Buen Vivir is a complex concept for social and environmental sustainability based on Indigenous worldviews – one that has evolved over time to include ideas from politics, academia and non-Indigenous communities.
A balance of power towards the groups that have historically been excluded or had their voices ‘white-washed’ in climate negotiations to include more socially and ecologically just approaches will be an unequivocal factor in finding effective solutions going forward.
How do we create functional experiments and case studies of the transition towards regenerative cultures at a scale where feedback is rapid enough so we can learn from mistakes before unwanted side-effects lead to catastrophe and systemic collapse?
Through her own childhood experience and the making of short film, One Word Sawalmem, director, Natasha Deganello Giraudie shares the core lessons that she has learned about indigenous cultures.
Regeneration is about more than just ‘net positive impact’ or ‘doing good’. It is about evolving the capacity to manifest the unique and irreplaceable gift of every person, community and place in service to the life-regenerating context in which we are all embedded.
We need to address the failures of capitalism and its ineffective reforms head-on by creating decentralized and cooperative local economies, emphasizing local production with local resources, to meet local needs, and to build local wealth.
Inspired by the life and work of David Fleming, economist, ecologist, green political campaigner, visionary and writer. The Sequel is a one-hour documentary made following the publication of Fleming’s great work, Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It.
Buen Vivir is both a philosophy and a lived practice that puts Earth at the center of “the Good Life.” It embodies the cultural shift necessary to move towards systemic change in how we interact with the natural world.
A look at how to build networks to support sustainable communities, regions and, ultimately, a sustainable human civilization.
What should we aim for as we leave behind the old dysfunctional “normal” towards a new era of ReGeneration?
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