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Towards a Regenerative EconomyThe Road Less Travelled: Pathways to TransformationDNV GL Roundtable, OsloJune 15-16, 2014 The true nature of the international (economic) system under which we were living was not realized until it failed.

- Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 1944

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Failure of Financial Statesmanship Creates Distraction of Epic Proportions

Youre no Jack Morgan

GE lost 88% of its value after Jack left. Still only 40% of its JW high.4Corollary of Ecological Overshoot:

Financial Overshoot5

The Copernican revolution was not a revolution in the acquisition of new knowledge, but in view-point and perspective in respect of existing knowledge.

The most far reaching revolutions in knowledge are often of this character. Jan Smuts, Holism and Evolution

6Source: Bill Reed at Regenesis Group Beyond Sustainability: The road to a REGENERATIVE CAPITALISM

Regenerative Capitalism: Kinds of Capital

Source: Ethan Roland & Gregory Landua, Regenerative Enterprise, Optimizing for Multi-Capital Abundance (2013)

The nature of living systems Derived from: Charles Krone, systems scientist David Bohm, theoretical physicist

Potential

What exists

The Essence living systems: REGENERATIVE POTENTIAL!Regeneration enables Development (Growth) through - enhanced complexity (living systems)- enhanced intricacy (energy networks)Its not how big you grow, its how you grow big- Dr. Sally Goerner, The New Science of Sustainability 8 Elements of Regenerative EconomyOperates in Cooperative RelationshipNurtures Entrepreneurial SpiritEnables Empowered ParticipationPromotes Robust Circulatory FlowSeeks to be in BalanceCreates conditions for Edge EffectHonors PlaceViews Wealth Holistically

CoSystem HealthSustainability Window of VitalityGreater EfficiencyStagnationGreater ResiliencepSally Goerner, 2013Healthy systems harmonize multiple variables rather than optimize single onesCollapseEfficient and ResilientBig and LittleFlexibility and ConstraintDiversity and Coherence12Economic Efficiency

EconomyFinanceWhats wrong with this picture?

Desired Outcome

Planet We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.

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