Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The First Day Our dreaming about how to #RegenerateTheOgallala begins… We arrived in Amaraillo, Texas and were received by our friend Will Masters who has been doing dryland restoration work in these beautiful landscapes for several years now. Our first few days will be spent at Kritser Ranch — a 33,000 acre piece of land […]
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See that patchwork of blue that spans the Great Plains? It is the Ogallala Aquifer — one of the largest and most important groundwater systems on Earth. Next week, Penny Heiple, Will Masters and I gather in Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado to explore how to #RegenerateTheOgallala. We know that this a region that has been profoundly transformed by
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Earlier this year, I shared that we are designing a regeneration fund for the Northern Andes. It is an ambitious effort growing out of the movement of territorial foundations in Colombia that is spearheaded by the support organization Territoria based in Bogota. We are excited to announce that we are receiving our first significant grant of
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We have just received a generous grant from the NoVo Foundation to support our work at Regenerate Barichara — where we are prototyping the regeneration of an entire territory in the Northern Andes of Colombia. As we have outlined on our website, there is a weaving of regenerative processes at the territorial scale that has been underway
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This is an essay written on June 8, 2018 when I was the director for the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution I am reposting it as part of the original 3-part series from that time. Find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Let me begin by acknowledging those who came before me. The runner-up for
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This is an essay written on June 4, 2018 when I was the director for the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution I am reposting it as part of the original 3-part series from that time. Find Part 1 here and Part 3 here. Last week I published a 10-page essay arguing that my own life’s work
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This is an essay written on June 1, 2018 when I was the director for the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution I am reposting it as part of the original 3-part series from that time. Find Part 2 here and Part 3 here. Let me start by saying that literally every social problem humanity now confronts
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One year ago, almost to the day, I wrote the essay Restoring Trust Among Regenerative Leaders. It was seen by some as a public apology, yet in truth the purpose was much deeper. Back then I was already seeing the collapse of sense-making among regenerative efforts. There simply was not enough coherence among us to say
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Our friends at r3.0 are hosting a conference on “Collapse Resilience” this year. As part of the build-up to their event, they are holding dialogues about important topics that prepare the field for what is going to happen in September. I was asked if I could give a talk about Tipping Points of the Earth
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I want to share something special that is happening in Colombia right now. Penny Heiple and I have been in Cali this week to help cultivate deeper partnerships across the diverse territories of the Northern Andes. We came to meet with the director of TerritoriA (the support organization for territorial foundations in Colombia) and key leadership
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