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Regen/ Notes 30
Welcome to the first 2022 edition of Regen/ Notes.
Degenerative or Regenerative?
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
― Aldo Leopold,
Leopold articulated current regenerative thinking way back when (1949).
What if the carbon footprint for a development included associated infrastructure and travel carbons?
Zoom Regenerative 41 (January 18th) explores the world of logistics and transport, and the relationship with the built environment. Details here.
Summarising the new UK Transport Decarbonisation Plan, UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “Transport is not just how you get around. It is something that fundamentally shapes our towns, cities, and countryside, our living standards and our health. It can shape all those things for good, or for bad. Decarbonisation is not just some technocratic process. It’s about how we make sure that transport shapes quality of life and the economy in ways that are good”.
Starting now, this is the year we need to embrace the great outdoors.
Consider the climate emergency, the ecological crisis, and a global mental health epidemic: “Our relationship with nature unites all of them,” (MB)
Bringing the outdoors in - there is a lovely write up here by Clodagh Finn in the Irish Examiner around the ‘connecting with nature’ online event hosted by Cork, coordinated by Gráinne Bagnall — Digital STEAM Career & Forest Bathing Coach, which was a delight to participate in.
This was also written as an October 21 Regen/ Notes post: Storms and Starlight: Rekindling our relationship with nature.
Can Board Games help with climate and ecology?
Like many families, our Christmas and New Year break features board games, last years hit was Photosynthesis, (where trees compete for sunlight to grow taller, as the sun moves around the board) but this year it was the blockbuster Wingspan.
On which the SierraClub magazine commented Tabletop games are nothing if not conversation-generators, and, if they show up at family and community game nights, discussions will happen. Some of those discussions might just keep climate and ecology in people’s minds in a problem-solving way. Others might persuade people to take action on climate. And a few might even change a few minds.
Yvon Chouinard: the Patagonia climber-surfer who inspires millions.
Chouinard showed the world there's a way of making money, creating long-lasting quality products, and fulfilling customers' needs without compromising our environmental footprint and respect toward the other. The alternative self-made businessman taught us inspiring lessons on how to perceive the world and our lives as an ephemeral journey. We are only guests on a temporary planet. Surfer Today
Chouinard’s Let My People Go Surfing was an early inspiration in my combining my outdoor passions with sustainability work, leading into the world of regenerative thinking.
Glass Building in Denver Has a Hiking Trail Built Into the Façade.
The new Denver 16-story residential tower "merges nature and architecture to inspire a well-balanced life."
"If we regard modern cities as man-made landscapes on the Earth, we need to design canyons, woods, creeks, and waterfalls, transforming concrete forests into second nature," said Ma Yansong, MAD founder and principal partner. Travel and Leisure
Gathering Moss
If you are not already following the wonderful feed team at @NaturalCalendar on Twitter then you are in for a treat. Taking the Japanese micro seasons as a guide, the team explore micro seasons based on a UK theme - Noticing nature and building a seasonal calendar across the UK, 5 days at a time - earlier this week they delved into the micro, beautiful world of mosses. This is what Twitter is for!
Regen/ Notes
Regen/ Notes is a newsletter of regenerative news, stories and more, with a sideways focus on the built environment, curated by Martin Brown. It is a companion to our Regen/ Zoom activities and podcasts where we join spaces between regenerative dots, share the themes and work that invigorates, inspires and feeds our curiosity.