Stories About Regeneration
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12 Amazing Documentaries on Sustainability, Regeneration You Now Have Time For
MARKETING AND COMMS - As many of us find ourselves with much more time at home due to the COVID-19 crisis, a lot of us are finding opportunities to do things we couldn’t quite get to in the course of our ‘regular lives’ before the widespread lockdowns.
Regenerative Business, Part 5: The Nestedness of Living Systems
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - This is the fifth blog in a series on the seven First Principles of regeneration, drawing from living systems sciences. Read parts one, two, three and four.
The Lizard, the Lion and the Lamb: The Tension Between Fear, Action and Just Being Present
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - As individuals, we’re experiencing multiple concurrent responses to the crisis, which confuse and further un-nerve us. We are oscillating between fear and uncertainty, the urgent prompt to act; the rise of compassion and love, and also a need to cocoon and wait it out. These responses are reflections of how we function as human beings.
With More CEOs at Home with Their Children, Could This Pandemic Be the Catalyst Sustainability Needs?
WALKING THE TALK - As CEOs spend time reconnecting with their children at home, investors open laptops at kitchen tables and policymakers have more time than ever to consider our future; is now the time when long-term, sustainable decision-making will finally trump all else?
Regenerative Business, Part 4: Singularity and Why It Matters
LEADERSHIP - This is the fourth blog in a series on the seven First Principles of regeneration, drawing from living systems sciences.
Regenerative Business, Part 3: Addressing Potential, Rather Than Existing, Problems
LEADERSHIP - This is the third blog in a series on the seven First Principles of regeneration by renowned author and regenerative business expert, Carol Sanford, drawing from living systems sciences.
Regenerative Business, Part 2: Addressing the Whole, Not Just the Parts
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - When one sets out to work "Regeneratively," it is with the intention of finding the full potential of some effort, one that will proceed through seven phases of thinking and acting. This is a look at Phase One, in which you begin with learning to discern a living, structured whole.
Indigenous Innovations Provide Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Design
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - A new book, "Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism," highlights centuries-old technologies that provide a powerful toolkit for sustainable architecture and design in the modern age.
Regenerative Business, Part 1: The History and Practice of 'Regeneration'
LEADERSHIP - Forty years ago, I meet a cadre of business designers and developers who called what they did Regenerative Business Design. They had led a revolution with extraordinary success in Procter & Gamble, which gave the business world a state of the art approach in producing Return on Investment with people and assets. They delivered earnings for the consumer products giant that were the envy of all industries, in an industry whose margins were collapsed to below 5 percent.
Microsoft, Danone Partner to Advance AI-Based Sustainable Food Solutions
COLLABORATION - The companies will jointly support funded European startups with artificial intelligence-based solutions for sustainable food and regenerative agricluture in a three-month accelerator.
Regenerative Sourcing Helping Companies Meet Sustainability Goals
SUPPLY CHAIN - Regenerative agriculture can be a powerful tool for helping companies to reach climate and sustainability goals that can be promoted through responsible sourcing strategies.
Report: Overhaul of Paper, Textile Industries Can Halt Climate, Extinction Crisis in a Decade
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - Canopy’s ‘Pulp Thriller’ outlines a plan to save the world’s forests and climate by replacing 50% of forest fiber from pulp manufacturing with next-generation, alternative fibers such as agricultural residues and waste cotton.
Starbucks Commits to a Resource-Positive Future, Giving More than It Takes from the Planet
THE NEXT ECONOMY - In a public letter to all company stakeholders, CEO Kevin Johnson sets 2030 science-based targets for carbon, water and waste as part of a multi-decade aspiration.
Regenerative Agriculture: Not Just for Beef Anymore
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Beef is naturally at the forefront of the conversation around regenerative ag because of the direct and dramatic improvement properly managed ruminants can have on soil quality. But that doesn’t mean that other foods shouldn’t be held to the same standards.
6 Lessons Learned Over a Century of Advancing a Circular Economy
WASTE NOT - International Paper is 121 years old. If we want to be relevant for the next century, we must bring others along on our trajectory toward circularity. Whether you’re just starting out or are further down the path to circularity, take comfort in knowing you are not in this alone.
The Biosphere’s Guide to Foolproofing Sustainability, Part 4: Power Autonomy
CLEANTECH - Nature has discovered that if you want to sustain your value cycles for billions of years, they need to run on free flows of solar energy. Our products and processes need to do the same.
Practitioners Across Industries Embracing Their Role in Ensuring Health of Our Ocean
COLLABORATION - Looking ahead to Sustainable Brands Oceans (14-16 November 2019 in Porto, Portugal), we caught up with Katherine Bryar — Head of Global Branding and Communications at BioMar — to find out what’s in store.
Trending: Building Regenerative Fashion Supply Chains, from the Ground Up
SUPPLY CHAIN - A new partnership for Timberland aims to create sustainable leather supply chain; while inclusive apparel brand Everybody & Everyone aims to create better fashion from raw materials to end use.
Foolproofing Sustainability, Part 3: Value Cycling
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - The model we use to teach MBAs about production is the value chain. But there's a problem: It imagines a linear world in which materials can be constantly pushed through an assembly line with no consequence.
NETs Offering New Opportunities for Negative Emissions
CLEANTECH - A suite of negative-emissions technologies (NETs) have emerged and continue to improve. While carbon capture and storage systems can lead to carbon-neutral processes, NETs can lead to true carbon negativity.