Kenny cofounded Seeds of Change, a leading national biodiversity organic seed company that received widespread recognition for its innovative market partnership with backyard gardeners to create backyard biodiversity as a conservation strategy.

‘We have an amazing history of communal practices,’ Gómez-Mont told me. ‘Everything from agriculture to economic coops to indigenous ways of doing governance and democracy. But we have not analysed them deeply enough, because in terms of imagination, unfortunately, we’ve been chasing dreams – a notion of progress of the first world – instead of loo