Imprint: Triarchy Press
Published with: IFF (International Futures Forum)
Published: 2016
Format: Paperback 
List Price: £20.00
 Size: 17 x 24.4 cm
ISBN: 978-1-909470-77-4

Tags: Design Thinking, Ecological Design, Transition Design, Regenerative Design, Transformative Innovation, Biomimicry, Ecoliteracy, Resilience, Complexity, Systems Thinking, Sustainable Development, Regenerative Economy, New Economics, Peer-to-peer Innovation, Circular Economy, Planetary Boundaries, Green Business, Futures Studies, Thrivability
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Articles by the author - read online:
Extract from The Ecologist article
Learning from Nature:  read Daniel's 
​ 'Biomimicry.org' article
Education for Meaningful Sustain-ability
Regenerative Design and a Science of Qualities article 
Activism Revisited article

Related titles:

Beyond Threat
Small Arcs of Larger Circles
​All International Futures Forum titles

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The book will interest thinkers, planners, activists, innovators and general readers concerned with where our world is heading and how we can help to shape the future.

Designing Regenerative Cultures
​
​Daniel Christian Wahl

Forewords by Graham Leicester (International Futures Forum) and David Orr (Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College and a James Marsh Professor at the University of Vermont.)
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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.
 
In this remarkable book, Daniel Wahl explores ways in which we can reframe and understand the crises that we currently face and explores how we can live our way into the future. Moving from patterns of thinking and believing to our practice of education, design and community living, he systematically shows how we can stop chasing the mirage of certainty and control in a complex and unpredictable world.

The book asks how can we collaborate in the creation of diverse regenerative cultures adapted to the unique biocultural conditions of place? How can we create conditions conducive to life?
" an extraordinary intellectual and analytical resource, providing as good a picture of contemporary holistic, systems-based thinking as you’re likely to find."

​Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future, in Resurgence Magazine
As the author says in the Introduction:

"We need to ask the deeper question of why we are worth sustaining. Our answers will inform how we ask the more operational questions and implement tentative answers and solutions. Such deeper questioning will shape how we might initiate wise actions that help us to transition towards regenerative cultures. Starting with the why will help us to understand our own deeper motivation, purpose and goals. We need to question the beliefs that shape our worldview. Only by starting with the why will we inspire people to change their behaviour and to co-create regenerative cultures.

... We need to reflect on how we will have to change individually and collectively to create this future. ... We need to ask important questions about why and what if. We need to rediscover the common ground of human community. This will enable us to co-create a future worth living in. We need a collective narrative about who we are and why we are worth sustaining, a shared story powerful enough to keep us all innovative, creative and collaborative as we question into the what, how, when and where.

...This book explores how we might live our way rather than know our way into the future, how we might stop chasing the mirage of certainty and control in a complex and unpredictable world. How can we collaborate in the creation of diverse regenerative cultures adapted to the unique biocultural conditions of place? How can we create conditions conducive to life?"
"a valuable contribution to the important discussion of the worldview and value system we need to redesign our businesses, economies, and technologies — in fact, our entire culture — so as to make them regenerative rather than destructive."

Fritjof Capra, author: The Web of Life
Regeneration: A Webinar with Fritjof Capra and Daniel Wahl
Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystem Restoration at the Dawn of the Century of Regeneration

Daniel's recent talk at the Findhorn Foundation -- below
"This is an excellent addition to the literature on ecological design and it will certainly form a keystone in the foundations of the new MA in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College. "
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Seaton Baxter OBE, Professor in Ecological Design Thinking, Schumacher College, UK

Podcast

In this broad discussion (below), Daniel Wahl makes the case for biomimicry and regenerative cultures, stressing the importance of creating biomaterials-based circular economies that are conducive to life. He highlights the destructive nature of our economic system, where environmental and social costs are not adequately priced and regenerative activity is not incentivised. Daniel warns that conventional education systems based on competition are anachronistic, and that skills of collaboration must be nurtured to deliver regenerative economies that benefit all.