Regenerate Renew Rewild

11/25/21 • 77 min

Joe Brewer is a culture designer learning how to live regeneratively in the Andes mountains of Colombia. His project, Origen del Agua, aims to transform a community and a landscape — all to bring a river back to life. This living demonstration shows us a path to restore planetary health at scale. And is also giving birth to a design school for Earth regeneration.

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Poacher or Protector?

Deep in the jungles of Latin America, front-line wildlife conservation is often met with violent opposition from the extraction economy. Here, hundreds of thousands of parrots are illegally taken by poachers every year. LoraKim Joyner, a wildlife veterinarian, avian conservationist, and Unitarian Universalist minister stands in solidarity and resistance with the people. In a highly adaptive form of culture design, she combines science and spirituality to help marginalized communities—building their capacity to transform poachers into protectors.

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Find the Others

A global network of people from all walks of life has somehow coalesced into a thriving online community — The Earth Regenerators. Their intention is to weave relationships that restore planetary health at scale. In part two of our series with Joe Brewer, we tell the story of this vibrant community and explore how to design truly regenerative human cultures.

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Transcript

Joe Brewer 00:06

The collapse process has been happening since well before we were born. The loss of biodiversity, the impacts due to climate change the increasing human population, I mean, you just go on and on looking at the major planetary scale changes that are being driven by human activity. Much of what's coming, and the next decade is kind of inertia that we can't avoid. Things will be lost that are sacred and we have to accept it. Once we accepted how complex tha