Regenerative Culture Examples
TLDR; It’s about nurturing and creativity, + circular systems that build life, as opposed to extractive ones that create sickness and inequality.
Holistic
- Regenerative workplace – a sketch, please add to it if you think of things
- Buckminster Fuller Institute – the video of their challenge is informative and comprehensive – https://www.bfi.org/challenge
- Urban Tilth – A community garden in Richmond that teaches youth of color gardening and provides economic and leadership opportunities
- NorCal Resilience Network – grassroots regenerative community network
Creative Arts
- Voices of Amerikua – collaborative documentary and multimedia lab featuring Indigenous- Native American- First Nation communities of North, Central and South America and their efforts to protect their Culture, Land and Rights
- Fibershed – how to produce clothing in a regenerative way
- Sustainable Apparel Coalition –
- Not fully regenerative, but an example of a coalition in an industry context
- 1491’s, Native humor – http://www.1491s.com/videos/
- Makers / DIY
- Loveland Creator Space in Colorado
- The Media Ecosystem This book has hugely informed Bloom Network’s business and marketing strategy
P2P Economy
- What is a Cooperative: https://usworker.coop/what-is-a-worker-cooperative/
- Community economy project in Boston (article)
- Collaborative Economy (via P2P Foundation)
- Social Impact Business – the biggest conference of this is SOCAP
- Land Trusts (solution for rent and home ownership inequality in cities)
- Sogorea Te’ – urban Indigenous women-led community organization that facilitates the return of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship
- Overview of land trusts via NextCity.org
- Permanent Real Estate Cooperatives
- B-corps – a way to be a for-profit company but be legally able to maximize for things other than shareholders’ money
Global Justice
- Black Lives Matter’s policy platform
- La Vie Campesina
- Restorative Justice – Instead of putting people in prison, a mediator guides all parties involved in and impacted by a crime into a process to decide together how to best restore community well being and safety. It always(?) has better outcomes and is way cheaper than putting people in jail or prison.
Community Health
- Intergenerational trauma healing – (more resources on this?)
- Psychedelic and other drugs science and policy –
- ICEERS
- Portugal’s drug policy (article)
Earth Stewardship
- Regeneration International – Regenerative agriculture coalition / network
- Bioneers conference
- OneCommunityGlobal has a massive database of how-to’s for ecovillages – Here is one page in their maze of resources related to specific types of greenhouses that let you grow food from different climates, anywhere: https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/aquapini-and-walipini-planting-and-harvesting/
Sustainable Technology:
- Report on renewable energy progress
- Nuclear fusion materials science breakthrough (video)
- Composting toilets for festivals, Bill Gates also just released a solution for urban settings
- Rocket Stoves (permaculture heating solution)
- Biomass gasification plants (you can make home digesters too, for home heating using food waste)
- Geoship – waste-free dome homes + cooperative business model
Collective Wisdom
- vTaiwan – this email has a link to a video of Taiwan’s citizen-led plug-in to their parliament
- Dynamic Facilitation – what is it
- Tom Atlee’s book Empowering Public Wisdom has a great case study of it being used in a citizen deliberative council to make policy recommendations
- Short case study
- Multistakeholder collaboration video with case study from Nigeria related to oil industry pollution
