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Jul 21 2016

Got a Regenerative Business? Win a Prize!

You think you are you running a regenerative business? The Carol Sanford Institute is offering you the opportunity to stand up and be judged, in order to win the "Regenerative Business Prize".

Winning businesses need at least three years of profitable operations plus evidence of at least four of these seven "foundational First Principles" (note: each principle has a link to a short video describing it):

  • Whole: capable of operating in a self-determining way within a system and interactively with other systems. 
  • Potential: seeking disruptive, more fulfilling, and beneficial outcomes. 
  • Reciprocity: making “fitting” contributions that benefit system health.     
  • Essence: bringing forth essence and non-displaceable uniqueness.
  • Nestedness: embedded within greater and lesser systems.
  • Nodal: seeking the point of highest and most systemic return in interventions. 
  • Development: increasing capacity of a whole to be vital, viable, and able to evolve.

These criteria might be easier to understand after watching Carol's video (14'). Beware -- she's only half-joking when she says it takes 3+ years to internalize and integrate these insights!

To participate, be nominated by July 31st, 2016.

What Else Can I Learn?
Webinar: Systems View of Life into Organizations with Fritjof Capra

Webinar: Systems View of Life into Organizations with Fritjof Capra

Simon Robinson, co-author of Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter, will discuss with Fritjof the importance to global brands of developing their own systems view of life, and what guidance and inspiration change agents working with brands can learn.

Free: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 10am-11am Pacific Time
Storytelling for Change - Acumen

Storytelling for Change - Acumen

A 6 module course that will teach you storytelling techniques for how to be a better public speaker and connect with your audience
Generative vs. extractive: 2 mindsets

Generative vs. extractive: 2 mindsets

The chasm between the mindset of extracting and the alternative of feeding becomes more urgent as networks  become ever more powerful. 
Open Agriculture Learning Series

Open Agriculture Learning Series

Tools, software, and data to accelerate innovation and quantify environmental services from regenerative agriculture.
What Is Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management? | A Cartoon Crash Course

What Is Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management? | A Cartoon Crash Course

Ocean life doesn’t live in a bubble—if you want to take care of one fish species, you also have to preserve where it lives and understand the other animals it interacts with. This big picture approach to marine conservation is called ecosystem-based fisheries management.

In Closing

We are very early in the process of defining what it means to build a regenerative economy. While the terminology will continue to evolve, we're convinced the ideas are directionally correct. Now we are studying, testing, plotting, and building interest, support, and resources. 

Thus this newsletter, which will come out about weekly with brief observations and links to related materials exploring innovation and the regenerative economy. With effort, and a bit of luck, we hope support for these concepts becomes a wave sweeping the world! Check out the archive to see if this newsletter is right for you (or a friend).

If you find this email valuable, please share with a friend. If you don't, please unsubscribe (link at the bottom.) We also much appreciate comments, advice, and suggestions for links to highlight.

Thanks.

      Dave 

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