Explore the Eight Principles of a Regenerative Economy

I have observed that in the new collaborative economy, where we are networked and resources are highly accessible, the following are almost always true. The four principles on the next page will carry us inevitably to the collaborative economy. The real question is how we prepare our workforce, our government, and ourselves for this new, inevitable

The principles for building a more circular economy that isn’t dependent on growth are straightforward. Keep resources and revenue recirculating through the community, and accessible to the working class. Leverage the power of mutual aid to lift up one member of the community at a time, each according to their need. Maintain independence from big e

Businesses are required to take back what they have sold, so the laws build in more incentives for durability.

When the living metrics for business match the ambition of Janine Benyus’s Ecological Performance Standards for cities, then companies will ask themselves not simply ‘how we can do no harm’ but ‘how can our enterprise be as generative as a giant redwood forest?’ And with that leap of ambition – among businesses, among cities, and among nations – we

Permaculture: A way for humans to consciously design systems that support ourselves — food production, energy, buildings, transportation, technology, even human relationships and financial systems — while acknowledging our roles as equal, co-creative members of natural ecosystems with the ability to regenerate our environment while we’re providing