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Regeneration

My Experience At Ecosystem Restoration Camp Altiplano

February 12, 2023 Stan Joosten, Resilience. , , ,
It was the height of summer, almost too hot to be travelling through the hot, semi arid landscape of Murcia in southern Spain. I had been hiking for a week through the Altiplano territory – at times a beautiful area of forests, lakes, waterfall springs and mountains; other times the scars of monoculture agriculture were painfully visible. A tiny dust tornado moved by in the distance and reminded me of why I had come to this place. I was on my way to Ecosystem Restoration Camp Altiplano. For some time I had felt the need to go there. I had been following the ERC movement since its inception and became fascinated with the concept of ecosystem restoration ever since. Over the years my interest evolved into a strong support for the movement. And, above all, it provided me with a sense of hope in the face of global system collapse and climate breakdown.

Joe Brewer’s Bold Quest To Help Restore A Bioregion

December 2, 2022 David Bollier. , , ,
Disaffected with his way of life in the US and concerned about the multiple ecological crises bearing down on humankind, Joe Brewer set off on a journey to learn what he might be able to do. He had considerable background in the earth sciences, studied cognitive linguistics and philosophy, and had worked with the activist group, The Rules. But restoring an entire ecosystem would be a novel challenge. In 2019, Brewer ended up in Barichara, Colombia, with his wife and infant daughter, where he soon found himself helping to catalyze a "living laboratory of regeneration" of a degraded landscape, an arid tropical forest, in the northern Andes.  Ninety percent of the forest in the region's one million acres had been cut down, causing the once-fertile food forest to dry out and become a desert.

Why Resistance Matters: Resistance And Regeneration

March 28, 2022 Transitionus. , , ,
The growing movement for regeneration offers a much needed reframe of how to fully show up in our humanity at this critical moment in our planet’s history. We need to move beyond incremental change and a narrowed fixation on reducing our carbon footprint. We cannot treat social injustices and ecological crises as separate, unrelated phenomena. Nor can we surrender to despair and distraction, or waste time on projects that make us feel good but lack deeper impact. The task at hand—our great calling—is to simultaneously regenerate our ecosystems AND integrate the design of new social and economic systems that can truly center and support life. At a foundational level, this ambitious project of regeneration requires us to RESIST or stop destruction, repair harm, and reimagine our world, our communities, and the systems upon which we depend.

What Future Do We Want?

May 27, 2020 By Mathis Wackernagel, Footprint Network. , , ,
The radical slowdown of the global economy, due to humanity’s efforts to slow down the spread of the coronavirus, has reduced carbon emissions and resource demand significantly over the last months. This has led to a temporary reduction of human pressure on our planet, although at great human cost. Already, one thing is for certain: the current reduction of humanity’s Ecological Footprint is nothing to celebrate. The pandemic and the policies designed to address it took us all by surprise. The disruption to business-as-usual was caused by disaster and has led to increased suffering. The shock we are all experiencing cannot be misconstrued as a lasting positive transformation. This crisis is strangely reminiscent of the story line of some cheap science-fiction novels: unfriendly aliens come to Earth, causing humanity to unite in order to effectively defend ourselves.

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