Articles, interviews and ideas on regenerative business.
A selection of Enrico Foglia's writing and of conversations with the people rethinking how business is done.
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Regenerative Leadership: What the World Needs Now
In this time of permacrisis—where climate breakdown, economic inequality, democratic erosion, cultural fragmentation, and war crimes converge—we recognize that the systems and leaders governing our lives are…
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Cultural Regeneration and the Artclone Effect
In their book Regeneration: The Future of Community in a Permacrisis World, Christian Sarkar, Philip Kotler, and Enrico Foglia discuss the critical importance of cultural regeneration as…
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On Leading through the Polycollapse
On the occasion of an approaching publication of arkH3’s latest systemic projections and a resource for business leaders, we sat down with some of its authors and…
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Love, Anger & Betrayal
Jonathon Porritt is an eminent writer and campaigner on sustainable development. For the last 30 years, Jonathon has provided strategic advice to leading UK and international…
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Land and Liberation
David Cobb is a “people’s lawyer” who has sued corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials, run for political office himself, and been arrested for non-violent civil disobedience.…
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The Regenerative Enterprise
We learned about Fujitsu’s regeneration strategy in development – see The Regenerative Enterprise: A New Sustainable Enterprise – and decided to follow up. This interview was conducted with Hiroshi…
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Transforming Governance for the Common Good: A Regenerative Approach
The need for collective action on a global scale has never been more urgent, especially in the face of interconnected crises like climate change, pandemics, economic…
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Regeneration and Spiritual Tradition
All the world’s spiritual traditions have deeply embedded regenerative principles – especially in relation to leadership, stewardship, and sustainability. So why is it that our economic…
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13 Weapons of Mass Destruction of the Common Good
In this accelerating Age of Collapse, we are witnessing the wholesale destruction of the Common Good. Our misleaders have abandoned their responsibility to creating a society…
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What Businesses Can Learn From Nature’s Resilience
When business leaders talk about ecosystems, they often conjure up images of sprawling supply chains, digital platforms or interconnected industries. But in the rush to draw…
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The Post-Growth Business
Marcus Feldthus and Oscar Haumann created the Post Growth Business 101 course to help us explore how businesses can align with the leading science on planetary…
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How do we Regenerate the Common Good?
Politics holds no meaning if our planet dies. We have poisoned the air, the water, the land, and our thoughts. Toxic leaders guide us to extinction.…
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Community Regeneration: Where to Begin
Understand community strengths and assets is a key part of developing regenerative projects for the Common Good. As usual, it’s all about deep listening. And, as…
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Pocket Forests are Community Wellbeing Projects!
James Godfrey-Faussett is lead forester at SUGi, with 28 years of horticultural, landscaping and garden design experience. He integrates organic and biodynamic methods to design and…
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Is Intergenerational Equity possible?
Rahul Basu works on implementing intergenerational equity, beginning with minerals in Goa. With a background in the world of finance and economics, Rahul proposals have resulted…
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Beyond the Petri Dish
George Tsakraklides has a diverse background in the sciences, having trained in molecular biology, chemistry, food science, and Earth sciences. He has also worked in data…
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Oren Lyons: “Nature’s the Boss.”
It’s time to stand for the seven generations. We can all see the Earth is heating up, that polar ice and glaciers are melting, and that…
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Michel Bauwens on Cosmo-Localism
We had the privilege of listening to this over lunch. Michel Bauwens describes the “emergence of a new type of ‘fourth sector’ organization, i.e. networks with…
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What Next for Sustainability?
Andrew Winston is a globally-recognized expert on megatrends, sustainable business, and how to build companies that profit by contributing to a thriving world. He is currently…
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To Overcome Resistance To Change, You Need A Strategy, Not A Slogan
BY GREG SATELL When we’re passionate about an idea, we want others to see it the same way we do, with all its beautiful complexity and…
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Degrowth: The Quest for a Social Tipping Point
Erin Remblance is a Sydney-based writer and co-creator of (re)Biz. Can you tell us how you began the journey to become an advocate for degrowth and…
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Community Living Labs: A Place-Based Approach to Regeneration
Salvatore Di Dio is an Associate Professor of Design at the University of Palermo. He was also the co-founder and former managing director of PUSH, a…
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Wealth Supremacy
Marjorie Kelly is Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative (TDC), a nonprofit working to catalyze the creation of a democratic economy, where people reclaim control from extractive capital, and…
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Minding the Sustainability Gap: From Unsustainable Core to Business-as-the-World-Needs
Alice Kalro is an emerging global thought leader in science-based corporate sustainability, providing practical guidance on science-aligned business transformations and urging corporations to take on a systems leadership role…
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Planetary Boundaries
At a certain point, this fight for the Planet becomes personal. ASK: Who or what is stopping us from addressing the most urgent challenges we face…
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Climate Deniers Should Not Assume They Will Never Face Justice
BY STEVEN DAY If you’re a reasonably young person who is opposing measures to address climate change for reasons of financial or political gain, be afraid.…
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The Regeneration of Birra Messina: From “shout down” to agreement with Heineken
The story of the Birrificio Messina cooperative is a positive example of “regeneration,” where workers rescue struggling companies through the cooperative formula. The local community has…
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The Epic Ethical Failure
Guido Palazzo is a professor of business ethics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. His research analyzes the conditions and causes of corporate scandal. With…
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The Destruction of the Common Good: Laying the Foundation of a Zero-Trust Society
Adapted from the book REGENERATION: The Future of Community in a Permacrisis World IDEA BITE PRESS (May, 2023) The USA, and increasingly the rest of the world, is…
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What is a flash drought? An earth scientist explains
One explanation for the fires in Hawaii is the “flash drought.” We wanted to understand what that means, so we republished this article with permission. BY…
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The Most Important Thing YOU CAN DO to Fight Climate Change
One of the biggest problems is that the public, especially in the United States, doesn’t even comprehend the extent of the problem. Silence kills. In this…
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Beyond Growth, to Wellbeing
Robert Costanza is Professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College London (UCL). He is also currently a Senior Fellow…
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In a Barbie world … after the movie frenzy fades, how do we avoid tonnes of Barbie dolls going to landfill?
BY Alan Pears, RMIT University It made headlines around the world when the much-hyped Barbie movie contributed to a world shortage of fluorescent pink paint. But…
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The need for scientifically informed politics
Joachim H. Spangenberg is Vice-President of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute(SERI) in Cologne, Germany. With a PhD in economics, but an academic background in biology and…
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Beyond the Worst
John Elkington, Co-Founder & Chief Pollinator at Volans, is one of the founders of the global sustainability movement, an experienced advisor to business, and a highly…
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Witness to the Collapse
Francesco Bellina is an artist and photojournalist based in Palermo, Sicily. His work focuses primarily on contemporary socio-political issues, with a particular emphasis on the topic…
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The Time Horizon of Sustainability
Pia Heidenmark Cook is a Senior Advisor with Teneo, working with the ESG and Sustainability team to advise clients on how to develop and operationalise sustainability…
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Sustainability and Performance
Tensie Whelan (NYU ‘80), Clinical Professor for Business and Society, is the Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience…
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What is Ecological Economics?
Dr. Stanislav Edward Shmelev is the founder and CEO of Environment Europe Foundation and Director of Environment Europe Limited. He is the founder of the Oxford…
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Kevin Anderson’s Plea
“Net Zero is Latin for Kick the Can down the road.” Climate scientist Kevin Anderson warns us about the delay tactics and obfuscation preventing us from…
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Guidelines for Organizational Regeneration
Do you ask – what kind of organization have we become? And – what are we going to be in the future? Better even: what does…
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Guidelines for Community Regeneration
In our book Regeneration: The Future of Community in a Permacrisis World, we describe the various methods available for a community and community leaders to come…
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The Problem of Carbon Colonialism
Carbon colonialism is the unequal distribution of the burdens and benefits associated with addressing climate change and the transition to a low-carbon economy. A parallel to…
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The 5 Worlds of Regeneration
Regeneration operates at five levels of impact – the 5 nested worlds or lifespaces we live in: Total regeneration integrates all 5 worlds: It is the world of work and business that has dominated…
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Sustainability, Resilience, Regeneration
Post COVID, there is a clear shift in how businesses and governments are looking at Sustainability. There’s an argument to made for Resilience. And that makes…
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22 Tests for Regeneration
This is a list from our book titled “Regeneration: The Future of Community in a Permacrisis World.” As we continue our exploration at the institute, and on…