Sustainability Is Not Enough: We Need Regenerative Cultures
- Author: Daniel Christian Wahl
- Full Title: Sustainability Is Not Enough: We Need Regenerative Cultures
- Type: #snippet✂️
- Document Tags: #planet
- URL: https://designforsustainability.medium.com/sustainability-is-not-enough-we-need-regenerative-cultures-4abb3c78e68b
Highlights
- Complexity science can teach us that as participants in a complex dynamic eco- psycho-social system that is subject to certain biophysical limits, our goal has to be appropriate participation, not prediction and control (View Highlight)
- The best way to learn how to participate appropriately is to pay more attention to systemic relationships and interactions, to aim to support the resilience and health of the whole system, to foster diversity and redundancies at multiple scales, and to facilitate positive emergence through paying attention to the quality of connections and information flows in the system. (View Highlight)
- In a nutshell, the Precautionary Principle can be summarized as follows: practice precaution in the face of uncertainty. (View Highlight)
- Why not challenge designers, technologists, policy-makers, and planning professionals to evaluate their proposed actions on their positive, life-sustaining, restorative and regenerative potential**?** (View Highlight)
- Why not limit the scale of implementation of any innovation to local and regional levels until proof of its positive impact is unequivocally demonstrated**?** (View Highlight)
- We need to design for human, ecosystems and planetary health. (View Highlight)