Introduction to the Economic Design Dimension of Gaia Education’s Online Course in ‘Design for Sustainability’
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium.com
This is an online course on living well within our means. The pun here is intentional. For, what we are exploring in this course is not just ways of reducing our consumption to levels that enable natural systems to self-regenerate, but that we do so in ways that permit a high quality of life — that we live within our means and that we live well.
Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystem Restoration at the Dawn of the Century of Regeneration
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
We are facing a knife’s edge, between a future that is abundant of collaboration with [more than human] nature, or decades of decline and unspeakable, unthinkable situations that we want to avoid. The way to start navigating the path towards the positive is to be in love with life and each other every day a little bit more.
‘Regeneration’ Hits the Mainstream, But What about the Deeper Practice?
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
The speed at which the regeneration meme is spreading into all aspects of society and infiltrating the mainstream is breathtaking and faster than I would have anticipated when I told my colleagues in Gaia Education in early 2014 to take a closer look at Bill Reed’s article from 2007 ‘Shifting from sustainability to regeneration’.
What if? — Scaling-Out Regenerative Development Glocally
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
So what if the money was suddenly available to engage everyone who is holding pieces in the complex puzzle of redesigning and transforming the human impact on Earth in a concerted effort to enable this shift...
Mapping the Pieces in the Puzzle of Local/Global (Glocal) Regeneration
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium.com
We are now challenged to fundamentally redesign the human presence and impact on Earth to shift from a mainly exploitative, destructive and degenerative impact to becoming co-creative collaborators with the wider community of life in the healing of our ecosystems and the regeneration of the Earth and our communities. Life itself is a regenerative community!
Organizing Bioregionally
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
The sustainability consultants Pooran Desai and Sue Riddlestone of the London based consultancy BioRegional suggest that we need to reconsider the scale of our production systems and create more locally self-sustaining communities in compact cities.
Integrated Sustainable Community & Ecovillage Design Education
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
Education for social and ecological literacy will be an important catalyst in the process of creating a culture of sustainability. The challenges of climate change, approaching peak oil, and non-renewable resource depletion are creating the need for an education that empowers citizens through knowledge and skills which enable them to actively participate in the design and creation of sustainable communities and bioregions.
Why Do we Need to Think and Act More Systemically?
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
An increasing number of people are beginning to understand that the world we participate in is too complex, magnificent and changeable for any single perspective to do justice to its diversity and complexity.