Stories About Regeneration
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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 agriculture 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.
SB’19 Madrid Offers Tasting Menu of ‘Moonshot Thinking’ for the Future of Humankind
THE NEXT ECONOMY - At SB’19 Madrid last week, a diverse array of innovators in various fields demonstrated the notion that asking the right questions and being willing to use imagination to find solutions to the climate crisis and other pressing global issues can turn a Moonshot into reality.
World Food Day: Celebrity Chefs, Soil SuperHeroes Out in Force to Save Our Food System
MARKETING AND COMMS - In honor of World Food Day (Oct 16), Green America highlights the farmers and food companies leading the regenerative ag revolution; and the World Food Program launches its global Stop the Waste campaign.
European CEOs Identify 5 'Jobs to Be Done’ to Foster Enduring, Sustainable, Inclusive Growth Model
LEADERSHIP - Report features insights from discussions with 27 top business leaders as part of Xynteo’s Europe Delivers program — including CEOs of AXA, Danone, EDF Energy, IKEA Group, Mastercard, Nestlé, Nokia, Schneider Electric and Tesco.
Foolproofing Sustainability with the ‘Biosphere Rules’
THE NEXT ECONOMY - Remediation has had some successes. But you can’t remediate an extinct species, an acidified ocean or a climate that’s pushed beyond its critical tipping point. What we need to be doing is “premediation."
A 100-Year Journey: Achieving Sustainability for All in the Coffee Industry
BUSINESS CASE - Global demand for coffee continues to rise, but climate change is expected to shrink suitable land for Arabica coffee beans by 50 percent by 2050. Japan's Key Coffee is working to protect the future of coffee, starting in Tana Toraja, Indonesia.
