Designing Regenerative Cultures

Book by Daniel Christian Wahl. Reviews can be found here,  a couple following:

"Clearly our ways of thinking have gotten us in some trouble--here are concrete suggestions for some new habits of mind that could help us climb out of our hole!"

Bill McKibben, author: Eaarth - Making a Life on a Tough New Planet; co-founder 350.org, and Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College

​"To me as a life-long activist nourished on systems thinking and Buddhist teachings, this is one of the most intellectually exciting and soul stirring books I’ve read in years.   I had the sense of drinking it, with pleasure and surprise, not having known what I’d so thirsted for.

By starting with questions and keeping to questions throughout, Daniel  engages the reader, and by example frees her from striving for, or pretending to know, any final answers.  This approach -- in itself a rare lesson in systems epistemology — invites trust, openness, and a restructuring of the mind.

Among the gifts for which I am especially grateful are these:  Conceptual tools for perceiving and experiencing our mutual belonging ,  and especially what I’ve come to call the great reciprocity at the heart of the universe.  The ways Goethe, Bortoft, Bateson, Maturana, and Varela are brought in, and key insights mediated with economy  and clarity.  The abundant  evidence of the Great Turning, the manifold  transition underway to a life-sustaining culture.  And, especially valuable to those of an apocalyptic bent like myself,  the 'adaptive cycle' of resilient systems, showing  that at 'the edge of chaos' comes opportunity  for the emergence of greater  complexity and intelligence.

These are but a few of the ways in which this remarkable book will enrich my thought, my teaching, and my life in this turbulent world of ours."

Joanna Macy, environmental activist, scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology and author of World as Lover, World as Self and numerous other books.