This episode is from our first live session with Joe Brewer, the ED of the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution and a deep systems thinker, complexity researcher and pioneer in designing bioregional pathways to earth regeneration.

Music is “In Passage" by Blue Dot Sessions

Learn more about Joe’s work: https://medium.com/@joe_brewer

https://earth-regenerators.mn.co/

Regenerative Economics in Real Life webinar with Joe:

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/regenerative-economics-in-real-life

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Show notes:

* Money & Life documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3szcNsbeSc

* Planetary collapse and why decades of systems change work has not effected deep systems change

* Peter Berg, advocate for bioregionalism

* Difficult to know overall carrying capacity

* Definition of a bioregion = the region of an organisms biological existence which is different from organism to organism because of social behavior

* For humans that is/was usually the extent of a trade network

* Cultural geography, technical geography and ecological context that is shared = bioregion

* What is the living economy of locales? The carrying capacity of the local living

* Dana Meadow’s 1983 essay A Brief History of the Balaton Group: https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/article/from-sustainability-science-to-real-world-action-a-short-history-of-the-balaton-group/

* "The pathway" for sustainability is local living economies

* Joe’s work is an update on what has been known

* History of management systems = double entry accounting that gave rise to the corporation

* Invention of railroads needed a centralized time management system to coordinate at larger (national) scale

* Organizing around time allowed scaling of the global economy (between 1850-1950)

* Since 1950 the complexity of reality has outpaced the capacity of the older management systems/paradigms and nation states have become increasingly ineffective as solving problems

* Nation states are falling away and will fall away because of this

* Network systems bypass nation states since the Internet since around 1980

* Is humanity growing up? Yes and no...

* Ecological Resilience = about interdependent relationships achieving feedbacks for self-regulation or autopoeisis for the collective

* We select cultural patterns that bring about this resilience or we don’t!

* The current information-communications system is not regenerative (huge energy hog and based on fossil fuels) and will fail

* Mesh networks that emerged during Hurricane Sandy: https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/Mesh-Networks-Keep-Residents-Connected-Outages.html

* Conservation management frameworks as a pathway to bioregional economies

* Global system is a cancer killing the bioregional systems

* Community land trusts to protect against the cancer by removing them from speculative markets

* Cultural trauma and grief to be able to do the bioregional work to be able to trust and cooperate

* The need for body-based practices e.g. capoeira

* To become a perception system for the land and elements

* Where to live and how to die