Can we turn the 2020s into ‘The Regenerative Decade’? In this series of interviews about what that would imply, we talk ecology, deep adaptation, grief, compassion and passion, connecting with nature, resilience, revitalisation, restoration, revolution… – the bigger picture, in other words.

“Find your village!” says our guest in the 21st regenerative episode: Shane Ward, who is a regenerative land use and soil health consultant, founder of Action Ecology, and an Earth Protector trustee as well as a registered Conscientious Protector.

Inspired by recent developments and his work with Better Futures Forum, a new platform where New Zealanders facilitate the transition towards a more resilient Aotearoa, Shane talks about community engagement and a refreshed revival of local democracy coming out of the coronacrisis. “We need to get better at managing complexity and to get better connected in order to gain resilience,” he says.

This is the presentation Shane refers to in the interview:

The talk Shane gave in New Zealand: “Climate, Food & Future”

Climate, Food & Future: Regenerative Agriculture & the Challenge of Change

Action Ecology Founder Shane Ward delivered this seminar at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, in October 2019, looking at the scale of the crisis we face across climate, biodiversity and land use, the root causes behind why we find ourselves in this mess, the comparison between industrial and regenerative agriculture and examines the knowledge we already have for how we navigate our way out towards a better world.

“We must not let the process of discussing and planning how our approach to a global food system that can operate within planetary boundaries be captured in back room meetings by corporate interests looking to maintain a profiteering monopoly through continuing their industrial, extractive approach to agriculture. That path leads us to collapse.”~ Shane Ward

Shane was recently interviewed on the How to Save the World podcast, discussing the Better Futures Forum and Regenerative Agriculture:

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Transcript of Mik Aidt’s introduction and conclusion of The Regenerative Hour no 21.

We know what we are in for. We can see it coming.

Seven out of ten of us actually think that the climate crisis is as serious in the long run as the coronacrisis,