Spark The Regenerative Renaissance: 15 Criteria For Building A Transformative Business, Brand, Community, or System

Principles and design lenses we can all harness to guide, lead, invent, evolve, and cultivate regenerative projects that transform our crisis-hit world—from the inside out

N.B. There are topics within this piece that have many details discernments that this short-form medium does not afford the space to go into (I do in other pieces and books). I scaffold up on lots of other ideas and concepts. Also, I am mildly dyslexic and work out big ideas through writing these pieces — so please expect, and excuse typos and errors.

This article is aimed at those who aspire to co-create, and yearn to live and work within, a regenerative economic and social system: within organizations and societies that are life-affirming, treat us humans as whole beings needing nothing, and leave the world better, not worse, because of their business or operating model. This is the Regenarative Renaissance: possible, but by no means assured.

Such a Renaissance is premised on a rebirth of humankind, and the cultures we co-create, akin to that seen in 14th and 15th Century Florence and beyond. Although contested by…