The Regeneration Journal
Policy
Cooling Cities: What Can be Done? (App included)
Here’s a small mystery, the sort that hides in plain sight until some fact stops the observer cold on the sidewalk: heat, unlike almost every other…
“The Purpose Pledge: Building an Ecosystem for Regenerative Business” – An Interview with Les Szabo
Les Szabo is Chief Strategy & Impact Officer at Dr. Bronner’s, the top-selling natural brand of soap in North America. He joined Dr. Bronner’s in 2013. In his…
“Towards an Economy for the Common Good” – An Interview with Christian Felber
Christian Felber is an Austrian activist, book writer, university lecturer, international speaker and contemporary dancer. He initiated the Economy for the Common Good movement and the project Bank for…
“Regeneration as a Journey” – An Interview with Lucia Lauro
We met Lucia Lauro a little over four years ago when she was blazing a trail of social-entrepreneurship in the heart of Palermo’s Ballaro neighborhood –…
The right to human interaction – Angelo Monoriti
Human interaction has long been considered the ‘backdrop’ to social, economic and legal relations. However, with the advent of digital technologies and, more recently, artificial intelligence,…
“Respect, Rights, and Regeneration” – An Interview with Leoluca Orlando
Leoluca Orlando is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and the former long-serving Mayor of Palermo, widely celebrated for his transformative leadership in revitalizing the…
Philip Kotler interviews Jaz Brisack: “Unions, Democracy, & Leadership”
Watch: Jaz Brisack is the bestselling author of Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World – a…
“Saving the Planet with AI” – Daniel Erasmus
Daniel Erasmus explains how ClimateGPT can make a difference at this late stage of the game. Watch: NOTE: we used ClimateGPT to dig deeper into the…
“Democracy in the Workplace” – An Interview with Jaz Brisack
Jaz Brisack, nationally known as a co-founder of Starbucks Workers United, is a practitioner in residence at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. During their year-long residency, Brisack…
Regenerative Leadership: What the World Needs Now
In this time of permacrisis—where climate breakdown, economic inequality, democratic erosion, cultural fragmentation, and war crimes converge—we recognize that the systems and leaders governing our lives are…
Transforming Governance for the Common Good: A Regenerative Approach
The need for collective action on a global scale has never been more urgent, especially in the face of interconnected crises like climate change, pandemics, economic…
Regeneration and Spiritual Tradition
All the world’s spiritual traditions have deeply embedded regenerative principles – especially in relation to leadership, stewardship, and sustainability. So why is it that our economic…
13 Weapons of Mass Destruction of the Common Good
In this accelerating Age of Collapse, we are witnessing the wholesale destruction of the Common Good. Our misleaders have abandoned their responsibility to creating a society…
How do we Regenerate the Common Good?
Politics holds no meaning if our planet dies. We have poisoned the air, the water, the land, and our thoughts. Toxic leaders guide us to extinction.…
Community Regeneration: Where to Begin
Understand community strengths and assets is a key part of developing regenerative projects for the Common Good. As usual, it’s all about deep listening. And, as…
“Is Intergenerational Equity possible?” – An Interview with Rahul Basu
Rahul Basu works on implementing intergenerational equity, beginning with minerals in Goa. With a background in the world of finance and economics, Rahul proposals have resulted…
“Beyond the Petri Dish” – An Interview with George Tsakraklides
George Tsakraklides has a diverse background in the sciences, having trained in molecular biology, chemistry, food science, and Earth sciences. He has also worked in data…
Oren Lyons: “Nature’s the Boss.”
It’s time to stand for the seven generations. We can all see the Earth is heating up, that polar ice and glaciers are melting, and that…
Michel Bauwens on Cosmo-Localism
We had the privilege of listening to this over lunch. Michel Bauwens describes the “emergence of a new type of ‘fourth sector’ organization, i.e. networks with…
“Degrowth: The Quest for a Social Tipping Point” – An Interview with Erin Remblance
Erin Remblance is a Sydney-based writer and co-creator of (re)Biz. Can you tell us how you began the journey to become an advocate for degrowth and…
“Wealth Supremacy” – An Interview with Marjorie Kelly
Marjorie Kelly is Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative (TDC), a nonprofit working to catalyze the creation of a democratic economy, where people reclaim control from extractive capital, and…
“Minding the Sustainability Gap: From Unsustainable Core to Business-as-the-World-Needs” – An Interview with Alice Kalro
Alice Kalro is an emerging global thought leader in science-based corporate sustainability, providing practical guidance on science-aligned business transformations and urging corporations to take on a systems leadership role…
Climate Deniers Should Not Assume They Will Never Face Justice
BY STEVEN DAY If you’re a reasonably young person who is opposing measures to address climate change for reasons of financial or political gain, be afraid.…
The Destruction of the Common Good: Laying the Foundation of a Zero-Trust Society
Adapted from the book REGENERATION: The Future of Community in a Permacrisis World IDEA BITE PRESS (May, 2023) The USA, and increasingly the rest of the world, is…
“The Most Important Thing YOU CAN DO to Fight Climate Change” – Katharine Hayhoe’s TED talk
One of the biggest problems is that the public, especially in the United States, doesn’t even comprehend the extent of the problem. Silence kills. In this…
“Beyond Growth, to Wellbeing” – An Interview with Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza is Professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College London (UCL). He is also currently a Senior Fellow…
“The need for scientifically informed politics” – An Interview with Joachim H. Spangenberg
Joachim H. Spangenberg is Vice-President of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute(SERI) in Cologne, Germany. With a PhD in economics, but an academic background in biology and…