Why Regenerative Cultures? - decolonialising, diversity & the reGeneration rising (Daniel Wahl)

This short video is both a celebration of XR and their excellent 10 principles, a statement of gratitude for including 'regenerative culture' as one of them, and a plea to consider adding the 's' and speaking of 'regenerative cultures' plural. Truly regenerative cultures are expressions of the uniqueness of local/bioregional cultural diversity and local/bioregional ecological diversity. They are place sourced and express the unique potential of each place. The 's' behind regenerative culture reminds us of that and contributes to decolonialising the process of building a global movement that got started in the UK. That's not all of it 'regenerative cultures' refers to a global upsurge in diverse decentralised actions to regenerate soils, waterways, ecosystems and communities. We are witnessing the rise of the reGeneration - the generation(s) that regenerate woking together to heal the Earth and her people! Regenerative cultures is about so much more that the discourse in XR so far as included in explorations of this principle. We can co-create diverse regenerative cultures everywhere and through that humanity will seize to have a degenerative and exploitative impact on the Earth and start to have a regenerative and healing impact. The path of the reGeneration rising is the path through which local communities can engage in re-regionalisation and the creation of vibrant bioregionally regenerative economies. That way we engage in 'deep adaptation' and community resilience building while also working on moving from rebellion to regeneration: reducing extinction rates of species, restoring ecosystems everywhere, reversing global warming trends over the coming decades, and avoiding the current trajectory towards 'hothouse Earth', cataclysmic climate change and possible mid-term extinctions of humanity. (Video recorded on January 16th, 2020 - videography by Antonio Bonsorte, XR Mallorca / Spain) Daniel Christian Wahl is the author of 'Designing Regenerative Cultures', Triarchy Press, 2016 https://www.triarchypress.net/reviews...