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Navigate Dynamic Change with Confidence

We use best management practices and leading edge assessment, planning, and management tools to assess cli…

At the end of the year 2020, we also witnessed a couple of firsts when it comes to the detection of biosignatures and technosignatures, which is quit…

If you have been following the science news, you are probably aware that this month an important era in radio astronomy ended, first with the announc…

A biosignature denotes the presence of a substance or phenomenon that is indicative of life, past or present. Biosignature is a term defined in the c…

In data science, we are used to take data as given, and derive truths from the data as if there are no other truths other than the story we find with…

The on-going financial crisis results not from a cyclical or managerial failure, but from a structural one: more than 96 other major banking crises o…

This report by WAAS Fellow Bernard Lietaer and his associates addresses important theoretical and practical issues regarding modern monetary systems.…

I’ve been involved with healthcare most of my life. I blogged about my experience in healthcare back in 2011 and described how my “hope l…

Abstract

The relationship between biodiversity and functional redundancy has remained ambiguous for over a half-century, likely due to an inabilit…

Some dynamics associated with consciousness are shared by other complex macroscopic living systems. For example, autocatalysis, an active agency in e…

Pioneering new research from the Club of Rome

In 1972, the first Report for the Club of Rome – The Limits to Growth &nda…

Robert E. Ulanowicz 1,2 1 University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD 20688, USA; ulan@umces.edu 2 Department of Biology, U…

“New paths of flow are needed for new patterns of organization that are resilient.”

– Sally J. Goerner, Robert G. Dyck, Dorothy …

“While a network, like a group, is a collection of people, it includes something more: a specific set of connections between people in the grou…

Fiscus and Fath webinar Sept. 2020

Dan Fiscus and Brian Fath presented an online seminar at SESYNC on Sept. 22, 2020 that covered their book from …

Science is an important tool to help develop solutions as we address the global ecological crisis. Science has helped understand causes and develop s…

Apart from our flagship programs we also have four other programs that are currently being restructured or have been incorporated into other programs…

Using Energy Network Science (ENS) to connect resilience with the larger story of systemic health and development

Dr. Sally Goerner is&n…

The more we learn about market systems and systemic change, the more we realise that describing these system dynamics is a major challenge. In additi…

Market systems are often visualised as patterns of behaviour of how actors interact with one another. These patterns are embedded, or rooted, in the …

Market systems development programmes aim to achieve systemic change.

However, the communities that use market systems approaches have strugg…

This discussion will focus on a growing body of tools and tactics that practitioners are employing to manage what can be a tricky landscape of donor …

This webinar focused on innovative behaviour change tools that have been applied in agribusiness systems in East Africa and beyond. Market systems de…

Economic development programmes are increasingly taking a systems approach. This paper suggests that the shift to a systemic perspective calls into q…

From my perspective as a practitioner trying to apply market systems thinking, there are important challenges in the way scale has been interpreted a…

This paper focuses on resilience at the systems level.

It explores an approach to strengthening market-systems-resilience capacities based on the …

While we recognise markets as systems, we still lack sufficient tools to recognise and successfully change the structure of these systems.

I recen…

Durham, North Carolina is no stranger to placemaking. Great public spaces are at the center of the City’s groundbreaking cross-departmental&nbs…

"What we don't have in conventional wealth, we have in wealth of place." -Rosina Philippe, Grand Bayou Village

In anticipa…

What market system approaches did the ProLand assessment recommend for reducing deforestation and increasing rural incomes at scale in the …

Science is an important tool to help develop solutions as we address the global ecological crisis. Science has helped understand causes and develop s…

Market systems development (MSD) is a relatively unexplored area in development. While it builds on market development, it addresses the capacity of …

When working on private sector development it is often cited without question that profit motives are good.  The thinking goes that a firm that …

​Over the last few years there has a been an interesting evolution in my thinking that initially was grounded in questions about systemic resilience.…

Executive Summary: The on-going financial crisis results not from a cyclical or managerial failure, but from a structural one. Part of the evidence f…

The Science of Flow Says Extreme Inequality Causes Economic Collapse
Circulation represents the lifeblood of all flow-systems, be they economies, ec…

Regeneration refers to the self-feeding, self-renewing processes that natural systems use to nourish their capacity to thrive for long periods of tim…

As I’ve worked with a variety of social change networks to launch or transition from one stage to another, I’ve been guided by the follow…

Social Change Networks: Keep Telling the Social change networks are complex, compared with other human organizational forms; they are not so easily c…

A conversation between Dan Fiscus (Research Alliance for Regenerative Economics) and Bart Everson (CAT+FD) on teaching, learning, and regrounding sci…

Cultivating Regenerative Capacity In and Through Networks

A couple of months ago I was invited by Visible Network Labs to give a presentation to t…

I’ve had the pleasure of supporting some important work happening through The Nature Conservancy’s Fire Adapted Communities Learning Netw…

Last week (which already feels like last month) was very rich with learning and interaction, including the opportunity to share space with indigenous…

I am struck by how the network building and weaving field has really mushroomed over the past several years, and with it, so much learning around app…

“Lean Weaving”: Creating Networks for a Future of Resilience and Regeneration I’m fInishing up David Fleming’s book Surviving…

Renewal, revival, restoration; spiritual transformation; an aspect of living systems without which there would be no life; a process through which wh…

Welcome to a new cycle of webinars focusing on inclusive market facilitation tools. In this special edition we have three 1-hour webinars t…

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Welcome to a new cycle of webinars focusing on inclusive market facilitation tools. In this special edition we …

Tell me again...what's the 'regenerative economy'?

Updated: Apr 24, 2020

As part of my job, I write about the environment. And…

The following is a slightly modified post from a little over a year ago. In recent months, the notion of putting care at the center of “net wor…

Last week (which already feels like last month) was very rich with learning and interaction, including the opportunity to share space with indigenous…

I’ve had the pleasure of supporting some important work happening through The Nature Conservancy’s Fire Adapted Communities Learning Netw…

A couple of months ago I was invited by Visible Network Labs to give a presentation to the Network Leadership Training Academy on regenerative networ…

A conversation between Dan Fiscus (Research Alliance for Regenerative Economics) and Bart Everson (CAT+FD) on teaching, learning, and regrounding sci…

Proceedings of the IS4CE2020 Conference of the International Society for the Circular Economy 6 – 7 July 2020, University of Exeter, Exeter htt…

Introduction

EXPLORING GREAT CHANGE

Imagine that the way we see the world determines how we live in it,

and that our basic social & scientific worldview…

Science is an important tool to help develop solutions as we address the global ecological crisis. Science has helped understand causes and…

A radical liberty to choose: Reconceiving the kind of world we want to live in. Reflections from the event with links to the conference programme and…

The way we see the world determines how we live in it. Our societal worldview is in the midst of a major shift. Our goal is to provide a gathering pl…

The following guest blog post is by Dr. Sally Goerner, Capital Institute’s Science Advisor and Now Planetary Health Lab's Director of Energ…

The science of flow says monetary circulation is literally the lifeblood of an economy.

According to a recent study by Oxfam International, in 201…

CORRECTIVE LENSES: HOW THE LAWS OF ENERGY NETWORKS IMPROVE OUR ECONOMIC VISION

We face systemic problems—economic, political, social, and en…

Today . . . we know that our government and economy no longer fit the models
we were taught in school. We know that our efforts to influence governm…

Preamble

I was fifteen years old at the time, on a month-long mountaineering course, west of the Grand Tetons, on a high mountain plateau.  O…

International Development and Education 

The district of Swat witnessed its worst humanitarian crises between 2007 and 2010. The violence and…