Regen Notes 21
taking regenerative messages to COP26
Welcome to Regen Notes, 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 Zoom Regenerative activities and podcasts where we join the regenerative dots, share the themes and work that invigorates, inspires and feeds our curiosity.
Zoom Regenerative October 2021
Zoom Regenerative this evening (19 October) features guest Jessie Buckmaster, Sustainability Manager at Hathaway Dinwiddie, sharing regenerative insights from Californian design and construction.
What would your Regenerative message to COP be?
And, with only two weeks to #COP26, zR38 will include our unconference style discussion looking at our hopes and worries around COP26 ... through a #regenerative lens.
Our Carbon Footprints, Handprints or Shadows
Building on the movement that carbon footprints may not be useful, and the need to think regeneratively with our Carbon Handprints, Emma Pattee outlines an important principle of ‘carbon shadows’. Your carbon shadow is way more important than just your carbon footprint. It’s the totality of your consumption choices x how you vote x who you work for x the conversations you choose to have ...
An interesting debate is emerging here - are all carbons equal? The carbon from flights taken by an activist compared to those taken for pleasure?, the carbon emitted in life-saving hospital operations compared to those emitted by SUV for fun?
Getting Climate Change Done
Here’s a great suggestion from Mark Lynas in the Guardian - that we set a date for the global end of fossil fuels - Lynas suggests 2047, and then collectively, collaboratively and globally we work to that target. Echoing words of UK’s PM Johnson “let’s get FF exit done”
Equity: Inter-being.
With COP26 focus on carbon and 1.5, let us not forget the importance of human and non-human Equity - between us as humans and between us and the rest of our ecosystem.
We can never have sustainability whilst instances of social, cultural ecological and economic injustices remain. Martin Brown - FutuREstorative
Rights of Nature is the recognition and honouring that Nature has rights. It is the recognition that our ecosystems – including trees, oceans, animals, mountains – have rights just as human beings have rights. Rights of Nature is about balancing what is good for human beings against what is good for other species, what is good for the planet as a world. It is the holistic recognition that all life, all ecosystems on our planet are deeply intertwined.
Regenerative Thinking: It’s not something you do, but something you become. Emmanuel Pauwels
Disconnection Caused the Climate Crisis. Reconnection Will Solve It: A singular principle binds together the daunting challenges and correlative solutions advanced by Paul Hawken and his team of researchers, essayists, and scholars in the book Regeneration: connection and reciprocity. Whereas we once lived as other animals do, in concert and conjunction with the natural world, our relationship to that world is now broken—we are extracting, consuming, and polluting the habitats and ecosystems that sustain and nourish us, and in so doing, pushing them to the brink of extinction.
LFE at COP21
We are bringing the first Living Future Europe Masterclass cohort to Glasgow for an exciting module covering COP26 voices/unconference/reflections.
The LFE 2021 Masterclass. Regenerative+Agile is a 12-week training course, devised by Living Future Europe based upon the Living Building Challenge and Regenerative Principles, exploring the Why, the What and the How for regenerative action.
COP26
is the UN Conference of the Parties and will be attended by just about all countries. In partnership with Italy, it will be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted and is being described as the most significant climate event since the 2015 Paris Agreement. COP26 taking place in Glasgow from the 1st to the 12 November has four key objectives:
Secure global net-zero by mid-century and keep 1.5 degrees within reach
Adapt to protect communities and natural habitats
Mobilise finance
Work together to deliver
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