Planet Project
The Planet Project exists to support the global shift toward a life-honoring, partnership-based planetary culture, using the word “Planet” to symbolize the wholeness and interconnectedness of all life—expressed in their tagline “All Life, One Planet.” Rather than building a movement of their own, the volunteer-driven U.S. nonprofit focuses on uplifting the many individuals and organizations […]
Blue Forest
Blue Forest is a nonprofit conservation finance organization that brings people, finance, and science together to restore and protect forests, watersheds, ecosystems, and communities. The organization builds partnerships with investors, land managers, nonprofits, Native Nations, private companies, and the public sector to catalyze the funds and partners needed to make restoration projects happen. Blue Forest […]
Disaster as a Springboard for Thriving Resilient Communities
This article, published in December 2013 by the Society of Organizational Learning’s Reflections Magazine, explores what happens when catastrophe fundamentally shifts the world we know. On March 11, 2011, the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami, and radiation leak devastated northeastern Japan. In the aftermath, people from throughout the country began to gather not just to […]
Ashes to Resilience
Ashes to Resilience: A Guide to Wildfire Recovery is a resource developed by NewStories and Regenerating Paradise, drawing on their experiences to offer starting points for communities navigating wildfire recovery. Recognizing that what needs to happen is shaped by local culture and geography, the guide supports communities in their own journey of recovery and Re-Storying. […]
Regenerating Paradise
Regenerating Paradise is a nonprofit organization formed in the wake of the Camp Fire with a mission “to weave the social fabric that regenerates us.” The organization defines regenerating as a process of rebuilding and recovery that, as in regenerative agriculture, replenishes rather than depletes. Looking to Ridge community residents for resources, Regenerating Paradise works […]
Building Resilience
Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery by Daniel P. Aldrich examines why responses to disaster recovery vary greatly in ways not explained by the magnitude of catastrophe or amount of aid provided. The difference between resilience and disrepair, Aldrich shows, lies in the depth of communities’ social capital. The book highlights the critical role […]
Becoming Gaia
Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation by Sean Kelly addresses our living in end times—climate chaos, accelerating mass extinction, and signs of civilizational collapse drawing the Earth community into a planetary near-death experience. Yet these end times also mark the threshold of a new planetary identity in the making. Drawing on scholarship from […]
Brett KenCairn
Brett KenCairn is the Founding Director of Center for Regenerative Solutions and Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Resilience in the City of Boulder’s Climate Initiatives Team, where he coordinates the city’s nature-based solutions work. Brett has worked across the western U.S. in community-based initiatives in rural, Native American, and other marginalized communities, and is […]
GreenFaith
GreenFaith is building a worldwide, multi-faith climate and environmental movement because the Earth and all people are sacred and at risk. Recognizing that the most vulnerable among us—who’ve done nothing to create the climate crisis—and the planet are suffering while governments, extractive industries, and financial institutions continue to destroy the fabric of life, GreenFaith members […]
The Upside of Down
Thomas Homer-Dixon presents a groundbreaking theory of how societies grow, experience crisis, and renew themselves, arguing that today’s converging energy, environmental, and political-economic stresses could cause breakdown of national and global order—yet such breakdown could open extraordinary opportunities for creative reform if we’re prepared to exploit them when they arise. Drawing on findings from diverse […]
The Transition Handbook
Rob Hopkins, a permaculture expert, presents a groundbreaking guide for moving from anxiety about oil depletion to positive action for creating self-reliant communities, demonstrating how the inevitable end of cheap oil could catalyze the rebirth of local resilience rather than societal collapse. Hopkins outlines the Transition model, which encourages communities to generate their own fuel, […]
A Paradise Built in Hell
Rebecca Solnit’s award-winning investigation reveals the most startling aspect of disasters: not merely that people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy that reflects an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that catastrophic events often provide. Through examination of moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that emerge amid […]
Theory U
Otto Scharmer presents a revolutionary approach to learning and leadership that addresses our time of massive institutional failure manifesting in ecological, social, and spiritual divides, requiring new consciousness and collective leadership capacity to create the future we actually want rather than collectively producing results no one desires. Scharmer identifies our fundamental problem as the “blind […]
The Berkana Two Loops Model
The Berkana Two Loops Model, developed by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze of the Berkana Institute, illustrates how systems undergo transformation through the interplay between an old, declining system and a new, emerging one, helping those involved in systems change understand their role within the transformation process. The model addresses the messy in-between period when […]
The Regenerative Practitioner Series
The Regenerative Practitioner Series offers a comprehensive five-month deep dive into the fundamental shifts in thinking and working that underlie regenerative approaches to development, introducing proprietary concepts and frameworks developed and field-tested by Regenesis over 25 years. Organized geographically in partnership with local host teams worldwide, the series supports emergence of communities of regenerative practice […]
Biggest Little Farm
The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature’s conflicts, the Chesters unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that […]