Stories About Regeneration
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Regenerative Agriculture the Linchpin for a Sustainable Fashion Future
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - New report reveals how emulating nature’s lessons in the fashion industry can enhance ecosystems to boost biodiversity, build soil, support communities, and clean up existing pollution.
Ambitious Vision for Man-Made Cellulosic Fibers Promises Greater Resilience for Textile Industry
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - New report highlights the huge potential of manmade fibers such as viscose, modal and lyocell to create a more sustainable future, and outlines a sector-wide vision that could revolutionize multiple industries.
Circularity, Human Rights, Regeneration Pillars of Natura’s 2030 ‘Commitment to Life’ Strategy
THE NEXT ECONOMY - “We are confident that we will be able to reach these targets by 2030, but we are ambitious to get there sooner; because that is what the planet needs and what our consumers are asking for.” — Christopher Davis, The Body Shop
Learning from Leadership: How to Create a Climate-Positive, Post-Pandemic Future
THE NEXT ECONOMY - Embracing serendipity, climate positivity and wisdom from the natural world are just a few pertinent principles from the host of inspiring discussions on day 1 of the SB Leadership Summit — along with a shift in focus to being “known for what we allocate, not what we accumulate.”
Trending: Brands Continue Work to Build Traceable, Regenerative Ag Supply Chains
SUPPLY CHAIN - In the name of continued improvement for the benefit and sustainability of their respective industries and the agricultural communities that supply them, Timberland and Hershey unveil new measures to ensure ethical supply chains for leather and cocoa, respectively.
New Report Reveals Roadmap to Transform US Ag System from Extractive to Regenerative
SUPPLY CHAIN - Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis, a new report from Forum for the Future highlights the critical role of regenerative agricultural practices in delivering future food system resilience.
Benyus: COVID-19 Offers ‘Utopian Glimmer’ of New World, But We Must Give Back to Nature
THE NEXT ECONOMY - “We’re seeing a bit of utopian glimmer coming through, and natural selection chooses what works over and over. So, when we get back to normal, we get this glorious choice to put back in our lives only what is best, only what we found made life worth living.”
L’Oréal Pledges €150M to Support Vulnerable Women, Protect the Environment
THE NEXT ECONOMY - In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and to attempt to mitigate its consequences, L’Oréal has announced L’Oréal for the Future — an industry-first social and environmental solidarity program to address two key priorities …
Sustainability Is Dead. Long Live Sustainability (or, Redefining the Term in a Post-COVID World …)
THE NEXT ECONOMY - We get to choose what the world will look like when we open our doors in three…six…twelve months’ time. Will we choose Human 101 or Human 3.0?
‘Green Swans’ Will Kill Some Brands, Boost Others
THE NEXT ECONOMY - Green Swans also take the world by surprise — because of their exponential character, and because they produce outcomes previously considered to be not just improbable but impossible. But rather than driving degeneration like their Grey and Black cousins, they help drive resilience and regeneration.
Regenerative Business, Part 6: Leveraging Nodes in Living Systems
LEADERSHIP - This is the sixth blog in a series on the seven First Principles of regeneration, drawing from living systems sciences, from renowned author and regenerative business expert Carol Sanford.
12 Amazing Documentaries on Sustainability, Regeneration That You Now Have Time to Watch
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.