Vehicle Access Fundamentals For Regenerative Landscapes – First Principles
Running water is the primary natural force that generates the need for maintenance of most man-made access routes. Most drainage needs throughout the landscape are in relation to access routes. Effective drainage is therefore the primary consideration when planning and designing for functional, low-maintenance access (for vehicles, humans and animals) that maintains or improves watershed…
Using Duckweed To Grow More Calories Per Square Foot ~ Epi-064
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Exchanging Value In The Regenerative Agora: Cryptocurrency As A Medium Of Exchange
Exchanging Value In The Regenerative Agora Debt-backed fiat currency issued by central banks is currently the dominant form of currency in our world. We can qualitatively examine this critical element of human society and economy using the Regenerative vs. Degenerative Continuum. We can further delineate what it means to create a regenerative system by overlaying…
The Regenerative / Degenerative Continuum Of Resource Use
Can an eco-system make use of single-use, polluting resource and still be called an eco-system? This question drives right at the heart of what sustainable livelihood is and what it means to be regenerative and abundant. As is often the case, it depends. It also addresses a few of the difficulties with paying yourself to…
Borrowing Without Intent To Repay: How Modern Fiat Currency Systems Concentrate Wealth By Design
The monetary system which we are all subjected to this day in age is diametrically opposed to having a regenerative economy. Simply put, a regenerative economy cannot exist (or will fail) if the money used to transact within it violates the ethics of 1) Care For The Earth, 2) Care For The People, and 3)…
The Regenerative Agora – Counter-Economics For Stewards Of The Future
How can we go about creating the new systems, business models, value systems and infrastructure of a regenerative society when much of that work is arbitrarily outlawed or suppressed by the power systems that dominate our current culture? This post is for those of you interested in creating that world worth inheriting, whether or not…
The 4 Freedoms: Principles For Regenerative Lifestyle Design
The Four Freedoms The Four Freedoms is a framework composed of four mutually-supporting principles that act as the foundation for regenerative and sovereign lifestyle design. While not explicitly mentioned in my consultancy work, these principles do inform my own individual perspective, and inherently undergird the design work I do. I see the Four Freedoms as…
The 7th Generation Principle – Designing For Continuity Across Generations ~ Epi-063
In this episode I am sharing what I have come to call the 7th Generation Principle – a principle guide post of sorts that I’ve been refining for nearly 10 years now to help guide my design work (for my own life and for others) in the direction of inter-generational regeneration. Basically, it seems like…
The 7th Generation Principle – Designing Ecosystems For Continuity Across Generations
Cover image credit: Schowdhuri, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons This post details a working principle I’ve been refining since I first published it back in 2014. The guiding statement and ensuing question that led to the development of this principle is this: Humans have at various times and places throughout our history lived…
