Launch Event :: Bioregional Funding Ecosystems We are excited to announce the kick-off of a process to design and build bioregional funding ecosystems. In partnership with the Legacy Project, the Design School for Regenerating Earth is hosting an in person gathering of people who are actively organizing around this work. The launch event will take place from […]
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By Marc Gafni Note: The Parallax Course: Value is Real Why Saying This Clearly May Save Civilization [and our Souls] — (with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein) takes place on Saturdays, September 7/14/21/28–2024. For more information: Sing up here! My name is Marc Gafni. I’m representing myself and my dear friend, interlocutor, and initiate in CosmoErotic Humanism, Dr. Zachary
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Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The Fourth Day On our fourth day we visited the playas that naturally #RegenerateTheOgallala… These shallow depressions create temporary wetlands when it rains. There are at least 60,000 of them spread throughout the high plains and each is capable of sinking large amounts of water into the massive underground aquifer that spans
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Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The Third Day On our third day, I began to dream of a $100 million dollar fund to #RegenerateTheOgallala… In the morning we drove across 8000 acres of sand dunes covered in grass. This natural geologic feature absorbs 100% of the rain that falls onto it to recharge the aquifer that is
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Dreaming of the Ogallala :: The Second Day We continue exploring what it would take to #RegenerateTheOgallala… On our second day, we went out into the landscape to feel the southern edge of this massive groundwater system that spans from Amarillo, Texas all the way north into Nebraska and Wyoming. This is the beginning of the high
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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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