qualities: Experiencing the World Coming into Being & Living on the Edge of chaos
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
The Science of Qualities is really an extension of conventional science in the sense that it depends upon consensus, agreement and a methodology whereby people come to recognize the agreement or the consensus they have about the qualities of experience of other beings.