num_pages: 288
description: This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies organizations ideologies worldviews and cultures - and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system agriculture design ecology economy sustainability organizations and society at large. In this remarkable book Daniel Wahl explores ways in which we can reframe and understand the crises that we currently face and he explores how we can live our way into the future. Moving from patterns of thinking and believing to our practice of education design and community living he systematically shows how we can stop chasing the mirage of certainty and control in a complex and unpredictable world. The book asks how can we collaborate in the creation of diverse regenerative cultures adapted to the unique biocultural conditions of place? How can we create conditions conducive to life? *** This book is a valuable contribution to the important discussion of the worldview and value system we need to redesign our businesses economies and technologies - in fact our entire culture - so as to make them regenerative rather than destructive. --Fritjof Capra author of The Web of Life co-author of The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision *** This is an excellent addition to the literature on ecological design and it will certainly form a keystone in the foundations of the new MA in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College Devon. It not only contains a wealth of ideas on what Dr Wahl has termed 'Designing Regenerative Cultures' but what is probably more important it provides some stimulating new ways of looking at persistent problems in our contemporary culture and hence opens up new ways of thinking and acting in the future. -- Seaton Baxter OBE Prof. in Ecological Design Thinking Schumacher College UK [Subject: Systems Thinking Education Social Anthropology Environmentalism Ecology Regenerative Culture Sociology]
language: English
title: Designing Regenerative Cultures
publisher: Triarchy Press Ltd