frameworks

Similarly, Colding and Barthel (2013) argue that solving ecosystem-related challenges requires cognitive resilience, built through repeated interaction between groups and their environments. These insights frame Regen Villages not as isolated events, but as iterative experiments whose value compounds over time.

Research on commoning highlights the importance of repetition, trust, and shared experience . Feinberg et al. (2023), drawing on a ten-year agent-based modeling study grounded in Ostrom’s design principles, show that cultural capital emerges through recurring interactions that enable social learning and knowledge retention. Their work demonstrates... See more

s making actual decisions and taking actual positions, but holding them provisionally rather than dogmatically. It means being willing to change course when evidence suggests you’re wrong. It means recognizing that your opponents might be responding to something real, even if you disagree with their solutions.

It’s “both sides have partial truth so we need to synthesize them into something more adequate.”

Game Change is when you understand the game well enough to play it effectively while actively working to change its rules .

It’s the idealist who says “we should all just be nice to each other” without recognizing that material conditions and power relations shape behavior.