[P2P-F] Fwd: Regenerative Practice, or ‘whakapapa’

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MARCH 8TH, 2016

Regenerative Practice, or ‘whakapapa’

Dear Reader,

*Regenerative practice* is a beautiful term. On the one hand, to
*regenerate* is to ‘make whole again’, to restore and improve a place or
system so that it is active or producing good results. *Practice* is
the application, the *doing* as opposed to the theorizing; it implies
repetition as a means of achieving skillfulness.

Regenerative and restorative practices are increasingly being applied in
many areas: justice, education, environment, and economy. These practices
push the boundaries of ‘systems thinking’ to ‘systems *being’*. We
understand that we *are* the system, deeply connected with one another and
all Life. What we do to the system, we do to ourselves.

Medard Gabel’s article from the current edition of Kosmos Journal defines
regenerative development as the use of resources to improve our wellbeing
in a way that supports the very systems needed for our future wellbeing.
Mr. Gabel was a protégé of Buckminster Fuller, who knew a few things about
systems.

We also profile Bren Smith, winner of the 2015 Buckminster Fuller
Challenge, for designing the world’s first 3D Ocean Farm, a national model
for hyper-local sustainable food production, ocean restoration, and
economic development.

If the words ‘regenerative practice’ don’t strike you as beautiful,
consider *whakapapa*, a Maori word meaning ‘becoming or creating with the
earth’. *You become a place by caring for it and receiving from it. *That,
essentially, is what this edition of Kosmos Online is about.

We have more Maori words for you, a book preview on regenerative culture,
and an invitation to participate in creating a more regenerative society.

Wherever you are, may the changing season remind you of Nature’s
regenerative spirit, and may you thrive.

In loving cooperation,

Your Kosmos Team
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Regenerative Development: Going Beyond Sustainability
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By Medard Gabel
In the Current Edition of Kosmos Journal

Sustainable Development is a half-vast approach to vast problems. Its
purpose, to make life on this planet sustainable, is a noble disguise for
the maintenance of the status quo. When the status quo includes hundreds of
millions of acres of degraded to destroyed farmland and leveled rainforest,
depleted to exhausted fisheries and aquifers, toxic-choked streams,
decreasing biodiversity, and a changing climate, sustainability is simply
not acceptable. In short, sustainable development is like the bromide ‘do
no evil’; it does not set the bar high enough. We can, and need, to do
better than just sustain the unacceptable—or accept the present as the best
we can do.
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An Invitation to Participate in Creating a Regenerative Society
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by The Center for Planetary Culture
in the current edition of Kosmos Journal

image: Richard Buckminster Fuller & Anne Hewlett Fuller Dome Home

The visionary design scientist Buckminster Fuller believed humanity faced a
choice between ‘utopia or oblivion.’ According to Fuller, we will either
establish a world where everyone on Earth receives a research grant for
life in whatever subject interests them or we will fall by the wayside,
like the vast majority of species before us. With the acceleration of our
technological capacities and the deepening the critical threshold where we
choose our path.

With our position paper and Wiki, we invite the global community to work
with us to envision our current situation as an opportunity for an
evolutionary leap, and document what lies beyond it.
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Book Preview | Designing Regenerative Cultures
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This is a pre-release excerpt from the first chapter of
Designing Regenerative Cultures, by Daniel Christian Wahl, PhD
Publication Date: May 2nd, 2016 | Publisher: Triarchy Press, UK

Regenerative Cultures create win-win-win solutions by asking deeper
questions

On an over-populated planet facing the threat of run-away climate change
and the depletion of many non-renewable resources we currently depend upon,
we are increasingly becoming aware of our interdependence. For our species
to not just survive, but to thrive, we depend on each other and on the
planetary life-support system.
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World Water Day | Bren Smith and Restorative Ocean Farming
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Via Future of Fish and Green Wave

Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater.
Under the theme ‘Water and Jobs’, the year 2016 provides an important
opportunity to consolidate and build upon the previous World Water Days to
highlight the two-way relationship between water and the decent work agenda
in the quest for sustainable development.

Bren Smith is a former fisherman turned sustainable shellfish and seaweed
farmer and entrepreneur. His company, Thimble Island Oyster Co., operates
one of the first sustainable 3D ocean farms in the country.

Interview and multiple videos
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8 Māori Words to Have You Celebrating Exactly Who You Are
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By Bahadur Hāweatea Brysonon, via Elephant Journal

“When I started learning te reo Māori (the Maori language) I found my way
home. The language is a treasure where even one ordinary word can provide
immense understanding and wisdom. After all, the extraordinary hides in the
ordinary. One word has me re-evaluating who I am.

With just 13 letters in the alphabet (8 consonants and 5 vowels), all words
are deeply connected to each other. Vowels are seed sounds, across lands
and cultures worldwide.

Makuini Ruth Tai, who teaches on the vibration of te reo Māori explains it
as the language of nature, where REO (language) stands for Rich Earth
Oratory. Six years ago she opened me up to seeing reo in this way, by
explaining the first two words below. The other words are some I’ve sat
with, outside in the fresh air, and tried to get to know. I share what they
teach me, and it’s in no way conclusive.”
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The River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding is offering a Community
Peacebuilder Immersion Training Program. This two-week residential
experience will provide the knowledge, skills, and support for inspiring
and operationalizing peacebuilding practices in personal life and work,
potentially creating a center for peacebuilding within the Participant’s
community.

Kosmos Board Member, Dot Maver, will be facilitating along with other
partners from the River Phoenix Center.
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