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A reading list for regenerative practice.

Original summaries written by Regenera Thailand. Purchase links go directly to publishers or authors.

Designing Regenerative Cultures

Daniel Christian Wahl

Designing Regenerative Cultures

A wide-ranging argument that the 21st century requires us to design cultures as living systems — biologically literate, place-based and adaptive.

Regenerative cultureBiocultural diversityWhole-systems design
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Doughnut Economics

Kate Raworth

Doughnut Economics

Proposes a visual model of an economy that meets the needs of all within the means of the planet, and seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist.

Social foundationEcological ceilingEmbedded economy
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Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass

Weaves Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and personal narrative into a meditation on reciprocity with the living world.

ReciprocityHonourable harvestGift economy
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Janine Benyus

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Introduces biomimicry as a discipline that studies nature's models and then imitates them to solve human design problems.

BiomimicryNature's design principlesLife-friendly chemistry
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Regenerative Development and Design

Pamela Mang, Ben Haggard & Regenesis

Regenerative Development and Design

A practitioner's framework for designing projects that evolve the capacity of places and the communities that inhabit them.

Story of placeDevelopmental workWhole-systems
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The Age of Thrivability

Michelle Holliday

The Age of Thrivability

Reframes organisations as living systems and offers practical patterns for leaders working toward thrivability.

ThrivabilityLiving organisationsStewardship
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