This is a ‘Whole Earth Catalog’ for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what’s wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures – and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system, agriculture, design, ecology, economy, sustainability, organizations and society at large.

Daniel Wahl explores ways of relating to the many converging crises and opportunities faced by humanity at a local, regional and global scale. He invites us to step back from our tendency to want quick-fix solutions. Will they - rather than systemic transformation - offer the culture change needed? Through the lenses of transformative innovation, whole systems thinking, ecological design, and transformative resilience, the book explores pathways towards a regenerative culture.

Local and regional community resilience building is going global -- How can we nurture transformative resilience? -- From control and prediction to conscious participation, foresight and anticipation -- Chapter 5 - Why take a design-based approach? -- Design education enables cultural transformation -- Design is where theory and practice meet -- Design follows worldview and worldview follows design -- Ethics and design for regenerative cultures -- Aesthetics and design -- Emergence and design -- Designing for positive emergence (a case study) -- Scale-linking, salutogenic design for resilience -- The resurgence of a culture of makers: re-localizing production -- Collective visioning and design conversations change culture -- Chapter 6 - How can we learn to better design as nature? -- Ecoliteracy: Learning from living systems -- Valuing traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous wisdom -- How does life create conditions conducive to life? -- Biologically inspired innovation -- Green chemistry and material science -- Biologically inspired product design -- Biomimetic architecture -- Nature's whole system optimization informs community design -- Living the questions together creates community -- Industrial ecology and symbiosis are closing the loops -- Ecologically informed urban and regional planning -- Chapter 7 - Why are regenerative cultures rooted in cooperation? -- Redesigning agriculture for food sovereignty and subsidiarity -- Regenerative agriculture: effective responses to climate change -- Learning from and mimicking healthy ecosystems -- Redesigning economics based on ecology -- Creating circular economies -- Towards a regenerative economy -- Thriving communities and the solidarity economy -- Shifting from quantitative to qualitative growth -- Valuing the commons by cooperatively sharing the gifts of life.

This book by leadership and sustainability experts Giles Hutchins and Laura Storm provides an exciting and comprehensive framework for building regenerative life-affirming businesses. It offers a multitude of business cases, fascinating examples from nature's living systems, insights from the front-line pioneers and tools and techniques for leaders to succeed and thrive in the 21st century. Regenerative Leadership draws inspiration from pioneering thinking within biomimicry, circular economy, adult developmental psychology, anthropology, biophilia, sociology, complexity theory and next-stage leadership development. It connects the dots between these fields through a powerful framework that enables leadership to become regenerative: in harmony with life, building thriving, prosperous organizations amid transformational times. The book is a combination of theoretical frameworks, case studies, tools & practices: Everything the leader needs to be successful in the 21st century. Regenerative Leadership - what's it all about? While the future is uncertain, we clearly see an upward trend towards sustainable conscious business. And this is more than just a trend - we're witnessing a new kind of organization emerging. An organization which is able to rapidly sense and respond to the ever-changing business climate by innovating how and why it creates and delivers value, and the way it engages internally and externally with its ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, resources, investors, society and environment. This new kind of organization is the organization-as-living-system that is designed on the Logic of Life: life-affirming businesses that thrive from the inside out, by cultivating conditions conducive for life, internally and externally. These organizations nurture flourishing cultures while focusing on products and services that enhance society and the environment. Regenerative organizations will be tomorrow's success stories.

A practical framework for thinking about the future... and an exploration of 'future consciousness' and how to develop it

The evolution of sustainability, with a practical framework for integration Regenerative Development and Design takes sustainability to the next level, and provides a framework for incorporating regenerative design principles into your current process. The Regenesis Group is a coalition of experienced design, land-use, planning, business, and development professionals who represent the forefront of the movement; in this book, they explain what regenerative development is, how and why it works, and how you can incorporate the fundamental principles into your practice. A clear, focused framework shows you how to merge regenerative concepts with your existing work, backed by numerous examples that guide practical application while illustrating regenerative design and development in action. As the most comprehensive and systemic approach to regenerative development, this book is a must-have resource for architects, planners, and designers seeking the next step in sustainability. Regenerative design and development positions humans as co-creative and mutually-evolving participants in an ecosystem—not just a built environment. This book describes how to bring that focus to your design from the earliest stages. Understand the fundamentals of regenerative design and development Learn how regenerative development contributes to sustainability Integrate regenerative development concepts into practice Examine sample designs that embody the regenerative concept To create a design with true sustainability, considerations must extend far beyond siting, materials, and efficiency. Designers must look at the place, it's inhabitants, and the purpose—the whole living ecosystem—and proceed with their work from that more humbling perspective. The finished product should itself be an ecosystem and sustainable economy, which is the root of the regenerative development approach. Sustainability has evolved, and the designer's responsibility has increased in kind. Regenerative Development and Design provides an authoritative resource for those ready to take the next step forward.

The book sets out to challenge the ‘breakdown thinking’ that focuses only on defensive reactions to the economic, social, political, and environmental crises and catastrophes we face.